Women’s Management Academy prepares women for career growth.
Personnel’s Women’s Management Academy, co-sponsored by Council District 6, offers an intensive course for selected women City employees designed to increase the knowledge of the City’s budget processes...
Belinda Jackson built the country’s best rec center – the EXPO Center. As she...
A City powerhouse has retired. Without Belinda Jackson, there would be no EXPO Center, maybe the finest public recreation center in the country...
Engineering’s Interim Housing Program designs spaces and tiny home villages to shelter LA’s unhoused.
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Bureau of Engineering’s Shelter and Housing Program – developed quickly to help get the growing number of Angelenos suffering homelessness literally off the streets into humane shelters – is a story of talent and technical know-how, unexpected journeys, and personal transformation....
LAPD Chaplains come to the spiritual aide of Officers in need.
Who helps LAPD Officers on their toughest days? That would be the Chaplain Corps, a team of 50 religiously trained men and women help the Officers and their families deal with sometimes tragic events...
Three inspection managers take us inside LA’s housing crunch.
Los Angeles Housing Dept. faces the challenge every working day of taking care of citizens in need, all according to housing code. On the front lines is the department’s inspection services...
A dedicated team is painstakingly restoring City Hall’s priceless artwork for its 100th anniversary...
City Hall is full of hard-working public employees looking up to the future. But the team of General Services and the nonprofit Project Restore looks up for a different reason – it’s the location of so much precious and priceless artwork, including murals, tiles, metalwork, and more...
Police Dept.’s annual event honors heroes with the Purple Heart and Medal of Valor.
On Sept. 21, the LAPD hosted its annual “Above and Beyond” ceremony honoring 23 Officers who demonstrated the highest level of courage and bravery in protecting the City...
Restoring the Vision Theatre brings a beacon of light to Leimert Park.
A vision of hope, art and life is nearing completion in South LA’s Leimert Park – the impressively restored Vision Theatre Performing Arts Center. It’s a project of Cultural Affairs, Public Works/Engineering, many other City departments, and countless community activists who have long dreamed of reopening it.
Catching up on the progress of StreetsLA’s Center for Green Innovation.
In the middle of the pandemic – Feb. 15, 2022 – StreetsLA introduced its Center for Green Innovation as part of LA’s growing response to the climate crisis. The Club has been eager to catch up with the sustainability team to find out more details...
Central Library’s Octavia Lab makerspace expands the limits of learning.
The Octavia Lab, named after the award-winning science fiction author Octavia E. Butler, is a do-it-yourself makerspace located inside the Los Angeles Public Library’s historic Central Library.
