Healthy Parks, Schools and Communities Councilman Jose Huizar

Councilman Jose Huizar discusses joint use of parks and schools to make optimal use of scarce land and resources.

President Obama: Economic Stimulus, Public Works, and Equal Justice

Dear President Obama:

Economic stimulus and public works projects must get the nation to work building healthy, livable communities for all. Concrete and steel, and bailouts for banks, insurance companies, and automakers, are not enough. Infrastructure projects must include parks, schools, affordable housing, mass transit, safe walkable streets, public art, youth job programs, and green jobs.

bolstering stressed legal service providers and strategies for serving more Americans with their urgent legal needs

“the American tradition of zealous representation of unpopular clients,” including the defense by John Adams of British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre

Ms. Alice C. Royal Colonel Allensworth State Park

LA DOT Cuts Threaten Transit to Trails

If lawyers who take on controversial causes are demonized with impunity, it will be difficult for unpopular people to get legal representation — and constitutional rights that protect all Americans will be weakened.

Betty Hill