With less than a week until Thanksgiving, local nonprofits are gearing up to provide cooked meals and groceries to help people in need celebrate the holiday.
May 21, 2021
Fifteen-year-old Felipe Caceres isn’t fond of shots and needles. But when his school district in Davis opened a vaccine clinic for students his age, he quickly hopped in line.
“We don’t know everything, and there’s always a possibility you could get sick, but the goal is to be safe,” said Caceres, who is the last in his household to get a vaccine. “I’m a little nervous, I’m not that good with shots. But this is for the greater good.”
On May 10, the Food and Drug Administration expanded the emergency authorization of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for adolescents ages 12 and up. Following the announcement, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the California Department of Public Health gave their approvals for using the vaccine in individuals 12 and older.
L.A. Councilmembers Outline Community Benefits of City Budget Reinvestment
By Cora Jackson-Fossett, Staff Writer
Published March 11, 2021
L.A. City Councilmember Curren Price (Courtesy Photo)
Change is coming to the L.A. city budget in the form of reallocating resources. While some people attribute the budgetary adjustment as a reaction to cries of “defund the police,” key drivers on the Los Angeles City Council insist that the modification is simply a matter of addressing the needs of the community.
Council President Nury Martinez (Council District 6), and Councilmembers Curren Price (CD 9), Marqueece Harris-Dawson (CD 8) and Mark Ridley-Thomas (CD 10), led the charge to redistribute the $150 million cut from the L.A. Police Department’s budget to initiatives and programs that benefit the well-being of communities of color in underserved neighborhoods. The L.A. City Council approved the cut in July 2020.