Victor Low says he was born in the hospitality field. His parents have been running a Chinese restaurant in a small village in Germany for 36 years. So Low s most recent job as a catering manager in the San Gabriel Valley was a natural progression.
But then he got laid off like so many other Angelenos in the food and hospitality industry and decided to quit the industry for good. All my colleagues and me, we got hit so hard by this pandemic, Low said.
Now Low, who s 36, is back in school, working on an associate degree in cybersecurity at Pasadena City College. It s thought to be a pandemic-proof field with good wages. And, after only a year of classes, Low expects to have three certificates, in cybersecurity, network administration and help desk/user support.
After years of struggle, New York’s street food vendors win long-sought reforms
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The city voted to issue 4,000 new permits over the next decade, among other changes. Advocates say it’s a pathway to financial relief and less police harassment.
Even before the pandemic, New York’s street food vendors often struggled to earn a living hawking hot food and water bottles to residents and tourists. Now, their advocates say, the only major American city with a hard cap on legal permits
has extended a much-needed helping hand.
On Thursday, New York City Council voted 34 to 13 for a bill to lift a limit on full-time vending permits for the first time in nearly four decades. The bill, Intro 1116-B, authorizes the city to issue 4,000 new permits over the next decade, beginning in 2022.
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Robert Lloyd’s Larry King piece was the best I’ve seen it really got to the nub of what made him good, and popular. Great comparison with Craig Ferguson I had forgotten how good those conversations between them were.
It was also nice that it didn’t dismiss or ignore his post-CNN work, as others have.
It touched on his colorful life but didn’t overemphasize it at the expense of understanding what made him tick. I understood him better after reading this remembrance, which is more than I can say for some of the other writers at quality outlets.
ANCA-WR Spring 2021 interns
On Monday, January 25, the Armenian National Committee of America – Western Region kicked off its Spring 2021 Internship session with 14 interns. The Interns will work for the next 15 weeks with staff members on different initiatives that focus on government affairs, genocide prevention, genocide and Artsakh education, grassroots advocacy, and other related fields.
A portion of the program is also dedicated to weekly lecture series featuring guest lecturers, including public officials and Armenian-American community leaders and professional development workshops. All of the interns joined the program in early September and assisted the ANCA-WR during the wartime with advocacy, media monitoring, raising awareness through social media campaigns, and other initiatives. They all expressed their interest in continuing their internship to maximize the opportunity to serve their community for another term.
Instead, the formerly registered security guard has stuck to spewing dunderheaded damnations.
Women who wear tights? “Hoochie mamas.” The city where he preaches? “Ghetto.” Vaccines? “Unclean.” He’s even hated on Día de los Muertos.
But Mejia eventually made a name for himself among hate-watch groups for antigay rhetoric of the vilest kind imaginable.
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At national conferences, Mejia has ripped apart LGBTQ pride flags and openly wished for the American government to execute “fags.” He has proudly described himself from the pulpit as “homo-hatin’” and called one critic a “stinking, filthy sodomite” and another a “wicked dyke.”
On social media, the father of three tells critics to “hang yourself.” He not only shared on Twitter last year a picture captioned “West Hollywood 2022” with his face superimposed on an Islamic State fighter who was about to throw someone off a roof, but also wrote “I love it.”