Before Chavez Ravine became the sun-dappled baseball field of the Los Angeles Dodgers, it was a different field of dreams for the homeowners who made a community there. In the hills north of downtown Los Angeles, mostly lower-income Mexican Americans as well as a number of other nonwhite and immigrant families bought homes in the neighborhoods of La Loma, Bishop and Palo Verde. Barred by racial covenants and other discriminatory practices from living and buying elsewhere in the city, they turned...
To the editor: As a displaced resident of Palo Verde — one of the neighborhoods cleared in the 1950s at the current site of Dodger Stadium — I do not support Assembly Bill 1950, the Chavez Ravine Accountability Act. But I do support justice and government accountability for families displaced by the city of Los Angeles. ("What does Los Angeles owe the people who lost their homes in Chavez Ravine? More than an apology," editorial, May 9) AB 1950 would require Los Angeles to create a commission of...
Greenwood Village Police Department Officer Austin Speer and his four-legged partner, Mercury, a German Shorthaired Pointer, went searching through the woods to find the woman.