Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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It has allowed people to travel more cheaply and allows tenants to make money off of spare bedrooms. But at the same time it has emptied out entire neighborhoods of homes and replaced families with hotel guests. It is called AIRBNB, short for Air Bed N Breakfast. And it is about to be legal and taxed in the city of Los Angeles. Airbnb will soon begin collecting a 14% tourist tax for the City of Los Angeles. The deal, announced on July 18, is expected to provide more than $5 million in annual...
The Los Angeles District Attorney's office believes they have apprehended the man responsible for defacing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall on Sunset Avenue in Venice. Before the Memorial Day weekend, graffiti appeared on the wall, which has become an icon for the Venice and West Los Angeles neighborhoods regarding the service and sacrifice given to the United States by those in the armed services. The mural bears the title "You Are Not Forgotten" and lists the names of 2,273 soldiers who are...
Update: Mike Van de Ven, Chief Operating Officer at Southwest, says the website is now fully functional. He says customers may rebook at Southwest.com at no additional charge. "Our systems are back up and running. We have an incredible backlog of customers and their bags. The recovery is staring off slowly, we have 335 cancellations, which will allow us to improve during the day." "We had a technology failure in our network yesterday, we're doing a deep dive on it to understand why. We replaced...
In another probably futile attempt to rest control of the Internet away from cats and their owners who are mostly owned by their cats; dog owners have posted certain photos designed to go viral. Among them is a now famous photo of two dogs, one black one white wearing a sign that says "black labs matter ". The other sign says "white labs matter". Another is a cute photo of a floppy eared cocker spaniel, carrying a cocker spaniel puppy in his backpack. Is it any coincidence that the hip movie of...
In his words, she made him hurry up and wait. An Uber driver called a woman he drove to Kaiser Hospital a "f-----g moron," then accused her of being "extremely rude." Apparently he didn't know the man in the back seat was videotaping him, and intended to post their encounter online. All this and more, in a YouTube posted Thursday, the Uber driver howls "Get out of my car" repeatedly. Uber suspended the driver's access as their "Trust and Safety Team" review the encounter, said an Uber...
