L.A. City Councilman José Huizar called on his colleagues last week to repeal the city’s ordinance allowing medical marijuana shops. The ordinance, passed in January 2010, mandates regulation and restrictions on the dispensaries, including how many can exist, the distance they can be from one another and from "sensitive use" areas such as libraries and churches, and safety measures such as money drop offs and security guards.

Harry Belafonte's childhood began in Harlem, where his neighbors were Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes. His mother regularly took him to see jazz greats at the Apollo Theater.

The deadline for Occupy Los Angeles to vacate the lawn in front of city hall has come and gone and, as of the time of this broadcast, their tent city is still standing.

Local food production has been promoted by many as a veritable panacea for a variety of ills that plague our economy and our environment. Carbon emissions from trucks traversing the country to bring food from the fields to your fridge contribute to global warming.