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Valley Cool: Keeping Profitable and Green in Pacoima
John Hernandez with ICON Community Development Corp. staff Karen Cervantes and Deborah Helt The Frying Pan recently visited John Hernandez, the owner of a State Farm Insurance agency in Pacoima, a...
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Changing: Life After Prison in L.A.
Ernest Melendrez, like many others who work for nonprofit organizations, is passionate about his job. The long hours, modest pay and oftentimes emotionally trying work require the deepest level of...
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Can Tourism Deliver the Good Life for Angelenos?
I’m from the Midwest. More specifically, I’m from the mitten state (and I don’t mean Wisconsin!). I grew up in a pretty stereotypical hard-working, blue-collar community. Many of my family members and...
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The Inhospitable World of L.A.’s Female Tourism Workers
Hotel housekeepers marching with Hope Quilt, a symbol of solidarity International Women’s Day has been observed since the early 1900s, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized...
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Travel’s Up — Will Los Angeles Rise to the Occasion?
Michael Zara/Wikimedia A June 4 Los Angeles Times article reported that hotel rates for business travelers in North America surged 9.3 percent in April, coming within 3 percent of the peak...
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It’s Checkout Time for Bad Hotel Jobs
You will probably never meet Norma Bravilla, and if you did you would never know that this single mother is part of the backbone of L.A.’s economy. A room attendant at downtown’s Luxe City Center,...
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