Los Angeles, CA -- The Bus Riders Union (BRU) last Friday launched a series of actions designed to urge the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) to use some of the $700 million the agency is expected to receive in federal stimulus funds as well as proceeds from voter-approved Measure R to expand the bus fleet, reduce the 2007 fare increases and to develop a county-wide bus-only project.

The action comes in the wake of the release of a report by MTA on what the agency plans to do with the 20% of the Measure R money allocated to improving the bus system.

Los Angeles, CA -- Avocation meeting vocation: That is how Faye Washington views her position as chief executive officer for the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) of the Greater Los Angeles.

She took on the job after retiring from the City of Los Angeles in 1998, where the Los Angeles native worked 32 years and moved up the ranks from a clerk to becoming the highest ranking African American woman in a number of areas in the city government.