Convention Center

May 8 2013

Attract more business

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa appointed Department of Building and Safety General Manager Robert “Bud” Ovrom as executive director of the Los Angeles Convention Center today.

If confirmed by the City Council, Ovrom would keep his current $230,536 a year salary. Ovrom would succeed Pouria Abbassi, who resigned last year left to lead Phoenix House, an organization that provides drug rehabilitation services.

Mar 28 2011

L.A. Convention Center West Hall

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Angelenos will get their first chance Wednesday to weigh-in on the $1 billion football stadium a developer is willing to build in exchange for the city making about $350 million in changes to the Convention Center.

An informal Planning Department hearing, open to the public, is set from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Room 501 in the Convention Center's West Hall, which would be torn down to accommodate construction.

Earl "Skip" Cooper  |   OW Guest Contributor
Feb 24 2011

AEG efforts applauded

The potential Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) football stadium for downtown Los Angeles would spur major economic development and finance for the local economy, and in particular, for minority and small businesses. I strongly applaud the efforts of AEG, as well as Farmers Insurance Exchange, in their commitment to this historical project. The proposed football stadium will be dubbed Farmers Field under a naming-rights agreement announced by AEG.

Jan 19 2011

Zero risk

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—The president of Anschutz Entertainment Group told a City Council committee today that building a stadium for a NFL team would serve as a catalyst in redeveloping downtown Los Angeles and would not cost taxpayers a cent.

Tim Leiweke of AEG, the developer of Staples Center and L.A. Live, called the proposed project "a catalyst that will be probably the largest economic development in the history of downtown.''

Across Black America

Here’s a look at African American people and issues making headlines throughout the country.
 

Alabama
Freeman A. Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will address the annual African American Business Council luncheon on June 28. Hrabowski, who is chairman of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Education Excellence for African Americans, has a national reputation for his work studying the performance of minority students in math and science. Hrabowski, named one of the 10 best college presidents in the country by Time magazine, was a child leader in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham in the 1960s.
 

Arkansas
The Liberty Counsel filed a motion and a brief in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas seeking to intervene on behalf of a Concepts of Life crisis pregnancy center to defend against a suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights. The groups seek to impose a permanent injunction before the Human Heartbeat Protection Act goes into effect July 18. Liberty Counsel also filed a brief opposing the ACLU’s request for an injunction. The “Heartbeat” bill states that when a woman seeks an abortion at or after the 12th week, doctors must test for a fetal heartbeat before an abortion is performed and inform the pregnant mother that the child in her womb has a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, a woman cannot have an abortion, except in cases of rape, incest, and if a mother’s life is in danger. “As we promised when the legislation was introduced, Liberty Counsel will defend this law without reservation for the people of Arkansas, born and pre-born,” said Matt Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel. “No right is more foundational than the right to life. Without life, all other rights are irrelevant,” concluded Staver.