There is the compulsion to say to the world, to those who could not come: I am here. We are here. And even if we still cannot understand, we try to remember. Continue reading
![[Blog] Reporter’s Notebook: There Is No News From Auschwitz](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/auschwitz-birkenau-portraits.png?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "[Blog] Reporter’s Notebook: There Is No News From Auschwitz")
Author Archives: Daina Beth Solomon
![[LA Business Journal] Waterfront’s Future Adrift After Redondo Beach Voters Reject $400 Million Project](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/redondobeach.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "[LA Business Journal] Waterfront’s Future Adrift After Redondo Beach Voters Reject $400 Million Project")
[LA Business Journal] Waterfront’s Future Adrift After Redondo Beach Voters Reject $400 Million Project
Tony Trutanich Jr. said he wants to maintain the nostalgic maritime décor at his 65-year-old Redondo Beach seafood restaurant, but he recognizes the aging waterfront district around it needs to catch up with the times. That hope took a blow when Redondo Beach voters passed Measure C to block the city’s $400 million waterfront redevelopment plan. Continue reading
![[LA Business Journal] Arts District industrial property owners sold on big paydays](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/screen-shot-2017-04-24-at-11-35-48-pm.png?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "[LA Business Journal] Arts District industrial property owners sold on big paydays")
[LA Business Journal] Arts District industrial property owners sold on big paydays
As Arts District property owners look ahead, many are landing fat paychecks from developers keen on razing or redeveloping old warehouses, while lessees are finding themselves forced out. Continue reading
![[LA Business Journal] Can Paper Bag Billionaire?](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/latroof2.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "[LA Business Journal] Can Paper Bag Billionaire?")
[LA Business Journal] Can Paper Bag Billionaire?
With the Gannett Co. bid for Los Angeles Times parent tronc Inc. having fallen by the wayside, local eyes have turned to biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, tronc’s second-largest shareholder, as a potential savior for the institution. Continue reading
![[LA Business Journal] Trump’s L.A. Golf Course Still Carrying Handicap](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/trumpgolfcourse-palosverdes-publicdomain.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "[LA Business Journal] Trump’s L.A. Golf Course Still Carrying Handicap")
[LA Business Journal] Trump’s L.A. Golf Course Still Carrying Handicap
Donald Trump’s only development in Los Angeles, the Rancho Palos Verdes golf course he purchased in 2002 and poured more than $250 million into fixing up, struggled to live up to revenue expectations amid the 2008 recession and tumult in the golf industry. Continue reading
![[LA Business Journal] Snapped Up](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/snapchat-ringo.jpeg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "[LA Business Journal] Snapped Up")
[LA Business Journal] Snapped Up
Determined to cling to Venice’s counterculture despite the need for a corporate-scale workforce, Snapchat has opted to pick off properties here and there rather than consolidate into a single space. Continue reading
![[LA Business Journal] Inglewood Long Framed as Artist Enclave](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/inglewood-ringo.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "[LA Business Journal] Inglewood Long Framed as Artist Enclave")
[LA Business Journal] Inglewood Long Framed as Artist Enclave
Artists have flocked to Inglewood for decades, drawn by low rents at warehouse and commercial spaces, but changes are afoot that might put upward pressure on rents. Continue reading
[Blog] Reporter’s Notebook: Social media after #Paris
In times of tragedy, should we block out social media noise or find a way to interpret it? As a journalist I am grateful for the diversity of opinions a mouse-click away. But I also worry that so many unfiltered voices will muddy the waters of truth and clarity, leaving us more upset and confused. … Continue reading
[Blog] Reporter’s Notebook: The struggle of journalistic detachment
Those of us tasked with covering death and tragedy are constantly flipping switches on our emotional reactors. It’s hard. And it’s hard to talk openly and honestly about how we do that. I thank Dallas Morning News reporter Naomi Martin for doing so here, in a piece titled: “I lost any sense of journalistic detachment when … Continue reading
![[Blog] Heyday Books publisher Malcolm Margolin on charting fresh views of L.A.](https://dainabeth.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/margolin.jpg?w=290&h=276&crop=1 "[Blog] Heyday Books publisher Malcolm Margolin on charting fresh views of L.A.")
[Blog] Heyday Books publisher Malcolm Margolin on charting fresh views of L.A.
The new anthology LAtitudes aims to “rip up all the conventional thinking” about Los Angeles, bringing together 19 essays that explore topics such as L.A.’s pop music, ugly buildings, curbside tacos and street names. Continue reading
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