Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) are, by design, controlled by a very small group of commercial property owners, excluding the voice of most paying into the BID and completely excluding residential property owners, […]
What is a BID? Business Improvement Districts (“BIDs”) are public-private partnerships, established under State and local laws that give Cities the power to form districts in which all businesses in the district […]
Did you know there are currently over one hundred and twenty (120) alcohol licenses in operation in the 3.1 square mile Venice area? Which translates to forty (40) ABC liquor licenses per square […]
I received this box in the mail. Well actually I got notices of delivery last week, which I ignored, and then after it was returned to the developer, they dispatched some minion […]
By now, everybody’s heard about the recent election of some new members of the Venice Neighborhood Council. Everyone’s been told that Venice’s election had the biggest turnout of any neighborhood and district […]
There’s this misinformation spread by Kevin Pardue which appeared in Venice Update(below) The biggest push was the 50% property rights negative campaigning around the MSC draft. The entire area was blanketed with […]
Here are a few of the “serial violators” that sit on the new VNC Board. 1. Robert Thibodeau – he is probably the most prolific architect/developer in Venice and yet he doesn’t […]
The Pro-Business slate dominated the Venice Neighborhood Council (VNC) Elections. They ran a fear and anger based campaign, corellating the homeless and criminals, claiming that the VNC had been hijacked by “radical, […]
Dear Free Venice Beachhead: It is high time that the corruption and good old boy back room deals are exposed. Everyone knows that Greg Shoop signs off on every VSO it is […]
Dear Beachhead: I write to you about Roosterfish, the very popular gay bar on Abbot Kinney. As you are aware, Roosterfish closed permanently this past weekend. Roosterfish, like so many local businesses […]
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