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56 years and counting
When Stan Chambers began covering news for KTLA, there were only 100 televisions in Southern California. Since then, Chambers estimates he has reported about 20,000 stories for Channel 5. At age 80, he still takes on some projects, and his grandson Jamie is a reporter at the station. In today's Downtown News, Jay Berman pens a feature on the newsman who has worked for a single employer longer than anyone else in television history.
Also in the Downtown News: Sam Hall Kaplan hopes that Sci-Arc remains in the Arts District east of Little Tokyo, rather than leaves in a pique over loss of a key parcel of land.
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The Sci-Arc situation is made more complex by the fact that the artist community downtown has been marginalized by Greg Nelson's drawing of the Neighborhood Council lines. Though the "artists corridor" is less than two miles long, it straddles three Council Districts and three Neighborhood Council districts. Thus the artist community there has been gerrymandered into impotence. Moss knows this--if I was him, I'd be interested to leave too. It's a huge, community-invigorating development, and if Hahn's office is only going to side with the developers, you might as well try it all over somewhere else, maybe even outside of the city.
What the City did to disenfranchise the artists corridor was deplorable. For instance, the Brewery is in the Lincoln Heights Neighborhood Council, where it has two of twenty-five seats. The Brewery and Sci-Arc should be in the same NC, not to mention the same Council district.
Posted by: joseph at March 1, 2004 10:25 AM