Rand researchers reviewed permits issued by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, which inspects food outlets. There were no licenses for stand-alone fast-food restaurants, but chains opened 17 new outlets in strip shopping centres and food courts in South Los Angeles from 2008 to 2012.
Almost half of the new food permits were for convenience stores that sell soda and junk food, the study found.
This looks more like a "screw you if you're not a corporate chain" law.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
$15/hr minimum wage in LA. Policymakers are calling it the largest raise for the unique actor-director-writer-busboy industry in the city as a whole in its entire history.
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Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
California became the first state in the nation to pass legislation prohibiting the usage of a term that many Native Americans consider a racial slur.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday approved the measure but vetoed a separate bill that would have barred public properties from being named after individuals associated with the Confederacy.
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
