Compton Blvd Humanitarian Response May 6th
For the first time in years, today felt like progress on Compton Blvd in East Gardena, West Rancho Dominguez, and/or Rosewood. Today we saw a plan.Today we saw enforcement.Today we saw movement toward restoring safety and order. RVs parked in the red, blocking fire hydrants and driveways, were removed. Laws that many believed had stopped […]
Copper Wire Theft Is Costing Every Harbor Gateway Resident – Here’s How to Report It
nfrastructure across Los Angeles and neighboring communities is being destroyed at an alarming rate by copper wire thieves. They are causing substantial damage to steal harvest valuable building materials. What started as a simple stop for coffee turned into another disturbing discovery — communication wiring hanging from sidewalks, exposed and damaged in plain sight. AT&T, […]
Compton Blvd Cleanup Shows What’s Possible – But the Work Isn’t Done
Thank you to Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell for hearing our pleas for help and ensuring cleanup efforts along Compton Blvd & Staff Ct moved swiftly. The piles of illegally dumped garbage and hazardous waste began accumulating Friday and continued growing over the past four days. This morning, crews began at 6am and by 8:30am two […]
Street Takeovers in the “In-Between”: A Growing Public Safety Threat
We are not out of the woods yet. For the past three years, the focus across our communities has been clear: address the homelessness crisis tied to more than 700 RVs lining the streets of Rosewood, West Rancho Dominguez, East Gardena, Rancho Dominguez, and Harbor Gateway. Through relentless coordination, outreach, and cleanups, we have seen real progress—hundreds […]
No contracts. No funding. Just people showing up.
This cleanup was made possible by local businesses donating equipment and a community willing to do the work. LAMP Presbyterian Church stepped in and made a massive difference on the ground. Big shout out to Universal Waste Services (UWS), California Waste Services (CWS), A&A Ready Mix, and Robertson’s Ready Mix for providing the resources. This […]
This is not about titles. It’s about results.
First, let me be clear—I am not law enforcement.I do not work for any agency, and I do not represent law enforcement. I represent the voices of our business community and our residents. There seems to be a misconception that I am somehow being paid or acting on behalf of law enforcement. That is simply […]
Goodbye Harbor Gateway Chamber of Commerce. Hello One Harbor Gateway Chamber of Commerce.
Change is not the end of something—it’s the evolution of everything we’ve built together. As we say goodbye to the Harbor Gateway Chamber of Commerce, we do so with pride in what the past five years have represented: incredible progress, real challenges, and a lot of hard-earned wins. What We Faced—and What We Changed Not long ago, […]
Community Medicine Comes to East Gardena / West Rancho Dominguez
For the first time, WoundWalk, the nation’s largest street medicine team, provided medical outreach and services to individuals living in RVs and along the sidewalks of Compton Boulevard in East Gardena and West Rancho Dominguez.
Speaking Out Against Illegal Dumping Moratorium
Last Friday, I attended the Los Angeles City Council meeting to speak out regarding the moratorium on prosecuting illegal dumping in our communities. It is deeply concerning that such an important policy decision was not broadly communicated to the public. Illegal dumping is not a minor issue—it affects our neighborhoods, our businesses, our environment, and the overall quality of life for everyone who lives and works here.
Fatal Shooting in West Rancho Dominguez / East Gardena
Sadly, our neighboring community experienced a fatal shooting during a robbery at the 7-Eleven located at Redondo Beach Blvd. and Figueroa Street in West Rancho Dominguez / East Gardena.