The older I get, the more I realise that I don’t need to be the richest. I just want enough to pay my bills, enjoy the food I like, visit the places I love and live without constantly worrying about money. A comfortable life and peace of mind. That’s enough for me.
Langer’s Delicatessen-Restaurant has been a cornerstone of this city for 77 years - longer than the Dodgers and the Lakers have called Los Angeles home. Recently, Norm Langer told the LA Times that he is considering closing his doors.
His reason has nothing to do with his business itself, and everything to do with the city’s blatant neglect of its people and the failure of our elected officials. As a business owner myself and a Los Angeles native who grew up going to Langers, this is breaking my heart.
Our city officials’ widespread inaction on rampant drug use and crime is failing our small businesses and our communities, like McArthur Park, and driving them out of the very neighborhood they helped build.
What are we doing? I have known Norm for decades and hundreds of people like him. This city was built on the backs of people like Norm and his family. Our city thrives only when small businesses are successful. All across Los Angeles, restaurants and retailers are closing because Los Angeles is experiencing rising crime, homeless encampments, and unkept streets. To fail them is nothing short of a betrayal.
It’s irresponsible and unfair to residents, employees, and business-owners who have sacrificed so much for this place we call home.
We need our Mayor and City Council to act like leaders of a world-class city. To act with diligence and determination, before the people and places that make Los Angeles a home for all of us are gone forever.
ANCA Hosting "Accountability | 2024" – a Capitol Hill Gathering Demanding Justice for Azerbaijan’s Genocide of Artsakh’s Armenians https://t.co/Ysqyv3yuPS
End the @JoeBiden Administration’s shameful silence on attacks against the #ArmenianQuarter of Jerusalem by forcefully condemning this violent assault upon an at-risk treasure of global Christian heritage (since the 4th Century).
The @JoeBiden Administration can no longer remain silent about the attacks on the #ArmenianQuarter in Jerusalem. I urge @IRF_Ambassador Rashad Hussain to condemn this assault on our shared Christian heritage. #HeritageMatters
End the @JoeBiden Administration’s shameful silence on attacks against the #ArmenianQuarter of Jerusalem by forcefully condemning this violent assault upon an at-risk treasure of global Christian heritage (since the 4th Century).
They have drilled into the heads of Azerbaijani society that Armenians are not native to the Caucasus and that Armenians have nothing to do with the term “Armenia” found on historical maps 🤯🤯🤯
None of them asks who built the monasteries with Armenian inscriptions dating back to the 4th century. The usual cope is “those aren’t Armenian, those are ‘Caucasian Albanian’….including on lands which have never been a part of Caucasian Albania and including structures built long after that civilization went extinct.
These people truly believe it
Absurdistan