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Police investigate string of 5 armed robberies and a shooting at taco trucks within a week
1 year, 9 months ago

Police investigate string of 5 armed robberies and a shooting at taco trucks within a week

LA Times  

An evening shift at Tacos El Pecas in Boyle Heights. The Los Angeles Police Department is investigating a string of five armed robberies at taco trucks within a week‘s span. Police said the first robbery happened on May 28 around 12:25 a.m. on Central Avenue and East 101st Street. Those robberies took place within five minutes of each other: one …

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L.A.’s beloved taco trucks are in survival mode
4 years, 11 months ago

L.A.’s beloved taco trucks are in survival mode

LA Times  

On the evening of March 19, shortly after Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that Los Angeles would be placed under a “Safer at Home” ordinance in response to the coronavirus outbreak, the rolling avenues of Boyle Heights were unusually quiet. I’ve never seen anything like it.” The scene was equally grim on nearby Soto Street, where the Tacos El Pecas food …

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A beginner’s guide to taco trucks
5 years, 9 months ago

A beginner’s guide to taco trucks

LA Times  

Food Columnist There are few things that better represent the greatness of Los Angeles and our love of constant movement than the taco truck, sometimes called a lonchera, a name that encompasses food trucks of all kinds. Tacos árabes come from the city of Puebla, where immigrants from the Middle East adapted their cooking practices — specifically spit-roasting meat and …

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Protesters Build Big, Beautiful Wall Of Taco Trucks Outside Trump's Las Vegas Hotel
8 years, 5 months ago

Protesters Build Big, Beautiful Wall Of Taco Trucks Outside Trump's Las Vegas Hotel

Huff Post  

A protestor holds a sign at the Wall of Tacos demonstration in front of the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas on Wednesday. Jim Urquhart/Reuters LAS VEGAS ― Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump wants a wall, and he got one on Wednesday, when protesters created a mock barrier outside his Las Vegas hotel ahead of the third and final presidential debate. …

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Column: Are there more bigots now than there were before Trump became the GOP front-runner?
8 years, 6 months ago

Column: Are there more bigots now than there were before Trump became the GOP front-runner?

LA Times  

Supporters hold up signs during a campaign rally of Donald Trump at Fredericksburg Expo Center Aug. 20 in Fredericksburg, Va. Here’s what I’ve been wondering since last year, when Donald Trump made race and immigration central to his campaign: Has the country become more bigoted as a result, or does it just seem that way because of how rabid and …

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Taco trucks can stay parked
16 years, 6 months ago

Taco trucks can stay parked

LA Times  

Times Staff Writer Taco trucks are back in full force -- at least for now. The language of the ordinance, Judge Dennis A. Aichroth said, was “vague” and therefore “unconstitutional” in its description of how quickly a vendor could return to an area where the truck was previously parked. The attorney who won the case on behalf of Margarita Garcia, …

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Taco Truck Battle Heats Up in Los Angeles
16 years, 10 months ago

Taco Truck Battle Heats Up in Los Angeles

NPR  

Taco Truck Battle Heats Up in Los Angeles toggle caption toggle caption Ben Bergman, NPR Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold gets paid to eat wherever he wants. Maria Melgar owns the Birrieria Guadalajara restaurant in East Los Angeles, which has one of the highest concentrations of taco trucks in the county. "After six o'clock, this restaurant is closed because …

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East L.A. taco truck owners say they’ll stay put
16 years, 11 months ago

East L.A. taco truck owners say they’ll stay put

LA Times  

Times Staff Writer Taco truck owners vowed to ignore a law passed by Los Angeles County supervisors Tuesday making it a misdemeanor crime -- punishable by fines and jail -- to stay parked in one place for more than an hour. “They can try to move us, but we’re not going to go,” said Aleida De La Cruz, whose taco …

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