Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Local Hype: The Tournament of Cheeseburgers, Then Progressively Worse News

 

LAist wants you to submit your favorite cheeseburger spot in all of the LA area...again. The Tournament of Cheeseburgers is back. Submit your favorite place and see if it makes it to the final round this Summer.

Eater LA has a fun little write up on the Gudetema Cafe dealing with egg prices


 

What Egg Shortage? At the Gudetama Cafe, It’s Business As Usual.

LAist has some utterly depressing news on the SoCal area. 

Anaheim's scandal-ridden Chamber of Commerce poised to close

*We can totally see that from how utterly bad the convention center is run and any events not done by Disney itself. The next WonderCon might want to ditch the Anaheim Convention Center. With such an unreliable partner in that city they might want to think of holding it some place that has it's act together.

 In largest settlement in its history, LA County approves $4 billion in massive child abuse case

*Hey, the county's not going bankrupt it's just paying people back into the 2050's. 

Court auditors say LA homelessness services are 'extremely broken' 

*Homelessness money is so badly used a third party agency might have to be in control of LA's finances towards it. It's something that should have already happened honestly. Our local government has managed it so poorly it's better that another group or agency does it that can actually shows where the money is going.