To the editor: I’m so unhappy and offended that we’ve come to this.
One after one other, companies and dreamers who got here to Los Angeles to construct and create are giving up. Up to now week alone, KB Houses introduced its departure (“L.A.’s trailblazing home builder is the latest to leave California,” April 14), and now Clifton’s (“‘We’ve lost our way’: Clifton’s operator gives up on downtown Los Angeles,” April 18).
Get up, Metropolis Corridor! Empower and respect your companies that implement primary legal guidelines that maintain our streets clear and protected.
We should have an opportunity to dwell as much as the promise of Los Angeles as a metropolis of chance.
Lily Lee, Highland Park
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To the editor: California officers watch companies go away the state — taking jobs with them — with scarcely a shrug of their shoulders. They search new sources of funds, just like the ill-conceived billionaire tax. Billionaires can go away, and lots of do.
The very best income is the one you have already got. The state wants an Workplace of Enterprise Retention. I’ve instructed this to state officers (together with our lieutenant governor) quite a few instances. Not one acknowledgment, not to mention actions to this impact.
Douglas Hileman, Valley Glen
