Inglewood spent millions of dollars in public funds to soundproof middle-class areas of the city while bypassing one of the poorest neighborhoods where the roar from the Los Angeles International Airport flight path is loudest, according to a Times data analysis. Over the last several decades, the Federal Aviation Administration and Los Angeles World Airports have given the city nearly $400 million to purchase and demolish hundreds of homes in the Los Angeles flight path and soundproof thousands of others… read more >
John “Calico Jack” Rackham
John “Calico Jack” Rackham (1682-1720) – Commonly known as Calico Jack because of the colorful calico clothing that he wore, Rackham was an English pirate
