Ramada Inn Homeless Project Update (09/25)
The John Kobylt Show
Premiere Networks
4.3 • 800 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The John Kobylt Show Hour 2 (09/25) - Angela McGregor comes on the show to talk about the Ramada Inn homeless project in Marina Del Rey that has seen zero progress. Recapping the interview from yesterday with Santa Monica Mayor Lana Negrete. A Downtown LA business man is fed up with a nearby homeless encampment that is impacting business. The multi-billion dollar Ivanpah Solar Facility is going to be shut down.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.8 | KFI AM-640. |
| 0:06.5 | You're listening to the John Cobel podcast on the I-Hart Radio app. |
| 0:10.8 | There's some kind of news conference being held by the county supervisors over this after-action report about the county's response to the bad fires. |
| 0:24.6 | And if we find out anything, we will tell you. |
| 0:33.1 | And the report did not cover the city's response. So we still don't know why the Palisades reservoir was empty, why it was missing 117 million gallons of water. And we still don't know |
| 0:39.7 | why Janice Kenonia still gets to run the DWP, among other things. But we'll get to more of that |
| 0:45.3 | later. Right now, you know, the big, you know, we don't have enough money for the fire department. |
| 0:53.1 | We only fund it at a 50% rate, but God, do we have enough money for the fire department. We only funded at a 50% rate. |
| 0:55.9 | But God, do we have the money to blow on stupid homeless housing ideas? |
| 1:02.3 | Back when Mike Bonin was still a councilman on the west side of L.A., there was, he had a project to convert a Ramada in, it was called the Marina Delway Ramada, |
| 1:15.8 | converted to low-income housing. |
| 1:17.4 | So far, the city has spent over $20 million, and nothing's been done. |
| 1:25.8 | And we're going to talk to Angela McGregor from westsidecurrent.com because she's been poking |
| 1:31.5 | around trying to see, I guess, what Bonnan thinks of all this. |
| 1:36.5 | Angela McGregor, how are you? |
| 1:38.5 | I'm good. |
| 1:39.2 | Thank you. |
| 1:39.9 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:41.4 | So, yeah, you talked to Mike Bonnan about this disaster of a project? |
| 1:45.4 | I mean, this was his baby. |
| 1:47.3 | Oh, no, didn't talk to him. |
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