This November, Los Angeles County voters will be asked to support Measure J, a much-needed investment in our transportation system that would start up seven transit projects and eight highway improvement projects within five years and complete them within fifteen, providing traffic relief along with 250,000 good jobs. Measure J is a remarkable opportunity to put the county back to work modernizing our transportation system. It does this not by raising taxes but by extending by another 30 years the half-cent transportation sales tax voters approved in 2008.

Arts for LA, as part of its commitment to increasing civic engagement outlined in the Arts & Culture Policy Framework for Los Angeles County (PDF), is proud to participate in National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday, September 25, 2012—a month prior to the October 22 voter registration deadline in California.

A coalition of nonprofit organizations and government agencies have joined together to form CREATE CA, a statewide movement to reform arts education in California.