Armenian Cab Drivers in Los Angeles Get No Help From Yelp

Liana Aghajanian, editor in chief of Los Angeles online magazine Ianyan, has a long and rather interesting look at an ordinance passed this week in Santa Monica. It is very bad news for the city’s Armenian community, because among the eight taxi cab firms prevented from doing further business within city limits starting January, 2011 are a half-dozen owned and-or operated by Amernian-American families. In fact, not one such firm made it past a five-member committee’s criteria.