| Shasta County Board Releases Emails Connected to Elections Grant Process – Shasta Scout |
| Shasta County Supervisors voted four to one on Thursday, November 14, to release a series of email communications between elections officials, a former county attorney, and others.
The emails relate to concerns by Supervisors Patrick Jones and Kevin Crye that current and former elections officials somehow “circumvented” or “usurped” the Board’s authority in the process of seeking the Board’s approval for a $1.5 million grant from the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL). [Article] |
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| LAX Automated People Mover train cars are rolling on airport tracks – Daily News |
| LAX’s Automated People Mover has entered a new phase of testing that will bring train cars through the Central Terminal Area, which employees and guests can view starting Tuesday crossing over Sepulveda and Century boulevards. [Article] |
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| Boiling Point: Intentionally destroying the climate is not normal |
| ‘’We will talk about global warming. ... And we will act.’’ — presidential candidate George H.W. Bush, 1988
“There is a real problem that we as a world face from global warming.” — Christine Todd Whitman, appointed by then-President George W. Bush to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, 2001
“It’s important for us to reduce our emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases that may well be significant contributors to the climate change and the global warming that you’re seeing.” — presidential candidate Mitt Romney, 2011
The Republican Party has come a long way. Not for the better.
Here’s a sampling of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees: [Article] |
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| New CAIR survey reveals 1 in 2 Muslim students reported harassment at California colleges – Daily News |
| Nearly half of Muslim students in 87 colleges and universities across California experienced harassment or discrimination at school, according to a new report.
The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA) and its Center for the Prevention of Hate and Bullying unveiled its latest report, “Examining Islamophobia on California College Campuses” at a press conference Tuesday, Nov. 19. [Article] |
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| LAX Automated People Mover project one step closer to completion | LAist |
| You can now sneak a peek of LAX’s Automated People Mover as the project moves into a major milestone. [Article] |
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| Los Angeles County Approves Historic Governance Reform. San Francisco Backs A Study – Pasadena Now |
| It got lost in the massive attention paid — with good reason — to Donald Trump’s triumphant return to the presidency, but a quiet revolution occurred in Los Angeles County. [Article] |
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| Rendering vs. Reality: Los Lirios affordable housing at 113 S. Soto Street in Boyle Heights |
| On November 15, Metro and developers East L.A. Community Corp. and Bridge Housing Corp. held a completion ceremony for the Los Lirios apartments in Boyle Heights.
The Metro joint development, built next to the E Line's Soto Station at 113 S. Soto Street, consists of a five-story building featuring 64 apartments and 2,400 square feet of ground-floor commercial space. The apartments come in a mix of studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom floor plans, and including supportive housing and general affordable housing reserved for renters earning between 30 and 50 percent of the area median income level. [Article] |
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| Why Mass Deportations Would Cripple California’s Economy |
| In the days following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, I reached out to a longtime Northern California family farmer to gauge his level of concern.
Trump has, after all, already made full-throated declarations that his administration will conduct the largest deportation of undocumented residents in U.S. history. That should resonate in a place like California, with its estimated 1.8 million undocumented immigrants — and it certainly would shake up a state agriculture industry in which nearly half of all workers are undocumented. [Article] |
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| County Supervisor Barger Gives $200,000 Contribution to Friends in Deed – Pasadena Now |
| Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger addressed local homelessness Wednesday by presenting a substantial contribution to Friends In Deed, a longstanding non-profit organization known for its work in supporting unhoused and at-risk individuals in the Pasadena area. [Article] |
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| Transgender care in California could be affected under Trump - Los Angeles Times |
| When Mars Wright saw that Donald Trump had been elected again as president, the 29-year-old Los Angeles artist and streetwear designer felt relieved he had already undergone surgeries for his gender transition.
Wright, a transgender man, has chronicled his medical journey online, flexing and dancing to show how his body transformed after a masculinization procedure he nicknamed “Dorito chip” for the way it altered his shape. His surgery was covered under an L.A. Care plan he obtained through Covered California, the marketplace set up under the Affordable Care Act for Californians to purchase insurance.
“I’m privileged to be here,” Wright said of living in California. “And I think about how people are going to have to come here ... to be able to have medical transition.”
California leaders have sought to protect access to such procedures for transgender people. Health plans licensed by the state must provide transgender enrollees with medically necessary gender-affirming care. Doctors who provide such care in California are legally shielded from laws criminalizing it in other states.
But experts and advocates said that even in California, access to gender-affirming care could be undermined by federal action as Trump takes office for a second time, pledging to stop “left-wing gender insanity” and calling gender transition for minors a form of child abuse. State lawmakers have pledged to push back against efforts to obstruct gender-affirming care, which could tee up future battles in court.
“I’m not going to sit here and say that California can turn back every despicable federal attack on trans people,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), who has backed protections for transgender patients and their doctors. “But we are going to do everything in our power to stick up for the community.” [Article] |
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| How the Arrival of an Endangered Bird Indicates What’s Possible for the L.A. River | Smithsonian |
| Along a gentle bend of the Los Angeles River, in a stretch of land called Taylor Yard, a sound like a high-pitched record scratch can just be heard above the cacophony of city life. This is the call of the least Bell’s vireo, an olive-gray songbird that is only five inches from tip to tail. The riparian species native to Southern California has lived an endangered existence for more than 40 years. Now, the small bird’s return here symbolizes a new future for one of the country’s most maligned waterways. [Article] |
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| LA City Council officially adopts sanctuary city ordinance in advance of Trump's second term | LAist |
| The L.A. City Council on Tuesday approved an ordinance to officially make Los Angeles a sanctuary city ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's second term. [Article] |
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| LA immigrant groups are prepping to fight Trump’s mass deportations |
| The ACLU sued Immigrations and Customs Enforcement this week for government records on airline flights that transport migrants out of the United States. More of those flights could come as President-elect Donald Trump says he’ll declare a national emergency on immigration and use the military to carry out mass deportations. [Article] |
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| ACLU sues government for records detailing Trump’s mass deportation plan – Daily News |
| The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California is suing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain records revealing how the agency intends to carry out President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed mass deportation and detention plan. [Article] |
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| Audit finds LA’s homelessness agency misused funds, failed to monitor contracts | LAist |
| The findings released Tuesday night by the L.A. County Auditor-Controller’s office highlight long-standing issues at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) and raise new questions about how the agency is spending large pools of public money. [Article] |
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| LA Community Colleges test out guaranteed basic income for students | LAist |
| The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) announced on Tuesday that it’s selected 250 students to receive $1,000 each month for one year. [Article] |
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| AG asks judge to force LA County to address ‘serious ongoing deficiencies’ in juvenile halls – Daily News |
| The California Attorney General’s Office is asking a judge to order more drastic reforms at Los Angeles County’s juvenile halls in light of the “continued deterioration” of the dangerously understaffed facilities, according to a new court filing. [Article] |
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| L.A. 'sanctuary city' law won't prevent deportations. But 'we are hardening our defenses' - Los Angeles Times |
| Facing President-elect Donald Trump’s promised mass deportation of immigrants in the country illegally, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday tentatively backed a “sanctuary city” law that forbids city employees and resources from being involved in federal immigration enforcement.
Because the law, which passed unanimously, was amended during the council meeting, a second vote is required in the coming days.
The law would not stop the federal government from carrying out mass deportations in Los Angeles. Still, it is intended to signal that City Hall is standing with its large immigrant population in a deep blue city already well-known for resisting Trump.
Also on Tuesday, the Los Angeles school board affirmed the nation’s second-largest school system as a sanctuary for immigrants and the LGBTQ+ community.
Councilmember Bob Blumenfield, who represents the central San Fernando Valley, said Tuesday that the city is “hardening our defenses” in the face of Trump’s election.
“We know there is a target on our back from this president-elect,” Blumenfield said [Article] |
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| Audit finds LA’s homelessness agency misused funds, failed to monitor contracts | LAist |
| A new audit finds that a Los Angeles homeless services agency with an $875-million annual budget has routinely paid service providers late, failed to track whether contracts were followed and, in some cases, gave taxpayer funds meant for other purposes to providers who weren’t supposed to receive the money. [Article] |
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| How will California respond to Trump's immigration strategy? - Los Angeles Times |
| No matter how you feel about Donald Trump, there’s consensus about at least one thing: He’s not cryptic. The president-elect has been straightforward about what he plans to do once he’s back in the White House.
One of his key campaign promises was to carry out the “largest deportation operation in American history.” Trump and his acolytes have made it clear which undocumented residents they’ll be targeting: all of them.
“No one’s off the table,” Tom Homan, who’s set to become Trump’s “border czar” next year, said at the Republican National Convention in July. “If you’re in the country illegally, you better be looking over your shoulder.”
Trump has been floating the idea of deploying National Guard troops through orders from supportive state governors to assist in those operations.
This week, Trump confirmed (in an all-caps reply on his Truth Social platform) that he plans to declare a national emergency and activate the military to carry out his efforts. [Article] |
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