| New UCLA data shows wildfires hurt our health and our wallets | LAist |
| Every year, the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research asks thousands of California households about topics that influence health, the largest state survey of its kind in the U.S.
The findings of the 2024 California Health Interview Survey, which has just been released, show that nearly 14 million adults personally experienced a wildfire or were exposed to smoke from one. [Article] |
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| ICE conducts operations in San Pedro, threatens to arrest LA County staff, Supervisor Hahn says – Daily News |
| U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested three people in San Pedro on Wednesday, Oct. 8 — and apparently threatened to arrest staff from the Los Angeles County Department of Parks and Recreation who responded to the scene, according to Supervisor Janice Hahn’s office.
A local community group and San Pedro’s representative on the Los Angeles City Council also said several others were arrested elsewhere in the port town on Wednesday. [Article] |
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| Outdoor dining becomes a permanent fixture in California. How it will work | LAist |
| Remember during the pandemic when restaurants turned parking lots into outdoor dining venues? That move, intended to keep businesses afloat and diners safer from the virus, required loosening some existing laws. Now, new legislation will make more outdoor dining a permanent fixture in California. [Article] |
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| Southern California Edison sued for 2019 Saddleridge fire damage by federal government – Daily News |
| A lawsuit filed by the U.S. government this week is seeking damages from Southern California Edison for the cost of fighting the 2019 Saddleridge fire and for the blaze’s harm to natural resources.
The fire, which began near Sylmar and burned around 800 acres of land in the Angeles National Forest, started after a part of an SCE transmission tower failed and led to a power line falling onto the tower, which caused an electrical fault, according to the complaint, filed in U.S. federal court on Tuesday, Oct 7. [Article] |
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| Chaos, conflict and drones: 10 takeaways from LAFD’s report on the Palisades Fire | LAist |
| The Los Angeles Fire Department’s after action report — released Wednesday — details the challenges the department faced and the ways its response failed during the Palisades Fire in January. [Article] |
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| Billionaire Caruso says he no longer builds in LA due to prices – Daily News |
| Billionaire developer Rick Caruso said Los Angeles’ high costs and bureaucracy have stopped his real estate company from building in the very city it’s based in.
“I made that decision long before I ever ran for office,” Caruso said Thursday at a Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles, referring to his 2022 campaign for LA mayor. “What leadership needs to understand is money is going to travel in directions that has the less friction to it, less risk to it.” [Article] |
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| Indefinite Probation for Youth Doesn’t Make Us Safer |
| How motivated would you be to run a race if there was no finish line?
This is exactly what is being asked of our young people who end up in California’s juvenile probation system. Once under probation supervision, the current system allows young people to be locked in with no discernible end, often without a clear purpose. [Article] |
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| Voting by mail in November? Avoid late Shasta County ballot postmark |
| Shasta County Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis is asking voters to mail in their special election ballot with confidence, but to make sure last minute ballots are stamped by the post office.
That's after he faced voters' concerns about ballot security and fears the U.S. Post Office might postmark mailed ballots after Election Day, invalidating them.
Curtis issued an announcement Thursday afternoon, Oct. 9, to address what he said were “concerns that the post office might potentially send the ballots to Sacramento for last minute mailers, thus stamping them for a date after the election.”
That’s not the case, he said in the announcement: “The Post Office makes its best efforts to pull those ballots, and our staff makes a mail run to the post office twice every (week) day” through Nov. 4.
Mailed-in return ballots must have a postmarked date that’s on or before Election Day to be counted, according to the state, and they must arrive at their county elections office no later than seven days later. [Article] |
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| Gov. Newsom signs bill paving way for taller housing developments near transit – Daily News |
| Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed state Senate Bill 79, the controversial legislation that critics say overrides local zoning rules and allows mid-rise apartments and condo buildings several stories tall to be built near certain public transit stations – including in neighborhoods zoned for single-family homes.
The Abundant and Affordable Homes Near Transit Act, as SB 79 is called, could dramatically reshape California’s housing landscape by boosting production of residential buildings even in communities not used to seeing taller or denser developments. [Article] |
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| White House claims 'more than 1,000%' rise in assaults on ICE agents. Data says otherwise | LAist |
| Immigration and Customs and Enforcement officials have claimed since June that assaults on their own officers have climbed sharply, with the White House insisting in a September executive order that attacks are up "more than 1,000 percent." [Article] |
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| Acton worries about homeless influx | News | avpress.com |
| ACTON — Residents have expressed concerns that people possibly experiencing homelessness are being dropped off at the Metrolink station in Acton.
The Acton Town Council, at its Monday meeting, heard from residents who shared observations with the council about individuals boarding trains in Acton with backpacks or luggage, raising questions about whether some were being relocated from Lancaster. [Article] |
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| How an Echo Park historian is preserving — and reclaiming — LA's Chola culture |
| Marcia Salmerón is a historian, archivist and activist who has devoted her career to documenting and celebrating “Cholas,” the women of Los Angeles’ barrios. Marcia was a member of Echo Park Locas, made famous by the 1993 film “Mi Vida Loca.”
Through her work archiving photos of Cholas, Marcia is seeking to reclaim the once-derogatory word and take control of the narrative of her own culture. The Chola culture dates back to Pachuca styles of early 20th century Los Angeles. [Article] |
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| Check out some wildfire-related bills that Gov. Newsom signed this week – Daily News |
| Nine months after the most devastating wildfires to ever hit Los Angeles County, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of bills to help victims recover from the January disaster, his office announced on Friday, Oct. 10.
Taken together, the bills aim to protect homeowners and tenants immediately after a disaster, provide property tax relief, help workers recover and make it easier to rebuild, and make insurance work better for property owners and small businesses. [Article] |
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| 3 more LA County residents overdose on kratom, the drug known as ‘gas station heroin’ – Daily News |
| Three additional fatal overdoses associated with the synthetic compound kratom, known by its nickname “gas station heroin,” have been confirmed in Los Angeles County, officials said Friday.
The recent overdoses of residents between the ages of 18 and 40 brought the total of local deaths now tied to the substance to six, according to the county Medical Examiner. [Article] |
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| US west coast faults could trigger catastrophic back-to-back earthquakes, study finds | West Coast | The Guardian |
| Warnings about the looming threat of “the big one” – a catastrophic earthquake that could devastate cities – have stoked fears across the US west coast for decades. But according to a new study, a high-magnitude earthquake in the Pacific north-west could set off a secondary one on California’s San Andreas fault, causing an unrivaled catastrophe.
“The bigger one” would have the potential to wreak havoc up and down the coast at once, researchers say.
“We could expect that an earthquake on one of the faults alone would draw down the resources of the whole country to respond to it,” said lead author Dr Chris Goldfinger, a marine geologist and geophysicist. “If they both went off together, then you’ve got potentially San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Vancouver all in an emergency situation in a compressed timeframe.”
The Cascadia subduction zone, which can produce magnitude 9 earthquakes on its own, has triggered temblors on the San Andreas fault in the past, according to the study, which was published on 29 September.
Goldfinger said the findings came after decades of head-scratching and a lot of data that was difficult to explain. [Article] |
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| Long Beach says its ‘Fixit’ repair clinics have diverted about 3,000 pounds of waste from landfills | LAist |
| In the past two years, Long Beach has held seven ‘Fixit’ clinics, where residents can bring things like toys, clothes, bicycles or small appliances to volunteers to be repaired.
The city says 3,000 pounds of waste has been kept out of landfills. It's a big victory, but that’s not the only reason the events are held. [Article] |
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| Residents stage a ‘funeral’ claiming Boeing killed cleanup at Santa Susana Field Lab – Daily News |
| Community members staged a “funeral” in front of a Boeing building in Van Nuys this week, claiming the company killed the cleanup of the toxic and radioactive site at the Santa Susana Field Lab near their homes — a site in Simi Hills overlooking the San Fernando Valley where rocket engine and nuclear reactor testing occurred, leaving behind chemical and radioactive contamination.
Dressed in black, protestors stood outside Boeing’s Van Nuys facility to mourn what they called “the broken promises of a full cleanup” at the contaminated site. In front of the building, they arranged flowers spelling out “SSFL” — Santa Susana Field Lab — as a black hearse awaited. [Article] |
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| Judge denies California's request to put LA County juvenile halls under state control | LAist |
| A judge has temporarily denied a request from California Attorney General Rob Bonta to put Los Angeles County juvenile halls under state control. [Article] |
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| City of Baldwin Park receives Helen Putnam Award for Excellence for Successful Homeless Initiatives - PublicCEO |
| The City of Baldwin Park is proud to announce that it has received the prestigious Helen Putnam Award for Excellence in the Housing Programs and Innovations category from the League of California Cities. [Article] |
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| A state snake and shrub? Meet California’s newest designated state symbols | LAist |
| California now has an official state snake and state shrub, adding to its long list of state symbols. How’s that for alliteration?
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A state snake and shrub? Meet California’s newest designated state symbols [Article] |
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