California’s High-Risk Insurer Gets $1 Billion Bailout After L.A. Fires
The move will likely lead to higher costs for households across the state, and may push more insurers to leave, intensifying ...
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Unregulated Industrial Contaminants Detected in Some U.S. Drinking Water
The U.S. EPA regulates levels of more than 90 contaminants in public drinking water, but thousands more potentially harmful ...
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From Streets to Shelter: How LA is Tackling Homelessness by Locking Arms and Working Together
In 2023, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, led by Dr. Va Lecia Adams Kellum and Mayor Karen Bass, exceeded their ...
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LA County more than doubled its mental health crisis teams in four years. But it still needs more
The county is still a long way from its goal of reducing response times to 30 minutes on average, so it is exploring ways to ...
Will Eagles visit the Trump White House if invited? It's complicated.
With Donald Trump back in office, the Super Bowl 59 champion Eagles will be first NFL team to face increasingly thorny prospect of White House visit.
10 places creating community for Latinos in Los Angeles
Many Angelenos have turned to weekly run clubs and curated dinner parties as a solution for their solitude. But beyond ...
A Sore Spot in L.A.’s Housing Crisis: Foreign-Owned Homes Sitting Empty
International buyers, from China in particular, have contributed to the hundreds of thousands of vacant residential ...
Editorial: Out on the streets to count L.A.'s unhoused, volunteers learn far more than numbers can convey
In a little more than a week, legions of volunteers will fan out across Los Angeles County to count people who are homeless.
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Reparations study seeks remedies for harm done to LA's Black communities
The study, led by L.A.’s Reparations Advisory Commission, makes more than 60 recommendations organized into categories, including racial terror, housing segregation, and political disenfranchisement.
New OC Equity Report reveals challenges, a path forward
The event was titled “The Path Ahead: OC’s Roadmap to Equity.” Professor Manuel Pastor, the director of the USC Equity ...
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After the fires, the mandate for Karen Bass remains the same: House the people of Los Angeles
In the end, Mayor Karen Bass will ultimately be judged by one metric: Did she house the people of Los Angeles?
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LA Fires Didn’t Discriminate in Their Destruction — But Recovery Efforts Could
Amid rent gouging, land speculators and insurance woes, the cost of rebuilding may exceed working people’s means.