Category: L.A.

So You Wanna Move (to a Red State)?

December 19, 2021
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Commentary In the now three and a half years since I have decamped with my family from Los Angeles to Nashville—some have called us “early adopters”— I have spent considerable time on phone, email and texts with old friends and acquaintances in New York and California who are asking me what it’s like. Am I…

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Los Angeles Fire Department Captain Burned in Explosion Sues Businesses, Building Owner

September 17, 2021
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A Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) captain is suing a downtown vape shop and its building owner for negligence and hazardous activity after he was severely burned in an explosion last year.   Firefighters were responding to a fire that broke out in the warehouse in May 2020 when the building exploded in a 30-foot-wide ball…

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LA County Approves Pilot for Guaranteed Basic Income

May 18, 2021
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LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 May 18 to approve proposals for a pilot guaranteed income program, one of which calls for $1,000 per month to be paid to 1,000 residents for at least three years. Supervisor Kathryn Barger was the dissenting vote, expressing concerns about lack of research into the…

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LA-Funded Homeless Housing is Still Slow and Expensive  

May 17, 2021
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Commentary Between Gov. Gavin Newsom’s recent pre-budget media blitz, President Joe Biden’s “infrastructure plan,” and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s recent State of the City speech, politicians have been making a lot of big claims recently. In an original economic analysis conducted for the Epoch Times, I analyzed Garcetti’s claims that housing funded by the…

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Los Angeles Officials Blast Anti-Maskers

January 4, 2021
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LOS ANGELES (CNS)—Warning that the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic is yet to come, Los Angeles County officials lashed out Jan. 4 at anti-mask protesters and other groups challenging health orders, saying they only need to look at overwhelmed local hospitals to see the deadly consequences of the virus. “Our public health officials have one…

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