I’m fully obsessed with Anna May Wong, who was born in LA’s Chinatown in 1905 and rose to became the first Asian American film star. She was an all-around badass, and she’s about to be on the quarter.
I wrote about her life and legacy
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I was grateful to get a ride across the flood this morning in Union Station!
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New: A snapshot of the damage dealt by the unrelenting storms in the Santa Cruz region.
I drove down there this weekend during a rare respite. Today, mudslides and flooding are back as the storms return.
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I learned this week that not many people outside California know how big a role Southwest plays in transporting residents between Northern and Southern California.
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We’re asking readers to not engage in any platforms tomorrow and stand with us on the digital picket line! Read local news. Listen to public radio. Make something from a cookbook. Break your Wordle streak.
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Good breakdown of why ballot counting takes so darn long in California by
For those wondering, it's not just the fact that CA allows mail in ballots arriving after election day — 15 other states do as well!
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Why ballots are still being counted in CA?
has you covered.
With some comments by me & saging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2
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NEW: + are most closely associated with other parts of Los Angeles, yet each has deep personal or professional ties to the San Fernando Valley. It's likely the area of the city where the mayor's race will be won or lost.
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Evidence of the dangers of indoor pollution is mounting.
Benzene levels were low enough that it's not an immediate cause to throw out your gas stove, but scientists agree that there's no safe threshold for benzene exposure, as it accumulates in the body.
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THREAD: Los Angeles is known for sunshine and sprawl. But for the past three decades L.A. has been the most housing overcrowded large county in America. In the pandemic, L.A.'s overcrowded areas have suffered. We wanted to understand how it happened (1/16)
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NEW: We unravel the cruel paradox at the heart of development in Los Angeles: How L.A. became known worldwide as the capital of single-family-home suburbia but also the nation's most crowded place — and its deadly consequences during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Anna May Wong was a dazzling, trailblazing talent on the silver screen & a courageous advocate for representation in cinema — inspiring generations of AAPI actors.
It’s fitting her likeness will grace our quarter beside an all-American creed: E Pluribus Unum, “from many, one.”
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Anna May Wong, a Hollywood film star who had a trailblazing career, will be the first Asian American featured on U.S. currency. The U.S. Mint on Monday will begin producing quarters with her image. nyti.ms/3T94Muo
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Some have begun discussing another, potentially more dramatic step to address the public’s outrage in the wake of the scandal: scrapping the maps of the council’s 15 districts and drawing new ones. + I asses the possibility and peril of this
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LA City Council started their live stream for their upcoming city council meeting
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How much impact can any one of us have in fighting climate change? Join for a conversation with , and on what individuals can do to address the climate crisis.
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Great Basin bristlecone pines are some of the oldest trees in the world, and the absolute oldest one is in central California. I got to visit them, write about them and I’m obsessed! nytimes.com/2022/10/08/us/
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Love this story by who is truly one of my favorite writers. Just read the lede and you’ll see why!
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Another fabulous lede for 's collection.
BISHOP, Calif. — Before the Egyptians built the Pyramids, before Jesus was born, before the Roman Empire formed or collapsed, the trees were here.
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A decade ago, grade school kids in Marin County had some of the lowest vax rates in California. Now, writes my colleague , they’re getting vaccinated for Covid at more than double the statewide or national rates. via
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After years of being California's anti-vax capital, Marin County now has one of the highest Covid vaccination rates in the nation, even among kids.
I wrote about the flip:
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I’m excited to share this piece I wrote about long covid and mental health. I never thought my painting would be in the !
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some belated news: I just started as editor of accessibility & aging in place ! this is in so many ways my dream job and I'm excited to work with such an amazing team to make our recs more inclusive and useful to disabled, chronically ill & older readers & caretakers
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The Zeiss telescope at Griffith Observatory is 9,000 pounds and almost 90 years old. And, according to the staff at Griffith, more people have looked through it than any other telescope in the world:
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Because of declining infection and hospitalization numbers, LA County officials have decided not to instate an indoor mask mandate tomorrow, as had been planned.
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called it “a love letter” to the city. Now Los Angeles is loving it back. A look at my old neighborhood’s favorite new landmark with via
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“Coming out of the pandemic, our nightlife venues are really hurting. For some of these small businesses, this could be the difference between being viable and not being viable.” California considers extending last call to 4 A.M. nytimes.com/2022/07/26/us/ by
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Bay Area unlikely to follow LA's move to mandate masks -- for now.
sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl via
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2/ So no one should go into a space of saying, ‘I’m not at any risk.’ Because that’s just absolutely not true.”
LA County is the only county in CA as of now that is bringing back indoor mask mandates.
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"When there's this much transmission ... put back on a well-fitting, high-filtration mask when you're indoors around others. And I think that's the prudent thing to do."
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"We are not closing anything down, we are not asking people to gather with the people they love we are not asking you to forgo activities you love, we are asking you to take a sensible step: ..."
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"continues to be hardest hit. And not notice that we still have lots and lots of people with severe illness, lots of people who die and lots of people with long Covid, and not want to take a fairly straightforward step to try to layer in some additional protections."
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LA County public health director Barbara Ferrer: "Lots of folks are asking why we're bothering and asking why don't we just let things run their course like other places may have done. I think it's really hard ... to look at the LA County data and not notice who ..."
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Covid case numbers look artificially low because of how many people are taking at-home tests. But Covid ER visits are up, and so are outbreaks at nursing homes, and so are deaths.
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LA County is planning to instate an indoor masking mandate on July 29. It would apply to all public indoor spaces:
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the last time I saw my father, one year ago, he complained that someone swiped his Sunday . he died 4 days later. so today, in his memory, I wrote about him on the Sunday front page. Happy heavenly Father's Day, Dad
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It's unclear whether the people who were shot were those who tried to detain the shooter. There were 30 to 40 witnesses in the church, and a lot of them still need to be interviewed by law enforcement to understand exactly what happened, officials say
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The shooter is believed to be an Asian man in his 60s, and the motive for the attack remains unknown, officials say.
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The shooter had already been detained by the church-goers when police arrived.
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