by jpitney | Mar 22, 2025 | California Politics, Taxes, Transportation
Many people in the Santa Clarita Valley Inland Empire have long commutes. Charging people for the miles they drive? Absolutely not. This would be another costly blow to people who live where they can afford and have no choice but to drive long distances to work. This...
by jpitney | Mar 20, 2025 | Budget, California Politics, Los Angeles
David Zahniser at LAT: L.A.’s financial problems exploded into a full-blown crisis on Wednesday, with the city’s top budget official announcing that next year’s shortfall is now just shy of $1 billion, making layoffs “nearly inevitable.” City Administrative Officer...
by jpitney | Mar 19, 2025 | California Politics, Claremont McKenna College, Trade
Deborah Brennan at CalMatters: Confusion caused by President Donald Trump’s tariffs is clouding the Inland Empire’s economic forecast, as warehouses and other businesses face a looming trade war. The Inland Empire Economic Partnership recently released...
by jpitney | Mar 4, 2025 | California Politics, Interns, Journalism, Journalists, Uncategorized
by jpitney | Feb 22, 2025 | 2776, California Politics, Declaration of Independence, Local Government, Trade, Vaccine
At LAT, Steve Lopez writes of Mayor Bass: She told two local TV news outlets she wouldn’t have gone to Ghana as part of a presidential delegation on Jan. 4 if she’d been aware of the fire risk in Los Angeles. “If I had all the information I needed to have, the last...
by jpitney | Feb 17, 2025 | 2776, California Politics, Congress, Declaration of Independence, Disabilities, Dreier, Emergency, Environment, Race, Redistricting, Trade, Transparency, Vaccine
Jenny Jarvie and Grace Toohey at LAT: What went wrong with L.A. county’s warnings and evacuations is now the subject of two different investigations after Times reporting found that emergency wireless alerts went out to west Altadena almost five hours after fire began...
