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Council members unanimously directed the city attorney to draft ballot language for the package, which involves a number of changes to the city charter.
Today on AirTalk, we look into how a long-standing environmental law has affected California housing projects. Also on the show, we examine some of the risks associated with taking supplements; we continue our conversation on neurodiversity, looking into the history of diagnosis; AirTalk listeners who are expats and transplants share what they love about SoCal; and more.
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Larry Mantle and LAist film critics Claudia Puig and Andy Klein review the latest releases on FilmWeek.
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Landlords in unincorporated L.A. County can start applying to a COVID-era rent relief program next week. The program is meant to help mom-and-pop landlords.
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The state legislature has ordered an audit of the city's legal settlement over the Pacific Airshow, just the latest example of the state and the city at odds with each other.
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Minimum wage for many California fast workers is now $20. Those who work in child care say they feel left behind.
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The iconic chapel will be moved to storage while church officials debate next steps. The shift of land has been averaging about 7 inches each week.
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Mizuhara pleaded not guilty as part of a formality, but will change his plea to guilty as part of a deal reached with the U.S. District Attorney’s Office last week.
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Suzanne Levy, a senior editor at LAist, reflects on 10 years in a land she never imagined embracing.
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One researcher said that they saw 20,000 birds pass through in a single day.
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Belle and Sebastian, National BBQ Month at Grand Central Market, a massive drum circle, and a talk on The Swans of Harlem.
Civics Tuesday
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California is in a massive housing crisis, and while longstanding environmental law is not solely to blame, a new report finds it isn't helping matters.
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L.A. County Supervisor Holly Mitchell wants residents of two neighborhoods to decide how to spend $1 million.
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Phew. Eleven state propositions have already qualified for the November 2024 ballot in California, including one to repeal a law that limits the type of housing subject to rent control and one to repeal a law that defines marriage as being between a man and a woman.
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Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum returns with outdoor summer repertory theater. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is back, alongside The Winter’s Tale, Wendy’s Peter Pan, Tartuffe: Born Again, and The Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx/Latine Vote.
Family-Sized Housing Shortage
No American city shuts millennials with kids out of homeownership more than L.A.
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The severe lack of family friendly housing has millennial parents asking: Is leaving Southern California our only option?
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We talked to experts and lawmakers and found no clear consensus on how to solve the growing problem.
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Empty nesters own more L.A. homes than millennials with kids. Here’s how some older homeowners are finding ways to spread their wealth.
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Host Traci Thomas welcomes guests author Amanda Montell and actor Vella Lovell for book talk, trivia, and hot takes.
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A live event series in partnership with The James Beard Foundation that will go behind the scenes of some of L.A.’s favorite restaurants.
LAist Promise Tracker
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Mayor Bass made an ambitious campaign pledge to address homelessness by housing 17,000 Angelenos. We’ve been trying to keep tabs, but it’s complicated.
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Here's how Mayor Bass did on her campaign promises on homelessness during her first year in office.
Best Of LAist
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Supervisor Andrew Do directed millions to the group, which was supposed to go toward feeding needy residents. “If they can’t prove then they should pay the money back,” Supervisor Katrina Foley told LAist.
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One year after California became the first state to require that its public universities provide the abortion pill to students, LAist found that basic information on where or how students can obtain the medication is lacking and, often, nonexistent.
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Images from across the Golden State show how the storm systems have transformed our mountains into winter wonderlands.
Education
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USC students reflect on a full circle moment, recalling cancelled high school graduations and now a cancelled main ceremony.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom’s revised plan reduces funding for key higher education programs.
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The governor's revised proposal makes cuts to funding for transitional kindergarten facilities, state preschool slots, and home visiting programs.
LA History
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We talk to historian Elsa Devienne about how beaches developed and her new book Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles.
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Erskine had two career no-hitters and won a World Series with the Dodgers in 1955. But many remember his friendship with Jackie Robinson at a time when segregation was legal.
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Los Angeles has the most diversity in street light design of any American city.
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May Gray is in store for this week.
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We dig into your trash … and what to do with it.
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Carlos Moreno, the scientist behind the concept, wrote a new book to introduce the 15-minute city to a wider audience.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is recommending small cuts to the state prison system, avoiding the closures of additional facilities.
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Remembering Sean Burroughs, Who Took Long Beach Little League To The Mountaintop In The 1990s, TwiceAfter a successful Little League career, Burroughs went on to the big league and help Team USA win a Gold Medal at the Olympics. He died last week at the age of 43.
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Faced with a multibillion dollar budget deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s May budget proposal includes hundreds of millions of dollars in additional cuts to housing and homelessness programs.
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Over some five decades, Corman filled America's drive-ins with hundreds of low-budget movies. Many of Hollywood's most respected directors have at least one Corman picture buried in their resumes.
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It'll still take about five years of above-average rainfall for the state's groundwater storage to return to pre-drought levels, according to the state Department of Water Resources.
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, turns out that chopping off the top of trees to reduce their sizes is rather harmful, arborists say.
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Researchers are learning that handwriting engages the brain in ways typing can't match, raising questions about the costs of ditching this age-old practice, especially for kids.
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Mount Wilson was a prime viewing point for the northern lights in Southern California.
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Gavin Newsom proposes a mix of spending cuts and using reserves to balance the state budget. He says that core services will be largely untouched, but some existing programs would be affected.
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