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Idaho’s Air Quality Crisis: The Hidden Dangers of Wildfires and Pollution
Summers in the Western United States are a challenge. Whether you live in Arizona, California, or our state of Idaho, it's hot. The summer of 2024 is projected to be one of the hottest and most dangerous on record, posing a significant threat to our communities. . Fortunately, the Gem...
New Bill Needs Governor’s Signature to Ease Black Job Crisis
As a pastor and community activist in South Los Angeles, I’m daily reminded of how much poverty has affected the financial and spiritual wellbeing of our Black communities. With rising inflation, from food to gas prices, Black folks are being outpriced in their own communities. And because of historic discrimination, Black people face disproportionately high unemployment rates, leaving them unable to take care of their families and vulnerable to chronic poverty, homelessness and incarceration.
Lake Powell levels up 20% thanks to lucky weather, water conservation efforts
Lake Powell, one of the Southwest’s largest reservoirs, is at its highest level in more than three years. This even though 2024 runoff will be below average. The lake is now 42% full, nearly 20% higher than it was last spring, and out of danger of falling so low it would hit a so-called dead pool and not be able to generate electricity at Glen Canyon Dam.
Matthew Stafford selling Hidden Hills home 2 years after buying it from Drake
Matthew Stafford has been busy in the real estate market since arriving in Los Angeles three years ago. In that short period of time, he’s purchased multiple homes in Southern California, including a $28 million mansion in Hidden Hills that he bought at the end of 2023. In 2022,...
California took vacation time from a prison doctor. Now it has to pay him $1.8 million
A California prison doctor accumulated more than 1,000 hours of personal time off and used some of it to work a second job. He claimed he faced retaliation when officials began scrutinizing his time and then clawed back much of his leave bank
Magan Pagnini crowned as 2024 Miss California Mid-State Fair Queen
PASO ROBLES — The California Mid-State Fair (CMSF) kicked off its 78th year on Wednesday, July 17, with a switch-up on its normal opening ceremony. This year, instead of a ribbon cutting, fair-goers were let into the fair starting at 3:45 p.m. Then, promptly at 4 p.m., a rope was dropped, letting everyone loose in the fairgrounds to enjoy “Wide Open Spaces,” this year’s theme.
San Diego Natural History Museum Celebrates 150 Years with Parties & Events
The San Diego Natural History Museum is celebrating its 150th anniversary year with parties and events throughout the fall to coincide with its founding in October 1874. “We’re extremely proud to celebrate 150 years of bringing people closer to nature,” said Judy Gradwohl, Christy Walton President and CEO. “These anniversary events reflect our ongoing commitment to our community and region, and we invite everyone to join in the festivities.”
Hines Signs First Tenant at Newly Built Otay Mesa Industrial Park
Cushman & Wakefield brokered the lease of 50,573 square feet of Class A industrial space at Hines’ newly built Britannia Tech Park in San Diego’s Otay Mesa submarket. The park’s first tenant is Irvine-based Foxx Development, Inc., which delivers end-to-end solutions for telecommunication electronic devices, smart building and IoT products. The company is expanding its footprint to scale its product manufacturing and distribution operation.
UCSD Study: Lower-Income Gamblers Take Greater Risks Online
The legalization of online gambling increases state revenues, but also leads to riskier betting, especially among lower-income gamblers, according to a new study from UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management. The report says that since the 2018 U.S. Supreme Court decision allowed states to legalize sports betting, online...
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