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How California boosted composting — but broke local composters in the process
Reporting for this story was supported by the Climate Equity Reporting Project at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. In the first few years after Monique Figueiredo founded Compostable LA in 2019, it grew rapidly. The small business picked up food scraps from homes, event spaces, and businesses — ranging from Walmart to Nike — and delivered it to urban farms and community gardens where it was made into high-quality compost. It wasn’t long before the venture had more than 1,000 customers throughout the city of Los Angeles.
Stellantis files new lawsuits against United Auto Workers union
WASHINGTON/DETROIT (Reuters) -Chrysler parent Stellantis said on Monday it has filed eight additional lawsuits against the United Auto Workers and 23 local units, saying the union has violated its contract by threatening to strike over the company's delays in planned investments.
As affordable housing disappears, states scramble to shore up the losses
For more than two decades, the low rent on Marina Maalouf’s apartment in a blocky affordable housing development in Los Angeles’ Chinatown was a saving grace for her family, including a granddaughter who has autism.But that grace had an expiration date. For Maalouf and her family it arrived in 2020.The landlord, no longer legally obligated to keep the building affordable, hiked rent from $1,100 to $2,660 in 2021 — out of reach for Maalouf and her family. Maalouf's nights are haunted by fears her yearslong eviction battle will end in sleeping bags on a friend's floor or worse.While...
L.A. could be ‘GOING BROKE’ after blowing past yearly liability budget in just 3 months, controller says
The city of Los Angeles is paying out lawsuit settlements at a dangerous rate, according to City Controller Kenneth Mejia. Mejia posted to X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday to announce a “CITY OF LA GOING BROKE ALERT,” pointing to problems in the liability claims budget. In spite of L.A. having a budget of $87 million […]
Bridge, Airport wildfires in Southern California near full containment
The two large Southern California wildfires burning since last month were nearly fully contained Friday, fire officials said. The Bridge Fire in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties remained at 54,878 acres with 98% containment “due to the dangerous steep terrain along the fire perimeter,” according to a statement Friday morning from the Angeles National Forest.
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