Funds to fight fires — not crime — is new priority for many California cities
Many municipalities are already considering approaching voters with a wide range of new taxes and borrowing measures they ...
California city's massive $130M deficit threatens dangerous cuts to its firefighting capacity
The city of Oakland will lose 30% of its firefighting capacity in the next two weeks due to the city’s $129.8 million budget ...
Davis Vanguard2dOpinion
Commentary: Post-LA Fires, It Will Be Much Harder to Get Fire Budgets under Control
The Mercury News reported earlier this week, “The devastating fires that continue to burn in Los Angeles and rank among ...
CounterPunch2d
After the LA Fires
When the Eaton Fire first began its retreat from Altadena, I was in one of many self-organized mutual aid teams scattered ...
Bainbridge Island Review3dOpinion
Mother Nature helped by Dems in tragic fires
It’s easy to blame California’s Democrats for the devastating fires that killed at least five people and destroyed more than ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat4d
This would be ‘devastating’: California sues to stop President Trump’s chaos-inducing funding freeze
Following a Monday executive order from President Donald Trump that seeks to freeze all federal aid, California officials ...
Hosted on MSN4d
City Council authorizes transfer of surplus revenue from DWP to reserve fund
The Los Angeles City Council authorized a transfer of $219.3 million in surplus revenue from the Department of Water and ...
International Viewpoint4d
After the Fire: Reconstructing Los Angeles Towards Abolition
The Los Angeles fires have become the most devastating in American history, causing widespread destruction in the Pacific Palisades and the San Gabriel Valley. The state seized the moment to portray ...
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass pushes the limits of partisanship
Bass will push the limits of partisanship in Los Angeles and let us know once and for all how much city residents are willing to put up with to stand behind the incumbent Democrat only because ...
Trump administration’s freeze of federal funding throws local aid organizations into uncertainty
The Trump administration’s plan to implement a sweeping freeze of federal aid sparked immediate confusion, uncertainty and ...
Flawed emergency alert systems lagged when residents needed them most during Los Angeles wildfires
In this month’s wind-driven wildfires in Southern California, evacuation alerts for some neighborhoods came long after homes ...