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LAist is part of Southern California Public Radio, a member-supported public media network. For the latest national news from NPR and our live radio broadcast, visitPasadena is one of the few California cities that still gets a lot of its energy from coal — the dirtiest energy source. On Tuesday, a city committee is set to vote on a plan to provide a pathway to transition off the stuff.
Still needing to run the city’s gas-fired power plant, Glenarm, which is used to generate backup power in the case of extreme heat waves and other strains on power. But Cannady and Pasadena 100 members want the committee to reject that plan and go back to the drawing board. They say it’s a “not-a-plan plan” because the city’s analyses have been based on extreme, unrealistic scenarios that make costs and rate increases seem higher than they should be.
Pasadena’s Vice Mayor Felicia Williams, who chairs the Municipal Services Committee, and Pasadena Water and Power declined to speak with LAist before the Oct. 10 meeting.Electricity rates are going up across California, even though the cost of renewable energy per kilowatt is actually cheaper than gas now. That’s largely because of volatile global gas prices and the fact that
“The politics will come up mostly around cost and perceived cost and my approach to that is going to be pragmatic,” he said. Help offsetting the burden of the transition on ratepayers by taking full advantage of federal clean energy funding. The city of Vernon survived that near-death experience, which would have seen it dissolved as an independent city and remade as an unincorporated area of L.A. County. Vernon’s survival was thanks to a huge lobbying campaign by its city government — as well as business interests anxious to preserve it as a sanctuary that offered firms substantial savings to locate there.
Three facilities have been identified as hazardous materials release sites by the California Department of Toxic Substance Control, 25 sites have been found to have had leaking underground storage tanks. A city map shows dozens of other locations with real or suspected soil contamination issues.
The leader of the business community says he is optimistic about the city’s ability to overcome its environmental problems. Steve Freed, a warehouse complex owner who holds the rotating chairmanship of the city’s Chamber of Commerce, said the city is “slowly and surely transitioning from heavy, heavy industry to businesses that are more environmentally friendly.”
A chamber-sponsored political committee raised $78,000 for the successful recall campaign, in which the two council members denied any wrongdoing. Of those funds, $50,000 came from the national headquarters of a labor union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. One of its local branches represents workers at the municipal utility.
Given the housing shortage in greater L.A., history suggests this will not be much of an obstacle. When just one of Vernon’s city-owned apartments became available this summer, the city reported that more than 170 people signed up for the lottery. Although most of the workforce in the city was unorganized, major unions that represented slivers of the workforce, including the Teamsters, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the United Food and Commercial Workers, lined up with employers to make the same point.
To avoid disincorporation, the city agreed to de León’s demands that it make democratic reforms and agreed to hire the late John Van de Kamp, a former Los Angeles County district attorney and California attorney general, to advise it on ethics. De León, who had statewide political ambitions at the time, didn’t publicly object and got a nice political plum out of the abridged deal. Not only was he hailed by Vernon’s business interests, he was also treated as a hero in the neighboring city of Huntington Park, where Vernon helped pay foron the main public soccer field. When it was unveiled, that turf bore the politician’s name in big letters: “Hon. Kevin de Léon Campo de Fútbol.
Adopting by-district elections, where residents elect a representative from their geographic section of the city, is the standard remedy for challenges under the state voting right act. But Mission Viejo decided instead to adopt cumulative voting, where voters cast as many votes as there are seats, and they can cast multiple votes for one candidate.in 2019, leaving city officials scrambling to adopt a new voting system before the 2020 election.
Then, just before the election, Schwarm ruled that Sachs, Raths and Bucknum had overstayed their terms in office by more than two years and should've had to run for re-election in 2020.So far, Schwarm has ordered the city to pay plaintiffs a combined $715,000 for attorneys fees in the two cases. Mission Viejo is still trying to fight off at least one of the rulings.
Some local tribes are federally recognized; others are not. Many local Native Americans are descendants of local tribes; most of them are not. Through massive displacement efforts and settler practices, Native people from tribes across the country were brought to Los Angeles and are part of the rich and complex history that makes this city so unique.is kicking off a new weekly series that will air Mondays on 89.3 FM looking at various aspects of SoCal history.
“Beverly Hills really advertised itself as a place that was safe for abortion care. And Douglas Emmett, the landlord, was fully supportive of this mission,” an attorney for the clinic said.The clinic was set to open on Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills and had signed a lease with Douglas Emmett Inc.
“The City expressly confirmed to DuPont that the City approved of DuPont's intended use of the Premises, and DuPont began planning the construction of its clinic,” the lawsuit states. “That is not something that is required of any other medical practice, that would not have been a request if DuPont Clinic was opening a dentist practice,” Corpuz said. “He was doing this specifically because they're an abortion provider.”But Corpuz said police then sent a letter the landlord warning that the clinic would attract violence and vandalism and the safety, putting the security of other tenants at risk.
“DuPont Clinic provides an absolutely critical service,” Corpuz said. “These are people who often can't get treatment elsewhere. These are people who need critical life-saving care, and DuPont Clinic planned to open here in order to provide that.”for abortion rights. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws protecting pregnant people’s rights to an abortion, even requiring insurance companies to cover the procedure. Protections were also enshrined in the state constitution.
The city of Santa Clarita said in a statement that they are not part of negotiations. We've reached out to MV Transportation for comment and have yet to hear back.About 1,800 nurses and frontline healthcare workers across four Southern California Prime Healthcare facilities have launched a five-day strike to fix what they say are unsafe working and patient care conditions caused by short-staffing affecting the healthcare industry.
"We have implemented processes to expedite hiring timelines, placing highly-trained, skilled staff in positions to advance our mission and care for patients in the safest way possible," she said in a statement.Among striking workers are licensed vocational nurses, certified nursing assistants, medical assistants, emergency room, radiology, and respiratory techs. They say staff turnover has increased byJesus Amarillas has been a registered emergency room nurse at St.
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