Miller Sanford Firefighters battle the Palisades fire in Pacific Palisades on Jan. 7. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) To the editor: While there is a need to upgrade the building codes to more fire-resistant practices, the kind of tilt-up concrete buildings suggested by one letter writer is not necessarily the answer. Those buildings are more rigid … Read more
A spiral staircase is all that’s left of a home destroyed in the Palisades fire. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) Everyone knows California is disaster-prone, but there’s a familiar logic to the calamitous geography in this high-maintenance beauty of a state. Wildfires are supposed to be in the hills — in the wild — … Read more
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the state of the economy from the Roosevelt Room in the White House on Jan. 10, 2025. ZUMAPRESS.com In a final (we hope) slam of regular Americans, Team Biden’s green crusaders just targeted yet another common household appliance: gas-fired tankless water heaters. Scheduled to kick in 2029, the new … Read more
The H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus continues to spread across the globe, curtailing egg supply. Prices are affecting some restaurants that serve brunch across Southern California. (Bill Addison / Los Angeles Times) Ongoing egg shortages in California due to the spread of bird flu among livestock are bringing another early 2025 challenge to … Read more
A home is fully engulfed during the Palisades fire this week in Pacific Palisades. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) Thousands of families were displaced on Tuesday when fires torched homes throughout Pacific Palisades and Altadena, kicking off a regionwide house hunt as victims scoured a tight market looking for homes to rent — or … Read more
A firefighting plane makes a drop on the Palisades fire on Tuesday. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Look, up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a Super Scooper water drop! The most memorable battle scenes exist in the pivot — the moment when all appears to be lost … Read more
NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff reporting on the wildfire that destroyed his boyhood home. (NBC News) Jacob Soboroff, a national correspondent for NBC News with deep roots in the community, showed viewers the remains of his family’s former home on Frontera Drive in Pacific Palisades. This week, Soboroff visited the site of a nearby playground … Read more
Private firefighter Bradcus Schrandt, right, holds an injured kitten while Joe Catterson watches at the Zogg fire near Ono, Calif., in September 2020. (Ethan Swope / Associated Press) When devastating wildfires erupted across Los Angeles County this week, David Torgerson’s team of firefighters went to work. The thousands of city, county and state firefighters dispatched … Read more
To listen to this profile, press the play button below: In the days after the Oct. 7 attack in Israel, Sarah Silverman posted on Instagram dozens of times. Like millions around the world, she was devastated by the reports of more than 1,200 civilians killed by Hamas militants, and took to social media to express … Read more
I’m a pollster and political consultant associated with Republican causes: the Contract with America, the “death tax” and, of course, ending wasteful Washington spending. So why am I behind the new stimulus legislation — the biggest spending bill ever to be considered by Congress? Maybe because when it comes to some things — crumbling schools, … Read more
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