Today’s Headlines
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9:54 AM PST on January 4, 2022
- As the anniversary of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol nears, an L.A. Times photographer’s never-seen-before helmet cam footage of the moments leading up to the breach. (LAT)
- Meanwhile, VA Senator Tim Kaine is among the many, many, many people stranded overnight on I-95 after crashes, snow bring traffic to a halt. (NBC, NYT, WaPo, live updates on CNN); Why was the storm so severe? (WaPo)
- An intergenerational group of Pueblo women lead the way on water policy along the Middle Rio Grande in New Mexico. (High Country News)
- Solar and green jobs in a Kentucky coal county? (NYT)
- The constructive value of anger in fighting climate inaction. (LAT Op Ed)
- A history of plastics and their role in climate change (The Atlantic)
- Beaches reopen after spill from 60-year-old failed sewer line that was near replacement. (LAT, LAist)
- The COVID numbers health officials are watching (NPR); L.A. County school safety guidelines (LAist); Meanwhile, with 1 million cases in one day, the U.S. sets new global record (L.A. Daily News/AP)
- Who will fill the big shoes of California’s longest serving auditor? (LAT)
- San Ramon police unleash K9 on Uber driver who missed payments. (SF Chronicle, SFist)
- How much progress did the LAX makeover make last year? (Urbanize L.A.)
- L.A. won’t allow rent hikes for most tenants until 2023 (LAT)
- Let street vendors thrive (LAT)
- City crews removed historic lampposts from Glendale-Hyperion bridge to discourage theft (Eastsider)
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Sahra is Communities Editor for Streetsblog L.A., covering the intersection of mobility with race, class, history, representation, policing, housing, health, culture, community, and access to the public space in Boyle Heights and South Central Los Angeles.
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