Thursday’s Headlines
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10:43 AM PDT on August 1, 2024
- Danger in the dust: Coachella Valley residents struggle to breathe (CalMatters)
- Public pensions invest in funds that buy apartments and hike rent (LAT)
- How much does your city know about you? This Southern California city opens up (LAT)
- Some “Inside Safe” residents fed only instant noodles, LA city controller says (LA Public Press)
- At LA’s infamous Cecil Hotel, formerly unhoused tenants report a plague of problems (LAist)
- Toilet paper and flat tires — the strange ways that Californians ignite wildfires (CalMatters)
- Glendale-Hyperion Bridge construction pushed back to 2025 (Eastsider)
- ABC7 looks (somewhat broadly and favorably) at Metro’s plan to connect the San Fernando Valley with the Westside via the D Line extension (ABC7)
- Los Angeles Police put teen in ‘chokehold,’ use of force under investigation (KTLA)
- LAPD releases body cam footage of officer punching man in Watts (NBC)
- Driver in suspected DUI pursuit falls out of car on 10 Freeway in Santa Monica (CBS)
- Pedestrian fatally struck while walking on 105 Freeway in Lynwood (KTLA)
- As Billions of Federal Dollars Flow Into California Hydrogen Projects, Worries Grow That Some Will Endanger Public Health (Public Health Watch)
- See a live tweet thread from the heated City Council meeting on the Glendale master bike plan from the other night or watch the full, very long, council meeting here.
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