Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced the plans during a deeply somber State of the City address Sunday night.
in the county during the last week. As my City Hall reporter colleagues noted, Garcetti’s 2020 address “bore little resemblance to previous State of the City addresses in L.A.”
Gone were the ceremonial pomp and the usual audience of hundreds. Instead, the mayor took a deeply somber tone as he spoke before a mostly empty City Council chamber. “Our city is under attack,” Garcetti said, with the mayor appearing to fight back tears as he spoke of grief for the dead. “But we are not broken, nor will we ever be.
and the number of cases at each facility. Among the hardest-hit facilities are the Brier Oak on Sunset nursing home in Los Angeles, where 80 residents and 62 staff members have tested positive, according to the state’s list.This 76-year-old federal judge is risking his life to save homeless people from the coronavirus.
U.S. District Judge David O. Carter — the subject of this fascinating profile — runs a courtroom unlike any other.Although campuses are closed, school districts throughout the state have taken on a critical role during the coronavirus crisis: feeding children shut in at home and paying for it with money from the federal school-lunch program.L.A. gang intervention workers are helping keep residents indoors and safe during the coronavirus crisis.
Many gang intervention workers are still on the streets, tending to the neighborhoods where they grew up, places where historical disparities in access to healthcare, jobs and adequate housing make residents especially vulnerable to infection and death.to make way for a new $750-million complex designed by Peter Zumthor. But that hasn’t stopped a protest group from seeking an alternate plan.
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