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Butler’s statement addresses some of the advantages she had with being appointed to the job. Sen. Alex Padilla was also appointed to his seat in December 2020 and was then successfully elected to the Senate, so there was a precedent of winning an appointed seat. The $10 million in state funding will boost police presence at religious institutions by reimbursing local law enforcement agencies for overtime costs.
Goodman is well known in Las Vegas as a criminal defense attorney. His mother, Carolyn Goodman, is the current third-term mayor of Las Vegas; his father, Oscar B. Goodman, also served three terms as the city's mayor.Candidates for the position of Los Angeles County District Attorney debate at Pacific Palms Resort in City of Industry on October 18, 2023.L.A. District Attorney George Gascón was the main target during a debate among his nine challengers Wednesday night.
One candidate stood out as more progressive than the others. Former federal prosecutor Jeff Chemerinsky said he was a “strong believer” in criminal justice reform. Other cities with both progressive and conservative prosecutors have seen similar crime trends. But Gascón’s focus on reform r has made him a target of criticism.Gascón is considered to be vulnerable in next year’s election. A poll last year by the UC Berkeley Institute for Governmental Studies and the Los Angeles Times found 46% of voters disapprove of his performance in office compared to 21% who approve.
Each candidate also said they had the best management experience to run the DA’s office, although only Ramirez has been a high level manager in the office. Gascón has said he’s made police accountability a top priority, filing criminal charges against 15 current or former officers who have shot people or been involved in their deaths as a result of the use of force.The L.A. County Department of Public Health and L.A. County Libraries are teaming up to offer free flu shots, as well as vaccinations for COVID-19 and Mpox.or you can walk in at select libraries in Los Angeles County, including West Hollywood, Gardena, Culver City and Westlake.
As the Israel-Hamas war escalates and Israel prepares for a ground offensive into Gaza, Jewish, Muslim and Arab American organizations in Southern California are raising funds for humanitarian aid.Local religious institutions and nonprofits have been calling for donations to help Israelis and Palestinians displaced and injured by the violence that began Oct. 7 when Hamas launched aAs this happens, local groups in Southern California have sought resources for humanitarian aid.
“You need the basic necessities: food, shelter, clothing, medicine, water, clean water,” said Nashashibi, who is Palestinian American and was born in Jerusalem. This round of bloodshed began with a surprise attack by Palestinian fighters from Gaza into Israel during the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. On Saturday, militants infiltrated Israel's border using paragliders, motorbikes and boats and fired thousands of rockets toward the country from Gaza.
The narrative was part of a lengthy campaign by the gas utility industry to popularize gas stoves. Yet as it advertised the appliance, the industry also financed its own research into the potential harms from cooking with gas.
Those successful tactics are still relevant today, as state and federal regulators once again examine the health risks that come from cooking with gas, and as natural gas use becomes a flashpoint in the effort to reduce planet-heating emissions. Richard Darrow led Hill and Knowlton's tobacco accounts, and he was also a key player in its work for the gas industry, documents included in the Climate Investigations Center report show. In 1972, at an AGA conference at Disney World in Florida, Darrow explained that he had long consulted for the industry andutilities they needed to respond. He told them to"mount the massive, consistent, long-range public relations programs necessary to cope with the problems.
The Gas Research Institute, which funded research for the gas industry, hired the firm Arthur D. Little to produce this kind of material. Arthur D. Little had a history of conducting similar work for the tobacco industry. A 1981completed by Arthur D. Little surveyed available research on the health effects of gas stoves but focused on questions the research did not answer and found the epidemiological data was"incomplete and conflicting.
Samet says he never did research for the tobacco industry and that it set"a high water mark for egregious behavior and discrediting science." He does not see that same behavior when it comes to the gas industry and health effects of cooking with gas. The consequences then went beyond the question of whether the use of gas stoves should be more strictly regulated. The body of research was included in an evaluation of whether the EPA should tighten outdoor nitrogen dioxide pollution standards, too.about the health effects of nitrogen dioxide pollution includes five gas stove studies that showed"no significant difference" or"no evidence" of problems.
Those mixed messages in the report found a receptive audience at the Reagan administration's CPSC, where appointees were proud to call themselves"deregulators," according to then-Chair Terrence Scanlon. He told NPR he didn't remember the gas stove inquiry but was always a"hesitant regulator." NPR found no evidence the issue was pursued further at the commission.
In an email to NPR, Goodman says that while her"preparation time and time spent at the hearing was funded by NW Natural," the views were her own. She disagrees that scientists are biased in favor of their funding source."All scientific work has a funding source. This does not mean that all scientific work is biased or beholden to predetermined conclusions," she writes.
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