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LAist is part of Southern California Public Radio, a member-supported public media network. For the latest national news from NPR and our live radio broadcast, visitFormer L.A. city council president Nury Martinez with belongings from her council office now stored in boxes in the living room of her home.We asked former L.A. City Council president Nury Martinez to explain what she said on the secret tapes. Here’s what she said.
“I don't even know if I'm the right person to even have these conversations anymore,” she said, “because I've been tainted in such a way where I don't even know if I would even be welcome. Even in this conversation, I feel really scared and nervous to even dive into that.” On Oct. 11, 2022, President Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, said during a press conference, “the president is glad to see that one of the participants in that conversation has resigned. But they all should. He believes that they all should resign. The language that was used and tolerated during that conversation was unacceptable and it was appalling. They should all step down.
They focus on Council District 9, a majority Latino district in South L.A. that’s currently represented by a Black man, Curren Price. They care about this district because it’s become the district with the highest percentage of Latino residents in the city, and they think it will be represented by a Latino in the future. They want District 9 to have some good economic “assets,” like universities, stadiums, airports, etc, that are tied to good union jobs and bring resources into the district.
The conversation that we were having didn't have to do with Gascón himself, just had to do with so much of the frustration and anger that I was carrying with me inside me when I walked into that room. And that is no fault of the African American community. Martinez says, “I see a lot of little short dark people,” and, “I don’t know where these people are from, like I don’t know what village they came out of, how they got here, but, tán feos!,” which means, “they’re ugly.”
Moreno says the attacks give his colleagues a reluctance to publish articles about their work. And he says this is what the conspiracy theorists want: to silence them. And we've seen harassment and threats based on conspiracy theories targeting climate scientists and meteorologists for years.It's not in the interest of Fox News and others who benefit financially from stoking outrage and, by and large, also have partisan rooting interests.
“I think having a new mayor has breathed new life into the council" too, said Sara Sadhwani, assistant professor of politics and Pomona College. “You see the mayor’s call to lock arms being quite effective at pulling the council members together.”L.A. City Council President Paul Krekorian recalls the pandemonium following the release on Oct. 9, 2022, of a secretly recorded audio tape of colleagues making racist and derogatory remarks.
“The biggest thing was it dislodged a tyrannical council president,” Quan said of the release of the audio recording. InKrekorian prides himself on collegiality and believes it's been important to moving the council beyond the controversy.And the council leans decidedly more left. “I think having a new mayor has breathed new life into the council,” Sadhwani said. “You see the mayor’s call to lock arms being quite effective at pulling the council members together.”, Krekorian in December created an ad hoc committee to examine changes to L.A. city government. On Thursday, that committee voted to refer to the full council charter amendments to create an independent redistricting commission.
The City Council Ad Hoc Committee on Governance Reform took public comment on a proposal to establish an independent redistricting commission at a hearing on Oct. 5, 2023.The ad hoc committee is also considering a proposal to increase the size of the council. While the comments were denounced in both Black and Latino communities, there’s likely “simmering tension” over what was heard on the tape, Segura said.
The council president said this the day after Councilmember John Lee was accused of ethics violations. Lee has denied the allegations.Council members are seated alphabetically around the horseshoe of desks inside city council chambers. That means Harris-Dawson, who is Black, sits next to de León, who expressed anti-Black sentiment on the tape.“It's challenging,” Harris-Dawson said. “It tests my home training.”One of the enduring mysteries surrounding the tape is who recorded it.
Frank Stoltze explores who has power and how they use it at a time when our democratic systems have been under threat.L.A. saw some 33 inches of rain this last season — about double the amount we normally get. That rainfall equated to about 600,000 acre-feet of stormwater captured in local groundwater basins, enough water for some 5 million people for a year.
“We may be right back in the situation we were before this last wet year in a year or two, but it does appear that we're going to have another wet year, and that should set us up again to avoid desperation, for maybe, instead of one to two years, maybe three to five years,” Pierce said. Under a local air quality rule, rendering plants that produce certain types of products are required to post signs notifying community members where to report associated odor issues. But an LAist review found that two of these companies were out of compliance in recent years, and a third company has changed its business operations and avoided the pollution rule.Local air quality regulators cited two rendering plants, Darling Ingredients, Inc. and Baker Commodities, Inc.
During another inspection in February 2020, inspectors noticed that Baker’s sign contained new “extraneous information,” which interfered with the public's ability to read the hotline phone number, Mogharabi added. Air quality officials issued a second notice. Baker made the required changes within two months of the notice from air regulators, and voluntarily added a translation for Spanish speakers.Chavis Ferguson, vice president of operations at Coast, said he had no comment.
If Coast resumes inedible rendering — the smellier type of rendering — the signage requirements “will become effective,” she wrote. Coast still holds a license to conduct that work, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture.Joseph Lyou, president and CEO of the L.A.-based nonprofit the Coalition for Clean Air, is a former AQMD governing board member and voted in support of the odor mitigation rule back in 2017.
We shared our findings with Julia Stein, deputy director at UCLA’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. She said the rule’s signage requirement is essential. Allwright says renewed interest in windships started to gain steam in the early 2010s, and today there are about 30 large commercial ships using one of a number of such technologies. Shipping giantsare already experimenting with such systems. As many as 20 more are expected in the months ahead. So far, they are mostly"testbeds" to see if the concept is commercially viable.
Before departing for Brazil, the ship even sailed briefly without the engine."We pulled the anchor up, we put the wings up, turned them into their flying shape, and we cruised our way off berth," he says."The crew were dumbfounded." With so many overlapping interests in the shipping industry, simply getting agreement to try a system such as WindWings is no small matter, according to Jan Dieleman, president of Cargill Ocean Transportation.
And fuel costs could be cut by nearly a third if a vessel were built specifically with WindWings in mind, according to Dieleman. That's how Congress wanted these incentives to work when they passed them as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. But when it was rolled out last year, it still required EV buyers to claim their credit when they filed their taxes, a more burdensome route. That's because the IRS needed time to come up with a new system to make the credits work as point-of-sale rebates instead.All the requirements for qualifying for the tax credit still apply — for both EV buyers and automakers.
That addresses one major customer concern. As of now, buyers have to do a lot of homework to figure out whether an EV they want to buy would qualify for a tax credit — navigating through a myriad of The income limits for a new vehicle are $150,000 adjusted gross income for an individual, $225,000 for a head of household and $300,000 for a married couples filing jointly or surviving spouses.
Pastor Frances Wattman Rosenau first began using a land acknowledgement to open services at Culver City Presbyterian Church in 2017.It's a relationship with the earth Wattman Rosenau says Christians should emulate and a relationship with Native and Indigenous people they should cultivate.
"So, there was a superiority for Christianity and Christian rulers that have rights that are not recognized in terms of others living in these lands," she says."Obviously, the Indigenous peoples were there long before Christianity arrived." At St. Michael's Episcopal Ministry Center in Riverside, Mary Crist leads worship and oversees the churches ministry to the unhoused.
"We didn't just all die off," she says."Some of us are still here. Incredibly resilient people whose literal connection to God comes through the land." "For him, there is this joint, extraordinarily urgent concern," she says,"which I think just comes to a head with the Indigenous." It's this idea of 'abundant life' that she says excites her students and renews their interest in the work of the church. It gives them an earthly, concrete concern in addition to more abstract, otherworldly goals.
One concrete way Nafziger's congregation is dismantling Christianity's history of colonization is by working with a group of Apache, known as, fighting the development of a copper mine in Oak Flats, Arizona. The proposed mine would be on land the group considers sacred.
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