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Where We Are:
Skid Row is a "Petri dish" for cultivating human misery. That now includes a strain of tuberculosis that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had tagged as unique to downtown. What began as a "health crisis" has become a "moral crisis."
Commentary:
The South Coast Air Quality Management District refuses to tell Coachella Valley officials what's happening with $53 million in grant funding.
Health:
The victim, a 70-year-old woman from Kern County, was hospitalized but is recovering.
Commentary:
This isn't the amusing asthma you see on situation comedies, that marker of nerd-dom that recedes with a few hits off an inhaler. This is the kind of asthma that sends you to the hospital for weeks.
Commentary:
This past October, my Art Center student Christopher Ruiz went down to CareNow USA to document the large free clinic, providing medical, dental, and vision care.
Movie Miento:
16 years of Ozomatli's out-of-the-nightclub conga lines would not have been were it not for group therapy.
Commentary:
Representative Mary Bono Mack may have a fight on her hands as she tries to keep her House seat in the new 36th Congressional District.
Commentary:
The heat's on across the West this week, and the deserts bear the brunt of it. That boost in temperature that brings someplace like Santa Monica up to a scorching 91 degrees can make the desert as much as 30 degrees hotter.
Health:
Richard Root once counted 50 helicopters flying overhead in one day. That was a record high.
Health:
This is part three of a series about helicopter noise in Los Angeles. Read parts one and two. L.A. helicopter situation is tough: I've frequently lost sleep or been unable to work due to the noise, but obviously I...
Health:
Helicopter noise may be distressing, but for the Federal Aviation Administration, the focus is on safety.
Health:
Noise of any sort, at the right level and persistence, can pose a significant risk to our physical and mental health.
LA Vitamin Report:
Could Long Beach's "Bicycle Business District" plan work for LA's 7th Street Bike Lane?
Commentary:
Letting the dead bury the dead
Commentary:
Update, May 4th: A second updating of the committee vote on SB 147: on Monday, May 2, the Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development again voted down SB 147, 8-1. Update, April 21st: On Monday, April 25, the...
Health:
We asked families what they thought of CicLAvia, the event that let people, not cars, experience 7.5 miles of city streets.
Health:
L.A.'s outdoor smoking ban goes into effect today, but over 20 years ago and 200 miles to the north, San Luis Obispo has the distinction of being the first municipality in the world to have successfully banned smoking in all public buildings, including bars and restaurants.
Health:
Two Democrats have put out a district-by-district analysis of the impacts of repealing health care reform. In the Los Angeles area, millions of people could be denied coverage. Republicans have yet to respond.
Health:
Blue Shield is seeking a rate hike that will increase premiums up to 59% for some. With health care spilling into the news again, we're taking a look at the Venice Family Clinic, which is a model for public health care.
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