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Editorial: Keeping at-risk residents from losing their housing will be a key to solving homelessness
It is easier and less costly to keep someone from becoming homeless than it is to help them out of the trauma of homelessness and find them permanent housing.
For the last several years, Culver City has become a model for forward-thinking urban design, supporting a transit-friendly walkable, bikeable downtown. Why go backwards now?
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Editorial: Finally, the Supreme Court can help a California family get back art stolen by Nazis
Under a recent California law, justice can be done at long last, if the case is allowed to proceed.
The state can’t make people protect their homes and neighborhoods better until it makes the government finish writing the rules.
It may not be a perfect survey of homelessness, but the annual point-in-time count serves many purposes.
Before anyone can rebuild, we have to remove tons of debris.
This post-disaster period should be an inflection point for government officials to take a hard look at how to speed up much-needed housing everywhere across the city and county.
In Pacific Palisades, few residents have been allowed into the area to search for pets. Nonprofit animal welfare groups have also, generally, not been allowed to search.
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Editorial: After the fires, must we get rid of our flammable eucalyptus and palm trees? Maybe not
Not every flammable plant must go, but we should carefully consider how we replant in burned areas.
Burned communities will rebuild, and they need support from their neighbors and political leaders.