Flawed emergency alert systems lagged when residents needed them most during Los Angeles wildfires
In this month’s wind-driven wildfires in Southern California, evacuation alerts for some neighborhoods came long after homes ...
Gov. Gavin Newsom signs $2.5 billion wildfire recovery package for Los Angeles County
Gov. Gavin Newsom will sign legislation Thursday providing $2.5 billion in funding to relief efforts in Los Angeles County, ...
Newsom’s LA Rises Initiative Not Just About Rebuilding Los Angeles, But City’s Rebirth & Path Forward For “The Next 50 Or 100 Years”
This is the most important city and essential city anywhere in the world,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom emphatically ...
Voice of OC2d
Quan: Orange County Must Learn From the Los Angeles Wildfires
Wildfires are endemic to California and natives used fire to shape the land. Orange County and California must learn from the ...
Seattle Times10d
The Los Angeles fires expose a web of governments, weak by design
Sonenshein, a longtime expert on Los Angeles politics and government and the executive director of the Haynes Foundation, a Los Angeles civic research organization. “Here it’s a little more of ...
The Hill12d
The LA fires are proof the social contract between citizen and state is broken
The inescapable fact is delivery of basic services, for which government is responsible, would have substantially mitigated this disaster. The citizens of California and Los Angeles are paying a ...
CBS News5d
Trump joined by Newsom in Los Angeles for Palisades Fire tour, emergency briefing
The federal government is standing behind you 100% ... with debris and rubble where houses once stood, speaking with Los Angeles firefighters and law enforcement officers. He also met homeowners ...
Los Angeles Times7d
Opinion: Before rebuilding, we should recognize the fires’ tragedies and opportunities
Los Angeles has a tremendous amount of infrastructure ... the city should establish a blue-ribbon panel of government and private-sector leaders and experts to: Objectively review and reassess ...
AOL12d
How the Los Angeles fires will (and won’t) impact the 2028 Olympics
Security support will come from the U.S. federal government. And the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (L.A. Metro), which is responsible for managing and funding the ...
Reuters14d
Dozens of judges, court staff lose homes in Los Angeles fires
Jan 16 (Reuters) - At least 36 judges and employees in federal and state courts have lost their homes during the massive wildfires that have ravaged parts of Los Angeles and leveled entire ...
Santa Monica Daily Press6d
California will spend $2.5 billion to help the Los Angeles area recover from wildfires
But after major fires broke out around Los Angeles, the governor shifted gears ... the state against legal challenges by the federal government, along with another $25 million in part for legal ...
The Hill11d
Maher slams Los Angeles wildfires response and ‘wokeness’
Comedian Bill Maher slammed the government’s response to the Los Angeles fires and, in part, blamed “wokeness,” for the natural disaster in the region, saying the government’s role is to ...