L.A. Reported
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A nonprofit local news startup from Forbes and L.A. Times veterans.
To make the budget work, California's bullet train would skip downtown Bakersfield, skip downtown Merced, and run on a single track 89% of the way. The rail authority's own inspector general says that's illegal.
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The bullet train is off-track again
The rail authority’s inspector general warns that design changes violate state law.
https://lareported.substack.com/p/bullet-train-inspector-general-state-law?utm_source=bsky
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In August 2021, Karen Bass was in Mozambique when she got the news that pulled her into the L.A. mayor's race. Four years later, she'd be in Ghana when L.A. caught fire. Robert Greene on a mayoralty defined by where Bass was — and wasn't.
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about 1 month ago
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"We definitely don't have the resources to make a dent in making the city safer." — a sobering quote from an LAPD traffic sergeant. Citations are down 63%. Fatal crashes are up 55%. Our investigation into why the city's streets are getting deadlier:
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Do you know why we didn't pull you over?
It's never been easier to get away with speeding or running a light in Los Angeles. Drivers and pedestrians are paying a deadly price.
https://lareported.substack.com/p/los-angeles-traffic-deaths-rise-lapd-enforcement-falls
about 2 months ago
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California voted for L.A. to San Francisco in 2 hours and 40 minutes. The new plan: Gilroy to Palmdale. Possibly six hours total. Six hours is driving time.
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The bullet train to … Gilroy
California voted for high-speed rail to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco. That’s not what it looks like in the latest reports.
https://lareported.substack.com/p/the-bullet-train-to-gilroy?utm_source=bluesky
2 months ago
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"Had it happened at night, we'd have all died." Juan Galicia lost nearly everything when a fire spread from a house next door — one his neighbors had begged the city to address for a year. Sam Quinones for L.A. Reported:
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Burnt
Juan Galicia spent a year asking the city to act on the abandoned house next door. Last week, a fire answered instead.
https://lareported.substack.com/p/hollywood-house-fire-city-inaction
3 months ago
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A record 33,458 animals were killed on the streets of Los Angeles last year — up 35% since 2020. Human traffic deaths dipped slightly but remain near record highs. For every species, L.A.'s streets are getting deadlier. Our latest story:
lareported.substack.com/p/unsafe-for...
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Unsafe for any species
Automobiles are killing more animals in L.A. than ever before
https://lareported.substack.com/p/unsafe-for-any-species
3 months ago
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Reports of illegal dumping in L.A. jumped to 91K last year. The sanitation dept. went 18 years without a fee increase. Now residents are spending their own time and money to clean up what the city can't.
lareported.substack.com/p/las-trash-...
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L.A.'s trash vigilantes
When the city doesn't keep up with ever-mounting piles of garbage, these residents step in.
https://lareported.substack.com/p/las-trash-vigilantes
3 months ago
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You sort your trash. You rinse the bottles. You put them in the blue bin. And then most of it never gets recycled. Our latest story investigates where L.A.'s plastic waste actually ends up.
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Piles of trash, sitting in warehouses
Too much of L.A.’s plastic waste never gets recycled.
https://lareported.substack.com/p/la-plastic-recycling-where-waste-goes
3 months ago
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David Ulin
4 months ago
Thanks to
@lareported.bsky.social
for giving me the space to think through
@metrolosangeles.bsky.social
's D Line Extension, due to open in the next few months.
lareported.substack.com/p/metro-d-li...
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Take the D train
Will Metro’s Wilshire Boulevard line be our public-transit turning point?
https://lareported.substack.com/p/metro-d-line-wilshire-extension
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