Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
Community, Diversity, Sustainability and other Overused Words
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James Talarico's nearly two-week absence from the Texas campaign trail has escalated from a disputed flu recovery into a direct conflict between the campaign's account and a recorded phone call to an Ohio mental-health facility. The Democratic nominee's campaign continues to say he was diagnosed with influenza at a Dallas urgent care around September 29–30 and spent the subsequent period recovering at home in Austin. On October 11, independent investigators Rhein Amacher a...
Los Angeles County home prices remained essentially flat to modestly higher on a year-over-year basis through August and September 2026, even as the market showed clear signs of cooling in listing activity and buyer leverage. California Association of Realtors figures put the median price of an existing single-family home at $946,950 in August, up 1.7 percent from the same month in 2025. Redfin data for the three months ending in August showed a median sale price near...
LONG BEACH, Calif. - Remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel brought powerful surf and elevated water levels to the Long Beach Peninsula this weekend, damaging oceanfront homes, destroying sections of the historic boardwalk, and prompting emergency evacuations and structural red-tags along Seaside Walk. The Peninsula, a narrow sandspit at the southeast end of Long Beach that separates Alamitos Bay from the Pacific Ocean, has been particularly vulnerable. Waves overtopped and damaged...
Ocean water flooded streets and properties on Newport Beach's Balboa Peninsula on Friday as elevated tides and powerful swells driven by Tropical Storm Rachel inundated low-lying coastal areas. City officials urged residents and visitors to avoid the peninsula while crews responded to the flooding. Aerial footage showed seawater covering residential streets, with vehicles partially submerged and people wading through the water. Police restricted access in parts of the area to...
A Santa Monica resident is accusing Mayor Caroline Torosis and City Manager Oliver Chi of assembling a closed process for city land, including the airport after it closes. The accusation is not that a new agency already controls every sale. It is that several public actions, taken together, remove the old checks and point the city toward a much larger role as landowner, landlord, and developer. In a letter to the Santa Monica Observer, resident Harriet Epstein wrote that...
Federal and local officers carried out a coordinated drug enforcement operation Thursday morning in downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row, centered on the area around Fifth and Crocker streets. The action, called Operation Save Skid Row, followed a multi-month investigation and resulted in the arrest of 23 of 28 people charged in federal complaints with distributing fentanyl, methamphetamine, PCP, and other drugs. The operation was planned in advance. Officials described an...
As of October 8–9, 2026, Russian authorities say the quarantine and medical observation linked to the death of laboratory technician Darya Shipilova have ended, with no secondary cases and no dangerous pathogens found in nearly 5,000 samples. They still have not published a definitive cause of death. The World Health Organization continues to ask what tests were run and, if the illness was not plague, what killed her. Shipilova, 28, worked at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague R...
Yom Kippur is the holiest day of the Jewish year. It falls at the end of the High Holy Days and is observed with fasting, prayer, and reflection. The day is devoted to atonement, seeking forgiveness, and resolving to begin the new year with a cleaner moral slate. Services begin the evening before and end at sundown the next day, traditionally marked by the sounding of the shofar. High Holiday Yom Kippur services at Temple of the Arts, held at the Saban Theatre, 8440 Wilshire...
