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Eighty percent of the Black folks that live there were homeowners,” Farr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, that’s the conversation about generational wealth, and heritage and being able to pass on a place of belonging and safety, which is so important to many Black communities because [historically], we just don’t have it like that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since that first broadcast – and as the community has moved from processing the immediate shock and destruction of the fire, to navigating displacement, and grappling with painful decisions around whether to rebuild —\u003cem>Altadena Rising\u003c/em> has been a place to have those conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, Farr has grilled local and county leaders, firefighting and insurance experts and non-profits assisting displaced residents. 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He lost his house way up in the northwest corner of Altadena. When Emerson was on the show, he and his wife had just begun to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, now we’re seven months since the fire, but y’all broke ground, how does that feel?” Farr asked Emerson. “It was a real good feeling, real emotional to be able to take that shovel in my hand and dig that dirt, it did give me hope that I’m ready for this new journey,” Emerson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075870\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sprawling grounds Altadena United Methodist Church a few weeks after the fire destroyed its church campus. It’s among several West Altadena churches that burned in the Eaton Fire. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farr recently visited Emerson at his property, which has a breathtaking view of the San Gabriel Mountains and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory perched up in the foothills. Standing inside the framed-up house that’s still awaiting walls, flooring and a roof, Emerson was clearly pleased with the progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The neighbors came out, they were real supportive,” Emerson told him. “My pastor came out, and they blessed the ground, blessed the neighborhood so that no one would get hurt while the construction was going on and that it would just be a smooth process,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farr asked Emerson: How’d he manage to start rebuilding so fast? “And is ‘fast’ a fair assessment?” asked Farr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people would say fast. For me, it was like working two full-time jobs,” said Emerson, the director of Skid Row Strategies for the L.A. Mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to do a lot of walk-in visits and a whole lot of praying. I just need strength because I got to make this phone call, I need the strength to tame my tongue if I don’t get the answer that I want to hear,” Emerson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075865\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-02-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-02-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eshele Williams, her mother and two of her sisters lost four houses in the same West Altadena neighborhood in the Eaton Fire. Williams, a mental health therapist, says she often offers counsel to traumatized friends and neighbors, including James Farr. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As they spoke, four other nearby properties were buzzing with the sound of cement mixers, power saws and hammers. They’re all familiar faces, said Emerson, neighbors coming back home to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I say, don’t give up, don’t give in,” Emerson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be hard. It may look like you just can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, but if you stay in there, trust and believe that this storm will end and watch what comes of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Emersons are among the hopeful stories of resilience in the aftermath of the disaster. But the fire created a demographic earthquake that will shake up Altadena’s racial and class complexion for the foreseeable future. Just how much is still unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been this tendency among those who lived through the fire —and it’s not wrong —to put on a strong public face, even though just about everyone has struggled with trauma, depression, anxiety or anger. Farr agreed that a lot of anguish still persists beneath hopeful yard signs with slogans like “Altadena Not For Sale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075873\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075873\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L.A. based muralist Robert Vargas painted “From the Ashes”, a tribute to West Altadena, on the side of Fair Oaks Burgers, in Altadena. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re building back, we’re stronger than ever, we will get through this, that kind of messaging,” Farr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But there’s also those quiet conversations where there’s hopelessness, there’s despair, there’s a sense of not belonging, there’s displacement. So, you hear all the other things show up in conversation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was evident at a packed Eaton Fire town hall event hosted by KBLA a few months ago, focusing on Southern California Edison’s Wildfire Recovery Compensation Fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Farr’s guests that night was Toni Bailey-Raines. Sixty years ago, her parents became one of the few Black families that bought “East of Lake.” Meaning, east of Lake Boulevard, the main thoroughfare that cleaves Altadena into two very distinctive halves. The fire took the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the morning of January 8, 2025, the Eaton Fire continued to burn across West Altadena neighborhoods, saturating the sky in inky blackness. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Raines said the monetary settlements that SoCal Edison was offering homeowners through the compensation plan felt like an insult given the humiliation that her accomplished parents, whose home was filled with treasures collected during their world travels, experienced during those early days on the Eastside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What my parents had to go through to buy east of Lake in 1968, to have white neighbors move away, because they moved in,” Raines said tearfully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farr later told me he’s had his own struggles since the fire. He’d been suffering from debilitating insomnia that he ties to the stress and anxiety of covering the aftermath of the fire. He reached out to Eshele Williams, a mental health therapist and long-time friend.[aside postID=news_12075582 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/coalinga-69aaebd0175e4.jpg']“People call it secondary trauma, it is the trauma of the listener, the trauma of the seer,” explained Williams. “You don’t have to be in the situation for your body to feel that, and much as James [Farr] talks, you must be able to process this out. I mean, there are people that are still crying, and they didn’t lose a home, but it’s not about that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams, her mother, two sisters also lost their homes — all in the same neighborhood. Williams said she lived elsewhere for a time while finishing college and starting her career. But living anywhere else but Altadena was never really a question for anyone in the family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all just very close-knit and we kind of joke and say, ‘if somebody was brave enough to move away, then maybe we’d have a place to stay now,’” laughed Williams. “But because everybody stayed, we’re all in the same situation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sense, all of those who lived through the fire are in the same situation. Each is trying to hang onto and defend the people and the places that are still standing, and feeling a little wary of the changes that are sure to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being a reporter, Farr said, offers some advantages because of how well he knows the community. But that objective line between “journalist” and “friend,” or “journalist” and “neighbor,” gets blurry fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075866\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075866\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Farr (right) with Altadena homeowner Jarvis Emerson inside his northwest Altadena home, currently under reconstruction. Emerson and his wife were among the first Black Altadena residents to begin rebuilding on their scorched lots. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I know over 200 families that lost everything,” Farr said. “While we want to maintain objectivity, we’re in it. This is trauma journalism full du jour. We can’t rationalize the survivor’s guilt that we may experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farr’s show will soon begin its second year covering the aftermath of the Eaton Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t find the silver lining sometimes for our friends who have lost everything,” he said, “but I spend a lot of my days, for hours, just listening to people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I think it was at that point, hearing the testimonies of some of the survivors, that we realized that there’s a much longer story in this, and being the only Black-owned talk radio station west of the Mississippi, it was a natural fit,” Farr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farr’s debut show was pretty nerve-wracking. KBLA owner and broadcast veteran Tavis Smiley was on hand overseeing production that morning, then the station suffered a temporary blackout just before airtime. But the show went on and \u003cem>Altadena Rising \u003c/em>went on the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075869\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075869\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abounding Faith Ministries was among several West Altadena churches that burned in the Eaton Fire. The fire destroyed nearly twenty houses of worship across all of Altadena. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to be documenting the roots, the resilience, the recovery, the rebuilding, the reunion,” Farr told the audience at the show’s start. “We got a whole lot to cover in the [coming] weeks, and I’m so happy that you’ve allowed me into your homes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altadena is Farr’s home, too. He and his family moved to Altadena nearly 20 years ago, eventually settling in North Pasadena, just below Eaton Canyon, where the deadly fire began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of lawsuits, including two filed by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/united-states-sues-southern-california-edison-co-seeking-tens-millions-dollars-damages\">U.S. Department of Justice\u003c/a>, have blamed\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058885/investigation-sheds-new-light-on-what-may-have-sparked-eaton-fire\"> SoCal Edison’s faulty power\u003c/a> infrastructure, including the 100-foot powerlines that snake into the foothills, for igniting the Eaton Fire.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Nineteen people died, 18 of them on the Westside, the heart of Black Altadena. Farr likens pre-fire West Altadena to Wakanda, the fictional African nation depicted in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/black-panther\">\u003cem>Black Panther\u003c/em>\u003c/a> film franchise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is a Black utopia. Working class, all the way up to the uber [wealthy]. Eighty percent of the Black folks that live there were homeowners,” Farr said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, that’s the conversation about generational wealth, and heritage and being able to pass on a place of belonging and safety, which is so important to many Black communities because [historically], we just don’t have it like that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ever since that first broadcast – and as the community has moved from processing the immediate shock and destruction of the fire, to navigating displacement, and grappling with painful decisions around whether to rebuild —\u003cem>Altadena Rising\u003c/em> has been a place to have those conversations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, Farr has grilled local and county leaders, firefighting and insurance experts and non-profits assisting displaced residents. He had a contentious interview with a Federal Emergency Management Agency representative just a few weeks after the fire tore through Altadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075868\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075868\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A community mural by New York-based artist Wemok Art, painted in West Altadena shortly after the Eaton Fire \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My question to you is, when is FEMA going to step up, sit down and hear the people?” Farr asked spokesperson La-Tanga Hopes. “Stop dodging the community and listen to people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopes explained that the agency had recently opened a temporary recovery center on the Westside to serve the large number of displaced residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Farr’s aim is to hand the mic over to the regular folks in the community, like Jarvis Emerson. He lost his house way up in the northwest corner of Altadena. When Emerson was on the show, he and his wife had just begun to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, now we’re seven months since the fire, but y’all broke ground, how does that feel?” Farr asked Emerson. “It was a real good feeling, real emotional to be able to take that shovel in my hand and dig that dirt, it did give me hope that I’m ready for this new journey,” Emerson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075870\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sprawling grounds Altadena United Methodist Church a few weeks after the fire destroyed its church campus. It’s among several West Altadena churches that burned in the Eaton Fire. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Farr recently visited Emerson at his property, which has a breathtaking view of the San Gabriel Mountains and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory perched up in the foothills. Standing inside the framed-up house that’s still awaiting walls, flooring and a roof, Emerson was clearly pleased with the progress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The neighbors came out, they were real supportive,” Emerson told him. “My pastor came out, and they blessed the ground, blessed the neighborhood so that no one would get hurt while the construction was going on and that it would just be a smooth process,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farr asked Emerson: How’d he manage to start rebuilding so fast? “And is ‘fast’ a fair assessment?” asked Farr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some people would say fast. For me, it was like working two full-time jobs,” said Emerson, the director of Skid Row Strategies for the L.A. Mayor’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had to do a lot of walk-in visits and a whole lot of praying. I just need strength because I got to make this phone call, I need the strength to tame my tongue if I don’t get the answer that I want to hear,” Emerson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075865\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075865\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-02-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260309-Altadena-Rising-02-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eshele Williams, her mother and two of her sisters lost four houses in the same West Altadena neighborhood in the Eaton Fire. Williams, a mental health therapist, says she often offers counsel to traumatized friends and neighbors, including James Farr. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As they spoke, four other nearby properties were buzzing with the sound of cement mixers, power saws and hammers. They’re all familiar faces, said Emerson, neighbors coming back home to rebuild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I say, don’t give up, don’t give in,” Emerson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It may be hard. It may look like you just can’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, but if you stay in there, trust and believe that this storm will end and watch what comes of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Emersons are among the hopeful stories of resilience in the aftermath of the disaster. But the fire created a demographic earthquake that will shake up Altadena’s racial and class complexion for the foreseeable future. Just how much is still unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s been this tendency among those who lived through the fire —and it’s not wrong —to put on a strong public face, even though just about everyone has struggled with trauma, depression, anxiety or anger. 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"content": "\u003cp>Beyond the destruction of homes and loss of lives, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/eaton-fire\">Eaton Fire\u003c/a> that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071233/a-year-after-the-la-fires-a-journalist-looks-back-on-the-stories-from-his-neighborhood\">ravaged Los Angeles\u003c/a> in the beginning of 2025 was merciless when it came to Altadena’s celebrated green spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than one year later, local advocates are scrambling to save the trees and plants that are still standing and restore what was lost.\u003cem> \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Altadena only has three public parks. The smallest, the Altadena Triangle Park, sits in the heart of the burn zone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before it burned down, Amigos de los Rios, a nonprofit dedicated to creating and preserving Altadena’s green space, used to stand across the street — along with a gas station, a church, and the town’s fabled Bunny Museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Triangle Park survived, thanks in part to an oasis of lush, shady, native plant and tree life planted by Amigos de los Rios about seven years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Altadena is so beautiful, like the biodiversity is off the charts,” said Claire Robinson, the nonprofit’s founder and managing director. “It had 49% tree canopy in certain areas, which is off the charts for Los Angeles County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074611\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250225-REGREENING-ALTADENA-03-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074611\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250225-REGREENING-ALTADENA-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250225-REGREENING-ALTADENA-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250225-REGREENING-ALTADENA-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250225-REGREENING-ALTADENA-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students from Cal State Northridge’s Urban Forestry program, and local volunteers, are gathering regularly in Altadena to hold tree giveaways and develop smarter replanting strategies with an emphasis on native species. CSUN recently partnered with the L.A. Conservation Corps to expand its efforts. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some Altadena neighborhoods had such thick canopies of trees that it made streets feel as if you were cocooned in a forest community, not in a community just 14 miles from downtown Los Angeles. Robinson said the fire changed all of that, consuming more than two-thirds of Altadena’s tree life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So now, we’re down 30% of what we had, and it’s become fever-pitch important,” Robinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need the trees for the heat protection, we need the trees for the protection they provided for the fire, we need them for the sense of history and place. I’m determined that we save every last tree we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire also destroyed Robinson’s home, just a short walk from the park. But none of that has slowed the group’s efforts on the ground. In recent months, Amigos de los Rios has adopted and is actively rehabilitating over 3,500 damaged trees across some four hundred Altadena properties. Plenty of other local advocates are also fighting to preserve surviving trees and restore those lost in the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One mile north of Triangle Park, where the concrete gives way to the steep foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, Wynne Wilson surveyed the rugged mix of urban and national forest land.[aside postID=news_12071233 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-003-JB.jpg']“We are literally right at the toe of the mountains, we have bear[s], we have wildlife coming through here,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The handsome adobe home she shared with her husband for 30 years used to sit at the back of a roughly half-acre parcel filled with native trees and foliage, much of which withstood the flames. The house, however, did not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson has welcomed thousands of people to the property over the years. Some people come to learn about native plants, or to pick up new gardening strategies. Others simply enjoy the property’s serene, park-like setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the fire, Wilson co-founded a nonprofit called Altadena Green and organized an intervention aimed at stopping the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from removing native trees that were considered “in the way” – or misidentified as dead or dying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went to meetings at 6:30 in the morning,” Wilson said. “They made it really challenging for us to intervene. But we didn’t stop, and then ultimately we created a following where hundreds of people were ready to march.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids were going to draw [pictures of] their trees and march with posters of their trees,” she said. “I told [U.S. Army Corps of Engineers] that this is where we’re at, so what are we going to do? How are we going to slow down the destruction of the tree canopy that is left?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort worked, saving scores of trees which are now being rehydrated and rehabilitated so they can return to their full, pre-fire health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And it’s not just us,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s multiple groups working on this, so I really see positive change for the future. I’d like to also establish a protected tree list for Altadena. Pasadena has an extensive protected tree list; we only have the oak trees protected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250225-REGREENING-ALTADENA-05-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074613\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250225-REGREENING-ALTADENA-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250225-REGREENING-ALTADENA-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250225-REGREENING-ALTADENA-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/250225-REGREENING-ALTADENA-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wynne Wilson of Altadena Green in her expansive garden, scorched by the fire but left largely intact. Her home of 30 years, however, was not so lucky. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Now, there’s a new fight brewing, one with SoCal Edison. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, sparking from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054879/federal-government-sues-california-utility-alleging-equipment-sparked-deadly-wildfires\">the company’s equipment\u003c/a> allegedly ignited the Eaton Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The energy company plans to bury power lines to prevent future fires, but Wilson said the first leg of that work could damage the root systems of scores of Deodar cedars and other trees, some of which were compromised by the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of us up here love the community, we love nature, we love our trees. We are warriors for the trees,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal State Northridge sustainability professor Crist Khachikian leads regular student field trips into the burn zone to learn about restoring lost trees and creating defensible spaces around homes. His department partnered with advocacy group Altadena Wild and other local environmental nonprofits to come up with an ambitious tree planting campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For example, the L.A. Conservation Corps. We reached out to them and said, ‘We have this project, would you be able to help us plant?’ And [they] said, ‘Absolutely,” Khachikian said.[aside postID=news_12038756 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-22-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“So, it’s all about partnerships and creating this ecosystem of people who are willing to help, and it galvanized after the fire, and now it’s taken off into a program that is interesting to lots of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late last year, Cal State Northridge held its first tree giveaway program in Altadena, distributing dozens of saplings to locals ready to plant. Later this spring, forestry students will conduct an updated field assessment of Altadena’s tree canopy while continuing to sponsor more tree giveaways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also hyper-local, DIY efforts to “regreen” Altadena, plant by plant and seed by seed. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/winter-olympics\">The Winter Olympics\u003c/a> may be over. But the excitement of the games will have many Bay Area residents thinking ahead for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles — especially given how much closer to home the festivities will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will be the city’s third time hosting the Olympics, with the last time over 40 years ago in \u003ca href=\"https://la28.org/en/newsroom/los-angeles-and-the-games.html\">1984\u003c/a> (although bear in mind that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/sports/2028-los-angeles-olympics-oklahoma-city-venues-softball-canoe-slalom/3442896/\">some events\u003c/a>, like softball, will be hosted in Oklahoma City).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the actual games are over two years away, officials with the LA28 Olympics are already priming would-be attendees on how to get tickets \u003cem>now\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep on reading to learn how to possibly secure a spot (in the audience, obviously) at the world’s biggest sporting event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#HowmuchdoLA28Olympicsticketscost\">How much do LA28 Olympics tickets cost?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>How can I register for LA28 Olympics tickets?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Be warned that getting tickets to the upcoming Olympics is, in many ways, more involved than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892062/everyone-hates-ticketmaster\">a frustrating few hours on Ticketmaster,\u003c/a> and it may surprise you just how much planning is involved. And it might not be guaranteed that you even secure tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big thing to know right now: Rather than being able to buy tickets outright, your first step is to \u003ca href=\"https://la28id.la28.org/register/index.html?gig_ui_locales=en&gig_client_id=xSden-TmSiYYelKvu19SMyTv\">register for a \u003cem>draw\u003c/em>\u003c/a> to get access to presale tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you’ll need to finish your registration by \u003ca href=\"https://tickets.la28.org/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23442469430&gbraid=0AAAAACe-Up5yHQZDCQR2y6b_hLeTlZbC3&gclid=Cj0KCQiAhtvMBhDBARIsAL26pjFqk-w1diox-M3PZl0u1EoaN4-Olzgg9GE3I6ITkF6UUsd98tHIS5IaAjaUEALw_wcB\">March 18, 2026\u003c/a>, to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@la28/video/7595269183810653471\" data-video-id=\"7595269183810653471\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@la28\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@la28?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@la28\u003c/a> Game on! Registration for the LA28 Ticket Draw* is open from January 14–March 18, 2026. We’re here to take you through the process step-by-step to ensure you get across the finish line of registering for the draw. Sign up now at Tickets.LA28.org *NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT REQUIRED. RESTRICTIONS APPLY. TERMS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. VISIT LA28.ORG FOR OFFICIAL TERMS. @Olympics @NBC Olympics & Paralympics \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - LA28\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7595274219055811359?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – LA28\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[tiktok]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Folks living in \u003ca href=\"https://la28.org/en/ticketing/la-okc-locals-presale.html\">the Los Angeles region also get early access\u003c/a> to those presale tickets. So if you’re a Bay Area resident with friends and family in eligible regions like Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties, start pitching them now — especially since ticket buyers can generally \u003ca href=\"https://get.support.tickets.la28.org/hc/en-us/articles/22983307531548-What-is-the-maximum-number-of-tickets-I-can-purchase\">purchase up to 12 tickets each\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Right now, the following relates only to tickets for the LA 28 Olympics, as tickets for the Paralympics aren’t \u003ca href=\"https://get.support.tickets.la28.org/hc/en-us/articles/22930148284956-When-are-tickets-going-on-sale-for-the-LA28-Olympic-and-Paralympic-Games\">available until next year\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To complete the registration process to enter the draw, you’ll go through the following steps:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make an account on the LA28 Olympics site\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll be asked for information, including your name, place of residence and language preferences.[aside postID=news_12072038 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/WinterOlympics2026Getty1.jpg']\u003cstrong>Make your profile\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can update this profile later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Answer the questions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After completing some further basic information, you’ll then be asked about your favorite Olympic sports and moments. You can select up to five \u003ca href=\"https://la28.org/en/games-plan.html#competition-schedule\">sports\u003c/a>, but you can also name certain ceremonies you’d like to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll then be asked about your favorite sports and events at the Paralympics (for which, remember, tickets aren’t on sale until next year).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Choose your 3 preferred countries\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is: decide on three countries that you hope to see during the LA28 Olympics. This is the final stage of registration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What else to know about registering for the draw \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Completing this online form takes around 5 to 7 minutes. But it may take a little longer if you want to strategize \u003ca href=\"https://la28.org/en/games-plan/olympics.html#olympic-competition-schedule\">which sport\u003c/a> you want to see and \u003ca href=\"https://la28.org/en/ticketing/zones.html\">learn\u003c/a> about \u003ca href=\"https://la28.org/en/games-plan/venues.html\">the venues\u003c/a>, which may well be worth doing in advance before you embark on the online registration itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LA28 Olympics website discourages people from \u003ca href=\"https://get.support.tickets.la28.org/hc/en-us/articles/22983037343132-If-I-register-multiple-times-in-the-LA28-Ticket-Draw-will-it-increase-my-chances-of-receiving-a-time-slot\">making multiple accounts\u003c/a>, and warns that,”[v]iolating LA28’s terms and conditions for the draw may disqualify you from future participation or ticket purchases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to go with a bigger group — up to 50 people — you can register using \u003ca href=\"https://la28.org/en/ticketing/group-tickets.html\">the Olympics’ group ticket option\u003c/a> and wait for a representative to reach out to you. This is a separate process and is on a first-come, first-served basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When can I buy LA28 Olympics tickets?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you complete your registration by March 18, you’ll find out if you successfully got a time slot to “the designated drop or presale” between March 31 and April 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Colsieum-scaled-e1772041159569.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which is expected to host the opening ceremony for the 2028 Summer Olympics. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/The California Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For people living in the Los Angeles region, the ticket drop runs from April 2 through April 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the rest of us, the first ticket drop is on April 9. You can then buy your tickets during your designated time slot.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How many LA28 Olympics tickets can I purchase?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ticket buyers can purchase \u003ca href=\"https://get.support.tickets.la28.org/hc/en-us/articles/22981999354396-How-can-I-buy-tickets-to-the-LA28-Olympic-and-Paralympic-Games\">up to 12 tickets\u003c/a>, although this varies based on the sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://get.support.tickets.la28.org/hc/en-us\">Children of all ages\u003c/a> need their own ticket.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What if I register, but I don’t get a time slot in the draw?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://get.support.tickets.la28.org/hc/en-us/articles/22981999354396-How-can-I-buy-tickets-to-the-LA28-Olympic-and-Paralympic-Games\">the LA28 Olympics FAQ\u003c/a>, if “you are not selected for a time slot in any initial ticket drop and have not reached your ticket-purchase limit, you will automatically be entered into all subsequent ticket draws until you have reached the allotted ticket maximum.” In other words: It’s not your last chance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You do not have to reregister to be entered into these next draws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closer to the games, there will be\u003ca href=\"https://get.support.tickets.la28.org/hc/en-us\"> an official secondary market for ticket resales\u003c/a> through LA 28 Olympics resale partners \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/michellebruton/2026/01/15/la-2028-olympics-tickets-starting-price-on-sale-date-and-more/\">AXS and Eventim\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"HowmuchdoLA28Olympicsticketscost\">\u003c/a>How much do LA28 Olympics tickets cost?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You’ll see a wide range of prices for tickets that will be made available by the ticket drop, but one million tickets will be sold for \u003ca href=\"https://la28.org/en/ticketing/tickets-and-hospitality.html\">$28\u003c/a>. A \u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/tickets-to-the-2028-olympics-go-on-sale-in-april-heres-how-much-they-could-cost\">third of the tickets\u003c/a> will be under $100, according to LA28 Chair Casey Wasserman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For most of the tickets, you should also expect some tickets to \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/michellebruton/2026/01/15/la-2028-olympics-tickets-starting-price-on-sale-date-and-more/\">climb higher for better seats\u003c/a>. You can take a peek at \u003ca href=\"https://www.olympics.com/ioc/news/olympic-games-paris-2024-sports-calendar-and-first-ticket-pricing-details-released\">the Paris Olympics’ pricing from 2024\u003c/a> to get a sense of what might be ahead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever tickets you buy, remember to factor in the future costs of your transportation to Los Angeles and lodging prices during a busy time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/winter-olympics\">The Winter Olympics\u003c/a> may be over. But the excitement of the games will have many Bay Area residents thinking ahead for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles — especially given how much closer to home the festivities will be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This will be the city’s third time hosting the Olympics, with the last time over 40 years ago in \u003ca href=\"https://la28.org/en/newsroom/los-angeles-and-the-games.html\">1984\u003c/a> (although bear in mind that \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/sports/2028-los-angeles-olympics-oklahoma-city-venues-softball-canoe-slalom/3442896/\">some events\u003c/a>, like softball, will be hosted in Oklahoma City).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the actual games are over two years away, officials with the LA28 Olympics are already priming would-be attendees on how to get tickets \u003cem>now\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep on reading to learn how to possibly secure a spot (in the audience, obviously) at the world’s biggest sporting event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: \u003ca href=\"#HowmuchdoLA28Olympicsticketscost\">How much do LA28 Olympics tickets cost?\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>How can I register for LA28 Olympics tickets?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Be warned that getting tickets to the upcoming Olympics is, in many ways, more involved than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101892062/everyone-hates-ticketmaster\">a frustrating few hours on Ticketmaster,\u003c/a> and it may surprise you just how much planning is involved. And it might not be guaranteed that you even secure tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big thing to know right now: Rather than being able to buy tickets outright, your first step is to \u003ca href=\"https://la28id.la28.org/register/index.html?gig_ui_locales=en&gig_client_id=xSden-TmSiYYelKvu19SMyTv\">register for a \u003cem>draw\u003c/em>\u003c/a> to get access to presale tickets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And you’ll need to finish your registration by \u003ca href=\"https://tickets.la28.org/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23442469430&gbraid=0AAAAACe-Up5yHQZDCQR2y6b_hLeTlZbC3&gclid=Cj0KCQiAhtvMBhDBARIsAL26pjFqk-w1diox-M3PZl0u1EoaN4-Olzgg9GE3I6ITkF6UUsd98tHIS5IaAjaUEALw_wcB\">March 18, 2026\u003c/a>, to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" style=\"max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px\" cite=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@la28/video/7595269183810653471\" data-video-id=\"7595269183810653471\">\n\u003csection>\u003ca title=\"@la28\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@la28?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@la28\u003c/a> Game on! Registration for the LA28 Ticket Draw* is open from January 14–March 18, 2026. We’re here to take you through the process step-by-step to ensure you get across the finish line of registering for the draw. Sign up now at Tickets.LA28.org *NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT REQUIRED. RESTRICTIONS APPLY. TERMS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. VISIT LA28.ORG FOR OFFICIAL TERMS. @Olympics @NBC Olympics & Paralympics \u003ca title=\"♬ original sound - LA28\" href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7595274219055811359?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">♬ original sound – LA28\u003c/a>\u003c/section>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make your profile\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can update this profile later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Answer the questions \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After completing some further basic information, you’ll then be asked about your favorite Olympic sports and moments. You can select up to five \u003ca href=\"https://la28.org/en/games-plan.html#competition-schedule\">sports\u003c/a>, but you can also name certain ceremonies you’d like to attend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You’ll then be asked about your favorite sports and events at the Paralympics (for which, remember, tickets aren’t on sale until next year).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Choose your 3 preferred countries\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is: decide on three countries that you hope to see during the LA28 Olympics. This is the final stage of registration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What else to know about registering for the draw \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Completing this online form takes around 5 to 7 minutes. But it may take a little longer if you want to strategize \u003ca href=\"https://la28.org/en/games-plan/olympics.html#olympic-competition-schedule\">which sport\u003c/a> you want to see and \u003ca href=\"https://la28.org/en/ticketing/zones.html\">learn\u003c/a> about \u003ca href=\"https://la28.org/en/games-plan/venues.html\">the venues\u003c/a>, which may well be worth doing in advance before you embark on the online registration itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The LA28 Olympics website discourages people from \u003ca href=\"https://get.support.tickets.la28.org/hc/en-us/articles/22983037343132-If-I-register-multiple-times-in-the-LA28-Ticket-Draw-will-it-increase-my-chances-of-receiving-a-time-slot\">making multiple accounts\u003c/a>, and warns that,”[v]iolating LA28’s terms and conditions for the draw may disqualify you from future participation or ticket purchases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you want to go with a bigger group — up to 50 people — you can register using \u003ca href=\"https://la28.org/en/ticketing/group-tickets.html\">the Olympics’ group ticket option\u003c/a> and wait for a representative to reach out to you. This is a separate process and is on a first-come, first-served basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When can I buy LA28 Olympics tickets?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If you complete your registration by March 18, you’ll find out if you successfully got a time slot to “the designated drop or presale” between March 31 and April 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042365\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042365\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/Colsieum-scaled-e1772041159569.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The exterior of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which is expected to host the opening ceremony for the 2028 Summer Olympics. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/The California Report)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For people living in the Los Angeles region, the ticket drop runs from April 2 through April 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the rest of us, the first ticket drop is on April 9. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Wednesday, February 18, 2026\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Search and rescue crews are looking for nine backcountry skiers after \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2026/02/17/six-skiers-rescued-after-nevada-county-avalanche-search-continues-for-nine-others-missing/\">an avalanche near Castle Peak in the Sierra Nevada\u003c/a> Tuesday morning. Six people were safely rescued. Two of them were transported to the hospital for treatment.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city of Los Angeles is looking to ban the construction and operation of some private detention centers. This comes amid reports that warehouses across the country are being eyed as potential detention centers, by President Trump and federal immigration officials. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Work is slow in Hollywood right now. But at least one new type of production is hiring. They are bingeable shows made to be watched on your phone. And they’re called vertical micro dramas.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"page-title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2026/02/17/six-skiers-rescued-after-nevada-county-avalanche-search-continues-for-nine-others-missing/\">\u003cstrong>Search continues for nine skiers missing after Nevada County avalanche\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Nevada County Sheriff’s Office says six backcountry skiers who survived an avalanche Tuesday have been rescued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said it took search and rescue teams several hours to reach the survivors and transport them to safety due to extreme weather conditions. The six skiers suffered varying injuries, and two were transported to a hospital for treatment. The survivors had been told to shelter in place at the avalanche site as they were awaiting rescue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s office said the search for the remaining nine skiers who were caught in the avalanche is ongoing, pending weather conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackbird Mountain Guides, an outdoor activities company located in Truckee, \u003ca href=\"https://blackbirdguides.com/pages/live-incident-updates\">released a statement Tuesday afternoon\u003c/a> saying its guides and clients were involved in the incident, and that it is coordinating with the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office. The company said the 16 people had been staying at the Frog Lake huts in the Castle Peak area since Feb. 15. “The group was in the process of returning to the trailhead at the conclusion of a three-day trip when the incident occurred,” the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraavalanchecenter.org/\">Sierra Avalanche Center\u003c/a>, which provides forecasts and information for backcountry travel in the region, issued a warning for the greater Lake Tahoe area, including Castle Peak, hours before the avalanche occurred. Lead forecaster Brandon Schwartz said the area had received two to three feet of snow in the preceding 48 hours, falling at a rate of two to four inches per hour. He said weak layers in the existing snowpack from a dry spell in January and February are adding to the dangers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArticlePage-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://laist.com/news/politics/la-zoning-law-ban-some-private-detention-centers-contracting-with-ice\">\u003cstrong>LA revives zoning law that could ban some private detention centers from contracting with ICE\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The L.A. City Council has taken a step toward reactivating a zoning code that could prohibit the construction and operation of private detention centers for unaccompanied children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance is meant to prevent private facilities from contracting with federal law enforcement agencies like ICE, according to Councilmember Tim McOsker, who introduced the motion last Wednesday. The zoning ordinance was first introduced in 2019 in response to President Donald Trump’s immigration policies during his first term. The file was drafted in 2021, but was never officially adopted, and therefore it expired in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council\u003cb> \u003c/b>last week\u003cb> \u003c/b>voted to revive the file and update the drafted zoning code in response to immigration raids. “The concern, of course, was the worry that profiteers, private entities working with the federal government, were creating detention centers across the country,” McOsker said during the council meeting. “Those were creating human rights violations and poor living conditions, disease, death and harms that were unconstitutional to residents of the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12/11/more-10000-illegal-aliens-arrested-sanctuary-los-angeles-dhs-launched-operations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>reported\u003c/u>\u003c/a> it has detained more than 10,000 people in Los Angeles since raids started in June. The raids have mostly upended immigrant, working-class communities and negatively hit the local economy, according to a recent \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/politics/la-county-identifies-zip-codes-hit-hardest-by-ice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>L.A. County report\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the raids, the city has limited power, but McOsker said it has authority over land use and he’s asking the city to consider wielding that power. “Do we want to prohibit private detention centers in every zone in the city of Los Angeles?” McOsker said. He added that L.A. has an opportunity now to update its zoning laws to regulate private detention centers. McOsker said he doesn’t know of any proposed private detention centers in L.A., but that the facilities have been reported in at least eight states.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/stories/hollywood-production-booms-vertically\">\u003cstrong>Hollywood production booms — vertically\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Work is painfully slow in Hollywood right now, but not for vertical microdramas — bingeable, campy shows made to be watched on your phone in episodes that cycle past in 90 seconds or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verticals generated \u003ca class=\"rich-text-hyperlink\" href=\"https://www.owlandco.com/insights/the-short-report-ep-1-the-long-view-on-short-form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cu>$1.3 billion in the US in 2025\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, according to the streaming consultant Owl and Co., as millions of people watched shows like \u003ca class=\"rich-text-hyperlink\" href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35180688/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cu>Fake Married to my Billionaire CEO\u003c/u>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>,\u003c/i> \u003ca class=\"rich-text-hyperlink\" href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38573297/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cu>Watch Out I’m a Lady Boss\u003c/u>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, and \u003ca class=\"rich-text-hyperlink\" href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt39375734/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cu>Kissing The Wrong Brother\u003c/u>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cb>Here are the morning’s top stories on Wednesday, February 18, 2026\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Search and rescue crews are looking for nine backcountry skiers after \u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2026/02/17/six-skiers-rescued-after-nevada-county-avalanche-search-continues-for-nine-others-missing/\">an avalanche near Castle Peak in the Sierra Nevada\u003c/a> Tuesday morning. Six people were safely rescued. Two of them were transported to the hospital for treatment.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The city of Los Angeles is looking to ban the construction and operation of some private detention centers. This comes amid reports that warehouses across the country are being eyed as potential detention centers, by President Trump and federal immigration officials. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Work is slow in Hollywood right now. But at least one new type of production is hiring. They are bingeable shows made to be watched on your phone. And they’re called vertical micro dramas.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"page-title\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.capradio.org/articles/2026/02/17/six-skiers-rescued-after-nevada-county-avalanche-search-continues-for-nine-others-missing/\">\u003cstrong>Search continues for nine skiers missing after Nevada County avalanche\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Nevada County Sheriff’s Office says six backcountry skiers who survived an avalanche Tuesday have been rescued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said it took search and rescue teams several hours to reach the survivors and transport them to safety due to extreme weather conditions. The six skiers suffered varying injuries, and two were transported to a hospital for treatment. The survivors had been told to shelter in place at the avalanche site as they were awaiting rescue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s office said the search for the remaining nine skiers who were caught in the avalanche is ongoing, pending weather conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blackbird Mountain Guides, an outdoor activities company located in Truckee, \u003ca href=\"https://blackbirdguides.com/pages/live-incident-updates\">released a statement Tuesday afternoon\u003c/a> saying its guides and clients were involved in the incident, and that it is coordinating with the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office. The company said the 16 people had been staying at the Frog Lake huts in the Castle Peak area since Feb. 15. “The group was in the process of returning to the trailhead at the conclusion of a three-day trip when the incident occurred,” the statement read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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City Council has taken a step toward reactivating a zoning code that could prohibit the construction and operation of private detention centers for unaccompanied children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ordinance is meant to prevent private facilities from contracting with federal law enforcement agencies like ICE, according to Councilmember Tim McOsker, who introduced the motion last Wednesday. The zoning ordinance was first introduced in 2019 in response to President Donald Trump’s immigration policies during his first term. The file was drafted in 2021, but was never officially adopted, and therefore it expired in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council\u003cb> \u003c/b>last week\u003cb> \u003c/b>voted to revive the file and update the drafted zoning code in response to immigration raids. “The concern, of course, was the worry that profiteers, private entities working with the federal government, were creating detention centers across the country,” McOsker said during the council meeting. “Those were creating human rights violations and poor living conditions, disease, death and harms that were unconstitutional to residents of the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/12/11/more-10000-illegal-aliens-arrested-sanctuary-los-angeles-dhs-launched-operations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>reported\u003c/u>\u003c/a> it has detained more than 10,000 people in Los Angeles since raids started in June. The raids have mostly upended immigrant, working-class communities and negatively hit the local economy, according to a recent \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/news/politics/la-county-identifies-zip-codes-hit-hardest-by-ice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">\u003cu>L.A. County report\u003c/u>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the raids, the city has limited power, but McOsker said it has authority over land use and he’s asking the city to consider wielding that power. “Do we want to prohibit private detention centers in every zone in the city of Los Angeles?” McOsker said. He added that L.A. has an opportunity now to update its zoning laws to regulate private detention centers. McOsker said he doesn’t know of any proposed private detention centers in L.A., but that the facilities have been reported in at least eight states.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kcrw.com/stories/hollywood-production-booms-vertically\">\u003cstrong>Hollywood production booms — vertically\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Work is painfully slow in Hollywood right now, but not for vertical microdramas — bingeable, campy shows made to be watched on your phone in episodes that cycle past in 90 seconds or less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Verticals generated \u003ca class=\"rich-text-hyperlink\" href=\"https://www.owlandco.com/insights/the-short-report-ep-1-the-long-view-on-short-form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cu>$1.3 billion in the US in 2025\u003c/u>\u003c/a>, according to the streaming consultant Owl and Co., as millions of people watched shows like \u003ca class=\"rich-text-hyperlink\" href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35180688/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cu>Fake Married to my Billionaire CEO\u003c/u>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>,\u003c/i> \u003ca class=\"rich-text-hyperlink\" href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38573297/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cu>Watch Out I’m a Lady Boss\u003c/u>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>, and \u003ca class=\"rich-text-hyperlink\" href=\"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt39375734/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003ci>\u003cu>Kissing The Wrong Brother\u003c/u>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>. Revenue comes from advertising and the fees people pay to watch the shows. Now, studios like \u003ca class=\"rich-text-hyperlink\" href=\"https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/fox-entertainment-invests-in-holywater-ai-microdramas-1236396802/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cu>Fox\u003c/u>\u003c/a> and \u003ca class=\"rich-text-hyperlink\" href=\"https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/disney-embraces-microcontent-short-form-streaming-1236625030/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cu>Disney\u003c/u>\u003c/a> are investing in the medium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success of verticals, and their appeal to a mostly female audience, has echoes in the history of cinema, says cinematographer Michael Pessah, who teaches at the American Film Institute. “One hundred and ten years ago, when cinema was still sort of working out what its language was, you had these serialized melodramas that, maybe not coincidentally, really spoke to the female audience of the time,” says Pessah. “These were some of the first really, really successful narrative films.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pessah says today’s verticals remind him of music videos in the 1980s and ‘90s, which launched the careers of filmmakers like Spike Jonze. “Music videos were a place for innovative voices, and people with ambitious and new ways of seeing the world,” he says. “It became this hotbed of experimentation and a second film school for so many filmmakers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today verticals appeal to production companies because of the price tag: most cost between $150,000 and $200,000 dollars per show (one show can have 60 to 90 episodes). 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This commentary was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How liberal is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles-county\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That question is very much on the minds of political insiders and observers these days as the city turns to its municipal elections and makes important decisions about its future: how much to invest in public safety, how much to tax its wealthiest residents, how to treat those who live here but without formal immigration documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One trend is clear: Los Angeles leans ever further to the left, a phenomenon that has implications for this year’s elections, which include \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/11/la-mayors-race-karen-bass/\">a mayor’s race\u003c/a> along with campaigns for two other citywide offices and eight seats on the 15-member council that governs America’s second-largest city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the bulwark of conservative politics under the protection of a Republican business leadership and a Republican newspaper, LA has moved steadily leftward in recent decades. The days when Richard Riordan, a moderate Republican, could win the support of the electorate are far behind today’s Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that is evident in voter registration. When Riordan was elected in 1993, more than 30% of the city’s registered voters were Republicans. Today, the number is somewhere around half that. As measured by voter registration, Los Angeles is significantly more Democratic — and less Republican — than New York City, which recently elected Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani as its mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But voter registration is just a first cut at the question. Some of the evidence of LA’s shifting political center is more localized and impressionistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rising liberalism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Always a city of neighborhoods, Los Angeles in recent years has seen the rise of more liberal activism in many of those communities, some of it owing to vastly improved outreach and voter contact work by the region’s Democratic Socialists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result has been a surge in liberal representation on the City Council, where Democratic Socialists Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez and Nithya Raman anchor a council that is well to the left of many mainstream Democrats. Those members and a growing number of their colleagues are skeptical of spending more for police and are eager to find new sources of taxation that tap the wealthy. They’re also committed to higher wages for working people and are fiercely protective of LA residents, regardless of immigration status.[aside postID=news_12072234 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/CAGovDebateAP1.jpg']That program, backed by grass-roots organizing and sophisticated political leadership, has touched voters and made the left far more viable in local elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The political muscle of Los Angeles’ rising liberal faction is demonstrated not just in the number of candidates who identify with the Democratic Socialists, but more broadly in the way it helps shape the policies and priorities of the city generally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not long ago that support for increased LAPD spending was a unifying city objective. Conservatives favored the idea of stricter enforcement of the law, while liberals saw it as a way to pay for police reform and to empower its oversight. No more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although “defund the police” is a bygone slogan, the LAPD’s critics are plentiful and are unwilling to acquiesce to once-routine budget requests to maintain or expand police ranks. The department today employs about 8,500 officers, well below peak staffing levels and far below the long-sought goal of 10,000. Nevertheless, Mayor Karen Bass’s recent request for additional funding ran into opposition at the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council ultimately approved a cut-down version of the mayor’s request, but the compromise will barely allow the LAPD to hold its own against retirements and other attrition. Four council members – Hernandez, Soto-Martinez, Raman and Councilmember Ysabel Jurado – opposed even that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Taxing the rich\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some of those same forces are at work in the debate over a “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2026/01/measure-ula-raman-dead/\">mansion tax\u003c/a>,” a favorite idea of the LA left. The tax, which voters approved in 2022, applies to multimillion dollar real estate transactions, adding a 4% levy to sales over $5.1 million and 5% to properties over $10.3 million (the thresholds are indexed, hence the unusual threshold numbers). The tax revenue goes for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ULA-Motion.pdf\">construction of affordable housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taxing the rich is always good populist politics, but here it helped frame the city’s changing politics. Bass, for instance, sought to exempt properties affected by the Palisades fire, as she worked to balance her support for affordable housing with her \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2026/01/la-fires-bass-leaders-california/\">commitment to rebuilding from the fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071076\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators, gathering in support of Minneapolis residents following recent ICE actions, hold a vigil and rally in Los Angeles on Jan. 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Photo by Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The result has been more confusion than clarity, a testament to the challenges of managing a shifting electorate — especially in an election year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight over the tax goes on, but its very persistence says something about the city’s leftward drift. It’s inconceivable that Mayor Riordan, for instance, would have supported the mansion tax and hard to imagine voters 20 years ago approving it. Riordan lived in Brentwood in a home that would have qualified for the surcharge, and the emphasis of much of the city’s politics in those days was on safety and job creation, rather than equity or government-backed affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many reasons for the leftward shift, and not all of them are specific to Los Angeles. The nation’s economic \u003ca href=\"https://inequality.org/facts/income-inequality/#income-inequality\">inequality continues to expand\u003c/a>, and the plight of those left out of economic growth grows increasingly dire and visible in big cities, where opulence and poverty live side by side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s inescapable in modern Los Angeles, with its grand homes, flashy boutiques and grinding homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump and the election year\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The local left also has clearly thrived in the era of President Donald Trump. The president, who is fond of denigrating Los Angeles and California, is reviled in Los Angeles. His influence has radicalized liberals, making them willing to vote for new Congressional maps — Los Angeles County \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2025/11/proposition-50-live-results-map/\">favored last year’s Prop. 50\u003c/a> by a staggering 74% to 25% — and rise to the defense of undocumented migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More purely political changes have contributed as well. Los Angeles in 2015 switched its election schedule from voting in odd-numbered years to coinciding with the gubernatorial and presidential election cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/012126_ICE-WillowBrook_TS_CM_19-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003cfigcaption>Federal immigration agents in Willowbrook on Jan. 21, 2026. Some were involved in a shooting during an early-morning operation in the Los Angeles neighborhood. ICE actions in LA have galvanized many voters on the political left. Photo by Ted Soqui for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s been a change with mixed results, but one clear consequence has been to broaden the participants in city elections. An electorate once dominated by homeowners and wealthier interests now increasingly includes lower-income voters and renters, whose interests tend to pull the city toward programs such as rent control and away from priorities such as forceful police protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so 2026 is a notable election year for Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One marker of the cycle spinning up came this week, as Mayor Bass held the first of two State of the City addresses to present her view of where the city stands at this moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gathering was illustrative in many ways: Held near the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in one of the city’s most Black and Brown communities, it anchored Bass among some of her most loyal supporters. The location also highlighted Los Angeles’ role as host of the World Cup and, in 2028, the Summer Olympics. In a gesture toward civic unity, Bass’ presentation even featured performances by the marching bands of UCLA and USC.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The State of the City\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The audience’s response to Bass’ remarks also said something. She was politely applauded when she highlighted the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-06/la-me-homicide-stats\">city’s historic progress against crime\u003c/a>: Los Angeles had 230 homicides last year, the lowest number since the 1960s and a startling change from the 1990s, when it tallied more than 1,000 homicides several years in a row.[aside postID=news_12072492 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2260093274.jpg']The audience cheered Bass’s promises to encourage affordability and her record at \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/12/la-mayor-bass-homelessness-reelection/\">confronting street homelessness\u003c/a>, which has modestly declined for two consecutive years — small steps but at least steps in the right direction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day’s biggest cheers, however, came when Bass struck her most strident tones. Denouncing Trump’s ICE raids and the “devastating losses of life” caused by its agents, Bass urged her audience to stand up to Washington.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Staying silent or minimizing what is happening is not an option,” she said. “This senseless death, lawlessness and violence must end. And so must the presence of ICE in Los Angeles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The audience leapt to its feet at that, giving literal voice to the fact that in today’s Los Angeles, defiance of Trump and Washington are acts of popular politics, not extremism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/2026/02/child-care-california-2/\">originally published on CalMatters\u003c/a> and was republished under the \u003ca href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/\">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives\u003c/a> license.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This commentary was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How liberal is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/los-angeles-county\">Los Angeles\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That question is very much on the minds of political insiders and observers these days as the city turns to its municipal elections and makes important decisions about its future: how much to invest in public safety, how much to tax its wealthiest residents, how to treat those who live here but without formal immigration documents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One trend is clear: Los Angeles leans ever further to the left, a phenomenon that has implications for this year’s elections, which include \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/11/la-mayors-race-karen-bass/\">a mayor’s race\u003c/a> along with campaigns for two other citywide offices and eight seats on the 15-member council that governs America’s second-largest city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the bulwark of conservative politics under the protection of a Republican business leadership and a Republican newspaper, LA has moved steadily leftward in recent decades. The days when Richard Riordan, a moderate Republican, could win the support of the electorate are far behind today’s Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of that is evident in voter registration. When Riordan was elected in 1993, more than 30% of the city’s registered voters were Republicans. Today, the number is somewhere around half that. As measured by voter registration, Los Angeles is significantly more Democratic — and less Republican — than New York City, which recently elected Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani as its mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But voter registration is just a first cut at the question. Some of the evidence of LA’s shifting political center is more localized and impressionistic.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rising liberalism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Always a city of neighborhoods, Los Angeles in recent years has seen the rise of more liberal activism in many of those communities, some of it owing to vastly improved outreach and voter contact work by the region’s Democratic Socialists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result has been a surge in liberal representation on the City Council, where Democratic Socialists Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez and Nithya Raman anchor a council that is well to the left of many mainstream Democrats. Those members and a growing number of their colleagues are skeptical of spending more for police and are eager to find new sources of taxation that tap the wealthy. They’re also committed to higher wages for working people and are fiercely protective of LA residents, regardless of immigration status.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That program, backed by grass-roots organizing and sophisticated political leadership, has touched voters and made the left far more viable in local elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The political muscle of Los Angeles’ rising liberal faction is demonstrated not just in the number of candidates who identify with the Democratic Socialists, but more broadly in the way it helps shape the policies and priorities of the city generally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not long ago that support for increased LAPD spending was a unifying city objective. Conservatives favored the idea of stricter enforcement of the law, while liberals saw it as a way to pay for police reform and to empower its oversight. No more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although “defund the police” is a bygone slogan, the LAPD’s critics are plentiful and are unwilling to acquiesce to once-routine budget requests to maintain or expand police ranks. The department today employs about 8,500 officers, well below peak staffing levels and far below the long-sought goal of 10,000. Nevertheless, Mayor Karen Bass’s recent request for additional funding ran into opposition at the City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council ultimately approved a cut-down version of the mayor’s request, but the compromise will barely allow the LAPD to hold its own against retirements and other attrition. Four council members – Hernandez, Soto-Martinez, Raman and Councilmember Ysabel Jurado – opposed even that.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Taxing the rich\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some of those same forces are at work in the debate over a “\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2026/01/measure-ula-raman-dead/\">mansion tax\u003c/a>,” a favorite idea of the LA left. The tax, which voters approved in 2022, applies to multimillion dollar real estate transactions, adding a 4% levy to sales over $5.1 million and 5% to properties over $10.3 million (the thresholds are indexed, hence the unusual threshold numbers). The tax revenue goes for \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/ULA-Motion.pdf\">construction of affordable housing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taxing the rich is always good populist politics, but here it helped frame the city’s changing politics. Bass, for instance, sought to exempt properties affected by the Palisades fire, as she worked to balance her support for affordable housing with her \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2026/01/la-fires-bass-leaders-california/\">commitment to rebuilding from the fire\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071076\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071076\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/012426-LA-ICE-Protest-TS-CM-01-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators, gathering in support of Minneapolis residents following recent ICE actions, hold a vigil and rally in Los Angeles on Jan. 24, 2026. \u003ccite>(Photo by Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The result has been more confusion than clarity, a testament to the challenges of managing a shifting electorate — especially in an election year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight over the tax goes on, but its very persistence says something about the city’s leftward drift. It’s inconceivable that Mayor Riordan, for instance, would have supported the mansion tax and hard to imagine voters 20 years ago approving it. Riordan lived in Brentwood in a home that would have qualified for the surcharge, and the emphasis of much of the city’s politics in those days was on safety and job creation, rather than equity or government-backed affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are many reasons for the leftward shift, and not all of them are specific to Los Angeles. The nation’s economic \u003ca href=\"https://inequality.org/facts/income-inequality/#income-inequality\">inequality continues to expand\u003c/a>, and the plight of those left out of economic growth grows increasingly dire and visible in big cities, where opulence and poverty live side by side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s inescapable in modern Los Angeles, with its grand homes, flashy boutiques and grinding homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Trump and the election year\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The local left also has clearly thrived in the era of President Donald Trump. The president, who is fond of denigrating Los Angeles and California, is reviled in Los Angeles. His influence has radicalized liberals, making them willing to vote for new Congressional maps — Los Angeles County \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/elections/2025/11/proposition-50-live-results-map/\">favored last year’s Prop. 50\u003c/a> by a staggering 74% to 25% — and rise to the defense of undocumented migrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More purely political changes have contributed as well. Los Angeles in 2015 switched its election schedule from voting in odd-numbered years to coinciding with the gubernatorial and presidential election cycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/012126_ICE-WillowBrook_TS_CM_19-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003cfigcaption>Federal immigration agents in Willowbrook on Jan. 21, 2026. Some were involved in a shooting during an early-morning operation in the Los Angeles neighborhood. ICE actions in LA have galvanized many voters on the political left. Photo by Ted Soqui for CalMatters\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s been a change with mixed results, but one clear consequence has been to broaden the participants in city elections. An electorate once dominated by homeowners and wealthier interests now increasingly includes lower-income voters and renters, whose interests tend to pull the city toward programs such as rent control and away from priorities such as forceful police protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so 2026 is a notable election year for Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One marker of the cycle spinning up came this week, as Mayor Bass held the first of two State of the City addresses to present her view of where the city stands at this moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gathering was illustrative in many ways: Held near the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in one of the city’s most Black and Brown communities, it anchored Bass among some of her most loyal supporters. The location also highlighted Los Angeles’ role as host of the World Cup and, in 2028, the Summer Olympics. In a gesture toward civic unity, Bass’ presentation even featured performances by the marching bands of UCLA and USC.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The State of the City\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The audience’s response to Bass’ remarks also said something. She was politely applauded when she highlighted the \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-01-06/la-me-homicide-stats\">city’s historic progress against crime\u003c/a>: Los Angeles had 230 homicides last year, the lowest number since the 1960s and a startling change from the 1990s, when it tallied more than 1,000 homicides several years in a row.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was originally published by \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/subscribe-to-calmatters/\">Sign up\u003c/a> for their newsletters.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The auditor of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-high-speed-rail\">California’s High-Speed Rail Authority\u003c/a> wants the power to keep certain records confidential, drawing concerns from transparency advocates that the agency could shield vital information about a controversial and costly public infrastructure project from the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1608\">Assembly Bill 1608\u003c/a>, authored by Assembly Transportation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937950/lori-wilson-on-her-faith-family-and-the-special-session-on-oil-prices\">Committee Chair Lori Wilson\u003c/a>, would allow the inspector general overseeing the high-speed rail authority to withhold records that the official believes would “reveal weaknesses” that could harm the state or benefit someone inappropriately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would also prevent the release of internal discussions and “personal papers and correspondence” if the person involved submits a written request to keep their records private.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation appears to have the blessing of Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose administration released a nearly identical \u003ca href=\"https://trailerbill.dof.ca.gov/public/trailerBill/pdf/1379\">budget trailer bill\u003c/a> — a vehicle for the governor and legislative leaders to adopt major reforms swiftly with minimal public input — on Monday. The language for both proposals came from the inspector general’s office, said H.D. Palmer, spokesperson of the state Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of the Inspector General of High-Speed Rail Authority, which audits, monitors and makes policy recommendations to the authority, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2022/07/high-speed-rail-california/\">was formed in 2022\u003c/a> after Assembly Democrats held bullet train funding hostage in exchange for increased oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913625\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7164-scaled-e1652127989772.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11913625\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7164-scaled-e1652127989772.jpeg\" alt=\"A construction worker walks down a steep bridge arch.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker on the partially constructed Cedar Viaduct in Fresno in March. The 3,700-foot-long structure, with four massive arches, is part of California’s high-speed rail project. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rail line, designed to connect San Francisco and Los Angeles, was approved by voters in 2008. At the time, it was estimated to cost $33 billion and be completed by 2020. It is now estimated to cost more than $100 billion, with only a 171-mile segment connecting Merced and Bakersfield planned for completion by 2033.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project delays and ever-increasing price tag have frustrated both Democrats and Republicans. Former Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, a Los Angeles Democrat who held up the funding in 2022, said at the time there was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/05/california-high-speed-rail-standoff/\">“no confidence”\u003c/a> in the project. U.S. Rep. Kevin Kiley, a Rocklin Republican, has fiercely criticized it as a waste of money and \u003ca href=\"https://kiley.house.gov/posts/representative-kiley-introduces-legislation-to-eliminate-funding-for-the-ca-high-speed-rail-project\">introduced legislation to gut federal funding\u003c/a> for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson, a Suisun City Democrat and a former county auditor, said her bill would empower the inspector general’s office and shield it from public records requests for sensitive data, such as whistleblowers’ identities, details of fraud, documents regarding pending litigation and records about security risks. High-speed rail authority officials often will not turn over sensitive records to the oversight agency out of fear that the office would be compelled to release them, forcing the inspector general’s office to jump through hoops to obtain information for audits, she argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way we’ll get the level of transparency and the accountability that the Legislature requires is to make sure that our (inspector general’s office), who are technically the eyes and ears of the public … have every protection they need to be able to take the full deep dive without hindrance,” Wilson told CalMatters in an interview last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer echoed Wilson’s point, arguing that the governor’s proposal aims to allow the inspector general’s office to “communicate sensitive findings to external bodies in position to take corrective action.”[aside postID=news_12057238 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/AP25265725194713-1-2000x1333.jpg']But some good government groups see the measure as offering the inspector general’s office blanket authority to withhold anything it doesn’t want to disclose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a wholesale atom bomb on disclosure,” said Chuck Champion, president of the California News Publishers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the measure is drawing opposition from Republicans who already consider the project a failure. Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/alexandra-macedo-187421\">Alexandra Macedo\u003c/a>, a Visalia Republican, said it is “insulting” that the project began when she was in middle school and remains far from complete. She called the empty concrete high-speed rail structures throughout her district a “modern day Stonehenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as I’m concerned, every ounce of this project should be available for public consumption and should be presented factually and in entirety to the entire legislative body,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials from the High-Speed Rail Authority and the inspector general that oversees it declined CalMatters’ request for comment. Newsom’s office also did not respond to CalMatters’ questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is the latest in a series of legislative attempts to shield records and agencies from the public. Last year, lawmakers passed laws that loosened public meeting requirements for various groups, from \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb707\">local governments\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1103\">research review organizations\u003c/a>, and exempted \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb495\">insurers\u003c/a> from having to disclose information they report to the Legislature. State Treasurer Fiona Ma sponsored a measure to establish a new infrastructure agency within her office while exempting much of its operations from public disclosure, a bill that was ultimately watered down and killed last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Public Records Act, which applies to all state and local agencies except the state Legislature and judicial offices, already exempts disclosure of various types of sensitive information Wilson’s measure aims to protect, said Ginny LaRoe, advocacy director at the First Amendment Coalition, which champions press freedom and transparency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, state law \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-gov/title-1/division-10/part-2/chapter-3/article-1/section-7922-000/\">broadly allows\u003c/a> agencies to withhold records when they believe it serves the public interest. There are also specific protections for \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-gov/title-1/division-10/part-5/chapter-11/section-7927-500/\">preliminary drafts\u003c/a> and internal discussions, \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-gov/title-1/division-10/part-5/chapter-12/section-7927-605/\">trade secrets\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-gov/title-1/division-10/part-5/chapter-8/section-7927-200/\">documents related to pending litigation\u003c/a> involving a public agency, which are disclosable once a lawsuit is resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/030623-High-Speed-Rail-LV_CM_17-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Construction on the High-Speed Rail above Highway 99 in south Fresno on March 6, 2023. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local\">\u003cfigcaption>Construction on the high-speed rail project above Highway 99 in south Fresno on March 6, 2023. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But interpreting the public records law would take up a lot of the inspector general’s capacity, said Wilson’s chief of staff Taylor Woolfork.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bill’s objective is for this small oversight body to concentrate on generating meaningful reports that strengthen the high speed rail program, not to divert limited resources toward interpreting complex CPRA questions or defending disclosure decisions in court,” he said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Woolfork acknowledged the existing exemptions for the agency in the public records law, he said it does not go far enough to protect the inspector general’s office. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation appears to have the blessing of Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose administration released a nearly identical \u003ca href=\"https://trailerbill.dof.ca.gov/public/trailerBill/pdf/1379\">budget trailer bill\u003c/a> — a vehicle for the governor and legislative leaders to adopt major reforms swiftly with minimal public input — on Monday. The language for both proposals came from the inspector general’s office, said H.D. Palmer, spokesperson of the state Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Office of the Inspector General of High-Speed Rail Authority, which audits, monitors and makes policy recommendations to the authority, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2022/07/high-speed-rail-california/\">was formed in 2022\u003c/a> after Assembly Democrats held bullet train funding hostage in exchange for increased oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11913625\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7164-scaled-e1652127989772.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11913625\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7164-scaled-e1652127989772.jpeg\" alt=\"A construction worker walks down a steep bridge arch.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker on the partially constructed Cedar Viaduct in Fresno in March. The 3,700-foot-long structure, with four massive arches, is part of California’s high-speed rail project. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The rail line, designed to connect San Francisco and Los Angeles, was approved by voters in 2008. At the time, it was estimated to cost $33 billion and be completed by 2020. It is now estimated to cost more than $100 billion, with only a 171-mile segment connecting Merced and Bakersfield planned for completion by 2033.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project delays and ever-increasing price tag have frustrated both Democrats and Republicans. Former Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, a Los Angeles Democrat who held up the funding in 2022, said at the time there was \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/05/california-high-speed-rail-standoff/\">“no confidence”\u003c/a> in the project. U.S. Rep. Kevin Kiley, a Rocklin Republican, has fiercely criticized it as a waste of money and \u003ca href=\"https://kiley.house.gov/posts/representative-kiley-introduces-legislation-to-eliminate-funding-for-the-ca-high-speed-rail-project\">introduced legislation to gut federal funding\u003c/a> for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson, a Suisun City Democrat and a former county auditor, said her bill would empower the inspector general’s office and shield it from public records requests for sensitive data, such as whistleblowers’ identities, details of fraud, documents regarding pending litigation and records about security risks. High-speed rail authority officials often will not turn over sensitive records to the oversight agency out of fear that the office would be compelled to release them, forcing the inspector general’s office to jump through hoops to obtain information for audits, she argued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only way we’ll get the level of transparency and the accountability that the Legislature requires is to make sure that our (inspector general’s office), who are technically the eyes and ears of the public … have every protection they need to be able to take the full deep dive without hindrance,” Wilson told CalMatters in an interview last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palmer echoed Wilson’s point, arguing that the governor’s proposal aims to allow the inspector general’s office to “communicate sensitive findings to external bodies in position to take corrective action.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But some good government groups see the measure as offering the inspector general’s office blanket authority to withhold anything it doesn’t want to disclose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a wholesale atom bomb on disclosure,” said Chuck Champion, president of the California News Publishers Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the measure is drawing opposition from Republicans who already consider the project a failure. Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/legislators/alexandra-macedo-187421\">Alexandra Macedo\u003c/a>, a Visalia Republican, said it is “insulting” that the project began when she was in middle school and remains far from complete. She called the empty concrete high-speed rail structures throughout her district a “modern day Stonehenge.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as I’m concerned, every ounce of this project should be available for public consumption and should be presented factually and in entirety to the entire legislative body,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials from the High-Speed Rail Authority and the inspector general that oversees it declined CalMatters’ request for comment. Newsom’s office also did not respond to CalMatters’ questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill is the latest in a series of legislative attempts to shield records and agencies from the public. Last year, lawmakers passed laws that loosened public meeting requirements for various groups, from \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb707\">local governments\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260ab1103\">research review organizations\u003c/a>, and exempted \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb495\">insurers\u003c/a> from having to disclose information they report to the Legislature. State Treasurer Fiona Ma sponsored a measure to establish a new infrastructure agency within her office while exempting much of its operations from public disclosure, a bill that was ultimately watered down and killed last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Public Records Act, which applies to all state and local agencies except the state Legislature and judicial offices, already exempts disclosure of various types of sensitive information Wilson’s measure aims to protect, said Ginny LaRoe, advocacy director at the First Amendment Coalition, which champions press freedom and transparency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, state law \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-gov/title-1/division-10/part-2/chapter-3/article-1/section-7922-000/\">broadly allows\u003c/a> agencies to withhold records when they believe it serves the public interest. There are also specific protections for \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-gov/title-1/division-10/part-5/chapter-11/section-7927-500/\">preliminary drafts\u003c/a> and internal discussions, \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-gov/title-1/division-10/part-5/chapter-12/section-7927-605/\">trade secrets\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://law.justia.com/codes/california/code-gov/title-1/division-10/part-5/chapter-8/section-7927-200/\">documents related to pending litigation\u003c/a> involving a public agency, which are disclosable once a lawsuit is resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/030623-High-Speed-Rail-LV_CM_17-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Construction on the High-Speed Rail above Highway 99 in south Fresno on March 6, 2023. 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Under current law, if the high-speed rail authority is being sued, the inspector general’s office could be required to release information because the agency itself isn’t being sued, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both proposals would allow people who communicate with the inspector general’s office to stay confidential as long as they make a written request, a practice in laws that govern the state auditor’s office and inspectors general at other agencies, such as the state departments of transportation and corrections and rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>‘If any project should have intense transparency and scrutiny, it’s the high-speed rail.’\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ccite>Chuck Champion, president of the California News Publishers Association\u003c/cite>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But the decision to withhold that information should be based on a set of “objective legitimate criteria … independent of someone’s personal wishes,” LaRoe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A whistleblower … understandably may have fear of coming forward with important information about waste, fraud or abuse, but that doesn’t mean that they should unilaterally be able to control what the public has access to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LaRoe also took issue with allowing the inspector general to shield information due to potential “weaknesses” such as “information security, physical security, fraud detection controls, or pending litigation” — language that CalMatters could not find anywhere else in state public records access laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“On its face, I could see an agency refusing to disclose information because it’s embarrassing, because it shows a weakness,” LaRoe said. “Too often, we see agencies interpreting words in ways that ultimately protect people or decisions that maybe look embarrassing or are uncomfortable or create controversy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the language, Wilson said she expects the proposal will be “honed in” on through the legislative process. “This was, we felt, a good starting point,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it is troubling whenever lawmakers seek to further shield public agencies from disclosure requirements — especially a watchdog agency overseeing such a controversial project, LaRoe and Champion said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If any project should have intense transparency and scrutiny, it’s the high-speed rail,” Champion said. “This project has been a disaster from jump street. 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"content": "\u003cp>My biggest concern on the morning of Jan. 7, 2025, was the wind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weather warnings said the Santa Anas would roll in hard with hurricane force velocity. Before sunset, mean wind gusts were already rattling windows and knocking over lawn furniture. Tree branches groaned and palm trees bowed toward the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We followed reports of a fire getting bigger out by the ocean, in the wealthy enclave of Pacific Palisades. Then, around 6:30 p.m., word got out of a brush fire igniting in Eaton Canyon, a few miles from my neighborhood on the southern edge of Altadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 7 p.m., people were voluntarily evacuating parts of east Altadena and north Pasadena, right below the canyon, as the wind-driven fire exploded and began its destructive western march, eventually tearing a six-mile path across the whole of Altadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I headed out into the windstorm on foot, around 8:30 p.m. After two decades as a reporter in Southern California, I’ve seen how the Santa Anas can turn a modest brush fire into a virtually unstoppable destructive force that will erase neighborhoods. But this one felt different. There was a fury in the wind that I’d never experienced. And this was my own community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not even knowing what I’d do with the material, I started walking east, recording and narrating what I saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://youtu.be/KdII2e2Nw7s\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lake Avenue cuts through the middle of Altadena, cleaving it into two distinct halves. I could see a fiery glow to the northeast. Embers were starting to blow down like burning snowflakes. I picked up the unmistakable smell of burning structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I crept out a few more times, snapping pictures and shooting video, trying to stay upright. The wind only seemed to grow angrier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2:30 a.m., I went out once last time. The windstorm of embers was bigger, and hotter, the fire obviously closer. A small fire crew from the city of Alhambra was just around the corner at the intersection of El Molino Avenue and Highland Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two firefighters had pulled out a manhole cover and were somehow drawing water from the sewer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Get the f–k out of here, now!” one of the firefighters yelled through the howling winds. Houses just two blocks southeast were fully engulfed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I packed a few things and evacuated to the parking lot of a nearby grocery store, but returned on foot at sunrise. By then the winds had calmed, but the sky above West Altadena was black as ink, the sunrise extinguished.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The stay-behinds\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033286/in-fire-scarred-altadena-these-residents-refused-to-leave\">first people I interviewed\u003c/a> after the fire was Justin Murphy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his brother evacuated their 94-year-old mom, Jane, from her home in East Altadena. Then they raced back up to the house to meet the fire head-on as it tore through the neighborhood. They saved Jane’s house and one across the street. Every other house on the cul-de-sac was destroyed.[aside postID=news_12033286 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250312_Stay-Behinds_JB_00010-1020x680.jpg']Murphy chose to stay behind after the fire, to mop up hot spots and protect the house from looters. Everyone else in the neighborhood was gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, I lived through the fire, and I lived after the fire, and I lived kind of as an outcast really,” Murphy told me, still a bit rattled by his experience. “But in a weird way, it made me look at myself and do some self-review.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, I’ve kept walking Altadena, trying to make sense of what happened with as many people who would talk to me, including Eshele Williams. Her family has lived in the same West Altadena neighborhood for 60 years. They lost four houses, all within a block or two of each other. I asked Williams why she and her family have been so willing to tell their story and speak out at local town hall events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve grown up in this community and the only thing that I can do is shine a really bright light on it, on us, and who we have always been and potentially talk about where we should go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Loss and resurrection\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Eaton Fire not only brought flames of destructive fury, it created a demographic earthquake that will shake-up Altadena’s racial and class complexion for the foreseeable future. But that’s something Williams saw coming long before the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Altadena has been in transition for a long time, when I grew up here all of my neighbors were Black,” Williams said. “And that has changed over the years, this gentrification of Altadena.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071474\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/IMG_3368.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071474\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/IMG_3368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"831\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/IMG_3368.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/IMG_3368-160x114.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From top left: Steven Cuevas, artist Alma Cielo, photographer James Bernal and journalist Sasha Khokha pose for a selfie on Dec. 28, 2025 at the site of Cielo’s former home and studio, which were completely destroyed in West Altadena during the Eaton fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Alma Cielo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, I invited my old friend and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/program/the-california-report-magazine\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> host Sasha Khokha to come down from Northern California and see Altadena in the slow process of recovery. 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They need that sense of, we’ve lost so much, but we have each other and we’re not going anywhere,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would compare it to when you’ve had a death in your family. There’s grief, but also there’s tasks. And now people are, at least in my experience, sharing, expressing and processing their grief,” Grindon continued.[aside postID=news_12038756 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/METTE.LAMPCOV.CHURCH.BELL-22-KQED-1020x680.jpg']I’ve talked a lot about grief and trauma over the past year with 94-year-old Jane Murphy. She’s been a mental health therapist for decades and still sees clients every week. Her expansive home, saved from the fire by her sons, is filled with light that floods in from large windows throughout the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love this house. I’ve lived here 64 years,” Murphy told us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murphy walked us through her later years with grace, irrepressible wonder and with absolute appreciation for whatever or whomever is in front of her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s also very funny. Like her answer when I asked her how she’s doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Well, I’ve been medium rare,” she said. Now, medium rare for me, is the comedy and the tragedy. Because I walk through all this tragedy every day,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is literally true. An avid hiker for most of her life, Murphy still gets out and walks a couple of miles every day through her neighborhood, now peppered with vacant lots, reminders of lost homes and neighbors. And she says a blessing in her head as she passes each one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068927\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-002-JB.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068927\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-002-JB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-002-JB.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-002-JB-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-002-JB-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Murphy, photographed at her home in Altadena, California, on Dec. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(James Bernal/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What I have done is I’ve blessed all these lots, blessed the people. I am deeply grateful more people did not die, but I’m very sad for the people in West Altadena who did die,” Murphy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All but one of the nineteen people who lost their lives in the fire lived in West Altadena. Murphy and I may not have known them personally, but we all shared space together in our community, drove the same streets, hiked the same foothill trails, bought groceries or had our cars repaired at the same places. The connection is undeniable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like me and many others, Murphy worries about what comes next for Altadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hopeful that Altadena will resurrect,” she said. “My fear is that some builders will come in and want to build condos on lots and change the character,” she says, echoing the sentiments of Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As rebuilding slowly lurches to a start, outsiders are indeed swooping in and scooping up properties that belonged to Altadena families for decades. Real estate listing firms like Redfin find that roughly half of all vacant lots sold in Altadena since the fire were snapped up by corporate investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire dealt a huge blow not only to homeowners but to renters as well. Scores of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050296/for-altadenas-therapists-trauma-and-healing-from-wildfire-ripple-outwards\">Altadena renters, like Melissa Lopez\u003c/a>, had to scramble to find new places outside Altadena and typically at inflated prices. Standing on the vacant lot where her home once stood on Lake Avenue, Lopez told Khokha and me that coming back to the property is like visiting a grave site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-013-JB.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068936\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-013-JB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1418\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-013-JB.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-013-JB-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-013-JB-1536x1089.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Melissa Lopez photographed a year after her home in Altadena, California was destroyed by the Eaton fire. Right: Melissa Lopez shows the Altadena tattoo she got after the fires. Photographed in Altadena, CA, on Dec. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(James Bernal/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I know some people are like, ‘I can never go back to Altadena.’ And I always tell folks, I totally respect that, but you can’t avoid grief. It’ll find you, trust me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[But] I find a certain level of comfort when I come, because in many ways, there’s still some foundations, there’s still some rubble, empty lots. It’s the one place where the outsides match my insides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living now about fifteen miles outside of Altadena, Melissa said renters like her have been largely left out of the re-building process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like we need a survey of — who commits to renting to fire survivors? Who’s committing to rent at reasonable prices?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were starting to really gentrify Altadena even before the fire,” she continued. “There are people saying, yeah, we want renters back. But I haven’t really seen that at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The fire followers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Scores of other fire survivors are digging in and taking steps to rebuild. Fresh roots are sinking into the soil that’s come in after the soil that burned. Scorched trees are being rehabilitated, new saplings are being sunk into the earth. Freshly cut wood slats are sinking into freshly poured foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before anyone was drawing up blueprints for a rebuild, others, like Alma Cielo and her husband Paul, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060753/a-look-at-prop-50-meet-the-duduk-whisperer-altadena-homeowners-resettling-in-rvs\">returned with trailers and RVs\u003c/a> to homestead on their scorched lots.[aside postID=news_12050296 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/2-Gabby-Raices-2000x1500.jpg']They’re going to rebuild their place too, in West Altadena, but they’re not quite ready just yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to stand here and feel the land healing, and then we’ll be able to know where to go from there,” Alma Cielo said, standing near a cluster of blooming morning glories and next to a fig tree that’s leafing out again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m feeling very grateful, actually, and at peace,” she added. The fire took away a lot of the things that I had been carrying that were simply weight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cielo lost about thirty years of journals that were destroyed in the fire, notes she thought would be the foundation of a memoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if I go through those books, you just see a lot of the same cycles of ignorance and trauma. And I really had wanted to burn them years ago, but I didn’t know how I could do that safely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe that’s how she starts the new book, I suggested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes,” she continued, “about how it was time to write a whole new story without having to constantly reference the past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I told Cielo about feeling something similar, about how the fire drew me back to journalism after I’d felt burnt out from covering news for 25 years. The fire gave me a renewed purpose. Maybe I could help my community a little bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068917\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-012-JB.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-012-JB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-012-JB.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-012-JB-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-012-JB-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alma Cielo stands for a photograph with a Bodhi tree that survived the fire and is now growing back in the spot where her house once stood. Photographed in Altadena, CA, on Dec. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(James Bernal/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The fire also deepened my love and appreciation for a place I already held sacred, and helped me connect with my neighbors in a whole new way — by telling their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much possibility now, there’s so much beauty, there is so much growth,” Cielo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cielo mentioned the concept of “fire followers,” — the trees and the plants that thrive after a fire, that need the smoke and ash in the soil to get that spark to grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She, too, is a fire follower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to be better after this fire than I ever was before,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Murphy chose to stay behind after the fire, to mop up hot spots and protect the house from looters. Everyone else in the neighborhood was gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, I lived through the fire, and I lived after the fire, and I lived kind of as an outcast really,” Murphy told me, still a bit rattled by his experience. “But in a weird way, it made me look at myself and do some self-review.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, I’ve kept walking Altadena, trying to make sense of what happened with as many people who would talk to me, including Eshele Williams. Her family has lived in the same West Altadena neighborhood for 60 years. They lost four houses, all within a block or two of each other. I asked Williams why she and her family have been so willing to tell their story and speak out at local town hall events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve grown up in this community and the only thing that I can do is shine a really bright light on it, on us, and who we have always been and potentially talk about where we should go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Loss and resurrection\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Eaton Fire not only brought flames of destructive fury, it created a demographic earthquake that will shake-up Altadena’s racial and class complexion for the foreseeable future. But that’s something Williams saw coming long before the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Altadena has been in transition for a long time, when I grew up here all of my neighbors were Black,” Williams said. “And that has changed over the years, this gentrification of Altadena.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071474\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1170px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/IMG_3368.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071474\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/IMG_3368.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1170\" height=\"831\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/IMG_3368.jpg 1170w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/IMG_3368-160x114.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From top left: Steven Cuevas, artist Alma Cielo, photographer James Bernal and journalist Sasha Khokha pose for a selfie on Dec. 28, 2025 at the site of Cielo’s former home and studio, which were completely destroyed in West Altadena during the Eaton fire. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Alma Cielo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, I invited my old friend and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/program/the-california-report-magazine\">The California Report Magazine\u003c/a> host Sasha Khokha to come down from Northern California and see Altadena in the slow process of recovery. I wanted to introduce her to some of the people that I’ve featured in my stories over the past year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Khokha arrived on a bright Sunday morning, so naturally, I took her to church. Since the fire, St. Mark’s Episcopal Church has been worshipping in the nearby East LA neighborhood of Eagle Rock after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038756/an-historic-altadena-church-lost-to-the-eaton-fire-begins-the-long-journey-to-resurrection\">its entire campus in the heart of Altadena\u003c/a> burned down. After the service, senior Pastor Carri Grindon told us that even though this temporary space is a 20-minute drive from Altadena, they haven’t lost any parishioners. In fact, they’ve gained new ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People need the community more than they’ve ever needed it before. They need that sense of, we’ve lost so much, but we have each other and we’re not going anywhere,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would compare it to when you’ve had a death in your family. There’s grief, but also there’s tasks. And now people are, at least in my experience, sharing, expressing and processing their grief,” Grindon continued.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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An avid hiker for most of her life, Murphy still gets out and walks a couple of miles every day through her neighborhood, now peppered with vacant lots, reminders of lost homes and neighbors. And she says a blessing in her head as she passes each one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068927\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-002-JB.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068927\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-002-JB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-002-JB.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-002-JB-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260107-Altadena-Anniversary-002-JB-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jane Murphy, photographed at her home in Altadena, California, on Dec. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(James Bernal/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What I have done is I’ve blessed all these lots, blessed the people. I am deeply grateful more people did not die, but I’m very sad for the people in West Altadena who did die,” Murphy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All but one of the nineteen people who lost their lives in the fire lived in West Altadena. Murphy and I may not have known them personally, but we all shared space together in our community, drove the same streets, hiked the same foothill trails, bought groceries or had our cars repaired at the same places. The connection is undeniable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like me and many others, Murphy worries about what comes next for Altadena.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m hopeful that Altadena will resurrect,” she said. “My fear is that some builders will come in and want to build condos on lots and change the character,” she says, echoing the sentiments of Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As rebuilding slowly lurches to a start, outsiders are indeed swooping in and scooping up properties that belonged to Altadena families for decades. Real estate listing firms like Redfin find that roughly half of all vacant lots sold in Altadena since the fire were snapped up by corporate investors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire dealt a huge blow not only to homeowners but to renters as well. Scores of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050296/for-altadenas-therapists-trauma-and-healing-from-wildfire-ripple-outwards\">Altadena renters, like Melissa Lopez\u003c/a>, had to scramble to find new places outside Altadena and typically at inflated prices. 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Right: Melissa Lopez shows the Altadena tattoo she got after the fires. Photographed in Altadena, CA, on Dec. 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(James Bernal/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I know some people are like, ‘I can never go back to Altadena.’ And I always tell folks, I totally respect that, but you can’t avoid grief. It’ll find you, trust me,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[But] I find a certain level of comfort when I come, because in many ways, there’s still some foundations, there’s still some rubble, empty lots. It’s the one place where the outsides match my insides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Living now about fifteen miles outside of Altadena, Melissa said renters like her have been largely left out of the re-building process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like we need a survey of — who commits to renting to fire survivors? Who’s committing to rent at reasonable prices?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People were starting to really gentrify Altadena even before the fire,” she continued. “There are people saying, yeah, we want renters back. But I haven’t really seen that at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The fire followers\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Scores of other fire survivors are digging in and taking steps to rebuild. Fresh roots are sinking into the soil that’s come in after the soil that burned. Scorched trees are being rehabilitated, new saplings are being sunk into the earth. Freshly cut wood slats are sinking into freshly poured foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before anyone was drawing up blueprints for a rebuild, others, like Alma Cielo and her husband Paul, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060753/a-look-at-prop-50-meet-the-duduk-whisperer-altadena-homeowners-resettling-in-rvs\">returned with trailers and RVs\u003c/a> to homestead on their scorched lots.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Johnson would go on to play for the Raiders in Oakland. \u003ccite>(George Gojkovich/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The condition is the result of repeated traumatic brain injuries, which can happen repeatedly over the course of a football season. 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As lead florist and project coordinator, her job is arguably one of the most important: overseeing the float’s overall floral design and purchasing all of the flowers that will carpet its massive 53-foot long frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On this afternoon, amid a din of welding torches, electric saws and booming classic rock music, McKenzie and other volunteers haggled over those design ideas, crunching the numbers on flower purchases and crunching peanut shells for use on the float.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12068256\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/IMG_3025-scaled-e1766436157234.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12068256\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/IMG_3025-scaled-e1766436157234.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the middle of the wide float deck sits a life-sized, replica firetruck built from scrap wood and metal. \u003ccite>(Steven Cuevas/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of the more than three dozen floats covered in flowers that’ll be rolling through the city of Pasadena on New Years Day, only five are built by community groups like Sierra Madre. They’ve been building floats for the parade for 108 years, and this year’s theme is special: the float celebrates first responders and the role they played in protecting Sierra Madre from January’s deadly Eaton Fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The theme this year is the magic in teamwork and that encapsulates exactly what we are, because we are volunteer run and donation driven,” said the association’s social media chief, and volunteer coordinator Hannah Jungbauer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are one of the towns that lost houses during the Eaton Canyon fire, and this is a nod and homage to the brave people that helped put out those fires,” Jungbauer said, adding that the crew is walking a fine line between whimsy and respectful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this summer, the float was still just a raw skeleton of steel rebar, wire meshing and wood framing. But by early December, playfully surreal imagery began to emerge.[aside postID=news_12043312 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/CLAIRE-SCHWARTZ-L-AND-NINA-RAJ-WITH-A-CHILD_S-DRAWING-RECOVERED-BY-RAJ-AFTER-THE-EATON-FIRE-KQED-1020x765.jpg']On one end of the float, there’s a 9-foot maple syrup bottle with a firehose attached to the top. On the other end, a butter dish the size of a Mini Cooper and a 9-foot stack of pancakes. 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We were able to acknowledge our firefighters [with this design] and do it in a very positive and fun way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also going to be completely dismantled shortly after the float’s big day on New Year’s morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I tell people it’s the biggest piñata you’ll ever build, that] needs to last for a day,” Kulhavy said. “We tear it down every year! The Rose Parade is the Olympics of float building.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the only parts not scrapped or sold off each year are the float’s engine and chassis. 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