The French Laundry episode exposed something that has long been the subject of quiet discussion in Sacramento — Gov. Newsom’s tight relationship with Jason Kinney, who is director of a lobbying firm with business before the governor. latimes.com/california/sto…
Kinney is well known around the state Capitol as a strategist, ghostwriter of Newsom’s speeches and unofficial fixer summoned to help loosen the governor from political jams. latimes.com/california/sto…
His dual roles as an advisor to Newsom and a lobbyist paid by companies to influence the governor and his staff have raised questions about potential conflicts of interest for the administration. latimes.com/california/sto…
California law doesn’t expressly prohibit lobbying the administration while also advising the governor, and some of Newsom’s predecessors sought the input of Sacramento lobbyists. latimes.com/california/sto…
Yet Kinney’s personal and professional alliance with Newsom has given him and his firm a unique position of power.
The relationship, many in Sacramento say, was bound to draw attention to the ethical boundaries in the Newsom administration. latimes.com/california/sto…
With early voting well underway and both sides expecting close races, over $485 million in ad time has been used or reserved ahead of the special election Tuesday that will determine which political party controls the U.S. Senate. latimes.com/politics/story…
More than 275,000 political ads have aired in the state since Nov. 5, according to AdImpact, which tracks TV and radio spending. latimes.com/politics/story…
The two Democratic candidates, Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, lead their Republican opponents, Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, respectively, in advertising purchases. latimes.com/politics/story…
L.A. County’s health care system was buckling under the unprecedented surge of COVID-19 patients, with bodies piling up at morgues and medical professionals resorting to increasingly desperate measures. latimes.com/california/sto…
With hospitals overwhelmed by patients and no outlet valve available, doctors, nurses and paramedics are being forced to make wrenching choices about who gets care and at what level.
Hospital morgues are so full that the National Guard is being called in to help county workers as corpses are moved into storage at the L.A. County Department of the Medical Examiner-Coroner. latimes.com/california/sto…
Roughly 20% to 40% of the L.A. County’s front-line workers who were offered the vaccine declined to get the shot.
So many in Riverside County refused the vaccine — an estimated 50% — that officials met to strategize how best to distribute the unused doses latimes.com/california/sto…
Vaccine doubts swirling among healthcare workers is a surprise to researchers who assumed hospital staff would be among those most in tune with the scientific data behind the vaccines
Epidemiologists say the public health implications could be disastrous
“Chemistry is probably the easiest part because Phoebe is lovely,” Page said. “And we were working with such wonderful material. The characters already existed... All we had to do was channel through this amazing chemistry that already existed.” latimes.com/entertainment-…
They had to do a lot of rehearsals for dances.
“Phoebe and I would call each other up at the weekend, after spending a week rehearsing, going, ‘Hey, I’ve got Sunday free. Do you want to practice the dance some more?’" latimes.com/entertainment-…
Nationally, Black Americans and Latinx people are hospitalized at roughly 4x more than white Americans, and their risk of dying of COVID-19 is close to 3x higher. The death rate for American Indians and Alaska Natives is nearly 2x that for white Americans. latimes.com/science/story/…
Experts argue that burdens of poverty, discrimination and social disadvantage have led to disproportionate rates of infection and death.
But ethnicity, while strongly correlated with those conditions can't be used alone to determine priority. latimes.com/science/story/…
Many hospitals are now going to contingency care, in which staffers work longer hours and wards are reconfigured to take more patients. The next step could be “crisis care,” in which more medical rationing would occur. latimes.com/california/sto…
Hospitals that are closest to rationing care are in low income, nonwhite areas with higher proportions of essential workers.
Sometimes, their patients are denied transfer to larger hospitals because they have public insurance or are uninsured latimes.com/california/sto…