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Mar 10, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Pasadena canceled a vaccination clinic for essential workers and residents 65+ after 900 of the 1,500 slots were taken by people who aren't eligible to be vaccinated yet -- including workers in Hollywood and the news media, the city said: latimes.com/california/sto…
The website that Pasadena used for its vaccine clinic doesn't have an option to limit registration to people who live or work in certain ZIP Codes -- so people who are ineligible can still fill out the registration forms and secure an appointment. latimes.com/california/sto…
Jan 18, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Sometimes the Sunday night shift in the middle of a holiday weekend is really quiet, and sometimes it’s... like last night.
First: There’s a new strain of coronavirus in California that’s been linked to several outbreaks in Santa Clara. (This is NOT the same highly contagious variant that was first identified in the UK.) latimes.com/california/sto…
Oct 3, 2019 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Ross Levinsohn, the former publisher of the @latimes, has popped up at another major publication with a now-familiar plan: lay off journalists and replace them with contract workers. What a travesty. wsj.com/articles/sport…
The @latimes escaped a similar fate — layoffs, outsourced labor, an army of unpaid contributors — by the skin of our teeth. It is so frustrating and sad that this is playing out again. You can’t cut your way to quality.
Jul 6, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Good news from Ridgecrest and Trona, the California Mojave Desert towns rocked by a 7.1 magnitude earthquake last night. Per Kern County Fire Chief David Witt, there are no deaths, no major injuries and no major building collapses.
Our updated story on the Southern California earthquake, with stories of residents in Trona and Ridgecrest in the high desert: latimes.com/local/lanow/la…
Apr 18, 2019 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
I’m reading the environmental assessment for Elon Musk’s proposed tunnels between Baltimore and D.C. That’s the report you’re all talking about, right?
The company is proposing twin 35-mile(!) tunnels with concrete shelves that would basically act as tracks for autonomous cars — similar to what’s in their first, 1.14-mile tunnel beneath Los Angeles. I rode through it in December - here’s what it was like. latimes.com/local/lanow/la…
