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Hello to everyone sharing this — I have a newsletter called Torched, it's all about LA and megaevents and Casey Wasserman, and you should *really* subscribe
you are about to put a hurt on Kanopy
Brother: welcome to the Mc Pack (McElwee is pronounced MAC-elwee so the name does rhyme).
Six O'Clock News. Bright Leaves. Time Indefinite. Charleen?!? You have just enough time to consume his entire body of work to have the maximally crushing experience of Remake when it hits theaters.
Jason Benetti went on record at one point
Fossum Kingdom
Ramon had a 6.13 ERA over 27 starts in 2000
If you average him with 2000 Pedro you get a 3.37 ERA guy with a 1.07 WHIP
That guy would have been the second best pitcher in the AL that year!!
Ramon was the #2 starter in 2000 and they let him spend the entire season getting absolutely rocked presumably because they didn't want to disrupt the insane shit Pedro was doing
Me on Jeopardy
Tonight I am in the semifinals of Celebrity Jeopardy on ABC at 9 pm ET
Once again I am competing on behalf of the incredible SELAH Neighborhood Homeless Coalition here in LA: www.selahnhc.org
Hernandez had been in office for three months and is not in the top 1000 people responsible for the existence of La Sombrita. There are many electeds on that list though!
It was entirely developed by a department overseen by the mayor’s office that has a disastrous legacy of failed street safety interventions and loses funding every year. Guess it’s not odd because electeds are shiny objects but you would hope more people would have some bureaucratic literacy
Right but you said she held it. My guess is she had never even seen it before the event. Bit odd how this thing she showed up to the installation of and had nothing else to do with has been attributed to her imo
She didn’t hold it, she was invited by DOT and was unfortunate enough to be near it in a picture
this is the “hydration vest”?
Going to get L.A. on everyone because this is gutting.
One of my favorite spots in the whole city is closing down.
If you need me I'll be there every day until May 4.
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eat a smoothie
Hosting a show about LA and how it works at the Elysian this Saturday. Please don't make me tell you again
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@awalkerinla.bsky.social @mikebonin.bsky.social & @hayesdavenport.bsky.social ask the big questions: is the fire department underfunded, who is really in charge of LA's recovery, which electeds are taking all the blame, and why. Listen wherever you get your podcasts
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LA's sanctuary city policy was developed by known virtue signaler Daryl Gates
The PDS zone in December was very different from the one in January, especially re: City of LA.
LA leaders have said the fires could have been prevented if LAFD hadn't been defunded.
But also: new reports say LAFD kept dozens of trucks and 1,000 firefighters off duty during the high winds.
What really happened? You might never find out. Sorry!
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Wrote about the guy who went around setting all the fires bigcityheat.substack.com/p/the-arsoni...
All great questions with very complicated answers. Inmate firefighters don't staff LAFD, but the City of LA (and a lot of other big cities) have had personnel deficits across the board. It's a big problem! laist.com/news/politic...
Not going to be able to keep replying, but this was all true for LAPD as well. Fewer funded positions, but an overall large budget increase because of higher salaries. That is an issue of its own. But the same process played out for both departments and one didn't pay for the other.
LAPD also had vacant positions go unfunded because they, like LAFD, have not been able to hire up to their budgeted staff. deptvacancies.lacontroller.app
Like I said, the Councilmember I worked with voted No and didn't support the PD raises. But money was not taken from LAFD and given to them.
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Hundreds of vacant officer positions also went unfunded in the police budget, even if they still had hiring authority. FD and PD were treated exactly the same: some vacant positions went unfunded but salary increases led to proportionately large departmental budget increases for both.
Nope, doesn't change that at all! It's not quite a majority but it's close, and the raises they got were enormous. The fire department wasn't cut, but the Councilmember I worked with still voted against that budget for a reason.
Absolutely
It is not.