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      The bullet train to … Gilroy
      Tags: Gilroy, high-speed rail
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ArticlesBeverley Delay2026-03-11T21:41:45+00:00
  • Policy, Public safety

    Do you know why we didn’t pull you over?

    It's never been easier to get away with speeding or running a light in Los Angeles. Drivers and pedestrians are paying a deadly price.

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  • Policy, Transportation

    The bullet train to … Gilroy

    California voted for high-speed rail to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco. That’s not what it looks like in the latest reports.

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  • Juan Galicia stands in front of his burnt out home
    Housing, Policy

    Burnt

    Juan Galicia spent a year asking the city to act on the abandoned house next door. Last week, a fire answered instead.

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  • Public safety, Transportation

    Unsafe for any species

    Automobiles are killing more animals in L.A. than ever before

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  • Environment, Public safety

    L.A.’s trash vigilantes

    When the city doesn't keep up with ever-mounting piles of garbage, these residents step in.

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  • rows of crushed plastic bottles
    Environment

    Piles of trash, sitting in warehouses

    Too much of L.A.’s plastic waste never gets recycled.

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  • D train in LA
    Policy, Transportation

    Take the D train

    Will Metro’s Wilshire Boulevard line be our public-transit turning point?

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  • Environment

    Uncool

    Whacking L.A. trees in a mistaken effort to reduce crime

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  • Environment, Policy

    L.A.’s preposterous power prices

    Other utilities take advantage of cheap solar power to cut customer bills and help the environment. Why won't LADWP follow suit?

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  • burnt furniture outdoors showing how wildfires ravaged the area
    Policy, Public safety

    Your home is the new wildfire battlefront

    The state is mulling the naked house look. L.A. is pushing back.

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  • burnt furniture outdoors showing how wildfires ravaged the area
    Your home is the new wildfire battlefront
    Tags: wildfires
  • small chair outdoors with a big shell on top
    My year as a fire nomad
    Tags: Palisades fire, personal essay, zone zero

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