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DWP’s Budget, LA City, and LA100 Details LA100, the initiative to have 100% renewable energy by 2045. As usual for Mayor Garcetti’s 20-year plans, by the time we know how well it will play out, no current LA City Councilmember will be around to be accountable.  To show how complicated projections of renewable energy are, we should remember this started with a 2016 City Council Motion “requesting the DWP” to conduct an analysis as to “what investments shoul...

Xiao Yijiu/Xinhua via AP Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been many questions about the origin of the virus that causes COVID-19 and the alleged coincidental zoonotic spillover (a natural mutation) that occurred just blocks away from a Chinese Weapons Lab that is studying these same types of viruses.  During that time, conservative stories even questioning the origin of SARS-CoV-2 were flagged by Big Tech and the MSM as misinformation and propaganda. I wrote an article last year...

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Doudna and Arnold Chat “Nobel to Nobel” Jennifer Doudna and Frances Arnold Doudna and Arnold Chat “Nobel to Nobel” Jennifer Doudna and Frances Arnold discuss CRISPR, winning the Nobel Prize, and being women in science at Illumina’s Spark conference. Fireside chats have become a staple of pandemic-era virtual events. The reasons are clear: they offer a glimpse into an otherwise private conversation and it’s entertaining to listen to two scientists “talk shop.”...

May 11, 2021 THE WASHINGTON POST – Emily Grodin has finally found her voice. For her first 25 years, Grodin was largely unable to communicate due to non-verbal autism, which left her prone to meltdowns and on the outside looking in at most social and many educational opportunities. Her parents, Valerie Gilpeer and Tom Grodin, always believed there was more to Emily trapped beneath the surface. So they fought tenaciously to secure the best education and to find ways to help Emily reach out. Ul...

5 . 5 . 21 I claim no expertise in climate science. I do claim a certain competence in detecting spin in the media; for I’m a card-carrying member of that clan, as I’ve committed print journalism for more than 40 years and worked in television for over 20. Thus credentialed, I rise to note that serious spin has dominated media coverage of climate change for a long time now. There are, to be sure, exceptions to this rule. Since Hurricane Katrina, though, it’s generally been all-hysteria-al...

Alliances Jordan Schwartz scores perfect 36 on ACT exam Laura Kessel If you’re Jordan Schwartz of Alliance, you probably don’t mind at all anymore. Earlier this school year, the sophomore at Alliance High School got the news that he earned a perfect score on the ACT college entrance exam. Just like his sister, Julia, did in 2019. That’s perfect. (Sorry, we had to.) Jordan Schwartz said he scored the 36 in September, the first time he officially took the test. He said he’d taken several ...

First Published: 2:05 PM PDT, April 29, 2021 Mike Wimmer realized just how advanced he was at age 6 when he was taking a university class in robotics. Mike Wimmer is not your average 12-year-old. Sure, he likes spending time with friends and playing video games, but he also likes coding, robotics and technology — so much in fact that he is set to graduate "high school and college" next month, both in the same week. And, in between his classes and studying and just being a kid, he is busy run...

Today we live in FernanDiego. With the baseball world watching him, Fernando Tatis Jr. roughed up baseball’s consensus-best team in a hotly contested four-game series at Dodger Stadium. The 22-year-old Padres shortstop hit home runs off the best Dodgers pitchers. He stole bases with ease. Showing Hollywood flair, he spiced up his home run trots with inside-joke gestures and stutter steps that went viral on social media. Advertisement He wore the same jersey No. 23 as Lakers star Lebron James,...