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On Feb. 7, millions worldwide will tune in to watch the Kansas City Chiefs (change the name already!) face off against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV. It promises to be a great game, one that pits the greatest quarterback of all time (Tom Brady) against the quarterback most likely to take that distinction away from him (Patrick Mahomes).
I, however, am most anticipating what will take place the day before: the announcement of the 2021 class of inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The reason?
The likely enshrinement of Tom Flores, a Mexican American pioneer who has long deserved the recognition as a coach.
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Am I the only one who didn’t know about the wetlands in South Los Angeles? Last weekend I was invited to what I would call a curated park cleanup: Show up, pick up tools or garbage bags, dial into a conference call, and learn a little about the park through earbuds while you pick up trash no contact required.
I went because the cleanup was held in South Los Angeles Wetlands Park, a place I had never heard of, at 5413 S. Avalon Blvd. As wetlands go, this one is a convincing imposter, described in a 2012 media account as “carved out from the industrial tundra of South Los Angeles.”
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The last story I wrote before Donald Trump was elected president, four years and two months ago, was about the Obama administration’s claim that it had approved 60 renewable energy projects on public lands, capable of powering up to 5 million homes. I scrutinized those numbers, finding they dramatically overestimated the outgoing president’s accomplishments.
When Trump defeated Hillary Clinton a few days after the story published, I started to wonder if I had wasted my time.
A rocky vaccine rollout. Gov. Gavin Newsom set an ambitious target Friday of vaccinating another 1 million people over the next nine days but offered few new details. As of Monday, only about 35% of California’s COVID-19 vaccine doses had been administered, a rate he acknowledged
when a refrigerator failed and left doses to thaw giving an unintentional road map for how mass inoculation could work.
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Vaccines are met with doubt. An informal survey of Los Angeles Police Department employees found significant skepticism about COVID-19 vaccines, with
More aid on the way. Gov. Gavin Newsom sent a budget to the California Legislature on Friday that calls for a swift and expansive boost in the state’s response to the pandemic,