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— Biden’s infrastructure plan aims to reduce exclusionary zoning rules that keep people of color out of many neighborhoods. But are there enough sticks to go with all those carrots — and will the suburbs buy in? — Senate Republicans are signaling that they will try to block — or at least slow down — a Democratic effort to create a 9/11-style commission on the deadly — The New York attorney general’s office said that it is conducting a criminal investigation into former President Trump’s business empire, expanding what had previously been a civil probe. For more news and an...

Lights and sirens! Bells and whistles! Today, Los Angeles fills your ears and eyes with noise and light, the rush and whoosh of cars and buses and trains, the pinging and ringing of millions of phones, the music that’s not to your liking leaking from other people’s earbuds, and the perpetual glimmer and glare from headlamps and streetlamps and storefronts. And oh, are you ever wistful for the years of yore, for a Los Angeles that surely cherished civilized silences and decent darkness. Boy, have you got the wrong place. Advertisement That L.A. was definitely not taking vows of silence, or...

Print Echo Mountain, amid the 700,000 acres of national forest that is L.A.’s backyard, was once a playground for the well-to-do. More than a century ago, the barren mountaintop above Altadena was transformed into a resort where the wealthy came to party in a civilized manner, breathe fresh air and immerse themselves in nature — all without setting foot on a trail. Some ruins remain, giving modern-day hikers a glimpse of what passed for luxury back in the day. An incline car approaches Echo Mountain House. (Los Angeles Public Library) Advertisement The sprawling four-story Echo Mountain ...

February 7, 2021 We asked a former RC-135 pilot to choose the Top 10 ‘Spy-Planes’ (though don’t call them that!) When we asked former Blackbird, B-57 and U-2 pilot BC Thomas for his thoughts on the Top 10 spy planes he wasn’t comfortable with the term , noting “The SR-71 was a Strategic Reconnaissance Aircraft, not a ‘spy plane.’  The practice of calling the SR-71 a ‘spy plane’ is so prevalent that I have stopped trying to correct the error, and it is no longer important since the SR-71 is no longer flying, although the U-2 pilots have cause to resent their being called â€...

january of 1862 and met with the president and the cabinet, laid out his plan for the capture of the confederate capital here in richmond and the defeat of the confederate forces defending richmond. he told them that his plan would involve defeating the enemy's capacity to make war and he would do so through the use of maneuver as opposed to costly headlong assaults against confederate bastions. the seizure of what was known as strategic points by the napoleonic scholars of the day would enable him to grab the initiative and force the confederates to respond to his initiatives. and w...