Articles for Her Neighbors

These L.A. tenants want to own their buildings. L.A. is collecting millions to help
1 month ago

These L.A. tenants want to own their buildings. L.A. is collecting millions to help

LA Times  

Mary Carmen Martinez at her Koreatown apartment complex. For me, that’s more important than making money.” “As a single mom, I never dreamed of being able to own anything like this,” said Mary Carmen Martinez. But the city’s “mansion tax” is expected to change that, bringing in hundreds of millions per year, about a third of which could be allocated …

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Help! I Wrote to Prudie for Advice and Leigh Bardugo Answered.
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Help! I Wrote to Prudie for Advice and Leigh Bardugo Answered.

Slate  

This special edition is part of our Guest Prudie series, where we ask smart, thoughtful people to step in as Prudie for the day and give you advice. Romance would have been saying, “I know this is the busiest time of the year for you so I’m going to give you your space. Very standard, “If you don’t put your …

Work Way Going Know My Husband Kristin Prudie
Inside the bitter fight between the Mormons and small town America: Church accused of 'bullying' picturesque hamlets into letting them build towering temples
6 months, 1 week ago

Inside the bitter fight between the Mormons and small town America: Church accused of 'bullying' picturesque hamlets into letting them build towering temples

Daily Mail  

When the rural neighborhood of Lone Mountain, Nevada, stood up to the might of the Mormon church, they may have anticipated an explosive argument. The tiny tourist town of Cody, Wyoming, is one of several rural communities locked in a toxic feud with the Mormon church over its plans to build a mega temple in its neighborhood A rendering of …

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Smoke rushed in, then they ran. How local Maui residents faced the fire that killed their neighbors and leveled their town
1 year, 4 months ago

Smoke rushed in, then they ran. How local Maui residents faced the fire that killed their neighbors and leveled their town

CNN  

CNN — The day began windier than usual in Lahaina, a Hawaiian sunrise painting the sky enchanting colors, a powerful breeze carrying the salty scent of the North Pacific Ocean inland. “Around 3, 4 o’clock, we were starting to see flames everywhere,” the animal sanctuary keeper said. She and two other captains, including her wife, had watched around sunset as …

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‘This is taking too long’: California community awaits cleanup of PFAS-contaminated wells
1 year, 4 months ago

‘This is taking too long’: California community awaits cleanup of PFAS-contaminated wells

LA Times  

The well water at Kathy Borland’s home has been contaminated with high levels of PFAS chemicals from firefighting foam that was used in drills at the nearby San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport. San Luis Obispo resident Kathy Borland looks over tomatoes growing in her garden across from SLO Regional Airport, where her well water has been contaminated with high …

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White Woman Accused Of Killing Black Mom Was Mad That Kids Called Her A ‘Karen’
1 year, 5 months ago

White Woman Accused Of Killing Black Mom Was Mad That Kids Called Her A ‘Karen’

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Newly released body-camera footage obtained by HuffPost shows sheriff’s deputies responding to a number of complaints made by Susan Lorincz, the white Florida woman charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of Ajike “AJ” Owens, her Black neighbor. Ben Crump In the months leading up to the shooting, Lorincz had called the police on multiple occasions complaining …

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$55,000 to leave a rent-controlled apartment? Why these tenants say no thanks
1 year, 7 months ago

$55,000 to leave a rent-controlled apartment? Why these tenants say no thanks

LA Times  

Elvira Rincon never loved the small apartment that sits between Sunset Boulevard and Dodger Stadium. Let’s just go.’ ” In a city faced with a housing and homelessness crisis, where many renters pay more than half their income to live in overcrowded, aging homes, tenants like Rincon have what many others long for: low-cost housing. Three decades later, Villegas still …

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After deadly snow, mountain communities start to dig out and brace for new storm
1 year, 9 months ago

After deadly snow, mountain communities start to dig out and brace for new storm

LA Times  

The collapsed roof of Goodwin & Son’s Market in the San Bernardino Mountains community of Crestline. It’s nice to not have to lose another business,” Dickey said pointing to a group of workers using a snow blower to clear the roof of a nearby building. “The good thing is rain is better than snow at this point, and they’re saying …

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FEMA buyouts fail communities battling climate change.
2 years, 4 months ago

FEMA buyouts fail communities battling climate change.

Slate  

On Monday, President Biden visited Kentucky communities devastated by recent flooding—which has left at least 37 dead and more than 500 homeless—and promised the federal government would commit significant resources to recovery efforts. “There’s a possibility for government-funded buyout programs” to address the need for climate relocation, said Anna Weber, a policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council who …

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She cut her water bill in half by tearing out her lawn and going all in on ‘hugelkultur’
2 years, 5 months ago

She cut her water bill in half by tearing out her lawn and going all in on ‘hugelkultur’

LA Times  

Lawns are symbols of Los Angeles’ past. “I wanted a water savings garden that wasn’t about succulents,” said O’Brien, a professional organizer who decided to tackle the project by herself after taking a workshop Like many other adherents, O’Brien was captivated by Maestretti and Adams’ lessons in removing a lawn and rebuilding depleted soil using sheet mulching, a.k.a. “And I …

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Two Kenosha neighbors, two views of the nation’s political divide
4 years, 3 months ago

Two Kenosha neighbors, two views of the nation’s political divide

LA Times  

Mary Morgan initially posted her Trump sign and flag at the edge of her lawn, but moved it back at the request of her neighbors “because we’re friends.” The Morgans and the Hanneses fly their political colors — one for President Trump, the other for Joe Biden — on adjoining front yards that have remained a neighborly, if intense, battlefield …

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