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Without immigrants, America's job growth would have stalled
3 months ago

Without immigrants, America's job growth would have stalled

NPR  

Without immigrants, America's job growth would have stalled toggle caption Madeleine Hordinski for NPR Beth Casella's family has been making things out of metal in Dayton, Ohio, for more than half a century. “Our goal is to make Dayton a welcoming place for everybody," says City Commissioner Matt Joseph, who helped spearhead the "Welcome Dayton" initiative. toggle caption Madeleine Hordinski …

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Los muchos milagros que se necesitaron para ayudar a un niño a caminar por sí mismo
2 years, 8 months ago

Los muchos milagros que se necesitaron para ayudar a un niño a caminar por sí mismo

LA Times  

Su estado podría describirse, generosamente, como destartalado: un cochecito de plástico para niños y un maltrecho par de muletas. “No las voy a tirar”, dice a un visitante desde la casa que renta su familia en el Este de Los Ángeles. “En el pasado siempre necesité la ayuda de alguien, y no me gustaba que los demás me hicieran sentir …

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The many miracles needed to help a boy walk on his own
2 years, 9 months ago

The many miracles needed to help a boy walk on his own

LA Times  

Their condition could be described, generously, as ramshackle — a plastic kiddie car and a battered pair of crutches. “Some children called me ‘Pata Cuta’ — ‘Crooked Leg,’” he said. “How I would like my son to be cared for there!” Yet like many immigrants without legal status, Efraín’s parents were hesitant to approach hospitals. “In my past I always …

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This garden is SoCal’s hidden treasure. It’s hard to find, but we’ve got directions
3 years, 1 month ago

This garden is SoCal’s hidden treasure. It’s hard to find, but we’ve got directions

LA Times  

For starters, just getting to Taft Gardens & Nature Preserve is an adventure. Taft’s family built houses on some of the land, but in 1981, Taft created the Conservation Endowment Fund and gifted 260 of the acres to the nonprofit for a garden and nature preserve. South African landscaper Laurence Nicklin designed half of Taft Gardens and married the boss’ …

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What I learned about my heritage while documenting a Polish Holocaust survivor
3 years, 2 months ago

What I learned about my heritage while documenting a Polish Holocaust survivor

LA Times  

Clockwise, Madeleine Hordinski, Justin Keeling, Susan Stefanski and Andrew Stefanski took a picture together after Hordinski finished the project. Just like Andrew Stefanski’s decision to hide his story for many years, my own Polish family didn’t want to share much of their past. I learned about what it might have been like for my own family to fight in the …

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Now 96, he lived through the Nazi occupation of Poland: ‘I am surviving’
3 years, 2 months ago

Now 96, he lived through the Nazi occupation of Poland: ‘I am surviving’

LA Times  

Andrzej Stefanski looks out of the window in his living room. “We knew he lived through the war,” Susan said, “but we just knew very little about it.” That’s a common experience for the children of survivors, many of whom tried to build lives outside their memories of that terrible time, researchers say. “It just sits in you.” :: Andrzej’s …

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Exploring weird L.A.: The strange, immersive art of the Velaslavasay Panorama
3 years, 2 months ago

Exploring weird L.A.: The strange, immersive art of the Velaslavasay Panorama

LA Times  

On a modest residential street in L.A.’s University Park neighborhood sits an old silent movie theater painted an eye-popping shade of aquamarine. “It’s defined by a set of prescribed viewing conventions, and its painters know how to use composition and painting skills to create the illusion of depth.” Like many such paintings, the Shengjing Panorama incorporates three-dimensional elements — street …

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Skating can be a bridge in L.A. These 3 crews show how bonds form on four wheels
3 years, 3 months ago

Skating can be a bridge in L.A. These 3 crews show how bonds form on four wheels

LA Times  

This is part of Image Issue 4, “Image Makers,” a paean to L.A.’s luminaries of style. Tobias McIntosh wears CSC X The Hundreds Tobey cTee, $39 Brandon Burrell wears CSC Square Tee, $30 Jon Alamilla wears CSC OG Logo Tee in Black, $30 Jalen Frey wears CSC SF Tee in Chocolate, $30 Brandon DeCoud wears CSC Bling OG Logo Hoodie …

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‘You keep Fluffy. We don’t want Fluffy.’ L.A. County animal shelters try a new approach
3 years, 3 months ago

‘You keep Fluffy. We don’t want Fluffy.’ L.A. County animal shelters try a new approach

LA Times  

Ulysses Sandoval was desperate to save his dog. The voucher, which Sandoval obtained this past spring, is part of an approach called “managed intake” now being used at the seven animal shelters run by Los Angeles County. In less crowded shelters, the animals that remain are happier and less stressed, said Marcia Mayeda, director of L.A. County Animal Care and …

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Long live street couches! Inside L.A.’s favorite — and controversial — obsession
3 years, 3 months ago

Long live street couches! Inside L.A.’s favorite — and controversial — obsession

LA Times  

Analise McNeill is known among her circle of friends and acquaintances as the one to text about a couch on the street that looks like it might be salvageable. “Literally,” McNeill, a TV writer from L.A., says, “I’ve become a trash person.” What is Los Angeles, if not a city filled with trash people? Love it or hate it — …

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As California burns, some ecologists say it’s time to rethink forest management
3 years, 4 months ago

As California burns, some ecologists say it’s time to rethink forest management

LA Times  

As he stood amid the rubble of the town of Greenville, Gov. “The only effective way to protect communities from wildland fire is to focus directly on homes.” Though fuel reduction has been part of Cal Fire and the U.S. Forest Service’s practices for decades, former President Trump helped politicize it when he announced in 2018 that California’s devastating wildfires …

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