To the editor: Gustavo Arellano writes that Ysabel Jurado, the council member-elect for L.A.’s 14th District, is not Latina. He says she is the “first L.A. council member of Filipino heritage.” But being Latin is a culture, a heritage, a way of life. Filipinos don’t speak Spanish because the Catholic Church was unable to implement multiple attempts by the Spanish …
The temperature had just crept past 125 degrees, and Stephen Peterson was staring absently at a family cooling off in the Stovepipe Wells hotel swimming pool. “A lot of it is, people come for six months then quit to go back to society,” said Yeager, who’s been at Death Valley for two years now. “There’s no ‘Death Valley Water Company’ …
