Editor at Capital & Main, x L.A. Times editor | shared in 2011 Pulitzer | aging surfer | helpless Dodger fan| opinions are my own
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Police don’t respond to calls at ICE detention centers in this California town, citing agreement with private prison giant The GEO Group. Crimes go uninvestigated, say attorneys and alleged sexual abuse victim. capitalandmain.com/californi…
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Surfing at The Wedge, Newport Beach
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In Dallas, Pennsylvania, Fern Leard, a Democrat in a swing county with a rich legacy of coal production, is running her third campaign in five years for the state House on a platform where she’s put her opposition to data centers front and center. capitalandmain.com/data-cent…
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As with the Venezuelan men sent to El Salvador last year by the Trump administration, when the Eswatini-bound flight arrived, the government there placed the new arrivals in a maximum security prison, where most remain today with no way to challenge their detention.
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Ruled by a king, Eswatini, a small country near South Africa, made a deal with the Trump administration to receive up to 160 people removed from the United States in exchange for $5.1 million. capitalandmain.com/ousted-by…
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The Trump administration made a deal with Eswatini, a small African country ruled by a king, to receive up to 160 U.S. immigrants removed from the United States in exchange for $5.1 million. capitalandmain.com/ousted-by…
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The Buckshot Deli & Diner is an oasis along the sun-blasted California highway that runs from Calexico to Coachella, the only remaining restaurant in the desert hamlet of Niland. capitalandmain.com/californi…
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Latest from @bgirledukate
Inspections by the California Department of Justice confirmed what people in immigration custody have been saying since President Donald Trump took office — conditions at detention facilities have grown worse. capitalandmain.com/condition…
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Inspections by the California Department of Justice confirmed what people in immigration custody have been saying since President Donald Trump took office — conditions at detention facilities have grown worse. capitalandmain.com/condition…
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Where California’s Gubernatorial Candidates Stand on Climate and Taking Big Oil Money
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Latest from Jerry Redfern
Jackie Onsurez was driving between his home in Loving and nearby Carlsbad when he saw a 70-foot roaring geyser of toxic oilfield wastewater, commonly called produced water, spewing from a pipe at a site operated by NGL Energy Partners. capitalandmain.com/70-foot-w…
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Wherever they turn, residents in and around Santa Fe Springs, California, contend with toxic hazards. capitalandmain.com/californi…
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Elenilson Armando Coto Delgado believed that he would be imminently deported to El Salvador when he had a medical emergency in late April while in ICE custody.
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Corpus Christi’s city leaders have called for declaring a “Level 1” water emergency at the end of the summer, cutting the amount of water residents, small businesses and big industry can use by 25%. (Original story by Straight Arrow) capitalandmain.com/inside-th…
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The Congressional Budget Office estimates that red tape alone could force more than 2 million people off of Medicaid. But that’s only if the plan works. In California, a bill making its way through the state Legislature aims to prevent that. capitalandmain.com/californi…
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More context here, as we reported earlier this month:
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Since the conflict began on Feb. 28, inflation has so far cost the U.S. economy roughly $27.5 billion, or about $210 per household, according to the analysis by the university’s Climate Solutions Lab. capitalandmain.com/as-the-u-…
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The latest from @mbaram
The effects of the war — which is costing the U.S. between $500 million to more than $1 billion a day — are being felt throughout the economy, upending the lives of millions of Americans.
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The effects of the war — which is costing the U.S. between $500 million to more than $1 billion a day — are being felt throughout the economy, upending the lives of millions of Americans.
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Of the 131 oil refineries in the United States, more than a quarter of them are in Texas. Communities like Port Arthur get the brunt of the pollution — including a highly hazardous and carcinogenic chemical found in crude oil and gas called benzene.
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