10 Urgent Stories From a Scary Year

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Homeless Deaths Are Spiking in Los Angeles and Beyond

By  Jessica Goodheart

Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Are COVID deaths going unreported? Or has living on the street become more dangerous?

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‘Not Ok, Boomers!’ Say Restless Millennials

By Steve Appleford

Illustration by Define Urban

Baby boomers are criticized by younger, debt-burdened Americans frustrated by economic inequality. But many boomers are also hurting.

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Homeless Moms Seize Houses as Coronavirus Rages

By  Steve Appleford

Photo: Steve Appleford

Facing a health crisis, California legislators call for a moratorium on evictions, utility shutoffs and foreclosures.

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Gavin Newsom Hands Out Fracking Permits to Connected Driller

By  Steve Horn

While California was convulsed by COVID-19 and George Floyd’s death, the governor gave Big Oil a big gift.

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A Jared Kushner-Connected Company Is Buying an L.A. Mall

By Jack Ross

Photo: Luis Sinco/L.A. Times via Getty Images

Why wasn’t an African American community group allowed to make a final bid on the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza?

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Outbreak: Los Angeles’ Fateful 15 Days

By  Jason McGahan

Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images

Everything from chronic physician shortages to the county’s political culture seemed aligned against a rapid response to the virus.

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Under Trump, Income Growth Slows Across U.S.

By Jessica Goodheart

Photo by Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images

48 states saw real median household income growth decline in Trump’s first two years, some dramatically.

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L.A. Public Health Ok’d Release of COVID Patients to Nursing Homes With Many Coronavirus Deaths, Poor Ratings

By  Danny Feingold

Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

The agency also scrubbed statistics on coronavirus deaths and cases at designated nursing homes from its website.

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Redding’s Homeless Ride a Wave of Very Tough Love

By  Evelyn Nieves

Photo: Chris Solberg

California Gov. Gavin Newsom calls homelessness an emergency akin to a major earthquake, but his proposals do not prevent cities from sweeping people off the streets.

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Performance Anxiety: Will the Adult Film Industry
Survive the Pandemic?

By  Alex Demyanenko

Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Even porn actors must work from home as one of the most intimate industries remains in lockdown.

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