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Table Of Content

• You’re gonna need a bigger number: Scientists consider a Category 6 for mega-hurricane era
• CAJUN SEAFOOD RESTAURANT
• Oscars: Check Out the Star-Studded Parties
• more L.A. County probation officers put on leave in connection with ‘youth-on-youth violence’
• ‘Rivers in the sky’ have drenched California, yet even more extreme rains are possible
• Opinion: Here is one way California can end its rooftop solar wars

Florida bade farewell Friday to Bob Graham during a public memorial at Florida’s Old Capitol, with hundreds of people filing up to the second-floor rotunda where Graham lay in state and sharing memories with his family and friends. Republicans appear committed to politically dying on a number of hills that time has passed by. In the book, the Republican lawmaker wrote about trying to train the dog, Cricket, to hunt with other dogs. Instead, the puppy went “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life." Eggs produced by a female after a romp with a sterile male don’t hatch.

You’re gonna need a bigger number: Scientists consider a Category 6 for mega-hurricane era

The will, unlike the trust — which has not been made public — does not detail Simpson’s assets or his wishes for any possessions left behind. Legal experts said the death of Simpson — who had fought efforts to pay the judgment — offers a new window for the families, but they still face what could be a lengthy battle. You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. As a massive heat dome lingered over the Pacific Northwest three years ago, swaths of North America simmered — and then burned. Wildfires charred more than 18.5 million acres across the continent, with the most land burned in Canada and California.

CAJUN SEAFOOD RESTAURANT

A judge said at the time that they’d have to identify exactly who paid Simpson in order to go after the proceeds. After the civil judgment was handed down by the court in 1997, Simpson said he didn’t have the money to pay them. In the late 1990s, estimates about his net worth varied from $850,000 to $15.7 million. He is listed as the chief executive of a handful of California-based businesses, most of which were created in the 1970s or ’80s. OJ Simpson Enterprises reported $873,000 in sales in March, though it’s not clear where that money originated.

Oscars: Check Out the Star-Studded Parties

In remarks shared with reporters, they also mourned a kinder era in state politics, when members of both parties competed but also cooperated to advance the state. As long as six corrupt Republicans on the Supreme Court continue to keep bribery legal and morbidly rich CEOs continue to hate unions almost as much as they dislike their own workers, I’m not holding my breath…and you shouldn’t, either. Researchers found that for every 1 percent increase in unionized workers’ wages, there’s a corresponding 0.3 percent increase in the wages of nonunion workers because the unionized workplaces have established the local wage floor. The benefits of unionization aren’t limited to the unionized workers themselves.

more L.A. County probation officers put on leave in connection with ‘youth-on-youth violence’

Hours before T-Pain hit the Heineken House stage, a line of fans hoping to get into the venue snaked long around food and merch vendors. T-Pain’s set marked the first time he’d performed at Coachella — but that wasn’t the only special occasion for the star. “Today is my wife’s birthday,” T-Pain explained to the crowd, adding that she told him they didn’t have to do anything for her special day except get on stage.

Last week, Lederman traveled with a group of students to Washington, D.C., to see Columbia’s president, Nemat Shafik, testify before a House Education and the Workforce Committee hearing on unchecked antisemitism at Columbia. After Saturday night’s widespread antisemitic harassment on campus, several Jewish Columbia students said they felt afraid for their safety for the first time. “We condemn these statements in the strongest terms,” Bates added. President Joe Biden, in his annual Passover greeting to the Jewish community, also alluded to the antisemitism at Columbia University.

‘Rivers in the sky’ have drenched California, yet even more extreme rains are possible

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In Utah, Salt Lake City and other municipalities are trying to make up for PacifiCorp’s shortcomings by purchasing clean energy directly. He also emphasized that the cooperative is beginning to invest in solar farms with battery storage — with more to come if the co-op can secure grants under President Biden’s climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act. The L.A. Department of Water and Power is working to convert the coal-fired Intermountain Power Plant outside Delta, Utah, to a mix of gas and clean-burning hydrogen, with the goal of eventually burning 100% hydrogen. The utility companies Portland General Electric and Puget Sound Energy are under state orders to end direct coal purchases in the next few years. In August 2020, a major heat event fueled by the climate crisis forced some of the state’s first rotating power outages in decades, as the ongoing transition to green energy lagged behind demand.

He confirmed the National Hurricane Center has no plans to introduce a Category 6, primarily because it is already trying “to not emphasize the scale very much,” Brennan said. Los Angeles is one of the few U.S. population centers targeting 100% clean power by 2035, in line with Biden’s goal for the nation as a whole — one that scientists have concluded is challenging but achievable. Then you can use your voice as a shareholder to urge executives to take climate seriously. The nonprofit As You Sow, for instance, works with shareholders to advocate for climate action.

And for more climate and environment news, follow @Sammy_Roth on X. For Hines, California is Exhibit A for the dangers of moving too quickly toward renewable energy. Parts of the state experienced brief rolling blackouts during a severe heat storm in August 2020, followed by a series of near-misses two years later.

One erroneous claim is that a Bill Gates-backed effort to release mosquitoes was tied to malaria cases in Florida and Texas. Reputable outlets debunked the conspiracy theory, pointing out that Gates’ foundation didn’t fund the Florida project and that the type of mosquito released (Aedes) does not transmit malaria. The West Valley district, which covers six cities in San Bernardino County, rolled out the first program of this kind in California last year. Next month, a vector district covering a large swath of Los Angeles County will launch its own pilot, followed by Orange County in the near future. Other districts are considering using the sterile insect technique, as the method is known, or watching early adopters closely.

Tucson Electric Power says it intends to stop operating one of those units in 2027 and another in 2032. The Colorado-based cooperative Tri-State Generation and Transmission announced in December it would cease operations at its own Springerville coal unit in 2031. And even if your life is as clean as it gets — solar panels on the roof, battery in the garage, electric vehicle, induction stove, no plastic containers, compost bin — every ton of coal burned in Montana and Utah and Wyoming poses a threat to you too. Over the last two decades, 21 coal-fired power plants have shut down across the Western U.S. “But I’m going to go back because I need to be there for my fellow Jewish students, who are like family to me now.” Lederman left campus on Sunday to spend Passover in Florida — a trip that was planned long before the unrest that unfolded last week.

San Bernardino, a bastion of warehouses and semi-trucks serving movement of the region’s goods, had nearly six months of unhealthy smog days — by far more than any other county in the nation. Southern California has had issues with smog since the mass adoption of the automobile. The region’s numerous cars and trucks release a vast amount of vehicle exhaust, which forms smog when it’s cooked in the perennially sunny climate. The mountain ranges restrict airflow and prevent the pollution from dispersing. Peak Aedes season is months away, typically August to October in the district, and Birhanie said that’s the point. The goal is to force down the numbers to prevent an itchy tsunami later.

“We returned Wednesday night to see the encampment, which was terrifying,” he said, referring to the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment”— a demonstration in which protesters occupied the space on the university’s South Lawn for 30 hours. On Thursday, 108 people were arrested and issued summonses for trespass — including Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) daughter, Isra Hirsi. Noah Lederman, a freshman studying philosophy and pre-law, has signed an open letter with dozens of other students requesting to take Zoom classes as a safety precaution.

It’s why conservatives have opposed every effort to expand voting rights from the Jim Crow era, through fighting woman’s suffrage, to opposing voting rights legislation from 1965 to this day. After documenting Comer's endless "pratfalls" where his witnesses and purported "evidence" fell apart within days if not hours, Waldman explained "despite the best efforts of the House GOP’s worst people, the investigation did not find any corruption." "Ranch life means sometimes you have to do some really unpleasant things. It does not mean you have to handle them the way Noem did, let alone boast about it," X commenter Jody Dean observed. It was once inhabited primarily by another invasive mosquito that prefers colder, mountainous climates. Construction and deforestation in the area has literally paved the way for its humidity- and heat-loving brethren to move in.

PacifiCorp plans to ditch coal at Wyoming’s Naughton plant by 2026. That’s why it’s so important for Californians — and Oregonians and Washingtonians, and everyone who cares about the climate crisis — to think beyond the ambitious goals that their state lawmakers may have set, important as those goals are. Even if your state or power company claims to be moving 100% clean energy, some of your electricity may still come from lumps of coal. But the Western grid is a sprawling, interconnected maze of generators and wires.

And other Southern California cities will use hydrogen to store renewable energy. In 2022, coal supplied just over 15% of electricity on the Western Interconnection, the power grid spanning most of the American West and parts of western Canada and northern Mexico. And even though there’s just one coal plant left in a West Coast state — Washington’s Centralia plant, which is slated to close in 2025 — several coastal population centers still buy power from faraway coal generators. Those metros include Los Angeles, Portland and the Puget Sound region, as I reported this month.