Image by mohd izzuan via iStock.After several years of legislative attempts to expand menopause care – including a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed last year – California has enacted new requirements to expand treatment, educate patients and providers and change how health plans decide on menopause care.
Big City Mayors Mayor Patricia Lock Dawson, Matt Mahan, Karen Bass, Larry Agran, Daniel Lurie, Jerry Dyer, Rex Richardson. Photo courtesy of Big City Mayors coalition. Mayors from several of California’s largest cities gathered on Wednesday for the Capitol Weekly Big City Mayors Forum to discuss some of the state’s most pressing challenges, including homelessness, housing affordability, economic development, regulatory reform and the evolving relationship between local governments and Sacramento.
Single staircase apartment building. Image by Cebas. Numerous fire departments expressed opposition to relaxing building codes in a California Fire Marshal report, published Monday, that examines the safety of multifamily-unit buildings three or more stories tall.
Image by Khanchit Khirisutchalual. OPINION – Pavement created many problems for Los Angeles, damaging ecosystems and neighborhoods. But removing it where it no longer serves a purpose offers a rare chance to ease several pressures at once.
Image by tiero. Once the global center of film production, California – and Los Angeles in particular – has seen a long steady decline in the number of films and TV shows shot there. The reasons are many, including an ongoing affordability crisis that industry workers say has made it harder to produce film and TV in the place that built the business.
Image by Wirestock. OPINION – The past year has made one thing painfully clear: we know what must change to prevent future megafires, and the time to act is now.
Image by lortie. OPINION – Just a few miles from downtown Los Angeles, the Sterigenics sterilization facility in Vernon poses a silent threat to surrounding communities. The plant uses ethylene oxide (EtO), a toxic gas classified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a known human carcinogen, to sterilize medical equipment. Yet, many residents are not aware of the dangers of what they’ve been breathing for years.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath. Photo from her Facebook profileLast November Los Angeles County voters narrowly approved Measure G, a massive reform to county governance that will eventually expand the Board from its current five members – each representing around 2 million people – to nine, along with a mayor-like county executive position. Many details are yet to be worked out, but the changes promise to be some of the most significant in California’s largest city in over a century.
Image by Peshkova. OPINION – California’s immigrant communities face countless challenges, from housing insecurity to limited access to healthcare. Yet one growing problem remains under the radar, despite its profound implications for safety and democracy, transnational repression.
Image by Alexander SikovOPINION – L.A. County’s juvenile justice system is in crisis. With the system buckling under its own weight, Attorney General Rob Bonta has taken the historically unprecedented step of asking the courts to place the juvenile division into receivership.