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Acting with uncommon dispatch, the L.A. City Council passed an ordinance providing a million dollars in relief funds, promising complete restoration and compensation for everyone materially affected by the flood. The council also authorized the formation of a Joint Restoration Committee, consisting of both a delegation of city representatives and a

And not just exposed to risk—exposed generally. The Angeleno, like their freeway vehicle, had a hardened shell, one guy said, but it was thin and easy to ding. Without an accomplished career, a pretty partner to show off, what might a person claim? To be a somebody without a something in Los Angeles meant you were a nobody—that’s what these people

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Possibly knowing that the end was near, he spent more time now on philanthropy.

in April 2019, “There’s something that is truly Californian about the wilderness and the wild and pioneering spirit.” And so, every taxpaying Californian was asked, realizing it or not, to finance the protection of homes built in places where fire was sure to burn.

The press, the instrument best equipped to investigate the situation and come up with independent facts and figures, never made any such investigation. It buried or ignored the recreation reports of the United Parents Association and the grand jury and the resolutions passed by the Negro community organizations, and reprinted only the barest handfu

1. Set a time limit:

Sometimes, when I really hated Los Angeles, I thought the actress was right. All the suffering and concrete added up to zero or less, as Bret Easton Ellis would have it—a sun-blasted nothing, a brainless amoeba with vital forces seeping in and out of the body public in some dysfunctional communion.

As an industry, Hollywood requires few raw materials besides flesh, and so, when tens of thousands of citizens in a densely packed region sacrifice their mental health and bone density to a business so unruly and determined by luck, where no one knows the lay and nearly every venture fails, it makes sense that the city-state is littered with medium