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“Even if the street were entirely empty, of course, you couldn’t be sure of a safe crossing, for a car could appear suddenly over the rise four blocks further on and be on and past you before you had taken a dozen breaths,” Ray Bradbury wrote in his 1953 novel “Fahrenheit 451,” describing a dystopia […]

To the editor: The editorial encouraging Congress to open the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site in Nevada employs “out of sight, out of mind” reasoning. While pointing out the inherent fallibility of even the best storage containers for spent nuclear fuel, the editorial advocates trusting in the… Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times

To the editor: This op-ed article by Nik Karalis and James Sanders gushes over the possibility of housing for 750,000 new inhabitants in Los Angeles if changes in transportation require fewer parking lots. It ignores the possibility that land for housing will not be L.A.’s major problem in the… Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times

If there was evidence in the possession of the prosecution team in this case that the lead accuser told a witness that the sexual contact she had with Weinstein was consensual and that evidence was never presented to the grand jury and instead suppressed by the lead detective in the case, that is not merely […]

But the idea, once again, has drawn the ire of small businesses located next to the proposed loading zone, who say the buses will cause traffic jams and bring tourists who would rather gawk than shop, milling around, talking loudly and cheapening the image of a town where the median home price is a whopping […]

DWP’s energy managers thought then, as they do now, that there was no way to shut down the gas plants without sacrificing reliability. But at the urging of environmental groups, the utility hired a team of consultants, led by the Australian engineering firm WorleyParsons, to study whether Scattergood, Haynes and Harbor could be replaced with […]