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Trump’s Carbon
big rally capture
doubles approved
down on in Kern
hatred County
The New York event Supervisors OK first
showcases a party project in state to
that’s lost all pretense store greenhouse gas
of wanting democracy. emissions in oil field.
By Tony Briscoe
ANITA CHABRIA
Kern County has signed
Donald off on an oil company’s plan
Trump’s to permanently store green-
rally Sunday house gas emissions under-
at Madison ground in a depleted oil field,
Square marking California’s first
Garden foray into carbon storage
should go and a potential new role for
down in Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times oil and gas companies.
history as a FIRST BASEMAN Dan Kwong of the Li’l Tokio Giants fields a pickoff throw as a Lodi baserunner dives back The Kern County Board
seminal event of the 2024 to base. Kwong, who helped restore the field and organize the game, called Manzanar “a monument to failure.” of Supervisors voted unani-
campaign, a valedictory of mously to approve Califor-
hate, racism and misogyny nia Resources Corp.’s plan

Remembering baseball
that has become the entire- to capture up to 48 million
ty of his campaign and of the metric tons of carbon diox-
MAGA movement, and a ide and inject the gas one
terrifying symbol of where mile underground into the
our politics are headed. Elk Hills oil field, about 25

behind barbed wire

It represented his closing miles west of downtown
statement and is the clear- Bakersfield.
est symbol of the choice After about two years of
facing voters. environmental reviews, the
Trump didn’t return to vote was the final regulatory
New York City to ask for any hurdle for the state’s first
remaining undecided votes.
He wasn’t even there to lay
out a vision for his second
In the age of Ohtani, two amateur teams take the field carbon capture and storage
project — an approach that
has been described as an es-
term, except for mass de-
portations.
for an exhibition at the former Manzanar prison camp, sential component of Cali-
fornia’s ambitious climate
Trump’s speech was a
show of power — a message
that the MAGA movement
where their Japanese American ancestors played plans.
In California, there are
about a dozen other carbon
is strong and united, if not storage proposals that seek
entirely coherent, in a vision By Jack Dolan to collectively squirrel away
of America that does not millions of tons of carbon
welcome diversity or equal- emissions in old oil and gas
ity in any sphere. This was a As millions cheered Shohei fields in exchange for gov-
celebratory speech not for Ohtani’s debut in the World Series ernment tax credits. All of
victory in the election, but at Dodger Stadium, a couple of them would be in the Central
for his complete and unde- dozen ballplayers of Japanese de- Valley.
niable triumph over unity scent gathered last weekend on a “This is really a water-
and truth — a harbinger of dusty field 200 miles north. shed, historic, milestone
what will come whether he A small crowd of friends and moment in Kern County,”
wins or loses the presidency. family watched as amateur teams Supervisor Leticia Perez
Because this base will from Los Angeles and Lodi trotted said before the vote. “Be-
not be gracious with a win, onto a recently reconstructed dia- cause Kern County contin-
and almost certainly less so mond to commemorate a time ues to exhibit the pieces ...
with a defeat. when every single one of them necessary to be on the cut-
“For the past nine years, would have been caged behind ting edge of any industry
we have been fighting barbed wire. whatsoever.”
against the most sinister The field was at Manzanar, one The project is part of Cal-
and corrupt forces on of 10 camps where more than ifornia Resources’ broader
[See Chabria, A10] 120,000 Japanese Americans — the “carbon management” busi-
vast majority U.S. citizens born ness model that seeks to
and raised in this country — were lower the carbon footprint of
Incendiary rally imprisoned during World War II. industrial operations such
“Manzanar is a monument to as cement and power plants.
for Trump in N.Y. failure,” said Dan Kwong, 69, who “It is the first time we’re
The campaign event at helped restore the field, organized Francis Stewart War Relocation Authority [See Carbon, A7]
Madison Square Garden the game and played first base for MISAO SUGIMOTO, left, and Rose Maruki of the Chick-a-dee
was marked by racist [See Manzanar, A7] softball team play an intrasquad game at Manzanar in May 1942.
commentary. NATION, A4
World Series
Game 3 coverage
Read about Monday
night’s Dodgers-

Four campaign promises from Harris and Yankees result at

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Trump and their chances for success Series Extra at

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enewspaper.

By Hailey Branson-Potts This goo is not

allowed Oct. 31
Since 2004, it has been
Democrat’s loftiest vows, including Ex-president’s tax and immigration illegal to deploy Silly
String in public in
on guns, would need Congress’ OK plans called costly and dangerous Hollywood on Hallow-
een. CALIFORNIA, B1
As she runs the most truncated New homes and help for As he runs his third campaign Ending taxes on Will tax credit
presidential campaign in modern as the Republican presidential no-
American history, Vice President
making a down payment
minee, Donald Trump has kept up
Social Security benefits save Hollywood?
Kamala Harris has made lofty The promise: Amid a national a dizzying schedule of rallies, news The promise: Trump has said Insiders say expansion
promises on issues that polls show shortage of affordable housing, conferences, public appearances he plans to eliminate income taxes is a good start, but that
voters care most about: the econo- Harris has called for the construc- and media interviews. on Social Security benefits, calling more is needed to lure
my, abortion, gun policy and immi- tion of 3 million new homes over His meandering public them a “cruel double taxation” of productions back to
gration. four years, arguing that doing so speeches have, in recent months, retirees. the state. BUSINESS, A6
Since President Biden dropped would help satisfy demand and re- grown longer, more tangential, and Trump — who also has pledged
out of the race in July, Harris has duce costs. darker in tone. to exempt tips and overtime pay Weather
tried to lay out her policy propos- This would be achieved, her In those many public appear- from taxation — began floating the Sunny.
als, walking a fine line in embracing campaign says, by offering new and ances — and on his Truth Social ac- idea of eliminating taxes on Social L.A. Basin: 74/52. B6
the work she has done as part of expanded tax incentives for build- count — Trump has made a raft of Security during rallies and on his
ers of starter homes and affordable Truth Social account this summer. For the latest news,
the Biden administration and campaign promises, on issues in-
housing, by cutting red tape and The 2024 Republican Party go to [Link].
making the case that she would do cluding the economy, immigration
more than both her current boss streamlining permitting processes and the amount of water that flows platform says, “President Trump Printed with soy inks on
and former President Trump to that slow construction, and by through California. has made absolutely clear that he partially recycled paper.
improve people’s lives and liveli- making “certain federal lands eligi- Here is a look at some of will not cut one penny from Medi-
hoods. ble to be repurposed for new hous- Trump’s campaign promises and care or Social Security.” But it does
Here is a look at some of Harris’ ing developments that families can their chances for success if he is not include his pledge to exempt
campaign promises and their afford.” elected. Social Security benefits from
chances for success if she is elected. [See Harris, A10] [See Trump, A5]

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In Trump country, unlikely Democrat battles on

woman in person for the
After a major upset first time at a Rotary Club
luncheon in Vancouver. As
win in 2022, this he spoke, a steady rain
lawmaker has no plans pattered on the promenade
facing Portland, just across
to lose in a rematch. the Columbia River.
“I can’t help but think
that a significant amount of
MARK Z. BARABAK her stances are genuine and
possibly some are because
AMBOY, she needs to represent her
Wash. — Two district,” said Marshack, 75,
years ago, a retired family law attorney.
one of the “That’s OK, given the op-
nation’s tions I have ... I can’t stand
biggest her opponent.”
political
upsets took ::
place here
amid the radiant greenery The words “Trump” and
of the Pacific Northwest. A “Harris” never pass Glue-
new mom, the 34-year-old senkamp Perez’s lips, if she
owner of an auto repair can possibly manage.
shop, made a run for Con- But in this ferociously
gress with zero help from inflamed political season,
national Democrats and discussion of the fight for
nabbed a seat Republicans the White House is unavoid-
had held for more than a able. Drawn in, Glue-
decade. senkamp Perez appears less
Now that seat is central than sure-footed, pausing
to the fight for control of the and carefully choosing her
House. words, as though verbally
The incumbent, Marie picking her way through a
Gluesenkamp Perez, is minefield — which she is.
among the least likely In Longview, the dis-
Democrats you’ll find in trict’s second-largest city
Congress. (population not quite
She trashes the Biden 40,000), she spoke to a
administration’s record on friendly audience of about
immigration and won’t 50 residents gathered in a
endorse Kamala Harris for curtained-off section of
president. She resides down another bar and grill. Sev-
a gravel road in a house she eral wanted to know her
and her husband built. She Mark Z. Barabak Los Angeles Times thoughts about the two
exalts those who work with REP. MARIE Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington state, one of the few rural Democrats left in Congress, fre- presidential antagonists.
their hands — plumbers, quently bucks her party and won’t endorse Kamala Harris. She’s staked her campaign on local issues. One woman asked what
mechanics, electricians — she should say to Trump-
and belittles the highbrows match appears to be a toss- “Yes, this is amazing,” and wondering if any had the manufacturer. supporting neighbors who
who populate Washington, up at a time control of the the congresswoman agreed. ever turned a wrench. Why she asked, should fail, she suggested, to realize
speaking the put-upon House may come down to Gluesenkamp Perez was “It’s wild to me to see tax-deferred 529 savings how he’ll hurt their interests
language of people ignored just a handful of seats. born and raised in Texas, these D.C. staffer bros in accounts only pay for col- if elected. Gluesenkamp
or disdained because of “A bunch of people who but her family has deep bow ties making decisions,” lege tuition, books and Perez’s roundabout re-
where they live or how they didn’t vote in 2022 in the roots in Washington state, she said, calling for national such? “We needs a tax code sponse — about respecting
labor. midterm will be voting this going back generations on codification of abortion that honors the trades,” she people who do manual
“It makes my skin time around,” said Mark her mother’s side. (Glue- rights to nullify the said, allowing write-offs for labor, building community
crawl,” she told a small Stephan, who teaches politi- senkamp Perez’s great- Supreme Court’s Dobbs the kinds of equipment used — petered out in a small
gathering at a strip-mall cal science at Washington great-grandfather helped decision. “They don’t know by loggers, plumbers and sigh. “It’s a wild political
bar and grill, “when I hear a State University in Vancou- quarry the stone used to what the f—.” Her voice electricians. climate,” she said.
politician get up there and ver, population roughly build the state Capitol.) She trailed off, the crowd at In Washington, Glue- A man wondered what
they say, ‘My dad was just a 200,000, which is the closest spent childhood summers another saloon stop erupt- senkamp Perez has had no the congresswoman
janitor. I’m the first person thing the district has to a with family in Bellingham, ing in laughter at her indec- compunction separating thought of Harris’ proposal
in my family to go to col- large city. “Enough that it playing in the woods and orous F-bomb. herself from her party. A for a $25,000 tax credit for
lege.’ What does that sound could go either direction.” developing an abiding love vote study by CQ Roll Call first-time home-buyers.
like to everyone else in the of nature. :: found her the second-most Another winding answer
room who didn’t go to col- :: There are no political likely House Democrat to followed — about affordabil-
lege?” reds or blues in the forest, Gluesenkamp Perez’s break ranks. ity, regulations, building her
(Her degree in econo- With the campaign head- she tells audiences. Republican opponent, Joe She backed a resolution own home, the virtues of
mics from Portland’s presti- ing into the homestretch, Gluesenkamp Perez’s Kent, is trying to nationalize rebuking Harris for her role shop class — before Glue-
gious Reed College goes Gluesenkamp Perez re- father, an immigrant from the race, turning the contest in the administration’s senkamp Perez finally ex-
unmentioned.) cently embarked on an RV Mexico, pastored in an into a ratification of Trump, border policy and was one of pressed concern the propos-
Still, Gluesenkamp tour of the 3rd Congres- evangelical church in Hous- his pugnacious personality just four Democrats sup- al could merely end up
Perez’s willingness to buck sional District, down twist- ton. When Perez stopped and belligerent policies. porting a defense bill that boosting housing costs.
her party and her fluency in ing two-lane roads, past going to services, her par- She’s trying to rise above would have limited abortion The refusal to embrace
grievance politics are the farmland and forests ents stopped paying for party labels — even as na- access, transgender care Harris in a district the
reason she stands a chance daubed with red, yellow and college, so she worked three tional Democrats and their and diversity training for Democrat seems destined
in this southwest corner of orange. Her husband, Dean, jobs to pay her way through allies pour millions into her military personnel. She to lose is hardly surprising.
Washington state, in a the couple’s 3-year-old son, Reed. One was in a factory campaign — and focus on opposes an assault-weap- “What I say is not going to
district that twice voted for Ciro, and their German making iPhone cases. the whys and wherefores of ons ban — though Glue- change anyone’s vote in my
Donald Trump and will shepherd, Uma Furman, As she bids for reelec- the 3rd District. senkamp Perez would raise community,” she said as she
surely do so again Nov. 5. came along for the ride. tion, Gluesenkamp Perez’s The congressional seat the age for purchasing one prepared to roll to her next
She’s one of the few rural Six days, 20 stops, many main sales pitch is her blue- can’t be surrendered to “a from 18 to 21 — and was one stop.
Democrats left in Congress in wide spots with just a few collar self. political hack,” she told a of just two House Demo- At least not in the presi-
and one of just five House thousand residents. It’s in Someone who appreci- few score at a roadhouse crats to oppose a student- dential race. But it could
Democrats seeking reelec- those rural reaches the ates hard labor and thrills to grill in Amboy, done up with debt relief plan proposed by make a big difference in her
tion in pro-Trump districts. campaign will be decided. the sight of heavy machin- cobwebs and skeletons for the Biden administration. coin-flip race for reelection.
All are endangered species. At the end of Day One, ery. Who scrounged to build Halloween. “We have got to The latter drew a flood of Gluesenkamp Perez may
Her Republican oppo- after visiting two small her home and start a small have a seat that’s based on scathing reviews of the be a freshman member of
nent, whom Gluesenkamp taverns for “Pints with business, struggled to meet local issues ... not something family’s auto repair shop — Congress — and an improb-
Perez barely defeated two Perez” events, it was time a payroll and was forced to that’s imported from a think “Worst car care Ive been to,” able one, at that. But she’s
years ago, is an unrecon- for some family fun. So the deal with clueless bureau- tank or political action one Yelp reviewer wrote no political naif.
structed MAGA warrior, RV beelined to a chainsaw crats. In short, someone committee, but here. Us. We online — in a purposeful
who hangs with the Proud museum in Amboy, where who shares her constitu- are the solution.” left-wing campaign of retri-
Boys and white nationalists the couple spent nearly an ents’ skepticism toward big Her platform is all practi- bution. Much of the trolling
and parrots Trump’s hour browsing the floor-to- government and antipathy cality: making farm loans came from outside the
blather about a stolen 2020 ceiling display, eyes wide for far-off Washington, D.C. more accessible; better district.
election and Jan. 6 martyrs. with delight. Recounting an oversight insulating mobile homes to At home, Democrats like
He moved to the district “This is super cool,” hearing on Capitol Hill, save energy; giving people Howard Marshack are more Columnist Mark Z. Barabak
less than a year before exulted Dean, an auto me- Gluesenkamp Perez de- the right to choose where to understanding. joins candidates for various
launching his candidacy. chanic who does the repair scribes looking over the repair broken appliances “She isn’t as liberal as I offices as they hit the
But given the district’s work at the family-run witnesses with their fusty and the like, rather than am,” said Marshack, who campaign trail in this
Republican lean, the re- garage. manner and fancy pedigrees having to ship them back to was seeing his congress- momentous election year.

Comedian’s insult motivates Bad Bunny to boost Harris

through Puerto Rico in 2017. who made a joke in poor Hinchcliffe defended his On Sunday, Harris trav-
Rapper responds after Trump drew criticism when taste,” Leavitt said. “Obvi- remarks after the rally, eled to Freddy and Tony’s
he visited the island to sur- ously that joke does not re- mocking vice presidential Restaurant, a casual family-
speaker at Trump rally vey the damage and tossed flect the views of President nominee Tim Walz’s criti- style Puerto Rican eatery in
calls Puerto Rico an paper towels into a crowd, a Trump or our campaign. cism of his Puerto Rican Philadelphia, to tout her
gesture many viewed as in- And I think it is sad that the comments in a video with “opportunity economy task
‘island of garbage.’ sensitive. media will pick up on one Rep. Alexandria Ocasio- force for Puerto Rico.” The
“He abandoned the is- joke that was made by a co- Cortez (D-N.Y.). plan involves modernizing
By Jenny Jarvie land, tried to block aid after median rather than the “These people have no the island’s energy grid, low-
back-to-back devastating truths that were shared by sense of humor,” Hinchcliffe ering housing costs and pro-
Puerto Rican rapper Bad hurricanes and offered noth- the phenomenal list of wrote on X. “Wild that a vice moting economic opportu-
Bunny signaled his support ing more than paper towels speakers that we had.” presidential candidate nity.
for Vice President Kamala and insults,” Harris said. Leading Latino members would take time out of his “It’s about giving people
Harris on Sunday, sharing a Comedian Tony Hinch- of Congress on Monday re- ‘busy schedule’ to analyze a access to opportunity, know-
video clip of Harris’ plans for cliffe drew outrage Sunday buked Hinchcliffe’s remarks joke taken out of context to ing that the people in all
the island moments after a when he made disparaging at Trump’s rally. make it seem racist.” communities — in our com-
speaker at a Trump rally comments about Puerto “Hateful rhetoric has Adding that he loved Jordan Strauss Invision via AP munity — they want, yes, a
called Puerto Rico “a float- Rico at Trump’s rally in real-world consequences,” Puerto Rico and vacationed BAD BUNNY posted job, but they want to be able
ing island of garbage.” Madison Square Garden. Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán there, Hinchcliffe said he video of Kamala Harris’ to build wealth,” Harris told
“There is so much at “I don’t know if you know (D-San Pedro), the chair of made fun of everyone. plans for Puerto Rico. the crowd. “They want to be
stake in this election for this, but there’s literally a the Congressional Hispanic “Watch the whole set,” he able to build intergenera-
Puerto Rican voters and floating island of garbage in Caucus, said in a statement. wrote. her 250 million Instagram tional wealth, home owner-
Puerto Rico,” Harris says in the middle of the ocean right “When political leaders, in- Other Puerto Rican stars followers, along with stars, a ship, small business
a video that Bad Bunny, now,” Hinchcliffe said. “I fluencers, and those with a who have previously ex- clapping emoji and the growth.”
whose real name is Benito think it’s called Puerto large social platform choose pressed support for Harris, Puerto Rican flag. Harris condemned
Antonio Martínez Ocasio, Rico.” language that dehumanizes including singer-songwriter Sunday’s controversy at Trump’s rally as “fanning
shared to his 45 million fol- Hinchcliffe also drew on communities, families get and actor Ricky Martin and Madison Square Garden the fuel of division in the
lowers on Instagram. racist stereotypes in his hurt, and hate crimes rise.” singer and actor Jennifer came as Democrats and Re- country.” Asked about the
“I will never forget what speech. “These Latinos,” he She added: “The shame- Lopez, doubled down on publicans compete for Puerto Rico comments
Donald Trump did and what said, “they love making ba- ful rhetoric displayed by their support. Puerto Rican votes in piv- Monday morning, Harris
he did not do when Puerto bies.” Donald Trump and his allies “This is what they think otal battleground states. said according to pool re-
Rico needed a caring and a On Monday, Trump at Madison Square Garden of us,” Ricky Martin wrote in Pennsylvania is home to ports: “It’s more of the same
competent leader,” Harris spokeswoman Karoline — where Puerto Ricans, mi- a post to his 18 million follow- about half a million Puerto and maybe more vivid than
also said in the video, refer- Leavitt downplayed the grants, and Democratic ers on Instagram: Vote for Ricans and Philadelphia has usual.”
ring to then-President Puerto Rico comment on leaders were openly vilified @kamalaharris.” the second-largest stateside “That’s why people are
Trump’s response after Hur- “Fox & Friends.” — is not only divisive but Lopez also shared the Puerto Rican population af- exhausted with him,” Harris
ricane Maria barreled “Look, it was a comedian dangerous.” Harris video on Sunday to ter New York City. said.
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THE WORLD

Iranian German who

lived in the L.A. area
is executed by Iran
father.
Jamshid Sharmahd, 69, She “stood up against the
Islamic Republic’s tyranny,
was kidnapped in against the U.S. and Germa-
2020 and convicted ny’s appeasement, against
the silence and indifference
of terrorism charges. of the world.” Alinejad wrote
on the social platform X.
associated press
Germany expelled two
Iranian diplomats in 2023
DUBAI — Iranian Ger- over Sharmahd’s death sen-
man prisoner Jamshid tence. The U.S. State De-
Sharmahd, who was kid- partment has referred to
napped in Dubai in 2020 by Iran’s treatment of
Iranian security forces, has Sharmahd as “reprehensi-
been executed in Iran after ble” and described him as
being convicted on terror- facing a “sham trial.”
ism charges disputed by his The German govern-
family, the country’s judici- ment and the U.S. State De-
ary reported Monday. partment did not immedi-
Sharmahd, 69, was one of ately respond to a request
several Iranian dissidents for comment Monday.
abroad in recent years either Amnesty International
Hassan Eslaiah Associated Press tricked or kidnapped back said the proceedings against
AN AID WORKER prepares to distribute supplies this month in the Gaza Strip. Israeli lawmakers passed to Iran as Tehran began Sharmahd were a “grossly
two measures Monday severely restricting the work of the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, or UNRWA. lashing out after the collapse unfair trial” because he had
of its 2015 nuclear deal with been denied access to an in-
world powers. dependent lawyer and “the

Israeli lawmakers vote to restrict Sharmahd’s execution

comes just two days after Is-
rael launched a retaliatory
strike against Iran amid the
right to defend himself.”
However, Amnesty noted
that Sharmahd ran a web-
site for the Kingdom Assem-

U.N. agency providing Gaza aid ongoing Mideast wars. While

not directly linking his exe-
cution to the attack, the ju-
diciary accused him of being
bly of Iran and its Tondar
militant wing that included
claims of “responsibility for
explosions inside Iran,”
“under orders from masters though he repeatedly denied
aid agency for Hamas.” Death toll in Gaza 250 others. The war has in Western intelligence agen- being involved in the at-
By Melanie Lidman The first vote passed 92- roiled the Middle East, set- cies, the United States and tacks.
and Samy Magdy surpasses 43,000
10 and followed a fiery debate ting off fighting between Is- the child-killing Zionist re- Sharmahd had been tar-
between supporters of the With no end in sight to rael and Hezbollah as well as gime” when allegedly carry- geted by Iran before his kid-
JERUSALEM — Israeli law and its opponents, the war, officials in Gaza re- between Israel and Iran, ing out attacks in Iran. napping. A 2010 U.S. diplo-
lawmakers passed two laws mostly members of Arab ported Monday that the archenemies who had long The judiciary’s Mizan matic cable released by
on Monday that could parliamentary parties. The death toll from the yearlong kept their conflict a shadow news agency reported his ex- WikiLeaks identified
threaten the work of the second law was approved fighting surpassed 43,000. war but are now engaging in ecution took place Monday Sharmahd as having been
main U.N. agency providing 87-9. The Palestinian Health Min- open fighting. morning, without offering targeted by Iran in Califor-
aid to people in Gaza by bar- Yuli Edelstein, a law- istry’s count does not distin- In Lebanon, successive details. Iran, one of the nia, with an operative trying
ring it from operating on Is- maker who chaired commit- guish between civilians and Israeli airstrikes have pum- world’s top executioners, to hire a hit man to kill him.
raeli soil, severing ties with it tee discussions about the combatants but it says more meled the southern port city typically hangs condemned “It marks a clear escala-
and deeming it a terrorist or- bills, said during the debate than half of the dead are of Tyre following an evacua- prisoners before sunrise. tion in the regime’s attempts
ganization. that the laws were not meant women and children. tion order from the Israeli Iran accused Sharmahd, to intimidate critics outside
The laws, which do not to affect what he said was Is- The rising death toll military for parts of the city, who lived in Glendora, of its borders, and could have a
immediately go into effect, rael’s commitment to ensur- comes as Israel refocuses its the state-run National News planning a 2008 attack on a chilling effect on journalists,
signal a new low for a long- ing humanitarian aid offensive on Gaza’s hard-hit Agency reported Monday. mosque that killed 14 people academics and others in the
troubled relationship be- reaches Gaza. But it was not north, including on a hospi- No casualties were immedi- and wounded more than 200 West who until recently felt
tween Israel and the United clear how that would look tal from which the military ately reported. others, as well as plotting little physical threat from
Nations. Israel’s interna- once these bills take effect. says militants were op- other assaults through the the regime,” the cable read.
tional allies said they were Together, the laws would erating. little-known Kingdom As- Sharmahd had been in
Mediators renew
deeply worried about its po- effectively sever ties with the Israeli forces raided the sembly of Iran and its Ton- Dubai in 2020 on his way to
tential impact on Palestin- U.N. agency, strip it of legal Kamal Adwan Hospital in cease-fire efforts dar militant wing. India for a business deal for
ians as the war’s humanitar- immunities and restrict its northern Gaza on Friday. An After previous talks col- Iran also accused his software company. He
ian toll is worsening. ability to support Palestin- Israeli military official, lapsed in late summer, inter- Sharmahd of “disclosing hoped to get a connecting
Under the first law, the ians in East Jerusalem and speaking Monday on condi- national mediators were try- classified information” on flight despite the coronavi-
U.N. agency for Palestinian the West Bank. The legisla- tion of anonymity in keeping ing to jump-start cease-fire missile sites of Iran’s para- rus pandemic disrupting
refugees, or UNRWA, would tion does not include provi- with regulations, said there efforts between Israel and military Revolutionary global travel.
be banned from conducting sions for alternative organi- was heavy fighting around Hamas. Israel said it would Guard during a television Sharmahd’s family re-
“any activity” or providing zations to oversee its work. the hospital, though not in- continue discussions on a program in 2017. ceived the last message from
any service inside Israel, The changes would also side it, and that weapons halt in fighting after the “Without a doubt, the di- him July 28, 2020. It’s unclear
while the second would be a serious blow to the were found inside the facil- head of the Mossad agency, vine promise regarding the how the abduction hap-
sever diplomatic ties with it. agency and to Palestinians ity. The military said Mon- David Barnea, returned supporters of terrorism will pened. But tracking data
The legislation risks collaps- in Gaza. More than 1.9 mil- day that the raid had ended. from a meeting in Qatar with be fulfilled, and this is a defi- showed Sharmahd’s mobile
ing the already fragile proc- lion Palestinians are dis- Israel has raided several the head of the CIA, William nite promise,” the judiciary phone traveled south from
ess for distributing aid in placed from their homes and hospitals in Gaza over the Burns, and the Qatari prime said in announcing his exe- Dubai to the city of Al Ain on
Gaza at a moment when Is- Gaza faces widespread course of the yearlong war, minister. cution. Sharmahd was sen- July 29, crossing the border
rael is under increased U.S. shortages of food, water and saying Hamas and other Mediators are trying tenced to death in 2023. into Oman. On July 30,
pressure to ramp up aid. medicine. militants use them for mili- varying proposals to try to His family disputed the tracking data showed the
Israel has alleged that International aid groups tary purposes. Palestinian bring Israel and Hamas allegations and had worked phone traveled to the Omani
some of UNRWA’s thou- and a handful of Israel’s medical officials deny those toward a deal. Egyptian for years to see him freed. port city of Sohar, where the
sands of staff members par- Western allies, including the allegations and accuse the President Abdel Fattah Sisi They could not be immedi- signal stopped. Two days
ticipated in the Hamas at- U.S., have voiced strong op- military of recklessly endan- has suggested a two-day ately reached for comment. later, Iran announced that it
tacks last year that sparked position. gering civilians. cease-fire in exchange for Masih Alinejad, an Irani- had captured Sharmahd in a
the war in Gaza. It also has U.S. State Department The Israeli military has the release of four hostages. an American activist who “complex operation.” A 2022
said hundreds of UNRWA spokesperson Matthew called on Palestinians to Israel appeared respon- U.S. prosecutors say Iran finding by the U.N. expert
staff have militant ties and Miller, speaking to reporters evacuate northern Gaza, sive to the idea. One Israeli has tried to kill in the U.S., found that his detention was
that it has found Hamas mil- in Washington, said the ad- where it has been waging a official said Israel was dis- praised Sharmahd’s daugh- “arbitrary” and asked
itary assets near or under ministration was “deeply large offensive for more than cussing the proposal both ter Gazelle’s activism for her Tehran to release him.
the agency’s facilities. concerned” by the legisla- three weeks. The official said internally and with Egyptian
The agency fired nine em- tion. “There’s nobody that the operation in the north- officials. A second official
ployees after an investiga- can replace them right now ern Gaza city of Jabaliya said that Israeli Prime Min-
tion but denies it knowingly in the middle of the crisis,” would last “several more ister Benjamin Netanyahu
aids armed groups and says he said. weeks.” expressed enthusiasm for
it acts quickly to purge any UNRWA — whose full The U.N. said earlier this the proposal in a meeting
suspected militants from its name is United Nations Re- month that at least 400,000 with his Likud Party on
ranks. Some of Israel’s alle- lief and Works Agency for people are in northern Gaza, Monday.
gations prompted major in- Palestine Refugees in the an area that was an early tar- Hamas has yet to for-
ternational donors to cut Near East — provides educa- get of Israel’s retaliatory mally respond to the plan.
funding to the agency, al- tion, healthcare and other war. Hunger there is ramp-
though some of it has been basic services to millions of ant as the amount of human- Lidman and Magdy write
restored. Palestinian refugees across itarian aid reaching the for the Associated Press.
“The law that we passed the region, including in the north has plummeted over Magdy reported from Cairo.
now is not just another bill. It Israeli-occupied West Bank. the last month. AP writers Matthew Lee in
is a call for justice and a “It’s a disaster,” said Ju- The Israel-Hamas war Washington, Michelle
wake-up call,” said law- liette Touma, communica- began after militants from Chapman in New York, and
maker Boaz Bismuth, who tions director for the agency. Hamas and other groups Julia Frankel and Tia
co-sponsored one of the “UNRWA is the largest hu- stormed into Israel, killing Goldenberg in Jerusalem, Koosha Mahshid Falahi Associated Press
bills. “UNRWA is not an aid manitarian organization in some 1,200 people — mostly contributed to this JAMSHID Sharmahd, who lived in Glendora, attends
agency for refugees. It is an Gaza. ... Who can do its job?” civilians — and abducting report. his trial in a Tehran courtroom in February 2022.

About 10,000 North Korean troops in Russia, U.S. says

legitimate targets and that deployed in the Kursk bor- Indo-Pacific region, includ- in Russia. village of Tsukuryne — the
associated press
their use would have serious der region, where Russia has ing Japan and Australia, Lavrov claimed that latest settlement to suc-
implications for security in been struggling to push back Western officials say. Western military instructors cumb to the slow-moving
BRUSSELS — North Ko- the Indo-Pacific as well. a Ukrainian incursion. Russian President Vladi- already have been covertly Russian onslaught.
rea has sent about 10,000 Austin is meeting with “Today, I can confirm mir Putin is keen to reshape deployed to Ukraine to help Rutte spoke in Brussels
troops to Russia to train and his South Korea counter- that North Korean troops global power dynamics. He its military use long-range after a high-level South Ko-
fight in Ukraine within “the parts later this week at the have been sent to Russia, sought to build a counter- weapons provided by West- rean delegation, including
next several weeks,” Penta- Pentagon, where the use of and that North Korean mili- balance to Western influ- ern partners. top intelligence and military
gon spokeswoman Sabrina the North Korean soldiers in tary units have been de- ence with a summit of “Western military per- officials as well as senior di-
Singh said Monday. Ukraine is expected to be ployed to the Kursk region,” BRICS countries, including sonnel long have been work- plomats, briefed the alli-
Singh said some of those discussed. Singh said there NATO Secretary-General the leaders of China and In- ing in Ukraine,” Lavrov said ance’s 32 national ambas-
soldiers have already moved would not be limitations on Mark Rutte told reporters. dia, in Russia last week. He after a meeting with the Ku- sadors at the North Atlantic
closer to Ukraine. the use of U.S.-provided Rutte said the move rep- has sought direct help for waiti foreign minister in Treaty Organiztion’s head-
“We are increasingly con- weapons on those forces. resents “a significant escala- the war from Iran, which has Moscow. quarters.
cerned that Russia intends “If we see DPRK troops tion” in North Korea’s in- supplied drones, and North Ukraine, whose defenses The South Koreans
to use these soldiers in com- moving in towards the front volvement in the conflict Korea, which has shipped are under severe Russian showed no evidence of North
bat or to support combat op- lines, they are co-belliger- and marks “a dangerous ex- large amounts of ammuni- pressure in its eastern Korean troops in Kursk, ac-
erations against Ukrainian ents in the war,” Singh said, pansion of Russia’s war.” tion, according to Western Donetsk region, could get cording to European offi-
forces in Russia’s Kursk” re- using the initials of the Adding thousands of governments. more bleak news from next cials who were present for
gion, she told reporters. Democratic People’s Re- North Korean soldiers to Eu- Russia’s Foreign Min- week’s U.S. election. A Don- the 90-minute exchange and
Singh said Defense Sec- public of Korea, or North Ko- rope’s biggest conflict since ister Sergei Lavrov shrugged ald Trump victory could see spoke to the Associated
retary Lloyd J. Austin III has rea. “This is a calculation World War II will pile more off Rutte’s comments and key U.S. military help dwin- Press about the security
already publicly cautioned that North Korea has to pressure on Ukraine’s weary noted that Pyongyang and dle. briefing on condition of ano-
that should North Korea’s make.” and overstretched army. It Moscow signed a joint secu- In Moscow, the Defense nymity.
soldiers be used on the Earlier Monday, NATO will also stoke geopolitical rity pact last June. He Ministry announced Mon- It’s unclear how NATO
battlefield, they would be said some of the North Kore- tensions in the Korean stopped short of confirming day that Russian troops allies might respond to the
considered belligerents and an troops have already been peninsula and the wider North Korean soldiers were have captured the Donetsk North Korean involvement.
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THE NATION

Trump rally in N.Y. marked by racist comments

who worked closely with him cans consider Manhattan
Former president and in the White House and have enemy territory, the scene
since spoken out about his outside the arena was civil.
his allies rail against leadership and demeanor — Donna Ingrassia, who
Harris. A comedian retired Marine Corps Gen. lives in the Republican
James N. Mattis, who served stronghold of Suffolk
insults Puerto Ricans. as Trump’s Defense secre- County, N.Y., was handing
tary, and retired Army Gen. out placards that read “New
By Seema Mehta Mark A. Milley, who served York Is Trump Country” to
and Stephen Battaglio as his chairman of the Joint people waiting to enter the
Chiefs of Staff. He described arena.
NEW YORK — Days be- them as “weak” and “stupid” Miles Burton and Joe
fore the November election, days after retired Marine Burrow, both 18, asked her,
when presidential candi- Gen. John F. Kelly, Trump’s “Can we have one that says
dates typically barnstorm longest-serving White 34 felony counts?”
battleground states, former House chief of staff, warned “That’s according to the
President Trump delivered that Trump would govern Democrat DOJ,” Ingrassia
a fiery, bombastic closing ar- like a dictator if elected in said.
gument that summed up November. “That’s according to the
years of grievances against Trump spoke after a long law,” Burton replied.
his perceived enemies, in- list of acolytes during the Ingrassia asked, “So, you
cluding Democratic rival rally, which lasted about six don’t like Trump?”
Kamala Harris, at a rally at hours and included a num- They told her they were
Madison Square Garden in ber of racist comments. voting for Harris.
New York on Sunday. Comedian Tony Hinch- “All right,” Ingrassia said.
Trump repeated attacks cliffe made disparaging Alex Brandon Associated Press “That’s good. I hope you will
on Harris’ intellect, calling comments about Puerto DONALD TRUMP and his wife, Melania, address the crowd at Madison Square find a way to buy a home one
her a “very-low-IQ individu- Rico, a U.S. territory. Garden. Kamala Harris’ campaign described the event as “fully off the rails.” day.”
al” and “a vessel” who “can’t “I don’t know if you know But she shook their
put two sentences together” this, but there’s literally a she’s just so impressive as Trump announced his White voted for a Democrat for hands and said she was
during remarks that lasted floating island of garbage in the first Samoan Malaysian House bid. Trump’s cam- president in 1976, and pleased to learn that they
well over an hour. the middle of the ocean right low-IQ former California paign billed Sunday’s ap- Trump is comfortably lead- were both registered to vote.
“She is grossly incompe- now. I think it’s called Puerto prosecutor ever to be elected pearance as a marquee ing in all presidential polling “This is America,” she
tent,” he told about 20,000 Rico,” he said. president.” (Harris’ parents event in the closing days of in the state. However, as the said. “We have freedom of
people in the packed historic Earlier, as Harris visited are of Jamaican and Indian the campaign. state’s demographics and choice, free speech. The fact
arena. “She’s unfit for office. a Puerto Rican restaurant in descent.) The long list of introduc- politics are evolving, incum- you want to go to Kamala is
Everyone knows it. No one Philadelphia, she spoke David Rem, a childhood tory speakers included Ohio bent GOP Sen. Ted Cruz ap- your choice.”
respects her, no one trusts about her newly announced friend of Trump’s, called Sen. JD Vance, Trump’s run- pears to be facing a tougher On Sunday, Harris barn-
her, no one takes her seri- plan to improve living condi- Harris “the devil” and “the ning mate; sons Eric Trump challenge than expected stormed Philadelphia, the
ously. ... On issue after issue, tions on the Caribbean is- anti-Christ.” and Donald Jr.; daughter-in- from Democratic Rep. Colin largest city in the critical
Kamala broke it, but I will fix land, including modernizing Former First Lady Mela- law Lara Trump, who is the Allred, a former professional state of Pennsylvania. As
it.” its energy grid, lowering the nia Trump, who has rarely co-chair of the Republican football player. part of Democrats’ “Souls to
Harris’ campaign de- cost of housing and promot- appeared on the campaign National Committee; House “We cannot let Texas flip the Polls” effort, Harris
scribed the event as “fully off ing economic opportunity trail and broke with her hus- Speaker Mike Johnson of blue,” Cruz said in an spoke at a traditionally
the rails” before Trump and healthcare access. The band over abortion rights in Louisiana; SpaceX and X emailed fundraising appeal Black church in West Phila-
spoke. plan was promoted on social her recently published Chief Executive Elon Musk, on Saturday. “Texas is in delphia.
“That is no surprise, un- media by well-known enter- memoir, made a surprise ap- and former New York City jeopardy.” “We were born for a time
fortunately, if you have been tainers of Puerto Rican de- pearance. While she did not Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Harris has an even such as this,” Harris told pa-
watching Trump for the past scent, including Bad Bunny, speak about why her hus- who was disbarred after his stronger lead over Trump in rishioners at the Church of
few weeks. Trump has re- Jennifer Lopez and Ricky band should be elected, she attempts to overturn the polls of her home state of Christian Compassion as
peatedly trashed America, Martin. focused on the city where 2020 election and recently California, where the former they rose to their feet. “In
called his fellow Americans The Trump campaign she met him when she was ordered to turn over assets president rallied supporters this moment, we do face a
‘the enemy from within,’ and later sought to distance it- working as a model. to two Georgia election in the Coachella Valley this real question: What kind of
even said he’d use the mili- self from Hinchcliffe’s re- “New York City and workers who successfully month. country do we want to live
tary against them,” Harris’ marks, according to the America needs its magic sued him for defamation. While California and New in? A country of chaos, fear
campaign said in a state- Washington Post. Cam- back,” she said, calling it the Talk show host Phil Mc- York are overwhelmingly and hate, or a country of
ment. paign advisor Danielle Alva- “future that we deserve.” Graw spoke immediately af- Democratic, because of freedom, justice and com-
In foreboding remarks rez said in a statement, The Garden is the type of ter professional wrestler their size, they are home to passion?”
reminiscent of his 2017 inau- “This joke does not reflect venue that suits Trump, a Hulk Hogan, who wore his millions of Republican vot- Later she talked to local
guration speech, Trump de- the views of President New York City native who signature bandanna over his ers. leaders and Black men — a
scribed a nation in dire Trump or the campaign,” reveled in his reputation as highlighter yellow hair, sun- The former president re- voting bloc that some
straits, overrun by crimi- the Post reported. the consummate Big Apple glasses and a muscle shirt. portedly wants to increase Democrats worry Harris is
nals, and also warned of har- Later, conservative me- billionaire businessman and “The last thing [Trump] his share of the popular vote, underperforming with — at
rowing consequences if he dia personality Tucker Carl- sought-after bachelor, long needs is some celebrity en- a goal that New Jersey union Philly Cuts, a nearby barber
loses. son mocked the idea of before he ran for office. dorsement,” said McGraw, plumber Bob Giusti de- shop. She also held a rally at
He also lashed out at for- Trump critics touting a Har- “The king of New York is host of “Dr. Phil.” “What the scribed as strategically a youth basketball center in
mer top military advisors ris win next week “because back in the city that he hell do I know?” savvy even if Trump’s the northwest part of the
built!” his eldest son, Donald As Vance spoke about chances of turning New York city.
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Trump’s plans on taxes called ‘unsound’

[Trump, from A1] liver more water to Califor-
taxes. nia farmers — particularly
What Trump has said: those in the Republican-
“Our seniors have been dev- leaning, drought-prone Cen-
astated by inflation. We’re tral Valley — and to South-
gonna have no tax on Social ern California cities like Los
Security for our seniors. If Angeles, by pressuring Gov.
any senior doesn’t vote for Gavin Newsom to change
Trump, we’re gonna have to how the state manages its
send you to a psychiatrist to limited water supply, most of
have your head examined,” which comes from Northern
Trump said in Mint Hill, California.
N.C., last month. Speaking at his Rancho
The reality: About 40% Palos Verdes golf club in
of people who receive Social September, Trump indi-
Security benefits have to pay cated he would revive his
federal income taxes on first-term fight with Califor-
them, according to the So- nia leaders over water
cial Security Administra- allocations and environ-
tion. Revenue from those mental laws meant to pro-
taxes helps to shore up the tect endangered fish like the
Social Security and Medi- tiny delta smelt. He said the
care trust funds, which are state has plenty of water but
dwindling. lets millions of gallons flow
Tax and policy analysts into the Pacific Ocean in-
from across the political stead of diverting it to far-
spectrum have lambasted mers and Angelenos.
Trump’s plan, saying it The former president
would make an already mas- said he would “revert water
sive federal deficit even up into the hills where you
larger and that it would ac- have all the dead forests,
celerate the insolvency of where the forests are so brit-
the trust funds. tle” in order to prevent wild-
The Tax Foundation, a fires. He threatened to with-
conservative-leaning think hold federal firefighting aid
tank, called Trump’s pitch Adam Gray Bloomberg via Getty Images for California unless New-
“unsound and fiscally FORMER President Trump, shown at a rally in New York on Sunday, called tariffs “music to my ears.” Econo- som agreed to “sign those
irresponsible,” saying it mists, though, say enacting tariffs at the rate Trump wants would amount to a hefty tax on U.S. consumers. papers” — an apparent ref-
would increase the budget erence to water policy, al-
deficit by $1.6 trillion over 10 tariffs are the equivalent of a try illegally. He says he come back into our country, tion Act, none of this mat- though he did not specify
years. tax hike, with American con- would use the National they will be told it is an auto- ters,” said Joseph Nunn, a which papers.
Changes to the tax code sumers paying the price for Guard and local police offi- matic 10-year sentence in jail national security expert What Trump has said:
require congressional ap- more expensive goods. cers to carry out the remov- with no possibility of parole. with the nonpartisan Bren- “Vote for me, California. I’m
proval. The Peterson Institute als, which, he has said, would And I’m hereby calling for nan Center for Justice at the going to give you safety, I’m
for International Econo- be “starting at noon on Inau- the death penalty for any mi- New York University School going to give you a great bor-
mics, a nonpartisan think guration Day 2025.” grant that kills an American of Law. der, and I’m going to give you
Seeking a huge
tank, projected that if The former president’s citizen or a law enforcement The Insurrection Act, more water than almost any-
increase in tariffs Trump were to enact a 20% chief immigration advisor, officer. With your vote, we originally enacted in 1792, body has. And the farmers
The promise: Trump, across-the-board tariff Stephen Miller, has said that will achieve complete and to- “gives the president essen- up north are going to be able
who calls himself the “tariff along with a 60% tariff on if an “unfriendly state” like tal victory over these sadis- tially unlimited discretion to to use 100% of their land, not
man,” has floated tariffs of China, it would cost a mid- California does not cooper- tic monsters,” Trump said in use the military as a domes- 1% of their land.
10% to 20% on all products dle-income household ate, then Trump could order Aurora, Colo., this month. tic police force,” Nunn said. “And the water’s going to
imported into the U.S. from roughly $2,600 a year. Senate Guard units from red states The reality: In regard to “The president’s decision come all the way down to Los
overseas, and a tariff of 60% Republican Leader Mitch like Texas to cross their bor- mass deportations, policy to invoke the Insurrection Angeles, and you’re going to
or more on China. He has McConnell said in Septem- ders to carry out deporta- experts and immigration Act is not subject to judicial have more water than you
vowed to match other coun- ber that he’s “not a fan of tar- tions. advocates have said it would review,” Nunn said. “Essen- ever saw. And the smelt is
tries’ levies on American iffs” because “they raise the Trump has not ruled out be extraordinarily difficult, tially, an ‘insurrection’ is not making it anyway,”
goods, saying: “If they prices for American con- creating detention camps to expensive and time-con- whatever the president says Trump said at a news
charge us, we charge them — sumers.” hold people awaiting depor- suming to track down mil- is an insurrection.” conference in Rancho Palos
an eye for an eye, a tariff for a Congress has the author- tation but said the removals lions of people, deploy the If Trump were to invoke Verdes on Sept. 13.
tariff, same exact amount.” ity to enact tariffs, but in re- would be so fast that there military and law enforce- the Insurrection Act and de- The reality: As presi-
Trump has argued that cent decades, it has dele- would not be much need for ment to carry out raids, clare that the National dent, Trump worked to relax
other countries are ripping gated considerable power to them. Miller, though, has transport migrants, and Guard was needed to en- environmental regulations
off the U.S. and that higher presidents to impose tariffs said such camps — “large- fight court challenges. force federal immigration that limited the flow of water
tariffs would “launch an without congressional ap- scale staging grounds near Legal scholars say law, he could, for example, to Central Valley farmers,
economic boom,” revive proval if certain statutory the border, most likely in Trump’s promise of mass send Texas troops into Cali- and his administration was
American manufacturing, conditions are met — such Texas” — are part of deportations — cost and lo- fornia over the almost cer- sued by then-California
and lessen the country’s de- as a threat to national secu- Trump’s plan. gistical challenges notwith- tain objections of Demo- Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra for
pendence on China. rity or harm to domestic in- Trump has claimed with- standing — should be taken cratic Gov. Gavin Newsom allegedly failing to protect
The former president in dustries, said Monica Mor- out citing a source that more seriously because Trump and likely pushback from endangered fish.
September also threatened lacco, an assistant professor than 21 million people are liv- and his acolytes are citing the military. In a second term, Trump
to slap a 200% tariff on John of economics at USC. ing in the country without le- archaic federal laws that Whether the deporta- would face major legal
Deere imports if the farm In 2018, the Trump ad- gal authorization. The U.S. would give him broad au- tions themselves are lawful pushback from state Demo-
equipment manufacturer ministration imposed sig- Department of Homeland thority to carry out his plans. and whether it is legal to use crats and environmental ad-
follows through on plans to nificant tariffs on thousands Security, in a report citing Trump has said he would the military to carry them vocates if he again gets in-
move some production to of products — including the latest available data invoke the Alien Enemies out, Nunn noted, are sepa- volved in the state’s long-
Mexico. washing machines, solar published in April, esti- Act of 1798 to expel nonciti- rate legal questions. running, increasingly parti-
What Trump has said: panels, steel and aluminum mated there were about 11 zens who are suspected gang Cost estimates vary, but san water wars.
“The word tariff, properly — from various countries, million as of January 2022. members, drug dealers or conservative estimates put California’s famously
used, is a beautiful word. notably China, Canada, Trump says he would cartel members without due the price tag of mass depor- complex water system is
One of the most beautiful Mexico, and countries first deport criminals and process. The law allows for tations at well over $100 bil- controlled and financed by a
words I’ve ever heard. It’s within the European Union. that doing so would be a the arrest, detention and re- lion. variety of systems at the lo-
music to my ears. A lot of bad Many affected countries re- “bloody story.” moval of people from coun- The economic impacts cal, state and federal levels.
people didn’t like that word, sponded with retaliatory What Trump has said: tries or governments with would be huge. In California, Rather than being able to
but now they’re finding out I tariffs on U.S. exports, “They came from prisons which the U.S. is at war — or an estimated 1.5 million literally divert water to an in-
was right. And we will take in sparking a costly trade war. and jails; they came from from countries that have en- workers — 7% of the state’s tended source — like a farm
hundreds of billions of dol- It is likely that Trump mental institutions and in- gaged in or have threatened labor force — are undocu- or a “brittle” forest — a presi-
lars into our treasury and would indeed enact high tar- sane asylums. They’re ter- an invasion or “predatory in- mented, according to the dent can try to influence wa-
use that money to benefit iffs in a second term, and rorists, they’re criminal cursion.” Pew Research Center. The ter allocations more indi-
the American citizens. And that he would try to justify street gangs, they’re MS-13. Under normal circum- Institute on Taxation and rectly, like appointing like-
it will not cause inflation, by them by claiming there is We took millions of people stances, the Posse Comita- Economic Policy, a left-lean- minded people to federal
the way,” Trump said in a unfair competition from like this into our country, tus Act of 1878 bars the U.S. ing think tank, found that agencies to weaken endan-
speech in Savannah, Ga., abroad and that he is pro- and we’re going to get them military — including Na- undocumented workers gered species laws that af-
last month. tecting U.S. industries, Mor- out, and we’re going to get tional Guard troops called paid $96.7 billion in taxes in fect flow, said Sonja Petek,
“A tariff is a tax on a for- lacco said. them out fast,” Trump said into federal service — from 2022, including $8.5 billion in an analyst for the nonparti-
eign country. That’s the way in Mint Hill, N.C., in Septem- taking part in domestic law California. san California Legislative
it is, whether you like it or ber. enforcement. And, typically, Analyst’s Office who focuses
Threatening
not. A lot of people like to “We will send elite squads one state’s National Guard on water and wildlife policy.
mass deportations More water for
say, ‘Oh, it’s a tax on us.’ No, of ICE, Border Patrol and troops that have not been “The president’s control
no, no. It’s a tax on a foreign The promise: Trump has federal law enforcement offi- federalized cannot be de- Californians over water allocations in
country,” Trump said in a proposed the “biggest do- cers to hunt down, arrest ployed by their governor into The promise: Trump has California would be fairly
speech in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., mestic deportation cam- and deport every last illegal another, nonconsenting vowed to bring “water in Cal- limited,” Petek said. “The
in August. paign in American history” alien gang member until state. ifornia at a level that you’ve president doesn’t have a say
The reality: Economists to remove millions of immi- there is not a single one left But “as soon as the presi- never seen before.” over who gets water and how
overwhelmingly say that grants who are in the coun- in this country. And if they dent invokes the Insurrec- Trump said he would de- much water they would get.”

Philadelphia seeks to block

Musk’s $1-million giveaways
criminal action. both Vice President Kamala
City’s district attorney “The Philadelphia Dis- Harris and Trump have
trict Attorney is charged made numerous recent vis-
files lawsuit alleging with protecting the public its to Pennsylvania, includ-
billionaire’s America from public nuisances and ing Trump’s photo op at a
unfair trade practices, in- suburban Philadelphia
PAC is running an cluding illegal lotteries. The McDonald’s and Harris’
illegal lottery. DA is also charged with pro- Sunday visit in the city that
tecting the public from inter- included stops at a church
ference with the integrity of and a barbershop.
associated press
elections,” Krasner’s office Musk’s giveaway re-
said in a statement pub- quires entrants to sign a pe-
The district attorney of lished on its website. tition backing the 1st and
Philadelphia has filed a law- A spokesperson for the 2nd amendments of the
suit to halt Elon Musk’s billionaire tech mogul’s Constitution and calls for
$1-million giveaways as part America PAC, emailed for them to serve as spokes-
of his political organization’s comment on the lawsuit and people for the organization
effort boosting Donald asked whether the cash as a condition of winning.
Trump’s presidential cam- awards would continue, re- The awards have carried
paign. sponded with a link to an X on after election law experts
The suit by Democratic post, which showed the lat- raised questions that it vio- Julia Demaree Nikhinson Associated Press
Dist. Atty. Larry Krasner is est $1-million winner holding lates federal law barring ELON MUSK, seen at a Trump rally Sunday, is offering $1 million every day until
the first legal action to be an oversize check. anyone from paying a per- Nov. 5 to a person in a swing state who signs a petition backing the Constitution.
brought over the America Krasner’s office didn’t son to vote or register to
PAC’s sweepstakes offering immediately respond to vote. In his statement an- directly apply to the other much of the get-out-the-
$1 million every day until questions about the lawsuit, The issue, they say, is nouncing the lawsuit, Kras- swing states whose resi- vote effort for Trump
Nov. 5 to a person in a battle- including whether it com- that winning the award re- ner characterized the $1-mil- dents are eligible for the $1 through his super PAC,
ground state who has signed pels Musk to immediately quires contestants to be reg- lion prize as a “lottery,” million. which can raise and spend
a petition supporting the stop the giveaway or istered to vote in one of a which would make it more Musk, who founded unlimited sums of money.
Constitution. whether the dispute can handful of battleground heavily regulated than if SpaceX and Tesla and owns He has committed more
Krasner’s office said the be resolved before election states. Musk has cast the it were a prize or work-re- X, has gone all in on Trump than $70 million to the super
lawsuit, coming just over a day. money as both a prize as well lated. this election, saying he PAC to help Trump and
week before election day, Reflecting the state’s im- as earnings for work as a Brought in Pennsylvania thinks civilization is at stake other Republicans win in
doesn’t preclude potential portance in the election, spokesperson for the group. court, Krasner’s suit doesn’t if he loses. He is undertaking November.
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BUSINESS
Will raising tax credit save Hollywood? Testing
By Christi Carras,
says beef
Samantha Masunaga
and Stacy Perman patties
Amid mounting pressure
from Hollywood to bring
production and entertain-
are free
ment jobs back to California,
Gov. Gavin Newsom un-
veiled plans Sunday to sig-
of E. coli
nificantly raise the annual
cap on the state’s film and
TV tax incentive program. By Clara Harter
During a news confer-
ence held at Hollywood’s McDonald’s Quarter
Raleigh Studios and at- Pounders are back on the
tended by Los Angeles May- menu in hundreds of restau-
or Karen Bass, as well as sev- rants after new testing con-
eral entertainment union of- firmed that the chain’s beef
ficials, Newsom declared his patties were not to blame for
intent to increase the yearly a deadly E. coli outbreak,
limit to $750 million from strengthening the case that
$330 million. California onions served on
Pending legislative ap- the burgers were the culprit.
proval, that number would Salinas, Calif.-based pro-
surpass all other capped duce company Taylor Farms
film and TV tax credit pro- was the onion supplier in all
grams around the country. restaurant locations con-
But will it be enough to pre- nected to the outbreak, and
vent film and TV shoots the fast-food chain has in-
from fleeing the state, re- definitely halted business
store the entertainment job Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times with it, McDonald’s has con-
market and solve Califor- MANY in the industry say the proposed expansion of the state’s film and TV tax credit is a step in the right firmed. Over the weekend,
nia’s worsening production direction. Others fear it won’t be enough to bring productions back. Above, the Paramount lot in Hollywood. McDonald’s received test re-
crisis? sults from the Colorado De-
Many in the industry wel- such as New York, Georgia, other countries are giving as leader in film, television and program has more limita- partment of Agriculture
comed the announcement Mexico and the United King- much as 40%,” Bilson said. streaming production.” tions on qualifying expenses that found no traces of E.
as a significant move in the dom — that offer more gen- “But it is very competi- Others were more skepti- — excluding big-ticket items coli in samples of their bur-
right direction, while ac- erous tax incentives. tive given it’s in California, cal. such as star and director sal- ger patties.
knowledging that there is The governor’s office said which has the greatest infra- Newsom’s proposed in- aries — and is more compli- On Sunday, McDonald’s
more work to be done. Sunday that 71% of projects structure and crews in the crease to the California film cated. Add to that the lower executive Cesar Piña issued
“It’s a start,” said Lind- excluded from California’s world.” and TV tax credit was “long, labor costs in other states, a statement to reassure the
say Dougherty, principal of- film and TV tax credit pro- This year, Bass ap- long overdue,” said Jody Si- and “I don’t think it’s going public that all of its products
ficer of Teamsters Local 399, gram have opted to shoot pointed an entertainment mon, a partner at law firm to have an impact, at least were now safe to eat.
which represents studio elsewhere. industry task force to ad- Fox Rothschild. for the independents,” he “The issue appears to be
drivers, location workers Newsom “needed to dress the challenges Holly- Although an expanded said. contained to a particular in-
and other Hollywood crew make this announcement wood is facing. cap may bring some produc- Kayla Kitson, a senior gredient and geography,”
members. now,” said Kevin Klowden, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, tion back, other states have policy expert at the Califor- said Piña, the company’s
“For California to be com- executive director of the chief executive of Gotham gotten a leg up by building nia Budget and Policy Cen- chief supply chain officer for
petitive with these other Milken finance institute. Group and the mayor’s task competing hubs with experi- ter, expressed concerns that North America. “We remain
countries, we might need “The morale and the im- force’s chair, said she is glad enced crews and studio fa- greater state funding for the very confident that any con-
more money down the road. pacts are very real and ... if the state is “moving towards cilities. film and TV tax credit pro- taminated product related
But this is ... good news in a the governor didn’t make an ... putting people back to “Some of the intrinsic ad- gram could result in less aid to this outbreak has been re-
very bad time in a for our announcement in advance work and creating opportu- vantages of L.A. have been for vulnerable groups, such moved from our supply
members that are not work- of the budget cycle, there nities for young people.” eviscerated,” he said. “I be- as people experiencing chain and is out of all
ing and haven’t been work- would be an incredible level Newsom’s proposal will lieve there’s still an underly- homelessness and food inse- McDonald’s restaurants.”
ing for quite some time.” of uncertainty,” Klowden probably help increase some ing preference to shooting in curity. Since the outbreak was
Rebecca Rhine, western said. of the production that has L.A., so hopefully this brings “When the state has announced a week ago, at
executive director of the Di- Runaway production has dropped off in California in more production back.” budget shortfalls, we often least 75 people have been
rectors Guild of America, had an adverse effect on en- recent years, said Vanessa Vince Gervasi, president see safety net programs ... on confirmed infected in 13
agreed that raising the limit tertainment workers, as well Roman, partner at Akin of Santa Clarita-based the chopping block,” Kitson states, 22 have been hospi-
“may not be the entire solu- as ancillary businesses, such Gump Strauss Hauer & Triscenic Production Serv- said. talized, and one has died in
tion, but it is a very, very im- as prop houses and caterers, Feld, who advises clients in ices, called the proposed tax If the Legislature ap- Colorado, according to the
portant first step.” that depend on Hollywood the entertainment industry. incentives “a drop in the proves, the lid on California’s Centers for Disease Control
Newsom and other to survive. Especially smaller inde- hat.” film and TV tax credit pro- and Prevention.
elected officials have faced Gregg Bilson, whose pendent producers. “It sounds like a lot of gram could be raised to At least 26 people were
growing calls to expand Cali- Sunland-based ISS Props Under California’s cur- money when you say it’s $750 million as soon as July. infected in Colorado, 13 in
fornia’s film and TV tax cred- has served the industry for rent tax credit cap, a handful $400 million more, but in the “We hope that the legisla- Montana, 11 in Nebraska, five
it program as local produc- three generations, called the of productions could get ap- big picture, it’s nothing like tors see the urgency in what each in New Mexico and
tion has struggled to re- governor’s proposed rebate proved early in the year and what Georgia is giving out,” the governor is trying to ac- Utah, four each in Missouri
bound in the wake of last “a great step as it more than take up most of the credits. said Gervasi, who added complish,” said Thom Davis, and Wyoming, two in Michi-
year’s strikes by Hollywood doubles our current incen- “It was used up pretty that he is struggling to keep president of the California gan and one each in Iowa,
writers and actors. tive,” but also recognized quickly,” she said. “When it his set and scenery storage IATSE Council. (IATSE is Kansas, Oregon, Wisconsin
While the entertainment that it still doesn’t put the comes to tax credits, more is business afloat. “It’s a nice the union representing Hol- and Washington, the CDC
industry at large has been state on par with some other always better.” gesture, but a little too late.” lywood crew members.) reported Friday.
hurting amid a widespread regions. Motion Picture Assn. The higher cap is “a big “Especially those in the Most people reported
industry contraction, Cali- “Is it enough to be com- Chief Executive Charles yawn for” independent pro- L.A., San Francisco, San Di- eating a Quarter Pounder
fornia has been hit particu- petitive with other parts of Rivkin said Newsom’s pro- ductions, said Sky Moore, a ego areas where this is a very before becoming ill, and the
larly hard. Productions are the world? No, and it never posal indicated the gover- partner at law firm Green- important industry to not Food and Drug Administra-
increasingly flocking to will be when you look at the nor’s “commitment to secur- berg Glusker. only our members, but also tion focused its investiga-
other states and countries — income disparity and that ing California’s future as a California’s tax credit their local economies.” tion on the burger’s beef
patties and slivered onions,
according to the CDC.
Last week, Taylor Farms
voluntarily announced a re-

Yankees beat Dodgers — in battle of brands call on four onion products

“due to potential E. coli con-
tamination.” Several other
fast-food chains have pulled
the company’s onions, in-
ing of Japanese baseball more than a decade ago. cluding Burger King, Taco
By Samantha phenom Shohei Ohtani last Though nonsubscribers Bell, Kentucky Fried
Masunaga year to a 10-year, $700-million were shut out from Dodgers Chicken, Habit Burger &
and Caroline contract ignited fan interest games for years, Spectrum Grill, and Pizza Hut.
Petrow-Cohen around the world, particu- reached a deal in 2020 to The FDA is continuing to
larly in the baseball-ob- broadcast games on Di- investigate the cause of the
The World Series betting sessed market of Japan. recTV and U-Verse. (Other outbreak and has yet to con-
odds might be in the Dod- That energized fan base pay-TV operators, such as firm that Taylor Farm on-
gers’ favor, but when it has translated into tourism Cox, are still excluded.) ions are the source.
comes to the battle of the dollars for Los Angeles, as Having a recognizable The testing over the
brands, the Yankees have a Japanese tourists have de- and valuable brand is a huge weekend by the Colorado
leg up (sorry, Angelenos). scended upon the city — and advantage in the sports Department of Agriculture
The Yankees are the on Little Tokyo — to watch world, Andrews said. ruled out McDonald’s bur-
highest-valued team in Ma- the Dodgers and Ohtani “The bigger the brand, ger patties as a potential
jor League Baseball, with a throughout the season. the more merchandise source. The department
valuation of $7.6 billion, and Small businesses in Little you’re selling and the more tested multiple lots of
its brand is valued at an esti- Tokyo have displayed Dod- Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times money you’re making,” he McDonald’s fresh and frozen
mated $1.2 billion, according gers decorations in their THE PHENOM Shohei Ohtani could help make the said. “If you can do that, it beef patties collected from
to an analysis this year from windows, and blue-clad visi- Dodgers more valuable than the Yankees. gives you that baseline reve- Colorado McDonald’s loca-
Forbes. The Dodgers are the tors, often wearing Ohtani nue to build your business tions associated with the
runner-up, with a $5.5-bil- shirts or jerseys, frequently marketing agency Two Cir- drews, of Northwestern. off of.” outbreak.
lion valuation and $1.1-billion wander the streets. A mas- cles. The 2.3 million new so- The league’s gains have The Yankees generated McDonald’s had stopped
brand. sive mural of Ohtani, cial media followers the been helped by the star $679 million in revenue in distributing Quarter
Underscoring and help- painted by artist Robert Dodgers added this season power of players such as 2023, and the Dodgers raked Pounder beef patties to
ing to drive the Yankees’ Vargas, looms over 1st Street was tops in the league as Ohtani and the Yankees’ in $549 million, according to around 900 restaurants. Fol-
domination on retail shelves on the side of the Miyako Ho- well, Kore figures show. Aaron Judge, as well as addi- Forbes’ calculations. lowing the results of the Col-
and airwaves has been the tel. “The Dodgers really are a tions such as the introduc- This World Series not orado department’s investi-
proliferation of the team’s “In terms of the interna- story of growth,” said Daniel tion of the pitch clock, which only represents a battle be- gation, McDonald’s has
iconic logo in the cultural tionalization ... they are Foltz, corporate partner- has quickened the pace of tween two of the league’s sto- asked its suppliers to pro-
zeitgeist, including Jay-Z’s beating the Yankees right ships strategy and data ana- games. ried and successful fran- duce a new supply of fresh
ball cap and a partnership now in the Japanese market lyst at Kore. “It would have Though media rights chises, but also the nation’s beef patties for the affected
with Gucci. Hollywood fre- through Shohei Ohtani,” been very easy for them to have already been settled for two top media markets — restaurants and will resume
quently gives the franchise said Thilo Kunkel, a profes- sign Shohei, get the gift of these games, viewership L.A. and New York — which selling Quarter Pounders in
free product placement, sor at Temple University’s having the most unique numbers for a matchup like adds to the brand strength the coming week.
putting the white-on-navy school of sport, tourism and player in baseball, and then this could give either team of those franchises, said Bry- The most common E. coli
insignia on characters in hospitality management. just cruise. They have in- more negotiating power for an Harris, founder and chief symptoms include stomach
movies and television shows, The Dodgers are “using in- stead done a great job this future media rights deals, executive of 25 Hits, a mar- cramps and diarrhea, and
furthering its cultural reach. ternational superstars to year of building on it, not let- Kunkel said. keting communications firm they typically start three to
(The Yankees’ logo was in- build their team brand, and ting any of the momentum The Yankees broadcast with sports expertise. four days after ingesting the
spired by an interlocking “N” they’ve certainly done really go to waste.” their regular season games It’s part of how these two bacteria. Most people re-
and “Y” design from well.” There’s history between through their team-owned brands have transcended cover without treatment
Tiffany’s in 1877.) Though the Dodgers are these two teams. The Dod- Yankees Entertainment and the sports sphere and made within a week.
“The Yankees have this bested by the Yankees in to- gers and Yankees have previ- Sports Network, which is the their way into fashion, life- In extreme cases, E. coli
status where they’ve tran- tal number of social media ously met 11 times in the most-watched regional style and pop culture, par- infections can cause hemo-
scended baseball,” said Jim followers (12.9 million to World Series, most recently sports network in the U.S. as ticularly internationally. lytic uremic syndrome, a
Andrews, a Northwestern 17.6 million), L.A.’s fans en- in 1981, when the Dodgers of last year. (Amazon and “The baseball cap is, if condition that damages
University sports marketing gage with the team more on emerged as champions. Sinclair Broadcast Group anything, the American uni- blood vessels in the kidneys.
professor who founded the social media, with the Dod- This year’s matchup pre- have minority stakes in the form,” said John Thorn, the So far, two people have de-
sports marketing consulting gers racking up the most sents a huge opportunity network.) official MLB historian since veloped this complication,
firm A-Mark Partnership likes, shares, reposts, com- not only for the teams to The Dodgers own Sport- 2011. “New York and L.A. according to the CDC.
Strategies. “You see people ments and video views of any boost their brands, but also sNetLA, which is distributed have come to symbolize The last reported infec-
wearing that logo all around team in MLB, according to for Major League Baseball to by Charter Communica- America in distant lands. To tion began on Oct. 10, ac-
the world.” data from business intelli- build on the increased rat- tions (which operates the be a media capital or a cul- cording to the CDC, giving
But don’t count out the gence firm Kore, which was ings and fan interest it has Spectrum brand), as part of tural capital is to become a hope that the worst of the
Dodgers just yet. The sign- recently acquired by global won in recent years, said An- an $8.35-billion deal struck fashion capital.” outbreak is over.
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When baseball was played behind barbed wire

[Manzanar, from A1] “an amazing, miserable job.”
his team, the Li’l Tokio Gi- Most of the labor fell to
ants. His mother and her him; Dave Goto, a staff ar-
family had been incarcer- borist for the National Park
ated at the camp, he said, Service; and a retired con-
and “today, we’re trying to struction manager named
respond to the failure by ed- Chris Siddens from the
ucating people.” nearby town of Independ-
The Manzanar National ence, Kwong said.
Historic Site is easy to miss It was slow, painstaking
while speeding along U.S. work. They’d make some
395 in remote eastern Cali- progress and then come
fornia. It’s tucked away in back later only to find the
the high desert just north of weeds had sprouted again.
Lone Pine, on the back side There was concrete to pour.
of the Sierra Nevada moun- There was a backstop to
tain range. Mt. Williamson, build. There was a chicken-
California’s second-highest wire fence to string.
summit, towers behind it But if it helps bring atten-
and draws the eye skyward. tion to this too easily forgot-
On the ground, amid the ten chapter of American his-
sagebrush and tumble- tory, Kwong said, it will have
weeds, are a few old bar- been worth it.
racks, a weathered wooden “I’m hoping that,
fence strung with barbed through baseball, more of
wire and a wind-battered the country faces this,” he
guard tower. The tiny park- said, “because outside of the
ing lot is almost never full. West Coast, this is very little
It’s the sort of place that’s known.”
easy to miss and most peo- And there has recently
ple wish never existed. Many been a resurgence of politi-
who were imprisoned there, cians in America who seem
and at similar camps scat- perfectly willing to “incar-
tered in out-of-the-way cor- cerate people and put them
ners of the country, spent Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times away based on some iden-
the rest of their lives trying WITH a guard tower a line drive away, Sho Yamada of the Li’l Tokio Giants stretches before Saturday’s game tity, a religion, a faith, a cul-
to erase the memory. at the Manzanar National Historic Site, where Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II. ture,” Kwong said. “So you
Mike Furutani, 56, a pow- could say there are a lot
erfully built former U.S. wasn’t a good idea to ask. she was imprisoned there cember 1941, a tsunami of In February 1942, Presi- of people who still have
Marine and pitcher for the “There’s a certain that her tales were brief and racist propaganda washed dent Franklin Delano not learned from this mis-
Lodi team, said his uncles amount of shame about be- short on detail, based on across the United States. Roosevelt signed the execu- take.”
were incarcerated at the ing put in a prison camp,” other people’s memories. Some American journal- tive order that officials used Kwong hoped the “reso-
Heart Mountain Camp in Furutani said. “Plus, the old “It was such a hard thing ists and politicians couched to pull Japanese Americans nance” between his sparsely
Wyoming. “They never Japanese male thing about to talk about, so it’s hard to their desire to round up and from their homes, force attended amateur game in
talked about it,” he said over internalizing everything keep the story alive,” Kosaka imprison Japanese Ameri- them to sell their property, the desert and what was
the slap of balls striking and never showing emo- said. cans in humanitarian terms: often at a significant loss, happening at Dodger Sta-
leather as players warmed tion.” “It’s easier to speak about to protect them from poten- and imprison them in the dium would help get the
up around him Saturday Yuri Kosaka, 27, sat be- baseball,” she said, gestur- tial mob violence. camps for years without for- message out.
morning. “I believe it was hind the Lodi bench. Her ing to the field, “so this might Others, such as the Pulit- mal charges or trials. Eighty years ago, some-
something they wanted to husband was in left field; her be one way to tell the his- zer Prize-winning conserva- Baseball, the most one named Shohei Ohtani
forget.” brother-in-law was also on tory.” tive columnist Westbrook American of sports, served could never have taken cen-
Furutani said he didn’t the team. She was born and Asked if she thought Pegler, skipped the niceties as a desperately needed di- ter stage in the World Series.
even know there had been raised in Tokyo and had no mass incarceration based and went straight to accus- version. Some camps had up He would have been “hated,
internment camps until he idea Japanese American ci- on ethnicity could happen ing their fellow citizens of be- to 30 teams. As the war feared” and forced to play
went to college. “Back in the vilians had been imprisoned again in America, Kosaka ing enemy saboteurs. dragged on, they were some- behind barbed wire, Kwong
day, they didn’t teach this in during the war until she did not hesitate: “Abso- Many of the Japanese times allowed to travel from said.
high school.” came to the U.S. for college lutely, yes. When people Americans in the U.S. at the one camp to another and “Today, he’s worshiped
After he learned about and met her husband’s fam- stop caring about each time lived in the Golden play against one another. and admired,” Kwong said
the camps, and that his un- ily. other, yeah, I think it could State. Last year, when Kwong with a chuckle. That’s a
cles had been in one, Furu- One of his great-aunts happen in the future.” “The Japanese in Califor- stepped onto the stretch of great thing, and genuine
tani said he wanted to hear was born in a camp, Kosaka Fear and suspicion are, of nia should be under armed desert that had been the site progress from 1944, he said.
their stories. But since said. As an elderly woman, course, common by-prod- guard to the last man and of a baseball diamond at “But I don’t pretend that
they’d remained stoically she told a few stories about ucts of war. After the Japa- woman right now and to hell Manzanar, it was a “solid racism is gone because the
silent on the topic for dec- life behind the barbed wire, nese navy launched its at- with habeas corpus until the ocean of tumbleweeds,” he best player in the world is
ades, he figured it probably but she was so young when tack on Pearl Harbor in De- danger is over,” Pegler wrote. said. Clearing it by hand was Japanese.”

Kern County carbon capture project would be state’s first

[Carbon, from A1] though the migration oc- communities that are al- center ... but we may not ac- decades. said Natalia Ospina, legal di-
bringing this technology to curred deep underground, ready vulnerable and are tually have identified exactly But environmental rector for the Center on
Kern County, but [carbon the U.S. Environmental Pro- underserved,” Navarro said. what kind of retail or other groups worry that the proj- Race, Poverty & the Envi-
capture and storage] has tection Agency issued a vio- “CRC has an unreliable sorts of things go into the ect won’t be effective at its ronment. “Kern must pri-
been done very safely and ef- lation to ethanol producer record.” shopping center yet. This is main goal: reducing carbon oritize other direct emission
fectively for over 50 years Archer-Daniels-Midland for Any CO2 pipelines in an underground warehouse emissions. reduction strategies instead
throughout the world,” said failing to monitor the well as Kern County will be equip- for CO2, and only the first For this project, compa- of CCS. It’s an unproven
Francisco Leon, chief execu- its permit specifies. ped with automatic safety source has been identified nies will need to capture, gamble with a long history of
tive of California Resources. Perhaps the most nota- valves, which are expected and analyzed as appropri- compress and transport worsening air pollution and
“The government of Cali- ble leak occurred in Satartia, to limit leakage in the event ate.” CO2 underground — a proc- threatening public health
fornia talks about CCS as Miss., in 2020 when a CO2 of a rupture. The project comes with ess that requires a lot of en- and safety. Overburdened
absolutely critical in order to pipeline ruptured after The California Resources economic trade-offs. For ergy and potentially could communities in Kern
achieve the energy transi- heavy rains. project in Kern County is ex- safety purposes, the county lead to more emissions. County should not be the
tion. There’s no place better The leak led to the hospi- pected to capture emissions restricted commercial and Environmentalists worry guinea pigs for this technol-
to get this started than in talization of 45 people and from its gas field operations. residential development that carbon capture and ogy.”
Kern County, the capital, the the evacuation of 200 resi- The company has expressed above the roughly 9,000-acre storage could incentivize Before their vote, many of
energy capital of California.” dents. The injection sites interest in partnering with injection zone, which is agri- companies to continue to the Kern County supervi-
The proposal passed de- and pipelines have the high- other operations, including cultural fields and fossil fuel burn fossil fuels with this sors disagreed.
spite persistent objections est risk of possible leaks. a proposed hydrogen plant extraction. equipment rather than “Some of these groups
from environmentalists who Ileana Navarro of the and direct air capture facil- California Resources also switch to zero-emission that are coming down and
argued that storing indus- Central California Environ- ity. will need to cease producing technology. And in some speaking against this proj-
trial carbon emissions mental Justice Network said Although the ultimate oil and plug many of its wells, cases, these projects have ect, they do this all the time,”
underground is unproven California Resources has a source of emissions remains which will produce less tax failed to capture as much Supervisor Phillip Peters
and could endanger nearby history of hazardous spills unclear, the county’s permit revenue. planet-warming carbon said. “They’re throwing stuff
communities if there are from its current oil and gas requires all CO2 storage to To mitigate those finan- emissions as they originally against the wall to see what
leaks. operations. originate inside the county. cial losses, the county intended. sticks. ... I definitely don’t
Last month, a carbon She and others worry “This is analogous to per- adopted annual fees for this “If this project is similarly have all the answers, but
storage project in central that it could be even trickier mitting a shopping center,” acreage and public safety ineffective, it will force the continually coming down
Illinois paused operations with CO2 — an odorless, as- said Lorelei Oviatt, Kern services. county’s front-line commu- and trying to tear apart proj-
after CO2 migrated outside phyxiating gas. County’s director of plan- Kern County officials say nities to bear the burden of ects without bringing any
the injection zone due to a “These risks are higher ning and natural resources. the project will generate ongoing pollution for years solutions forward is just
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PERSONAL NOTE

Reproductive freedom is on the ballot

said he will support a national abortion ban companies worried that their FDA-ap-
A second Trump administration and then he said he won’t. During his debate proved drugs could also be yanked off the
with Vice President Kamala Harris in Sep- market.)
could significantly curb abortion tember, he refused to say whether he would More likely, abortion opponents would
rights across the nation. sign a ban if it came to him from Congress. ramp up their efforts to revive the Comstock
Then in October, during the Vice Presi- Act, a 19th century vice law that prohibited
dential debate, he wrote on Truth Social anything “lewd” from being sent in the mail,
t’s preposterous that Donald that he would veto a ban. So, while a na- including any material for abortion pro-

I Trump has declared that he will be a

“protector” of women. Never has he
been.
During his (hopefully only) admin-
istration, he nominated three antiabortion
judges to the Supreme Court who were in-
strumental in overturning Roe vs. Wade,
tional abortion ban is uncertain under a
Trump administration, it is certain there
would not be a national right to abortion —
something Harris has long fought for. It
would be an uphill climb, requiring at least
60 votes in the Senate to quash a filibuster
before it ever got to a President Harris for
cedures. Biden’s Department of Justice con-
cluded two years ago that this outdated act
doesn’t apply to anything being delivered
for a lawful abortion. But there are already
antiabortion state attorneys general who
have argued the opposite and a Trump Jus-
tice Department could side with them.
MITZI RIVAS, left, hugs her daughter
Maya Iribarren during a protest in San
Francisco following the Supreme Court
Josie Lepe Associated Press

which, for half a century, guaranteed the her signature. But nationwide abortion pro- That decision (if upheld in courts) could decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
constitutional right to abortion. One of his tections would have more of a chance during effectively stop medication abortion across
nominees to the federal bench in Texas tried a Harris presidency than a Trump one. the country, including in states, such as Cal- less the pregnant person is near death. The
to take medication abortion off the market ifornia, where abortion is legal. Pills for Supreme Court kept an injunction in place
in 2023 and almost succeeded. Eliminate medication abortion abortion couldn’t legally be mailed by a blocking that part of the state law but
Since the Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling This is a favored target of abortion oppo- pharmacy to anyone, anywhere, to an indi- kicked the case back to a lower court, leav-
returning the decision on abortion to the nents because it is the most common vidual or a healthcare provider. The Com- ing unsettled what exactly EMTALA re-
states, nearly half enacted abortion bans, method, accounting for 63% of abortions in stock Act could even be used to stop clinics quires in the way of an emergency abortion.
some of which have prevented women from the U.S. last year. Antiabortion doctors from receiving medical instruments they A Trump administration could interpret
getting emergency abortions to save them brought a case arguing, baselessly, that the need for traditional abortions. (Although it EMTALA to cover emergency abortions
from severe health complications or death. U.S. Food and Drug Administration hadn’t would be more difficult to prove that some- only when a person is about to die. Or it
The infant mortality rate rose, particularly studied one of the medications, mifepris- thing was being mailed for an abortion as could decide that EMTALA requires doc-
among babies with severe abnormalities, tone, carefully enough. The Supreme Court opposed to some other medical procedure.) tors treat the unborn fetus as a patient
which researchers say could be the result of threw out the challenge in June ruling that equal to the woman carrying it even as her
women being forced to carry doomed babies the doctors didn’t have legal standing to Emergency care health deteriorates. A federal law that
that will die shortly after birth. bring the case. Currently, the federal Emergency Medi- should protect a pregnant woman could end
If Trump is elected again, expect more of That doesn’t mean another group of doc- cal Treatment and Labor Act — known as up allowing states to reduce her to nothing
the same. Even though state governments tors couldn’t sue. And if Trump becomes EMTALA — requires hospitals that get more than an incubator.
set abortion laws now, a hostile Trump ad- president, why would they bother with the Medicare funding provide abortions when a Abortion access is about healthcare and
ministration could have a significant and trouble of going to court? It’s possible that pregnant person’s health is in serious jeop- agency over a person’s own body. A second
disturbing impact on reproductive freedom. his Secretary of Health and Human Serv- ardy. That doesn’t mean near death. Trump presidency could endanger that
Here are some of the ways: ices could order the FDA to take the medi- The Biden administration sued the state freedom even more than his first already
cation off the market even if the agency’s sci- of Idaho arguing its draconian abortion re- did.
National abortion ban entists had concluded it is safe. (That would striction violated EMTALA because the — Carla Hall is a member of
Trump has been all over the map. He has likely prompt some pushback from drug state prohibited emergency abortions un- the editorial board

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wants and needs. For the business, and his praise for
United States, that time is tough immigration tactics
now. indicates he is ignorant of
Linda Mele Johnson the devastating effect mass
Long Beach deportation would have on
Coachella Valley residents
:: and businesses, much less
the California and national
I was inspired by the economies.
heroism of the teachers in It doesn’t matter what
occupied Norway who re- party someone like Garvey
fused the Nazi curriculum. registers in; he has no busi-
The story of Nødtvedt’s ness running for the Senate.
death after torture, mur- He is earning this loss.
dered for resisting fascists, David Middleton
offers us a lesson in the Palm Desert
importance of understand-
ing who are the true “ene- ::
mies within” a society: not
the dedicated civil servants Even with his name
who preserve our communi- recognition, Garvey must
ties and democracy, but the have realized from the start
fascists who seek to rule by that he was doomed to lose
edict and fear. the Senate race.
With all the evidence of As a center-right voter, I
current efforts to derail our didn’t vote for him in the
own democracy, why has the primaries because I knew
Los Angeles Times not that he had no chance to
shown the courage to follow win. Instead I voted for Rep.
the information in its own Katie Porter (D-Irvine),
reporting, which would lead who is a left-wing ideologue,
to an endorsement of Ka- but at least she wasn’t Rep.
Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times mala Harris for president? Adam Schiff (D-Burbank).
RANCHLAND AND other undeveloped space occupy much of the land outside Bishop, Calif. Why has the Washington Our next senator lied to
Post similarly not followed the country when he said he
its own reporting to endorse had the goods on then-

Keep sprawl out of the Eastern Sierra Harris? Are our major news
organizations afraid of the
threats made by the other
President Trump during the
Russia investigation — even
when it appears he didn’t.
candidate, that he will tar- I’m mad at Garvey for
Re “Plenty of open space but nowhere to live,” Oct. 27 get news organizations he running, because at least
does not like? Porter would have had a
appreciate the praise that your article on the scarcity of housing in the sparsely populated Eastern Sierra gives to

I this amazing, pristine part of California.

But I am bewildered by the fact that it appears to miss the irony: If the space in this part of California weren’t so
open (one person said the Owens Valley city of Bishop could “be like Santa Monica” if allowed to grow), it wouldn’t be
My neighbors dropped
their subscription to this
newspaper. Perhaps I
should as well.
Ellen Gruenbaum
chance to defeat Schiff.
Mark Walker
Yorba Linda

amazing and pristine anymore.

For the love of God, please let’s not develop more of the land in the Eastern Sierra. Were the van-dwellers to get their Redlands No, it wasn’t a
way and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to sell off large parcels for suburban sprawl, all we’d read about
is how much the locals miss the Bishop of today.
Nazi salute
Building density in the areas that humans have already developed, and leaving open space open, should be our only A rookie for the Re “ ‘Is this what blind faith
way forward.
Jennifer Enani, Los Angeles
U.S. Senate? looks like?’ ” letters, Oct. 28

Re “Garvey had better luck I almost snorted in my

in ’81 than he will next morning beverage at the
I couldn’t help but feel
that your article on the very
Re “Purpling politics trans-
forming life in quiet, rural Ordinary people Yes, they feared a loss of
income and personal securi-
month,” column, Oct. 26 absurdity of a letter writer’s
comparison of Christians
real housing shortage in
Eastern Sierra communities
Inyo County,” Oct. 26
thwart fascism ty because of their actions,
but they recognized that
If former Dodgers great
Steve Garvey loses in the
praying with outstretched
hands to a Nazi salute.
was missing a few key The Eastern Sierra is Re “Lessons from a teacher some things are more im- election for U.S. senator In many Christian tradi-
points. home to so many interest- murdered for resisting the portant than others, such as from California next week, it tions, prayer is accompa-
First and foremost, this ing, helpful, friendly, respon- Nazis,” Opinion, Oct. 26 protecting lives and free- will not be because he is a nied by the biblical instruc-
is not a space issue. Many of sible, pragmatic Republi- dom. Republican in a Democratic tion to lay hands on the
these towns have restrictive cans. As my neighbors, It took me many years to Since World War II, the state. It’s because he is a recipient. The rest of the
zoning that makes it very government workers, busi- understand why “ordinary” United States has not faced political neophyte running congregation is then invited
difficult to build multifamily ness owners, and yes, DWP people allowed the Nazis to a serious threat to its basic for an important, powerful to stretch their hands for-
housing within the areas employees, they have made murder their fellow country- freedoms. Now we are faced office, on a platform of being ward, agreeing with the
that are already settled. a liberal like me feel wel- men. with fascism: the rise of a MAGA mini-me. prayer and symbolically
Instead of paving over come for 40 years. Finally it became obvi- nationalism, the targeting In other words, he took laying their hands on the
the beautiful wilderness It’s a shame that for the ous to me: In countries of certain groups of people, the field with no glove, no person being prayed for.
that makes the Eastern purposes of your article on where the majority of Jews authoritarianism, interfer- warm-up or even any train- Martha Siditsky
Sierra what it is, we need to the “purpling” of Inyo were rescued or escaped, ence with our elections and ing or awareness of the Laguna Niguel
be building two- to three- County, Republicans are citizens banded together the comingling of religion game. In all the years I have
story multifamily housing represented by three shrill, and said “no.” and government. lived in Palm Desert, I do
instead of giant ski cabins paranoid dinosaurs living in Like the Norwegian Like the circumstances not recall he was involved in HOW TO WRITE TO US
that are used only by rich an echo chamber. I will schoolteacher in Paul surrounding the heroic any local activities. I did not Please send letters to
city-dwellers a few week- assume you just caught Thornton’s story, these teacher Lars Nødtvedt, even know he lived here. letters@[Link]. For
ends per year. them on a bad day. individuals often took great sometimes people must put I will give him credit for submission guidelines, see
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OP-ED

Trump’s hate-filled rally lineup says it all

Look at who speaks for the campaigns. Lady Michelle Obama joined
forces at a rally in Kalamazoo,
Mich., on Saturday, Rep. Jasmine
You’ll see the candidates’ true colors. Crockett (D-Texas), national
co-chair of the Harris-Walz cam-
LZ GRANDERSON cans, doctors, Democrats, poll paign, met with a small group of
workers, “RINOs,” people of color, supporters for lunch at a restau-
There’s a colloqui- members of Congress. Trump told rant not far from Western Michi-
alism often said in a white nationalist group that was gan University. There were stu-
the Black communi- ready to kill for him to “stand back dents who were first-time voters
ty when trying to and stand by.” as well as members of the commu-
decide whether to You might be tempted to dis- nity still somewhat on the fence
attend a social gath- miss this as just talk. It isn’t. about Harris.
ering: “Who all over Violence between a Trump “When you look at the politi-
there?” voter and an election worker in cians you can trust, the politicians
Playwright Torie Wiggins, who Texas occurred on the first day of you wonder whether or not you
recently wrote a play of the same early voting this year in San Anto- can believe the words they are
title, said: “It really speaks to the nio. In 2019, a gunman slaughtered saying, I can tell you every time she
level of comfort someone has in 25 in El Paso, saying “this attack is says she’s going to lift as she
dominant spaces. … It just really a response to the Hispanic inva- climbs, she means it because she’s
means, what am I about to walk sion” and that immigrants were been lifting me as she’s been
into, and am I prepared?” trying to replace white people. climbing,” Crockett said. “This is
I wonder if the Puerto Ricans Apparently, the 2017 clash between somebody that will call randomly
who attended Donald Trump’s white supremacists and civil- to inspire me and uplift me, even
rally at Madison Square Garden rights demonstrators in Char- as sitting vice president.”
on Sunday were prepared to hear lottesville, Va. — where “Unite the Crockett’s story is very similar
the territory called an “island of Right” ralliers chanted “Jews will to one former South Carolina state
garbage.” I wonder if the Black not replace us” and where one representative Bakari Sellers
attendees were ready to hear woman died — was a precursor of shared on a Zoom call at the be-
watermelon jokes or listen to Dr. things to come, not a one-off event. ginning of Harris’ campaign. He
Phil talk about the hard work that Yes, Trump rallies sometimes Selcuk Acar Anadolu said Harris would check in on him
went into building this country … have people of color in attendance. THE SCENE outside Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden and his family often as they were
without mentioning the trans- Many women back the former event on Sunday, where the theme was hate for most Americans. dealing with a complicated preg-
Atlantic slave trade or the institu- president. There are LGBTQ+ nancy.
tion of slavery. Were the women people and immigrants who sup- Niemöller, a Lutheran pastor, is was endorsed by the newspaper of And that story of compassion is
who attended prepared to hear the port him. However, in MAGA- known for writing the poem “First the KKK, and he courted Holo- very similar to how President
misogyny? Were queer conserva- land, their membership comes They Came” about the creeping caust deniers. In 2022, he dined Obama characterized Harris in a
tives ready for the homophobia with restrictions. slippery slope by which most with Holocaust deniers. In 2024, Zoom call with voters on Sunday,
and transphobia? MAGA is a space that tempo- Germans allowed the Nazis to take Trump made Tucker Carlson a the day of Trump’s Madison
In these final days before the rarily tolerates those who are over in the 1930s and 1940s. What’s face of the “closing argument” rally Square Garden rally.
election, when roughly 80 million different, for the sake of votes in a less often discussed about him is at Madison Square Garden — just Harris herself met with Latino
Americans are considering casting tight election. But Trump and his that he initially supported the rise after Carlson promoted a Holo- voters in Philadelphia on Sunday
a ballot for Trump, do they know proxies celebrate only supporters of Adolf Hitler. The hatred spewed caust denier on his show. So, if you to talk about her economic plan to
who all over there in MAGA-land? who represent the homogenous wasn’t directed at him — at first. want to know who all is over there help middle-class families.
Because while you may be picture of America that Trump “Then they came for me,” in MAGA-land, there’s part of your For me, the question of who to
prone not to take Trump’s rhetoric has long envisioned — straight, Niemöller wrote, “and there was answer. vote for is almost a distraction.
too seriously, the reality is that U.S.-born white Christians who no one left to speak for me.” These are the people who want Voting is a single act on a single
many of his followers do. And put Trump above God and coun- I wonder how confident many to eliminate the Department of day. Any candidate can be toler-
sometimes they show up in spaces try. And as in any space where one Trump-inclined voters are that Education, this is the movement ated for a day, or even an election
with more than red baseball caps is merely tolerated, as soon as the MAGA movement’s vision for that banned “The Diary of Anne cycle. What happens afterward is
and racist jokes. Heavily armed one’s usefulness has expired, the America ultimately will include Frank.” Never forget Republicans what counts.
militia members and radicalized tolerance ends. them. You can’t look to Trump for are only throwing the party, it’s How can you know what will
lone wolves are also listening to “Who all over there?” isn’t an answer. “Who all over there?” MAGA that is showing up. happen? Just look at the two
the violent threats directed at simply about who is in attendance. isn’t about the host; it’s about the On the other side, look who camps and ask: “Who all over
teachers, women, immigrants, It’s about the energy of the space. attendees setting the vibe at the shows up for Harris. there?”
librarians, LGBTQ+ Americans, Who is embraced, and who is party. Days before Vice President
journalists, moderate Republi- loosely attached. Martin In Trump’s first campaign, he Kamala Harris and former First Threads: @LZGranderson

Our ‘party-over-reality’ biases Why the U.S. is saddled

may decide the election with an electoral college
the latter option on the grounds that
Throughout the American popular opinion was notoriously unre-
New research indicates that we all can founding, the word liable.
These raw and misguided opinions
easily fall victim to misinformation ‘democracy’ was an epithet. needed to be filtered through more in-
when it aligns with our political views. formed and educated minds. James
Madison stepped forward to coin the
By Joseph J. Ellis term “filtration” and then “Electoral
By Geoffrey Cohen College” to describe state legislators
and Michael Schwalbe n 2016 and 2020 Donald Trump capable of comprehending the long-

D
onald Trump’s outrageous claims
about immigrants, election fraud and
more seem absurd to many of us, espe-
cially on the left — outright fabrica-
tions that no reasonable person could
believe. But new research conducted with our col- Juan Figueroa Associated Press
I lost the popular election by sev-
eral million votes. But in 2016 he
won in the electoral college with
slim majorities in several toss-up
states. That is the only way he can win
the looming election, a contest all the
polls show is too close to call. Once
term public interest, and, if necessary,
over-ruling the popular vote in the
states. Alexander Hamilton endorsed
this “filtration” approach in Federalist
68.
Filtering the presidential choice
through electors was not designed to
leagues reveals something unsettling: Gullibility A SIGN directs people to a polling place. again, it is entirely possible that we enhance the political power of the
and delusion are not confined to Trump’s sup- Voters who fall prey to misinformation will elect a president whom a majority Southern, pro-slavery states, but that
porters, opposers or any specific group. The bat- could help determine our next president. of American voters reject. in fact is what it did. During the debate
tle for the truth is about recognizing that every- The rest of the world finds this ar- over how to count population for rep-
one, including the educated and well-informed, cause our own minds also contribute to the prob- rangement incomprehensible. Al- resentation in the House, the dele-
can fall prey to misinformation. This is especially lem. Even if all misinformation from traditional though the process varies in the de- gates passed the three-fifths clause,
important now because voters’ incorrect beliefs and social media were eliminated, our cognitive tails elsewhere, heads of government basing representation on “the num-
may play a decisive role in the election. filters would still lead us to resist truths that chal- tend to be chosen by direct vote or by ber of whites and three-fifths of the
That’s why we have to be aware of the power of lenge our beliefs. the party that wins the most votes in a blacks.” The political advantage the
misinformation and know how to combat it. But Indeed, our study found that the tendency to parliamentary election. three-fifths clause gave to Southern
our research suggests that our understanding of disbelieve and avoid sharing accurate news that So the question becomes, how did states in presidential elections was
the assault on truth — and of strategies to contradicts our political views was more powerful the American founders, justifiably fa- the main reason that Thomas Jeffer-
counter it — is hindered by three blind spots. than the tendency to accept and promote fake mous for their political wisdom, bur- son was referred to as “the Negro
While it may seem surprising, there is doubt news that confirms our opinions. In other words, den us with the strange contraption president” after his narrow victory in
about the extent of misinformation’s effects on the problem isn’t just belief in misinformation. It’s called the electoral college? the election of 1800.
the general population. Many scholars believe the resistance to truth. The answer lies in the historical The ironies of the electoral college
problem is relatively minor and that most errors This means that the problem goes beyond the record of the debates at the Constitu- abound. The founders did not foresee
in judgment are logical mistakes unmotivated by supply of lies. It also comes from our willingness tional Convention during the summer the emergence of political parties and
partisanship. This implies that misinformation to believe them — and our reluctance to accept in- months of 1787. As we travel back in their winner-take-all slates of electors,
may not deepen political divides. convenient truths. We often seek news that reas- time, there are a few features on the which make a mockery of all presump-
Our research tells a different story. sures us that we are right, and this need for val- historical landscape unique to post- tions of virtuous choosing by a select
We presented true and fake news stories to idation is at the root of our own contributions to revolutionary America that will strike few. What’s left is indeed a filtration of
American voters that either supported or chal- the misinformation machine. us as strange. the popular vote, but one that has
lenged their political allegiances. We found a So what can be done? Intellectual humility is One is the ghost of Britain’s King morphed into a device whereby the
stark party-over-reality bias: Participants were one antidote. The small number of respondents George III. The debate over executive minority defeats the majority.
more than twice as likely to believe and share in- in our study who prioritized truth over politics power, as recorded in contempora- As a result, the very outcome the
accurate stories that supported their political were more likely to acknowledge that their politi- neous journals, letters and articles, is founders most feared, namely election
views than they were to share news that was fac- cal side was just as vulnerable to misinformation difficult to follow, like watching a soc- of a demagogue by a gullible cult of
tually accurate but challenged their ideologies. and propaganda as the opposing side. Recogniz- cer match played with three balls and true-believers, has been made pos-
This bias persisted even when the headlines were ing this danger seemed to allow them to question no referees. The one conviction the sible because of the electoral college,
blatantly false. For example, conservative voters their perceptions and check their biases. Our re- delegates could all agree on was that which was originally designed to avoid
were more willing to accept the fabricated story search also found that those who prioritized the president must not be a monarch precisely that outcome.
“Donald Trump ‘Serious Contender’ for the No- truth consumed less media that is politically one- who stood above the law. (The recent Over the past century no feature of
bel Prize in Economics,” while liberal voters were sided. Supreme Court decision, Trump vs. the Constitution has generated more
more likely to accept an invented story with the The real divide appears to be between those United States, fragrantly defied that criticism and cries for reform than the
headline “Trump Attended Private Halloween who believe they know the truth and those who core conviction.) electoral college. All have failed, large-
Gala with Sex Orgies Dressed as Pope.” Political remain open to the possibility that they might be The second strange-to-us feature, ly because it would require a constitu-
allegiance overshadowed the truth. mistaken. To address our role in the problem, we even more disturbing to our current tional amendment, which the found-
We’re blind to not just the power of misinfor- can encourage people to become critical consum- political presumptions, is a deep sus- ers made politically difficult to pass,
mation but also its broad appeal. Many of us tend ers of media, beginning with the practice of being picion of democracy. Throughout the requiring a two-thirds vote in both
to believe that others are more credulous because critical of their own thinking. A key part of this is American founding the word “democ- branches of Congress and a three-
of their partisan leanings or lack of education or diversifying our news consumption and discon- racy” was an epithet, and remained so fourths vote in the states. Too many
intelligence. However, our research shows that necting from the media echo chamber. until the Jacksonian era. The watch- legislators, not to mention state vot-
anyone, regardless of party affiliation, education Another solution is to cultivate community. word during the founding era was “re- ers, would opt to retain their power
level or cognitive ability, can easily fall victim to When people feel connected to each other in ways public,” from the Latin “res publica” rather than endorse U.S. democracy.
misinformation. Even people with advanced de- outside of partisanship, they are less likely to ac- meaning “public things.” The public So we are stuck with our electoral
grees and strong reasoning skills exhibited a cept false political narratives, even those that interest, for Madison, Jefferson, albatross. Perhaps the danger posed
party-over-reality bias. In fact, participants who confirm their beliefs, and are more open to infor- Washington and the others, was the by a Trump presidency will generate
excelled at reasoning often used that skill selec- mation that challenges long-held ideas. long-term interest of the people, the energy needed for long overdue
tively, scrutinizing false stories only when they It’s ironic that shared needs — for certainty something the founders thought the constitutional reform.
contradicted their political beliefs. When the mis- and tribal connection — separate us. Recognizing bulk of voting Americans (white male If I have them right, a majority of
information aligned with their views — such as and addressing these needs and the biases they landowners) would seldom compre- the founders are up there cheering us
supporting their preferred presidential candi- trigger will help us bridge the divides that our own hend because of their limited horizons on to that very end. The first item on
date — they shut down their critical thinking and minds conspire to create. and susceptibility to conspiracy theo- their list of fixes would surely be killing
accepted falsehood as truth. ries, misinformation and dema- the albatross.
The third blind spot is the misconception that Geoffrey Cohen is the author of “Belonging: gogues. (Sound familiar?)
the assault on truth arises solely from external The Science of Creating Connection and When the question of how to elect a Joseph J. Ellis is a Pulitzer
misinformation. Many wrongly believe the issue Bridging Divides,” a professor of organizational president arrived on the agenda in Au- Prize-winning historian. His latest
could be resolved by controlling the flow of misin- studies in education and business and a gust 1787, suggestions included elec- book, scheduled to be published in
formation through fact-checking and establish- professor of psychology at Stanford University. tion by the Senate, by state Legisla- 2025, is “Realities and Regrets: The
ing policies that would curb fake news. While Michael Schwalbe is a postdoctoral scholar at tures and finally by popular vote in all Tragic Side of the American
these measures can help, they are insufficient be- Stanford’s department of psychology. the states. Multiple critics objected to Founding.”
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Harris makes big vows on abortion, guns

[Harris, from A1] said she would push Con-
She has called for the cre- gress to bring back the bi-
ation of a $40-billion “inno- partisan border security bill
vation fund” to support city that Senate Republicans
and state governments find- killed earlier this year after
ing ways to finance and en- Trump, who has made im-
courage construction. migration a centerpiece of
Harris is promising up to his campaign, signaled op-
$25,000 in down-payment position to it.
assistance for first-time Harris has promised to
home buyers who have paid sign the bill.
their rent on time for two The bill would have vastly
years — and more generous expanded deportations and
support for first-generation detentions, added thou-
homeowners whose parents sands of Border Patrol
did not own a home. The agents and other personnel,
Harris campaign estimates sped up the asylum process,
this could help more than and expanded the availabili-
4 million households over ty of visas and green cards. It
four years. did not address the issue of
Harris has said the as- so-called Dreamers brought
sistance would come in the into the country illegally as
form of a tax credit. children.
What Harris has said: The National Border Pa-
“Part of my plan, under my trol Council, the union that
opportunity economy, is to represents agents, endorsed
give first-time home buyers the bill. The union endorsed
a $25,000 down payment as- Trump this month.
sistance so they can just get What Harris has said:
their foot in the door to be “That bill would have put
able to then engage in what more resources to allow us to
will prove to be their oppor- prosecute transnational
tunity to build intergenera- criminal organizations for
tional wealth. trafficking in guns, drugs
“And here’s my personal and human beings. But you
experience coming at that: I Andrew Harnik Getty Images know what happened to that
grew up a middle-class kid. VICE PRESIDENT Kamala Harris, speaking at a campaign rally in Philadelphia on Sunday, has proposed tax bill? Donald Trump got on
My mother was hard- breaks for home builders, nationwide abortion rights, an assault weapons ban and stronger border security. the phone, called up some
working. She raised me and folks in Congress, and said,
my sister, Maya. She saved writing abortion rights pre- Congress. Democrats are lapsed in 2004, and efforts to ban. ‘kill the bill.’ And you know
up. And it was only by the viously guaranteed by Roe more likely to support legal- revive it have failed. In 2022, Biden signed the why? Because he preferred
time I was a teenager that vs. Wade into federal law. izing abortion rights than For years, Harris, a for- most sweeping gun legisla- to run on a problem instead
she could afford to actually She has promised to “ne- Republicans. mer prosecutor, has said tion in decades. The biparti- of fixing a problem,” Harris
buy her first home,” Harris ver allow a national abortion To pass Harris’ repro- gun control opponents have san bill toughened back- said during her debate with
said in a September inter- ban to become law.” In Sep- ductive care priorities, presented a “false choice” ground checks for the Trump on Sept. 10.
view with the National Assn. tember, Harris said she sup- Democrats would have to between supporting fire- youngest firearms buyers, The reality: Signing a re-
of Black Journalists. ported ending the Senate fil- flip the GOP-controlled arms safety laws and repeal- barred a larger group of do- newed bipartisan border se-
The reality: Increased ibuster — a procedural tool House and maintain their ing the 2nd Amendment. mestic violence offenders curity bill would, of course,
housing supply would not that effectively requires 60 slim majority in the Senate. In addition to assault from having guns, and as- require Congress to pass it.
have a big effect on home votes to pass legislation They face uphill battles in weapons, Harris says she sisted states in carrying out With the partisan control of
prices for several years, ex- through the 100-member doing both. wants to ban high-capacity red-flag laws. the House and Senate up for
perts say. body — in order to codify A federal abortion rights magazines and rapid-fire But, for decades, con- grabs, it is unclear whether
Some economists have Roe. law would need enough bump stocks. She also sup- gressional Republicans, that could happen — and
questioned the $25,000 Harris has blamed for- votes to overcome a Senate ports universal background heavily supported by the whether Trump would still
down-payment assistance, mer President Trump for filibuster from Republicans. checks for gun purchases as gun lobby, have largely have enough sway, if he lost
warning that it could greatly the U.S. Supreme Court Ending the filibuster is con- well as “red-flag laws” that thwarted firearms restric- the election, to again scuttle
increase demand before overturning Roe vs. Wade troversial. Sen. Joe Manchin allow courts to temporarily tions, including an attempt the legislation.
enough new units are built — two years ago and for the III, a Democrat-turned- ban people from possessing to revive the assault weap- Border security is one of
increasing competition, fur- deaths of women who did independent from West Vir- firearms if they pose a dan- ons ban in 2022. And this Harris’ biggest political lia-
ther inflating housing costs not receive sufficient medi- ginia, said he would not en- ger to themselves or others. summer, the Supreme Court bilities.
and driving up the already cal care because of strict dorse Harris after she called What Harris has said: “It struck down a Trump-era As vice president, she has
massive federal deficit. abortion bans. for an end to the filibuster, is a false choice to suggest federal ban on bump stocks worked to address the root
The proposal would re- What Harris has said: “I which he called “the Holy you are either in favor of the — attachments that allow a causes of migration from
quire congressional approv- think we should eliminate Grail of democracy.” 2nd Amendment or you shooter to fire hundreds of Guatemala, Honduras and
al — which would hinge upon the filibuster for Roe and get In regard to codifying want to take everyone’s guns rounds per minute. El Salvador — work she took
the partisan makeup of the us to the point where 51 votes Roe vs. Wade, there is little away. I am in favor of the 2nd On the campaign trail, on at Biden’s request. She
House and Senate after the would be what we need to ac- consensus about what that Amendment, and I believe Harris has said that al- was never in charge of immi-
election. tually put back in law the would look like and at what we need to reinstate the as- though she wants to ban as- gration enforcement or bor-
The incentive would be protections for reproductive stage in a pregnancy abor- sault weapons ban and have sault weapons, she does not der policy, but Republicans
less helpful for first-time freedom and for the ability of tion would be allowed. universal background want to confiscate all fire- have painted her as a failed
buyers in California — every person and every checks, safe storage laws arms. To prove the point, she “border czar” who is to
where, according to Zillow, woman to make decisions and red-flag laws,” Harris has emphasized that both blame for a record surge in
Banning assault
the average home is worth about their own body and said in a speech at the White she and her running mate, unauthorized migration
more than $773,000 — than it not have their government weapons again House in September. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz — under Biden.
would in states with more af- tell them what to do,” Harris The promise: Harris has The reality: Although a military veteran and an av- After Harris visited the
fordable housing, such as said in a September inter- vowed to ban assault weap- mass shootings — at id hunter — are both gun U.S.-Mexico border in Arizo-
Texas, where the average view with Wisconsin Public ons nationwide, calling schools, shopping centers, owners. na last month, the National
home is worth about Radio. them “weapons of war” that concerts, movie theaters, In September, she told Border Patrol Council wrote
$301,000. “This is a healthcare cri- do not belong “on the streets nightclubs and other places Oprah Winfrey that “if some- on X that she “has ignored
sis, and Donald Trump is the of a civil society.” — are an American crisis, body breaks in my house, the border problem she cre-
architect of this crisis,” Har- Harris’ position aligns passing gun control mea- they’re getting shot,” before ated for over three years.”
Restoring abortion
ris said in a speech in At- with that of Biden, who sures remains exceedingly joking that she “probably Trump called Harris’ re-
rights nationally lanta last month. helped negotiate the pas- difficult. should not have said that.” marks during her border trip
The promise: Harris, The reality: Codifying sage of a 10-year federal as- If Republicans control “bull—.”
who has made reproductive abortion rights as federal sault weapons ban when he the House or the Senate — While talking about the
Signing bipartisan
rights a cornerstone of her law would be challenging was a senator. That law, or both — after the election, current administration’s
campaign, says she would and would depend heavily which was signed in 1994 by Congress probably would border security bill border policies, he called
sign a bill from Congress upon which party controls former President Clinton, not pass an assault weapons The promise: Harris has Harris “mentally disabled.”

Trump rally promises an America of hatred, pain and fear

[Chabria, from A1] California native, who said,
Earth,” he told the cheering “America is for America and
crowd, once again alluding Americans only.”
to some shadowy cabal of And by that, he did not
Democrats, migrants, Jew- seem to mean immigrant
ish people, transgender Americans.
people and pedophiles who One speaker called Har-
have become a mashed-up ris the “anti-Christ.” Anoth-
boogeyman for all of his er called Hillary Clinton a
vitriol. “With your vote in “sick son of a bitch.”
this election, you can show We have all heard
them once and for all that Trump’s extremism for so
this nation does not belong long that we are largely
to them. This nation be- immune. His own people
longs to you.” often argue it’s just how he
That particular “them” talks, and it should not be
and “you” hold all kinds of taken seriously.
dog-whistle meaning and But I beg to differ. In a
menace. strange turn of events, I’ve
Trump Republicans do, come to agree with far-right
as Trump and his running commentator Jack Poso-
mate JD Vance love to say, biec.
welcome anyone. That’s Posobiec told the New
anyone willing to fall in line, York Times that selling out
cheer for his hate and vote in Madison Square Garden in
his favor. So yes, there were the heart of blue New York
Latinos, Black people, City “means the MAGA
Jewish people and probably Evan Vucci Associated Press movement has now ar-
even a couple of LGBTQ+ FORMER President Trump used the terms “you” and “them” ominously, saying: “With your vote in this elec- rived.”
people in attendance. tion, you can show them once and for all that this nation does not belong to them. This nation belongs to you.” He’s right. For reasons
But Trump and his en- that have been dissected for
tourage made clear Sunday Sunday night that it was, later distanced itself from children’s game of rock, mocked the idea that a years now, half of our coun-
night that inclusion is not “Out of character for me to that comment — half- paper, scissors to settle the “groundswell of popular try has become so angry
the same as respect. Wel- speak at a Nazi rally ... but I heartedly. (And please don’t war. That was a setup for support” could cause, “the and radicalized that this
coming anyone to vote for took the gig.” tell me that his routine on a this gem: “You know the first Samoan Malaysian, movement toward a repres-
him is a far cry from wel- Unbelievably, that wasn’t nationally televised rally Palestinians are going to low-IQ former California sive and exclusionary
coming them to be equals. the most shocking com- was not vetted). throw rock every time,” prosecutor ever to be authoritarianism will not be
For all those who still ment of the evening. That But it was not the only Hinchcliffe said. “You also elected president.” defeated this November.
believe that if a first Trump honor goes to comedian “joke” of note that Hinch- know the Jews have a hard Then he went into the The crowd that cheered
term wasn’t catastrophic for Tony Hinchcliffe, host of the cliffe made. Singling out a time throwing that paper.” Great Replacement Theory, Trump’s un-American
democracy, a second one is “Kill Tony” podcast. Black man in the audience While Trump supporters an ugly trope that America vision of America showed
survivable if not ideal, I Hinchcliffe made head- that he said was a friend, are attempting to minimize will be destroyed if it be- that this cruel turn toward a
remind you of the wise lines for his so-called joke he claimed the two had Hinchcliffe’s wide-ranging comes a majority nonwhite desire to crush civil rights is
words of Maya Angelou: about Puerto Rico. “carved watermelons to- racism as just comedy, he country. here to stay, whether as rule
“When someone shows you “There is literally a float- gether,” instead of pump- was far from an outlier. “People know in a coun- of law or lurking just be-
who they are, believe them ing island of garbage in the kins for Halloween. Hilari- Tucker Carlson, who try that has been taken over neath the surface. It is a new
the first time.” middle of the ocean right ous. managed to get himself by a leadership class that reality in U.S. politics that
And maybe more impor- now,” he said. “I think it’s Also troubling was his booted from Fox not long actually despises them and will be with us likely for our
tantly, listen to what those called Puerto Rico.” statement, not a joke, about ago, went after Kamala their values and their his- lifetimes.
around Trump are saying. That led to swift back- the conflicts between Israel Harris for being mixed race, tory and their culture and But even if Trump does
Perhaps radio shock- lash from prominent Puerto and the Palestinians and a concept seemingly as their customs, really hates take the Oval Office, there
jock Sid Rosenberg (who Ricans, including U.S. Rep. Russia and Ukraine: “Who confusing as it is distasteful them to the point that it’s will still be half of us willing
once called tennis great Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, even cares?” Hinchcliffe to MAGA. trying to replace them,” to fight for a country not
Venus Williams an “ani- Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez, asked. In a rant about how a win Carlson said. just of the people and by the
mal”) put it best, or at least Luis Fonsi and Ricky Mar- Then he suggested Israel for Harris would have to Then there was Trump people — but for the people.
most honestly, when he said tin. Even the Trump team and Gaza should use the include voter fraud, Carlson advisor Stephen Miller, a All of them.
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After a string
of messes, L.A.
barred this goo
on Halloween
fore Halloween 2004. “Hun-
It has been illegal to dreds of illegal vendors flock
to the street and sell Silly
deploy Silly String in String, which then becomes
public in Hollywood the sole source of entertain-
ment for the night.”
on Oct. 31 since 2004. Fed up after nearly a dec-
ade of String-scraping, the
By Connor Sheets city of Los Angeles approved
restrictions that August
To hear police and locals that remain in place today.
tell it, Halloween in Holly- Under the ordinance, Silly
wood two decades ago was String is prohibited in Holly-
out of control, with revelers wood’s public places from 12
routinely spraying and dam- a.m. Oct. 31 to 12 p.m. Nov. 1.
aging property with a prod- Violators face up to six
uct deemed such a menace it months in jail and $1,000 in
has since been seasonally fines.
Photographs by Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times outlawed: Silly String. For years, city Depart-
ALTHOUGH raids on illegal marijuana growing operations carried out under state enforcement programs Thin plasticine strands ment of Transportation em-
have netted some $544 million worth of illicit weed this year, the black market is booming, local authorities say. stripped the sheen off sports ployees have posted red-
cars parked on the street. and-white municipal signs
Not even the famed Holly- along Hollywood Boulevard

Massive weed seizures

wood Walk of Fame stars and other major streets in
were immune to the rain- the days leading up to Hal-
bow-hued goo. loween, declaring in bold
The string hit the fan in carmine letters: “It is ‘IL-
the early 2000s, when police LEGAL’ to possess, use, sell
say particularly sticky Hal- or distribute silly string in

a drop in the bucket,

loween celebrations left Hol- public areas.”
lywood property owners Between 2009 and May 1,
with about $200,000 in annu- 2022, the LAPD arrested one
al cleanup and recovery person and issued zero cita-
costs. tions for violating the Holly-
“On a typical Halloween wood Halloween ban, ac-

county sheriffs lament

night, up to 100,000 people cording to public records
come to Hollywood Boule- provided to The Times. A
vard,” the Los Angeles Po- spokesperson for the de-
lice Department said in a partment declined to pro-
news release three days be- [See Goo, B5]

State hails recent busts, but authorities in pot growing regions say
huge illegal operations persist because of lax penalties, big rewards Members debate
By Clara Harter Sierra Club mission
Two major state programs to
combat illegal cannabis recently sent
out news releases lauding their col-
in Golden State
lective seizures of some $544 million without drawing fire.
worth of illicit weed. Some want to lean Eight years after that in-
But when it comes to reining in vitation, Chavarria is now
California’s sprawling black market, into environmental the acting director of Sierra
experts say it’s just a drop in the justice while others Club California. And she —
bucket. and whoever takes the reins
Those in the thick of the fight focus on preservation. for the long haul — must
against illegal pot, like Mendocino manage long-running dis-
County Sheriff Matthew Kendall, By Lila Seidman putes over the club’s mission
can’t help but roll their eyes. and forge consensus on is-
“Don’t get me wrong, I love when When Bobbi Jo Chavarria sues of diversity, equity and
those guys [state law enforcement of- was invited to join her local inclusion.
ficers] show up to help,” he said, “but Sierra Club chapter’s politi- Sierra Club California is
I would need 50 police officers for 50 cal committee, she saw it as one of the most influential
days to even begin putting a dent in an effort by its members to environmental voices in
it.” include “someone like me.” Sacramento, advocating for
So far this year, an estimated $353 A woman. A person of col- policies on behalf of the 13 lo-
million worth of illicit plants have or. And someone who could cal chapters. California —
been seized through a California De- address sensitive issues of the birthplace of the club —
partment of Justice program, while a HUNDREDS of pounds of marijuana are dumped into a pit for burial race and diversity in ways is also a powerful force in the
task force with the governor’s office after a 2021 raid in Siskiyou County, whose sheriff says penalties for that might be difficult for the national organization, home
[See Cannabis, B2] illegal cultivation offenses are not harsh enough to deter growers. white older members in the to its headquarters and
San Gorgonio chapter to do more than 134,000 members.
But the club has also
been riven by bitter argu-
ments over its core mission.
Some members believe the

Farm pesticides found in nearly 80% of samples; organization needs to step

up its advocacy for low-in-
come minority neighbor-
hoods that bear the brunt of

state says levels are safe, but activists push back pollution from oil refineries,
industrial complexes and
freeways. Others think the
club has strayed too far from
Advocates contend that exposure to even small amounts in air can be harmful over time its roots as a champion of
wilderness preservation.
“Instead of advocating
pesticide activists say the for wildlands, they’re advo-
By Tony Briscoe compounds pose a far great- cating for access for under-
er risk than the state is will- privileged communities, ex-
From the sprawling vine- ing to acknowledge. panding urban parks, focus-
yards of the Bay Area to the “These are chemicals ing on human desires and
strawberry fields of the Cen- that are designed, often, to needs,” said Richard Halsey,
tral Coast and orchards of be biologically active,” said 69, of San Diego, who left the
the Central Valley, Califor- David Andrews, a senior sci- Sierra Club in 2022 after
nia remains an agricultural entist with the nonprofit more than five decades of in-
juggernaut, producing more Environmental Working volvement.
fruits, vegetables and nuts Group. “Instead of fighting for
than any other state in the “Pesticides, broadly, are nature, you’re doing social
nation. linked to such an incredible justice issues, which are fine,
But every year, California range of health problems, but that’s not what the club’s
growers apply more than 180 from cancer to hormone dis- about,” he said. “Not that
million pounds of pesticides ruption to impact on the they can’t be involved with
to crops in an effort to de- immune system. California that, but it’s become the
fend them from weeds, fungi, is a major producer of food mission.”
insects and other pests. crops, and there are signifi- Gladwyn d’Souza, a 69-
Now, state regulators re- cant concerns about the rac- year-old Belmont resident,
port that they have found ial and social disparities in also left the club, but for es-
detectable levels of pesti- exposure to pesticides,” An- sentially the opposite rea-
cides floating in the air in drews said. son. He said Sierra Club
multiple large farming re- According to a new state leaders weren’t adequately
gions. report, the California De- pursuing the environmental
Although state officials partment of Pesticide Regu- justice objectives the organi-
insist that none of the sam- Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times lation, or CDPR, collected zation set for itself in its 2030
ples exceeded safe limits, en- FARMWORKERS pick strawberries in Oxnard in 2021. A pesticide that also irri- weekly air samples last year Strategic Framework, which
vironmentalists and anti- tates lungs was measured just shy of state limits in the city in August 2023. [See Pesticides, B5] [See Sierra, B4]

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Massive weed seizures aren’t enough, sheriffs say

[Cannabis, from B1] transporting marijuana
has seized an estimated $191 without required licenses is
million worth. only a misdemeanor.
Despite these impressive “From the criminal mind-
numbers, some law enforce- set, there is minimal down-
ment leaders say the raids side and massive upside to
are barely slowing the black cultivating marijuana il-
market — which, according legally and selling it on the
to a study by Beau Whitney, black market,” said San Ber-
founder of the cannabis nardino County Sheriff ’s Lt.
economics research firm Larry Lopez.
Whitney Economics, makes Siskiyou County Sheriff
up more than half the state’s LaRue said that, although
marijuana sales. there are enhanced penal-
“If we examine the stat- ties for certain violations in-
istics, it is clear that these volving tax evasion and envi-
operations are not effec- ronmental crimes, most of
tively or aggressively putting the illegal cultivation of-
a dent into the illegal mar- fenses do not have harsh
ket,” said Siskiyou County enough penalties to deter
Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue. production.
For example, operations Because enforcement
by the state Department of measures are limited, Men-
Justice’s Eradication and docino County Sheriff
Prevention of Illicit Canna- Kendall said the raids con-
bis program, or EPIC, have ducted by state agencies are
seized about 750,000 canna- like a game of Whac-A-Mole.
bis plants in 36 counties this “We can chop it down
year. Yet, Siskiyou County and, by golly, it pops up
alone produces an esti- again the next day,” he said.
mated 12 million to 16 million Raids are also a limited
illegal plants per year. enforcement tool, because
Therefore, if EPIC focused they mostly lead to the ar-
on only Siskiyou for a year, it Photographs by Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times rest of laborers — not own-
would at best eradicate just JOHNNY CASALI, left, and partner Rose Moberly meet with state Department of Cannabis Control inspec- ers.
6% of the estimated local tors at Casali’s Huckleberry Hills Farms, a legal marijuana growing operation in Garberville, Calif., in 2022. “It is a frequent strategy
black market in the county, for the black market organ-
he said. market continues to thrive. izers to hide behind the la-
This sentiment was ech- “California did a horrible bor force and remain
oed by Kendall, who noted job of incentivizing [illegal] shielded from law enforce-
that in Mendocino County’s cultivators to convert over,” ment,” LaRue said. “It is
35-square-mile Round Val- said Whitney, the cannabis rare that higher-level organ-
ley alone there are an esti- economist. “They taxed izers are anywhere near the
mated 1 million illegal mari- them heavily, they regulated cultivation areas.”
juana plants. them heavily, they couldn’t Despite the drawbacks
“The black market is as make any money.” and frustrations, LaRue,
big and bad as ever,” he said. California charges a 15% Kendall and Lopez still sup-
The Riverside County excise tax on marijuana port conducting raids and
Sheriff ’s Department mari- sales on top of additional lo- welcome state assistance.
juana enforcement team cal marijuana taxes. But they say that to have
told The Times there is still a A recent study by canna- a meaningful effect, raids
lot of work to do to address bis industry research and need to be accompanied by
that county’s black market, analysis firm GreenWave policy changes that address
which has not gotten any Advisors found that legal the narrow profit margin
smaller in the last two years. weed companies owe the for legal cultivators and the
In 2022, a Times investi- state more than $730 million minor penalties for illegal
gation found that Califor- in back taxes, 72% of which is ones.
nia’s massive illegal marijua- owed by companies that And after years of calling
na market pushes legal have gone out of business. for change, there’s a growing
growers toward financial Another challenge is that sense of exasperation
ruin, exacerbates communi- A DEPUTY prepares to destroy illegal cannabis plants in Mendocino County in more than half of California among those on the front
ty violence, causes massive 2022. “The black market is as big and bad as ever,” Sheriff Matthew Kendall said. counties don’t allow the sale lines.
environmental degradation of marijuana, which restricts “We have reached a time
and forces laborers to toil in ers, few consequences for il- EPIC doing this work that is spond to a request for com- access to legal weed in wide in the state of California
squalid and often dangerous legal operators and limited basically showing up with a ment. swaths of the state and where the architects of these
conditions. access to legal marijuana in garden hose.” California legalized rec- drives demand to the black laws — the governor, the leg-
Many law enforcement wide swaths of California. A spokesperson for Gov. reational weed through Pro- market. islators — they’re refusing to
leaders say they believe the “It’s like [state leaders] Gavin Newsom referred position 64, a 2016 ballot There are also major in- speak with the carpenters,
state has done little since came to our counties, they questions about the con- measure that promised “to centives for sellers to opt in and that’s the sheriffs and
then to address the prob- sprayed the whole thing cerns raised by local law en- tax the growth and sale of to the illegal market — they the police chiefs,” Kendall
lems fueling the black mar- with gasoline and lit it on forcement leaders to the marijuana in a way that can dodge taxation and li- said. “When we say this isn’t
ket — onerous taxation and fire,” Kendall said. “Then state Department of Canna- drives out the illicit market.” censing fees, while knowing going to work, it’s falling on
regulations for legal produc- they start talking about bis Control, which did not re- Eight years later, the illicit that criminally, selling or deaf ears.”

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CITY & STATE

School worker
in Riverside
hid cameras in
boys’ bathroom
bathroom at a junior high
The former counselor school Bible camp, where he
worked as a chaperone.
at La Sierra pleads Families of the victims
guilty to two child settled a civil negligence suit
against the Southeastern
pornography charges. Conference of Seventh-day
Adventists and La Sierra
By Sandra McDonald Academy for an undisclosed
amount in 2023, the plain-
A former Riverside pri- tiff ’s attorney, Bobby
vate school counselor has Thompson, told The Times.
admitted placing hidden Although there were more
cameras in campus bath- victims, he said, only a hand-
rooms to capture young ful of families were willing to
Robert Gauthier Los Angeles Times boys using the toilet and pursue civil litigation
WONDERFUL Nurseries in Wasco, Calif., is the nation’s largest grapevine nursery. Its parent company, Won- showers. against the church.
derful Co., is challenging farmworkers’ unionization effort there and the state’s new farm labor organizing law. Matthew Daniel John- After Johnson was re-
son, 34, was a school coun- leased on bail in 2021,
selor at La Sierra Academy, charges against him were

Court rules for UFW: Talks a Seventh-day Adventist

private school in Riverside,
from 2016 to 2020. Investiga-
tors arrested Johnson in
March 2020 after authorities
not filed with the state due
to a pandemic-related over-
sight, Texas television sta-
tion KBTX reported. During
this period, he moved to

with Wonderful can go on searched his home and office

and found multiple child
pornography videos.
The former counselor ad-
mitted to placing a pen-
Texas.
Johnson, who has a wife
and daughter, said during an
arraignment in Houston
that he moved due to wide-
shaped recording device in a spread news coverage of the
workers voted on union rep- if it has formally appealed junction that was prevent- toilet paper holder in the case and his wife’s new job at
Appellate panel lifts resentation by secret ballot state labor board certifica- ing the ALRB from carrying school bathroom across a Texas university.
at a polling site designated tion of a union vote and pre- out its statutory duties while from his office and using it to In March 2023, a new
an injunction halting by the state labor board. sented what it believes is evi- the Superior Court’s ruling “capture the genitals of mi- agent assigned to the case
bargaining between Union organizers had dence that the voting proc- is on appeal.” nor boys using the toilet,” ac- noticed the oversight, and
pressed for the card-check ess was fraudulent. The board will resume cording to his plea agree- Johnson was indicted and
nursery, farmworkers. law, contending the secret In July, Kern County Su- administrative proceedings ment. arrested again in Bryan,
ballot process, typically held perior Court Judge Bernard and overseeing negotiations He had over 100 record- Texas.
By Melissa Gomez at job sites, left workers fear- C. Barmann Jr. sided with between the two parties, he ings of more than 60 boys as Family and friends sent
and Rebecca Plevin ful of retaliation from em- the company, saying Won- said. young as 5 years old, accord- letters to the federal judge in
ployers. derful “was likely to prevail” “Because farm labor is ing to authorities. early October, asking for le-
In the latest update in a In late February, the in its legal challenge to the seasonal, high-turnover Johnson pleaded guilty niency in his sentencing,
dispute over a campaign to UFW filed a petition with the state’s relatively new system work, many farmworker wit- last week to two charges of which is scheduled for Feb-
unionize workers at a power- labor board asserting that a for organizing farmworkers nesses will be unavailable by possession and production ruary.
ful Kern County agricultural majority of the 600-plus and faced irreparable harm the time appellate proceed- of child pornography. Johnson faces a min-
company, a California appel- farmworkers at the nursery if United Farm Workers were ings conclude,” the UFW A recovered video file imum sentence of 15 years in
late court has ruled that ne- had signed union authoriza- allowed to pursue a bargain- said. “Witnesses who can be showed Johnson adjusting prison and a maximum of 50
gotiations can continue be- tion cards, and asking to be ing agreement on behalf of located will have faded recol- the camera inside another years.
tween the state’s largest certified as the workers’ Wonderful’s nursery work- lections of important events
farmworker union and Won- union representative. ers before the case was de- and details. If left in place,
derful Co. Within days, Wonderful cided. the preliminary injunction
The two parties had been accused the UFW of having In a September petition will prevent UFW from
forced to pause bargaining
after a lower court’s ruling.
The ruling Thursday by a
baited the employees into
signing the authorization
cards under the guise of
to the California 5th District
Court of Appeal to lift the in-
junction that paused the
putting on its full case de-
fending itself against the
Company’s accusations of
Woman’s body found
three-judge panel follows an
appeal by the Agricultural
Labor Relations Board, the
helping them apply for $600
each in federal relief for
farmworkers who labored
proceedings, state Atty.
Gen. Rob Bonta, on behalf of
the Agricultural Labor Rela-
misconduct.”
The UFW said staying
the preliminary injunction
in trash; man arrested
state agency that oversees during the COVID-19 pan- tions Board, said the Superi- pending appeal would not
agricultural union elections, demic. or Court “had no role to cause irreparable harm to tracking him down in Glen-
and the United Farm Work- The company submitted play” by issuing the injunc- Wonderful, noting the com- Daniel Aldrich is dale, according to the Costa
ers, which is representing nearly 150 signed declara- tion and instead ignored the pany could still prevail in the Mesa Police Department.
farmworkers who voted to tions from nursery workers already established process board’s administrative accused of killing his Assisted by the Glendale
unionize at a Wonderful saying they had not under- to review the certification. hearing. partner and dumping Police Department, they ar-
nursery this year. stood that by signing the “The injunction threat- Elizabeth Strater, na- rested Aldrich that evening
The board and UFW ar- cards they were voting to ens irreparable harm to Pe- tional vice president and di- her in Costa Mesa. at a family member’s house
gued that the bargaining unionize. titioners, impacted agricul- rector of strategic cam- in the 3700 block of El Lado
and administrative proceed- The UFW countered that tural workers, UFW, the in- paigns for the UFW, said the By Clara Harter Drive.
ings should continue while Wonderful had intimidated tegrity of the administrative ruling was “certainly wel- The allegations have rat-
the Court of Appeal further those workers into making review process established come.” A Costa Mesa man was tled Alrich’s neighbors in his
examined the case. false statements and had by the Legislature, and even “We are motivated to get arrested on suspicion of residential Costa Mesa com-
Wonderful Nurseries, the brought in a labor consult- Wonderful itself,” Bonta the ALRB hearings resumed killing his girlfriend and munity.
nation’s largest grapevine ant with a reputation as a wrote. so people can come forward dumping her body in a trash “It’s quiet [here]. Every-
nursery, is in Wasco, Calif. Its union buster to manipulate In a separate petition, and talk about the tactics can near his home, author- body is nice, and this is a big
parent company, Wonderful their emotions in the weeks lawyers for the UFW argued they encountered at the ities said. deal,” resident Metinee Far-
Co. — a $6-billion agricultur- after they signed the cards. that the union and the farm- hands of their employer’s Daniel Allen Aldrich, 49, ley told OnScene TV. “This is
al powerhouse owned by But Wonderful, whose workers it represents would agents,” Strater said. was arrested in Glendale in very scary.”
Stewart and Lynda Resnick portfolio includes such face irreparable harm if the Wonderful Nurseries said connection with the death of Another neighbor, who
— sued the Agricultural La- brands as Fiji Water and preliminary injunction was in a statement: “This proce- Julie Anne Sanetra, 38, of identified herself to On-
bor Relations Board in May, Pom Wonderful, sought to not stayed pending appeal. dural order does not change Irvine, according to the Scene only as Sherri, said
challenging the constitu- challenge the certification of They said that the injunc- the Superior Court’s previ- Costa Mesa Police Depart- the neighborhood had never
tionality of the state’s so- the election results and chal- tion was delaying the com- ous determination that the ment. had “any type of violence or
called card-check system, lenge the state law, which pletion of the hearing before Card Check is ‘likely uncon- Police received a call anything like that, any dis-
which Gov. Gavin Newsom would force it into bargain- the state labor board, and stitutional.’ We continue to Oct. 22 about a dead woman turbance.”
signed into law in 2022. ing negotiations. that 150 witnesses remained welcome a swift determina- found in the backyard of a She said the suspect had
Under the law, a union The company alleges in to be called. tion by the State Court of home in the 1900 block of recently moved into the area
can organize farmworkers its lawsuit that the law de- Santiago Avila-Gomez, Appeals on that constitu- Maple Avenue in Costa after a young couple sold the
by inviting them to sign au- prives employers of due executive secretary of the tional question and fully Mesa. house a few months ago.
thorization cards at off-site process on multiple fronts, state board, said in a state- expect their decision will Officers found the vic- Anyone with additional
meetings without notifying including by forcing a com- ment Friday that the board be the same as the initial tim’s body and launched an information is asked to con-
their employer. pany to enter a collective was “pleased that the appel- one made by Judge Bar- investigation, identifying tact Det. K. Moore at (714)
Under the old rules, farm- bargaining agreement even late court has lifted the in- mann.” Aldrich as a suspect and 754-4986.

Pupil’s expulsion over rap lyrics, squirt gun emoji is on hold

der filed by the parents’ at- mate, who, according to
Judge says elite Curtis torneys to temporarily halt email records, instigated the
the boy’s expulsion, accord- Sept. 5 exchange of rap
School must readmit ing to court papers filed lyrics.
fifth-grader until Thursday. The attorneys ar- “We are deeply disap-
gued that expulsion is a pointed by your decision to
parents’ suit is heard. harmful disruption to the base expulsion on emails be-
student’s education and so- tween two classmates who
By Clara Harter cialization, according to both showed a willingness to
court documents. talk about guns based on a
A judge has ruled that an The judge’s order took ef- song’s lyrics,” the parents
elite Mulholland Drive pri- fect immediately and the wrote in an Oct. 2 email to
vate school must reverse the student was free to return to Ratnesar, urging her to re-
expulsion of a fifth-grade school on Friday, according consider the expulsion.
student over emails sent to a to court documents. Howev- Ratnesar acknowledged
peer containing rap lyrics er, the decision can be recon- Google Maps in an Oct. 1 email that the
and a squirt gun emoji until sidered if evidence emerges A STUDENT’S parents sued the Curtis School and its head of school after their classmate started the email
the case can be heard at tri- that the student poses a son was expelled this month over emails he exchanged with another student. exchange but said their son’s
al. danger to students or facul- “contribution of lyric lines in
On Oct. 17, the parents of ty, and the school remains at ous statement, the school “Murder on My Mind,” sponded, “No y.” addition to continuing to
the expelled student filed a liberty to impose alternative said it was disappointed by which references guns and The parents allege that communicate threatening
lawsuit against the Curtis disciplinary measures, ac- the litigation and commit- violence, according to court the boys are friends and emojis and language 20 days
School and Head of School cording to court documents. ted to ensuring a safe and se- documents. Then on Sept. hung out together immedi- after the lyric exchange, is a
Meera Ratnesar, alleging The Curtis School is a cure campus for all, but it de- 25, the students engaged in ately following the email ex- serious infraction that we
that the expulsion was “arbi- prestigious elementary clined to comment on indi- another email exchange changes, according to court cannot ignore.”
trary and capricious” and school with an annual tu- vidual students. during their math class in documents. They also say The parents’ attorneys
that the school provided no ition of $38,000 where many The student was expelled which the boy who was ex- that their son is a straight-A allege that Ratnesar has a
evidence of a policy being celebrities, such as Victoria by Ratnesar on Oct. 1 over pelled sent messages on his student who has faced no reputation for “unequal and
violated or of the classmate and David Beckham, have two email exchanges with a school-issued laptop saying, prior disciplinary action arbitrary treatment of stu-
who received the emails feel- sent their children. classmate. “Shut up” and “I hate you” during his three years at the dents,” pointing to reviews
ing threatened. School representatives On Sept. 5, the boy and a and included several green school, according to court left by former families at the
Los Angeles County Su- did not immediately re- classmate sent emails back squirt gun emojis, and then documents. school alleging favoritism
perior Court Judge Stephen spond to a request for com- and forth containing lyrics said, “You dead yet,” to No disciplinary action and discriminatory treat-
I. Goorvitch approved an or- ment on the order. In a previ- from the YNW Melly song which the classmate re- was taken against the class- ment by the head of school.
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Sierra Club members grapple with mission

[Sierra, from B1] who else would be?” aligned with. a year later. The national
identifies “goals to address Chavarria’s own experi- The post caught the at- club is now led by executive
systemic challenges that are ence in joining her San Gor- tention of the late Jono Hild- director Ben Jealous, former
accelerating the climate and gonio chapter’s political ner, she said, who invited her chief executive of the
extinction crises and deep- committee in 2016 reflects to join the Sierra Club’s San NAACP, but contention over
ening oppression.” what some members say is a Gorgonio chapter commit- issues of diversity have per-
“It’s a nice document, long-needed shift by the tee that he led at the time. sisted. The strife was inten-
and it has all those things in group to become more inclu- “I was talking about the sified by layoffs last year that
it, but at the chapter level, sive and address issues of race issue and saying, ‘This included the club’s entire eq-
nobody was paying atten- environmental justice, is not what it’s about. It is uity team and many staffers
tion to that,” d’Souza said. which could be vital for the about the issues.’ I could say of color.
“They were still focused on organization’s future. that as a Democratic activ- Christopher Schuler,
the old Sierra Club. At the time, Chavarria ist, as a woman of color, as a press secretary for the na-
“It’s hard to change cul- was supporting Latino chal- mom in the community,” tional organization, said
ture in an organization lenger Eloise Gómez Reyes Chavarria said. Hildner, she their previous processes for
that’s member-based and against Black incumbent said, could not. equity were plagued by de-
member-financed, since the Cheryl Brown in a race for an For Chavarria, the role on lays and uncertain out-
people giving them the mon- Inland Empire state Assem- the politics committee set comes that harmed margin-
ey are the ones that repre- bly seat. Brown, who had the stage for advancement alized communities. Re-
sent the old-guard view.” come under fire from through the chapter’s volun- structuring, he said, has po-
Chavarria, 53, said the Si- environmentalists for what teer leadership ranks, while sitioned the club to address
erra Club is big enough to they saw as cozy ties with the she worked professionally in past shortcomings.
represent both constitu- oil industry and other busi- accounts payable adminis- “For several years now,
encies. ness groups, ended up losing trative roles. Early this year the Sierra Club has inten-
“It is a tension,” she said, the election to Reyes (who is she was hired as a field or- tionally focused on integrat- Sierra Club California

“because the folks who spent now running for state ganizer for the Sierra Club’s ing environmental justice BOBBI JO CHAVARRIA, acting director of Sierra
60 years in the desert, they Senate in the Nov. 5 elec- Clean Transportation for All into every department as Club California, is supportive of a big-tent approach.
are rightly so concerned tion). campaign, and then in July you cannot separate it from
about the desert and the Some sought to frame she was tapped to be the any effort to protect clean says environmental justice, an electric car until recently.
ecosystem and the animals the contest as driven by rac- state organization’s acting air, water and our collective often defined as fighting for “It was not economically
there. The walkability and ial loyalties, Chavarria said, director. future,” he said. and working alongside com- feasible for my family to live
public transportation [of prompting her to write a Sierra Club California’s An issue dividing some munities of color so they what my values were,” she
populated areas] is not their Facebook post stating that personnel committee will California members has don’t suffer the brunt of pol- said.
issue, but it still is an envi- her support was based solely eventually determine who been housing, and whether lution and other ills, “should She has a background in
ronmental issue. And if Sier- on the challenger’s views on will become the full-time di- the Sierra Club — long seen be at the core of the work sales and doesn’t hold ad-
ra Club isn’t at the table hav- the environment, human rector. No timeline has been by many as anti-devel- that we do, and we should be vanced degrees, which she
ing those conversations, rights and other matters she set, but the aim is to make a opment — needs to push for considering that in every- said differentiates her from
decision within the next few denser housing in urban thing that we do.” many members who are
months, said Karen Maki, areas, in part because it can But some believe the highly educated and afflu-
executive committee chair shorten commutes and re- club’s money and expertise ent, factors that make it eas-
for Sierra Club California. duce pollution. is being misdirected. ier for them to experience
Chavarria is the third “Is it true that we are be- “[I]f the Sierra Club can’t wilderness than people who

Obituaries
person to lead Sierra Club hind the times in terms of spend its precious resources are struggling to make ends
California since longtime di- housing?” asked Nick Pilch, fighting for our ideals of a meet.
rector Kathryn Phillips 63, who serves on the execu- safe climate and a living The club’s many volun-
stepped down in 2021. Bran- tive committee of the club’s wilderness in these perilous teers have been touted as
Place a paid notice [Link]/placeobituary don Dawson had the job for San Francisco Bay chapter. times, led by the most quali- both a strength of the or-
Search obituary notice archives: two years before leaving to “I’d say that it’s not a good fied and best able, then I can ganization, and as a weak-
[Link]/obituaries/latimes
work for a nonprofit focused reputation for Sierra Club find another organization to ness. Known for their pas-
on environmental justice. California to have, and I support,” a member named sion, volunteers give gener-
Gene Rex Swanson He was followed by acting di- think [Chavarria] ought to Michael Katz wrote in re- ously of their time and can
December 10, 1933 - rector Jason John, who went address that.” sponse to Brune’s post scru- be mobilized to show up in
September 29, 2024 on parental leave in July and If shifting the club’s pri- tinizing Muir. droves at rallies, call legisla-
never returned. orities alienates some older Chavarria, who during a tors and write letters to the
Gene Swanson’s favorite Phillips is hopeful for members who happen to be recent interview sported a editor.
thing to do was take his wife, Chavarria’s tenure. among the club’s important red shirt emblazoned with But, according to a 2021
Barbara, and dog, Zoe, on “She’s got good sense donors, it would be justified, an image of progressive icon report by consulting firm
their boat to Catalina Island about how to manage people Pilch said. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) Ramona Strategies, volun-
to swim, dive, and fish. He and what needs to be done “If we are evolving in a being arrested at a civil teers also exert managerial
swam daily in his community
and that sort of thing,” good way, in a positive way, rights protest, said housing authority that it advised
pool until the month of his
death. Gene grew up in Phillips said. “The attention as an organization, and we issues are incorporated into should be reserved for pro-
Melvin Adler poverty in Inglewood but that gets put on the director lose older members or long- the club’s clean transporta- fessional staff.
December 26, 1930 - was helped by Crenshaw is: How do you do the legisla- er-time members, some of tion campaign. But she said The report portrayed the
October 24, 2024 Christian Church to attend tive piece? But really the whom might have money, resources and volunteer ex- unpaid base as an almost
Northwest Christian College, most important piece is: but we’re becoming more pertise can constrain some lawless entity, describing
Melvin Adler, born 1930 now Bushnell University. He How do you motivate and healthy, [a] better organiza- efforts. hostile power struggles with
in New York City. Parents earned his Doctoral degree help grow young staffers?” tion that’s attracting young “When they say the Sierra staff and near-total impuni-
Hyman and Pauline Adler in Ministry from Claremont California plays an out- people of color, we shouldn’t Club should be doing this, ty.
from Máramaros, Hungary. School of Theology. He was size role in the Sierra Club, worry about those older the Sierra Club is those At the state level,
a pastor in the Disciples of which was founded 132 years donors that might be leav- folks, and so then it’s going Chavarria said, one of her
Christ Christian Church for ago by naturalist John Muir ing,” Pilch said. “Because if to be their leadership that goals was to improve rela-
over 40 years and ministered and is headquartered in we don’t evolve, if we don’t directs us and themselves to tions between staff and vol-
Mel wrote his obituary and to, and counseled, thousands Oakland. To a degree, some get those young people of do the work,” Chavarria unteers. Historically, each
picked the photograph out of people in his life. of the debates roiling the color, you know, it’s an exist- said. group did its own thing, “and
at 85 years-old and passed When younger he took California branch mirror ential question. We won’t Personal experience col- never the twain should meet
away on October 24, 2024 at his family to almost every those for the national or- survive anyway.” ors Chavarria’s worldview. until, like, you had to,” she
almost 94. national park in the Western ganization. In fact, the California With deep roots in Fontana, said.
United States during family In the wake of George membership has declined by Chavarria is passionate It’s a goal shared by Maki,
vacations, hiking to the most Floyd’s murder in 2020, roughly 32,000 members about reducing air pollution chair of the Sierra Club Cali-
He went out wanting to remote and beautiful places
live and wrote: then-executive director since 2019. State club leaders from trucks and reining in fornia executive committee.
he could find. He loved fly Michael Brune called for the say people may have disen- the massive warehouse de- Maki said Chavarria’s back-
fishing in Montana and club to reexamine Muir and gaged because they were velopments that have come ground in volunteer leader-
Wyoming. Gene was a gifted his legacy, citing derogatory less concerned over environ- to dominate the Inland ship and organizing gives
I died against my wishes painter and sculptor, winning
but still believe in g-d. comments the founder had mental threats under Presi- Empire. her a leg up in this depart-
numerous Best of Show
made toward Black and In- dent Biden. But some, like One of her top goals as di- ment.
awards at the San Clemente
Art Association and awards at digenous people and his as- Halsey, attribute the decline rector is to accelerate the “I think she’s going to
I had a good life-my claim the Orange County Fair. sociation with notorious to a shift away from its tradi- transition to zero-emission help volunteers and staff
to fame was my wife Joan eugenicists. tional priorities. transportation to curb work better together to be ef-
(Dolginer) whose grandfa- The love of his life was his Brune’s comments set off Mary Ann Ruiz, secretary greenhouse gases. fective,” Maki said. “And
ther was Charles Goldstein a high school sweetheart and a heated debate within the for the Sierra Club Califor- Yet she said she couldn’t that I am very excited
pioneer who came to Juneau, wife of 69 years, Barbara. club, and he resigned about nia executive committee, afford to make the switch to about.”
Alaska to seek his fortune A special place in his heart
looking for gold. He ended went out to his miniature
up with real estate that is in dachshund, Zoe, who, (sorry
the hands of my able children. Barbara) was the living thing
he loved the most in this B RAD GATES
world. He was a great dad
Joan and I had a summer and grandad, and will be
home on Douglas Island, deeply missed by his three

Orange County sheriff for six terms

Juneau-enjoying our friends, sons, Mark, Jay, and Shawn,
the natural beauty and tennis. and his two grandkids, Olivia
and Kenny.
Memorial service to be
I hate leaving my family- held at Harbor Christian
Susan (Jannol) Greg, Judith Church on November 3 at pervisors, he worked along-
(Altervain), Karen (Tatum)
and of course Michael, Jacob,
12:00 noon. Gates became the side Gates to navigate the
aftermath of the county
Gabriel, Jeremy, Molly and area’s most influential bankruptcy, “refusing to
Izzy.
politician but was a compromise on public safety
and our duty to keep Orange
cowboy at heart. County safe.”
I was in business with my
brother Bernie owning and
“Sheriff Gates and his
By Rebecca Plevin passion will be missed by
operating the Hollywood
Franklin Hotel and the Beverly many, including me, but his
rad Gates, who legacy of service in this

B
Laurel Hotel in Los Angeles.
during his 24 years county and law enforcement
as Orange County will live on,” Spitzer said.
I was proud of the fact that sheriff became the Gates also faced contro-
my parents who started with region’s most influ- versies. In the late 1980s, he
nothing, and their two sons ential politician as he helped was sued by political oppo-
accomplished what they did. expand and modernize his Geraldine Wilkins-Kasinga Los Angeles Times nents who accused him of
department, died Friday at LONGTIME LEADER spying on them, The Times
his San Juan Capistrano During his 24 years as Orange County sheriff, Brad reported. The case was set-
Also, I would be remiss if home, according to the de- tled out of court, and Gates
I did not mention my good
Gates expanded and modernized his department.
partment. He was 85. repeatedly denied any
brother-in-law, Charles “Orange County has lost wrongdoing. Others, includ-
Dolginer. I also have a sister
a legend, and our depart- mortuaries to a facility ange County nearly doubled ing the American Civil Lib-
Elinor (Zelner). Don’t let the ment has lost one of our under his control. during his tenure, and Brad erties Union, sued him over
story go untold. most beloved family mem- He constructed the In- Gates accomplished the inmate deaths and jail
Thanks to my many friends bers,” Sheriff Don Barnes take Release Center, which task of ensuring one of crowding. Gates also
and acquaintances. Hope to said in a statement Friday. is responsible for processing America’s fastest-growing clashed repeatedly with the
see you all again. During six terms in office, all individuals being booked counties had a first-class Board of Supervisors over
Gates earned a reputation into and released from the Sheriff ’s Department,” his demands for more mon-
as a powerful politician who Orange County jail system, Barnes said. ey to expand the county’s
My dream was to have a Share your was a cowboy at heart. Barnes said, and expanded After Orange County’s overcrowded jails.
small house with smoke bil- loved one’s story. “He enjoyed riding the county’s Theo Lacy municipal bankruptcy in Gates graduated from
lowing out of the chimney, a [Link]/obituaries horses, was often spotted in Facility, a maximum-securi- 1994, the Board of Supervi- Capistrano Union High
loving wife and children. a cowboy hat, and even won ty jail complex in Orange, sors appointed Gates to help School, Orange Coast Col-
his first election as sheriff amid concerns of jail run the county, and he as- lege and Cal State Long
with an endorsement by overcrowding. Under his sisted in the development of Beach, where he received
Love, Mel western actor John Wayne,” leadership, the Sheriff ’s De- a financial recovery plan. bachelor’s and master’s de-
Barnes said. “The West was partment became the first He became the leading grees in criminology, and
tamed long before Brad large law enforcement proponent of Measure R, also did extensive graduate
P.S. Hope this isn’t pub-
Gates became sheriff, but agency to have video cam- which provided for a half- study in public administra-
lished too soon. In partnership with
like the lawmen before him, eras installed in patrol units. cent sales tax designed to tion at Claremont Graduate
P.P.S. All in a few words! he ensured a rapidly growing Gates also launched a re- help lift the county out of its School. He retired from the
county was kept safe.” gional anti-drug task force, financial crisis without Sheriff ’s Department in 1999
Gates was first elected the Regional Narcotics Sup- slashing key services, such at age 59.
Melvin is survived by sheriff in 1975. Over the pression Program, and as law enforcement, The Gates is survived by his
Susan Jannol, Greg Adler, years, he took over airport, founded the Drug Abuse Is Times reported. Voters wife, Deedee; son Scott;
Judith Altervain, Karen Adler, To place an obituary ad harbor patrol and jail opera- Life Abuse program, which killed that proposal. daughter Deedee Jo; her
Jeremy Altervain, Micheal please go online to: tions from other depart- teaches students at more In a statement issued on husband, Eddie; grandchil-
Jannol, Jacob Adler, Gabriel [Link]/placeobituary
Adler, Molly Tatum and Izzy ments, The Times reported, than 600 county schools social media, Orange dren Joanna, Emma and Na-
or call Ms. Phillips
Tatum, his brother Bernie 1-800-528-4637
and created a central county about drug, gang and vi- County Dist. Atty. Todd than; and siblings Stillman,
Adler and sister Elinor Zelner. Ext. 77242 morgue that shifted control olence prevention. Spitzer recalled that as a Robert and Margaret
of autopsies from far-flung “The population of Or- member of the Board of Su- Lapham.
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Why Silly String has long been illegal in Hollywood on Halloween

[Goo, from B1] Halloween. Hollywood Boulevard one
vide comment for this arti- A New Jersey village recent evening, said he
cle. banned the stuff in 1998, af- hadn’t thought of Silly
While the brand name is ter a particularly String- String since he was a teen-
often used as a catchall for soaked Independence Day ager. But now that he knows
any number of similar prod- parade. A decade earlier, Hollywood has banned it, his
ucts, the Hollywood ban de- Marlborough, Mass., passed interest is piqued.
fines Silly String as “any an ordinance banning “any “Now I might go get some
putty-like substance that is instrument or product de- Silly String for Halloween,”
shot or expelled in the form signed to project a string or he said, laughing.
of string from an aerosol can streamer of plastic materi- One man who sat on a low
or other pressurized device.” al,” a.k.a. Silly String. chair outside the Hollywood
Silly String was acciden- In 1996, a Connecticut La Brea Inn on a recent eve-
tally discovered in 1972 by town instituted a ban on ning said he is a native of the
two scientists attempting to Silly String at carnivals, pa- neighborhood. He intro-
develop a sprayable cast for rades and other public duced himself as Dave and
broken limbs. The puffy events, punishable by a fine declined to give his last
product rose to prominence of up to $99. name, saying there was a
through the 1990s, eventu- The ordinance was ap- time when Silly String dam-
ally becoming ubiquitous in proved after Silly String age was a pretty serious con-
toy stores around the world. sprayed during a parade at a cern to some in Hollywood.
With the novelty’s popu- local apple harvest festival David McNew AFP / Getty Images “It’s not like it used to be,”
larity came a rise in partyers, “discolored cars, stained A SIGN notes the $1,000 fine that violators could face if they are caught possess- he said. “They don’t spray it
teenage scofflaws and pro- clothing and instruments, ing, using, selling or distributing Silly String in public in Hollywood on Oct. 31. all over the [Hollywood]
testers wreaking String de- and almost caused two po- stars anymore.”
struction. In city after city, lice officers in the parade to Boulevard where he’s lived sergeant wrote in an email to Silly String to detect impro- Whether due to climate
messy, costly incidents lose control of their motor- for three years. “Silly String? a city Department of Trans- vised explosive devices, or concerns, municipal bans or
spurred property owners cycles,” according to the Why would that even be- portation engineer three IEDs, on the battlefield, rely- just the way fads work, it
and law enforcement to call Hartford Courant. come an issue?” days before Halloween in ing on the foam to cling to seems the product has fallen
on legislative representa- There’s no evidence that The cops keep asking the 2021. “But yes. Let’s put them tripwires that would other- out of favor. But according to
tives to act. Silly String ever caused any city to put up anti-Silly up just in case.” wise be invisible. Dave, Silly String is still
Hollywood isn’t the only LAPD motorcycle cops to String signs every October, Silly String is no longer in Some towns, including readily available in Holly-
place where politicians have wreck their hogs while weav- even as some officers ques- as widespread use as it was Lodi in San Joaquin County, wood.
moved to stem a Silly String ing between drunken vam- tion whether it’s still neces- one or two decades ago, al- are reconsidering bans “They just put up the
scourge. At the federal level, pires and mermaids on Hol- sary. though some non-party ap- hastily instituted years ago. signs,” he said of the city.
the EPA monitors it and sim- lywood Boulevard. But “We haven’t seen Silly plications have emerged. Larry Williams, a security “But all the stores still sell
ilar products and has forced L.A.’s statute notes that the String in years!” an LAPD The U.S. military has used guard who was working on it.”
major retailers to pull “il- ban was necessary because
legally imported confetti Silly String “may cause pe-
string products that contain destrians and police officers
banned hydrochlorofluoro- on horseback or motor-
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The following person is doing business as: CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso):

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(AVISO AL DEMANDADO):
JOSE EFRAIN SAY-YAX, SR. (also known as “JOSE
SAY”, an individual; ELISEO SAY-YAX (also known as
I declare that all information in this statement is "ELISEO YAX SAY"), an individual; ELIANA
[Pesticides, from B1] anomalies that indicate a CAMPOLLO, an individual; VALENTIN GUERRA
true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true
in Oxnard, Santa Maria, need for closer investigation information which he or she knows to be false is ALARCON, an individual; SANTOS GERAMIAS, an
Shafter and Watsonville, or action,” Henderson said. guilty of a crime) REGISTRANT/CORP/LLC NAME: individual; ANDERSON TELON, an individual; JAVIER
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Spano. This statement was filed with the County Clerk inclusive.
nearly 80% of the samples. cates, however, have ac- of Los Angeles County on 10/3/2024. NOTICE- in
Eight pesticides were cused the state of downplay- accordance with subdivision (a)of section 17920 A
Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF:
found at the air monitoring ing the results of air (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE)
end of five years from the date on which it was filed
stations, including 1,3- sampling. They contend in the office of the County Clerk except, as provided STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE
dichloropropene, a fumigant that prolonged exposure to in subdivision (b) of section 17920, where it expires 40 COMPANY, a corporation
and probable human carcin- these chemicals, even in days after any change in the facts set forth in the state-
ment pursuant to section 17913 other than a change
ogen used to kill crop-dam- small quantities, is not safe. in the residence address of a registered owner. A new NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide
aging pests in soil. That pes- Recent studies have fictitious business name statement must be filed against you without your being heard unless you
before the expiration. The filing of this statement does respond within 30 days. Read the information
ticide was found at all four found that pesticide use is not of itself authorize the use in this state of fictitious below.
monitoring sites. At least more prevalent in predomi- business name in violation of the rights of another You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons
one type of pesticide was nantly Latino communities under federal state or common law (see section 14411 and legal papers are served on you to ile a written
et seq. Business and Professions code). Dean C. Logan,
found in 163 of the 207 sam- in California, underscoring Los Angeles County Clerk. BY: Lakeisha Mccoy, Deputy. response at this court and have a copy served on the
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Environmental groups laborers and rural residents. Your written response must be in proper legal form
if you want the court to hear your case. There may
say the testing demon- Adding to concerns, all be a court form that you can use for your response.
strates that these chemicals four CDPR pesticide moni- A baby grand in the You can ind these court forms and more

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are drifting into nearby com- toring sites are located at information at the California Courts Online Self-Help
munities and being inhaled schools. HOW TO PLACE AN AD baby’s room Center ([Link]/selfhelp), your county
by passersby. The com- Under state law, pesti- law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you
pounds have been linked to a cides cannot be applied cannot pay the iling fee, ask the court clerk for a fee
waiver form. If you do not ile your response on
variety of health conditions, within a quarter-mile of Self-service 24/7: time, you may lose the case by default, and your
including respiratory illness, schools and day-care cen-
neurological issues and ters during school hours. [Link]/placead Pass it on. wages, money, and property may be taken without
further warning from the court.
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say. cides must notify schools if to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an
“People need to let the they do spread chemicals attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral
Contact us by phone 24/7: Sell your unwanted items service. If you cannot aford an attorney, you may be
state know that we can’t within these areas. where they’ll be appreciated. eligible for free legal services from a nonproit legal
continue growing food by The results coincide with 800-234-4444 services program. You can locate these nonproit
poisoning neighbors,” said a larger fight over whether [Link]/marketplace groups at the California Legal Services Web site
Jane Sellen, co-director of the state’s pesticide limits ([Link]), the California Courts
Californians for Pesticide are protective. In particular, Online Self-Help Center
ADVERTISING POLICIES ([Link]/selfhelp), or by contacting
Reform. “Fumigation is just environmental groups and
unsustainable. It gets every- state regulators have
For Los Angeles Times advertising terms your local court or county bar association. NOTE:
and conditions go to: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and
where, it drifts for miles and clashed over state limits for costs on any settlement or arbitration award of
it hangs around for days. It 1,3-dichloropropene. [Link]/about/[Link] $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must
09CL397
causes cancer, and there’s In 2022, the Office of Envi- be paid before the court will dismiss the case.
no avoiding it. And we see ronmental Health Hazard ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro
THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin
that from these air monitor- Assessment (OEHHA) es- By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek escuchar su version. Lea la información a
ing results.” tablished a limit for workers
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All detected pesticides of 0.04 parts per billion for one letter to each square, Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le
were found below state- 1,3-dichloropropene. That’s to form four ordinary words. entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para
established health limits, 14 times less than the pro- presenter una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y
meaning they are “unlikely posed limit under CDPR, DEROO hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante.
to be harmful to human which has been contested Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo prolegen.
Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato
health,” according to the and will be reexamined in
legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la
CDPR air monitoring re- the coming months. corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted
port. “This is the third most DTIOT pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar
The report comes as heavily used pesticide in Cal- estos formularios de la corte y más información en el
state regulators evaluate the ifornia,” Sellen said. “No Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California
use of chloropicrin, a lung-ir- one’s heard of it. No one’s ([Link]), en la biblioteca de leyes de su
condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no
ritating soil fumigant, which paying attention. And it’s BCNRUH puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al
was measured just shy of scary. When they say, ‘Don’t secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de
state limits in August 2023 in worry, all levels were below extención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su
Oxnard — a city that touts the level of concern,’ that is respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por
itself as the strawberry capi- not the legal level set by OE- incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo,
tal of the world. HHA.”
PNUDIA dinero y hiener sin más advertencia.
“Monitoring the air in But instead of establish- Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que
Now arrange the circled letters llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a
communities with high pes- ing stricter regulatory lim- un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remision
©2024 Tribune Content Agency, LLC to form the surprise answer, as
ticide use is critical to keep- its, some would like to see a All Rights Reserved. suggested by the above cartoon. a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es
ing California safe for every- shift away from using pesti- posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener
one,” CDPR Director Julie cides altogether. The state’s “ ” servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de
Henderson said. 3,000 organic farms have servicios legales sin ines de lucro. Puede encontrar
(Answers tomorrow) estos grupos sin ines de lucro en el sitio web de
“I am encouraged to see shown that it’s possible,
Jumbles: MUNCH TWINE WAGGLE ROOKIE California Legal Services,
that all of the 2023 pesticide Sellen said. Yesterday’s
Answer: She worked at her family’s plant nursery as a ([Link]), en el Centro de Ayuda
concentrations fall below “In California, we can child and now as a — GROWN WOMAN de las Cortes de California, ([Link]) o
our health screening levels. grow without using these poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de
We are still evaluating the chemicals,” Sellen said. “For abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene
concentrations of chloropic- all of human history, we did derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos extentos
rin and are committed to exactly that until the last 50 por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier
recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida
continue collecting and re- or so years. The way ag is
mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje
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to identify areas of potential sustainable and needs to gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda
concern, trend lines or change.” desechar el caso.

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Dear Eric: My husband If it’s the latter, you may When the brain doesn’t get a
and I are hurt and disap- want to think of it as such — good signal from the ear be-
pointed in our two children, a place where your expecta- cause of hearing loss, the
both adults in their 40s. tion and theirs didn’t match brain will eventually “forget”
We were predicted to be up. what sounds mean even
in the direct path of hurri- Either way, you should when they are loud enough.
cane Helene in Georgia. She reach out to let them know Sadly, after an initial di-
changed her path slightly to how their calls landed with agnosis of hearing loss, it
the east, and we didn’t get you. If you don’t, I fear that often takes a patient seven
the worst of the hurricane. you and your husband may to 10 years before they pur-
However, we were hit with start to resent them — if chase hearing aids. Just
massive rain and extremely you’re not already stoking think of the experiences, re-
high winds. Also, we live in a the fires of resentment. And lationships and joy in living
somewhat remote area sur- you could be constructing a that are lost, often because
rounded by trees. narrative about them that’s of pride.
Our children did not con- untrue. Solutions for Loss
10/29/24 tact us until the middle of Selfish and self-centered
the afternoon after Helene are strong words. As a family Dear Solution: There are
hit to see if we were affected that, by your description, so many upsides to taking
by the hurricane (they live in seems to care about each advantage of the care avail-
HOROSCOPE different states). We raised other, you should have a con- able. I hope the husband in
them to be independent but versation about ways that the letter does so.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): how to help someone else, caring adults, and we can’t you can all feel seen and
By Holiday Mathis Curiosity keeps you in your help yourself, and vice versa. understand why they thought of. Dear Eric: I just read your
element, forging connec- The answer to one problem showed little to no concern Sometimes we think of advice to Confused Mom in
Aries (March 21-April 19): tions with ease. You’ll stay could answer many. for our safety. communication patterns in the print edition of the local
You’re a vibrant, colorful sail curious but keep your cool, Pisces (Feb. 19-March I think we should ask relationships as a kind of newspaper.
— a cloth brimming with po- following your attractions. 20): When things don’t work, them why they weren’t wor- “set it and forget it” feature. Regarding their question
tential. You need the heav- Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): check the fit. It’s not about ried about us, but my hus- But as we change, the way about what to do with the
enly currents of wind to fill Your instincts will be strong. one person being wrong or band thinks we should just we talk to our loved ones can college fund, the law was re-
you and move you forward. A situation will arise in the situation being wrong. accept that they have be- change. It’s helpful to keep cently changed to allow 529
Taurus (April 20-May which it’s better to act first It’s about moving and ex- come selfish and self-cen- checking in, keep an open plans to be rolled over into a
20): Tradition matters. The and ask questions later. Sto- ploring to find the fit the way tered. Both of them have mind, and to be vulnerable Roth IRA, with certain cave-
past is never really behind us ries emerge from your en- you’d turn a puzzle piece. said previously that they enough to say, “This hurt ats, of course. This may be
when everything is built on a counters, worth recording. Today’s birthday (Oct. had great childhoods and me, and I love you enough to something worth looking
historical foundation. Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): 29): The spirit of inspiration appreciate how we raised let you know.” into.
Gemini (May 21-June 21): Sometimes, even you don’t is madly in love with you this them. So why did they not 529 Suggestion
Seeing others doing what fully understand your own year. Sparks light up in you care enough to text/email/ Dear Eric: This is regard-
you feel you should be doing actions, but trust that and won’t go out. You’ll soar call to see if we were OK? ing “Accused Mumbler,” Dear 529 Suggestion:
will stir up feelings. You’re there’s a reason for even higher with a coach by your Should I ask them? whose husband resisted This is a great option for the
making a Herculean effort. If your wildest impulses. side. Highlights: a financial No Check-in hearing aids. family, especially if the son
you need help, just ask. Sagittarius (Nov. 22- risk that pays, an advance- I am a doctor of audiology chooses to go to community
Cancer (June 22-July 22): Dec. 21): Trust that beyond ment in technical know-how Dear No Check-in: I’m who serves elderly patients. college and save some of the
Escape is on your mind, the discomfort of uncer- that gives you power, beauti- glad you’re safe. I’m curious Hearing loss may accelerate money his parents set aside.
whether from a tiny annoy- tainty a new direction waits, ful public events, sweet if this communication issue the progression of dementia/
ance or a deeper, more per- one that holds possibilities seats, often being treated is a pattern of behavior with Alzheimer’s. Your brain is Email questions to
vasive issue. Take a specific the familiar can never offer. like royalty. Capricorn and your kids, or an anomaly. like a muscle: Use it or lose it. eric@[Link].
action and break free from Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. Sagittarius adore you.
the cycle. 19): Be willing to try new Lucky numbers: 5, 23, 1, 11, 18.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): An things in the name of self-ap- FAMILY CIRCUS By Bil Keane DENNIS THE MENACE By Hank Ketcham
idea has already visited you preciation. You’re going to Mathis writes her column
quietly, dropping hints and need your own support. for Creators Syndicate Inc.
nudges. Now it arrives as a Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. The horoscope should be
bold, undeniable presence. 18): If you can’t figure out read for entertainment.

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ACROSS
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6 “All __ Up”: Elvis hit
11 LED TV brand
14 “¡Hasta __!”
15 Satirical 2022 biopic
about Al Yankovic
16 Pole worker
17 Person announcing
numbers in a hall
19 “Houdini” singer Lipa
20 Justice Dept. worker
21 Rock groups
22 Many an early email FREE RANGE By Bill Whitehead MARMADUKE By Brad & Paul Anderson
user
24 Dot on a domino
25 Childish comeback
26 Grammy Award won
twice by CeCe Winans
34 Canyon sound
35 __ protector
36 Workplace protection
agcy.
37 Opponent
38 Scuff up
39 Yogurt container
40 Wallet bills
42 Military trainee
44 __ moments ago
45 Notre-Dame de Paris,
8 Paints on palettes 47 Old Testament queen
notably
9 Extracted resource 50 Arizona county or river
48 Floor protectors
10 Subtitled TV show from 51 “Feel What U Feel”
49 Bendy letter
Seoul, e.g. Grammy winner Lisa
50 Watercooler gurgles
11 Chain known for 52 Olympic speedskater
52 Poet T.S.
Cheddar Bay Biscuits Jackson
55 No. 1 pal
12 Whodunit game 53 Onion kin
58 Apple’s mobile platform
13 Hardly close 54 Teeny
59 Crowdfunding target,
18 Guitar clamps 55 Bubble, as water BLISS By Harry Bliss SPEED BUMP By Dave Coverly
and what can be found
23 Scandinavian capital 56 Destiny
in three of this puzzle’s
24 Compensated break 57 Show off, in slang
answers
from work: Abbr. 60 Bi- plus one
62 Luau gift
25 Tavern beverage 61 Day-__ colors
63 Ram, in the zodiac
26 Enshroud in mist ANSWER TO
64 Privileged group
27 Thrifty, in brand names PREVIOUS PUZZLE
65 “Not Dead Yet” TV
network 28 Pianist’s reference pages
66 Undersized 29 Poison __
67 Upscale watch brand 30 Designer bag name
31 White marsh bird
DOWN 32 Communications officer
1 Actress and on the Enterprise
entrepreneur Jessica 33 Selena’s “Only Murders
2 Court filing in the Building” role
3 Shipped off 41 Thick carpet
4 Pancake batter 42 Loops in via email
ingredient 43 2000s teen series set in
5 Oversized Newport Beach
6 White lake bird 44 Surgeons’ degs.
7 Grasped 46 “How tragic” 10/29/24