Los Angeles is a city that has been defined, for better and worse, by big visions. But in recent years, the story of this place has often been told through numbers: soaring housing costs, rising homelessness, widening inequality, shrinking trust in institutions. What’s too often missing are the voices behind those numbers — the Angelenos who live with the consequences of policy choices every day.
The Pacific Northwest is experiencing a series of fast-moving wildfires that have prompted widespread evacuations across parts of Washington, Oregon, and neighboring states. Several large fires have threatened homes, businesses, and critical infrastructure while producing hazardous smoke that has affected air quality across the region. Here's how to help.
Carol James was dizzy and breaking out in painful spots on her skin. Uninsured, she went to a hospital emergency room but walked out after two hours of fruitless waiting. Then she went to a St. John’s Community Health clinic in South Los Angeles – and her life changed.
Sunshine Limbo arrived in Los Angeles via the Philippines and Saudi Arabia, and was grateful to find a job caring for elderly residents at a six-bed facility. She had no idea that earning a total $53 a day for her 24-hour shift was illegal.
Charles Leonard saw a billowing cloud of black smoke rising in the air and stepped outside the Boyle Heights home where he works as a caregiver. He caught a sharp, acrid smell. He saw soot on the house and black splotches all over his white car. He wondered: What is in the air?
For more than 30 years, they were neighbors on a quiet cul-de-sac beneath the foothills of Altadena — sharing not just a street, but also a neighborhood. Then the wildfires came, scattering them miles away to separate lives in temporary housing. And yet, in a twist that felt almost too unlikely to be coincidence, they found each other again— neighbors once more, this time in the same apartment complex in Monrovia.