David Lauter
@DavidLauter
Politics columnist Los Angeles Times. Retired editor. Also @davidlauter.bsky.social. Look for my photos on Flickr.
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California’s housing crisis is hitting Nevada hard. Could that help Trump win a crucial state? Benjamin Oreskes🦅 explains what’s behind the economic angst. latimes.com/politics/story…
Winter wrens are lovely little birds, but they move really fast and often stay hidden. After several tries, I got a decent pic of this one at Ravine in Central Park Manhattan Bird Alert #birdphotography #birdcpp #birds
It's spring, and the birds are showing off their fresh breeding plumage, like this double-crested cormorant and yellow-bellied sapsucker in Central Park. #birding #birdphotography #centralpark
Many of the nation’s richest people said after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol that they would never again back Trump.
Now, they’re changing their minds.
Why? Their taxes could go up if President Biden wins reelection.
By David Lauter
latimes.com/politics/newsl…
Mammon over country, or why billionaires who broke with Trump
are now crawling back
David Lauter
latimes.com/politics/newsl…
The pandemic came and went, downtown L.A. is struggling... but skid row remains L.A.'s ugly truth. While homeless housing providers are pulling out, a high-end developer is moving in (and doing a little bit of wishful geography ) latimes.com/california/new… Liam Dillon
“All together, it’s likely that five years from now, Skid Row will look vastly different than it does today. But the neighborhood’s status as the last resort for the L.A.’s most vulnerable doesn’t appear to be changing,” Liam Dillon writes. latimes.com/california/new…
.David Lauter has this main takeaway from this weeks abortion hearing before the Supreme Court: The high court has moved sharply to the right already, but it could go a lot further if Trump gets another term.
latimes.com/politics/story…
Robert Kennedy Jr. has used Cesar Chavez’s name and image in his independent campaign for president, eliciting outrage from Chavez family members. Several of them spoke out this week.
From Benjamin Oreskes🦅
latimes.com/politics/story…
'almost 1 in 4 of Medicaid beneficiaries are Republicans and/or lean Republican, a number which likely has grown since Trump came on the scene and built his populist base of non-college educated rural White adults and some minority Americans.' Drew Altman
kff.org/other/perspect…