Learn how to make your favorite Starbucks drink at home to save money, they said, omitting that your coffee consumption will go up by like 480%

Some news, as they say.

This will be my last week at the Los Angeles Times. Starting later this month, I’ll be writing columns covering policy and politics on the West Coast for Bloomberg @Opinion.

I’m beyond excited, especially given the high stakes of this already crazy election year.

Honored to be recognized by Best of the West for one of my favorite stories from last year, a weird yarn on two Californians who capitalized on the fever-pitch fundraising of the 2016 election to con people out of millions of dollars.

Here’s the story: latimes.com/california/sto…

I always used to be tickled when a letter went out in the sign over the former Los Angeles Times building and it spelled THE TIES or, once, memorably, HE TIMES, but this is just sad

“They noted that one caveat of their work was that there are currently no air monitors that would detect the gas in Florida, where the pesticide is also used to control termites.” latimes.com/environment/st…

Someone stole William Woods’ identity. The LAPD arrested him, believing the identity thief over him.

A judge later sent Woods to a mental hospital because he maintained (rightfully so) that he was the real William Woods. I interviewed him here

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JUST IN: CA Appellate court rejects Secretary of State Shirley Weber’s attempt to get Vince Fong off congressional ballot.

Court sides with lower court, which basically ruled state law doesn’t prevent one candidate from running for two offices at the same time.

A (charming!) woman on KTLA about the eclipse: 'It kinda looks like the Dreamworks logo!' This is the most LA comment humanly possible. -- J

In today's edition of life thrives in liminal spaces -- flowers are flourishing on grassy, unpaved sections of LAX's runways. Via Summer Lin. latimes.com/california/sto…

Wild new James Queally Scientology story:

In a speech last fall, L.A. County Deputy Dist. Atty. Reinhold Mueller delivered remarks that contained allegations nearly identical to those from the lawsuit, according to a video reviewed by The Times.

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