Stagecoach and Coachella fans leave behind tons of camping gear, clothes, food.

This year, the Galilee Center, which serves the eastern Coachella Valley, gathered 48,480 pounds of donations from Coachella.

lat.ms/44nl9tQ Karen Garcia

ICYMI: A Fresno County city has allowed its largest private employer Pitman Family Farms, makers of Mary's Chicken, a years-long delay in settling $1 million after the city failed for years to collect money tied to the company’s increased water use.
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Feds say he masterminded an epic California water heist. Some farmers say he’s their Robin Hood

“He didn’t cause the leaking,” said longtime farmer Joe Del Bosque. “He just happened to take advantage of it for the good of the farmers.”

lat.ms/4bgmW65 jessica garrison

California climbers acclimatize for Mt. Everest from the comfort of their own beds

lat.ms/3xXDvFA Jack Dolan

Mystery partly solved. ‘Dark money’ campaign donors are tied to top Imperial County IID officials desertsun.com/story/news/pol… via @mydesert

I wrote about Mirna Souza, a Nicaraguan immigrant who was stabbed to death yesterday morning on a B line train.

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Congratulations, colega!

Workplace news! (that is not about my own workplace, which also has news!)

CalOSHA says the long-delayed indoor heat protection rule is back on track to be passed this summer... with a major exception for prison workers.
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Voters in Calexico have resoundingly ousted the first out transgender member of the City Council and her council ally after bitter recall campaign rife with accusations of transphobia and political cronyism in the struggling border town latimes.com/california/sto… by me for Los Angeles Times

18 months without a new contract. Layoffs that have decimated our newsroom. Please sign this petition to tell L.A. Times management how much you value The Times and the journalists who produce it ✊🏼
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I’ve always wondered about these billboards!

'Wow, that's a lot of cheddar in this valley.'

‘I can’t breathe.’ #Fresno police, sheriff’s deputies win immunity in 2017 restraint death Rob Parsons Fresnoland fresnoland.org/2024/04/16/qua…

The goal is to keep carbon underground and out of the atmosphere, where it traps heat and contributes to climate change.

But some want a future without fossil fuels altogether.

Mi reporte desde Kern County por CalMatters.

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'L.A.’s heartbreak industry isn’t Hollywood; it’s journalism. To paraphrase what the late A. Bartlett Giamatti said about baseball, it’s designed to break the hearts of those who work it.'

Column by Col. Gustavo Arellano: lat.ms/3W0rBVy

Between 2017-2019, about 28% of Latinas reported taking folic acid the month before becoming pregnant.

A CA bill would require manufacturers of corn masa flour — used to make many classic Latino foods — to add folic acid to their products.

bit.ly/3TVuXGJ Ana B. Ibarra

Ag groups spend millions on Spanish-language radio ads to discourage California farmworker unionizing.

“This is out of the playbook,” said Gaspar Rivera-Salgado of the UCLA Labor Center. “It is very anti-union.”

bit.ly/4aBiKxT Mathew Miranda Melissa Montalvo

Palm Springs council members did not specify what they plan to do for the survivors of the community leveled in the 1960s, however, and made no mention of paying reparations to the families whose homes were demolished.

lat.ms/3Q21AkS Nathan Solis

“It’s environmental racism,” said a Greenfield City Council member + organizer for plaintiff Safe Ag Safe Schools. “These are the communities of farmworkers that are putting food on the table. The families are being silently killed.” h

ttps://lat.ms/4cOiP2V Hailey Branson-Potts

The campsite run by a 22-year-old volunteer, located just over 300 yards up a rocky incline from the United States-Mexico border wall, became a first stop for people seeking food, water and warmth as they waited to be apprehended by border authorities.

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