TRAFFIC ACCIDENT? Laguna Niguel Traffic Commissioner Jim...
- Share via
TRAFFIC ACCIDENT? Laguna Niguel Traffic Commissioner Jim Shields thought he was being nice to the city: On a long-planned vacation to China last month, he presented a city pin to Beijing officials. But while there, the city council went ahead with its annual policy of interviewing all traffic commissioner candidates--even those up for reappointment. Shields away, no interview. The council dropped him. . . . Says Shields, an appraiser: “This is the stupidest policy I’ve ever heard of.”
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Dr. Vanessa J. Díaz, professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at Loyola Marymount University and co-author of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.
