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A path to citizenship
for ‘Dreamers’ would
be paired with limits
on legal immigration.
By Brian Bennett
WASHINGTON — As
the Senate prepares to begin
a freewheeling debate over
immigration this week,
White House officials have
begun floating a possible
compromise idea — a pledge
to maintain legal immigra-
tion at current levels, about
1.1 million people a year, for
more than a decade.
President Trump has
proposed a series of mea-
sures, including restrictions
on family unification, which
he calls “chain migration,”
and an end to the visa lot-
tery, that critics say ulti-
mately could cut legal immi-
gration to the U.S. by 40% or
more.
But a White House offi-
cial said Saturday that the
administration is working
with allies in the Senate on a
proposal that would create a
path to citizenship for an es-
timated 1.8 million people
who were brought to the
country illegally as children
and that would clear the
backlog of nearly 4 million
sponsored relatives who
currently are waiting for
green cards.
The combined effort, offi-
cials said, would in effect
make up for the cuts in other
immigration categories for
about 13 years, the official
said. After that, if Congress
takes no additional action to
add or expand visa catego-
ries, the total number of peo-
ple allowed to resettle in the
U.S. each year probably
would decline by hundreds
of thousands.
The outline began
emerging early last week
when John F. Kelly, the White
House chief of staff, and
Kirstjen Nielsen, the secre-
tary of Homeland Security,
met with a half a dozen or so
Latino Republicans at the
White House and said the
administration was pre-
pared to ensure that overall
immigration levels would re-
main steady.
The shift shows the White
House is feeling out the con-
[See Immigration, A12]
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — The
first hit was bad enough.
Shaun White was snowboarding in New
Zealand when he took off a millisecond
early on a double cork 1440 and came down
hard, smacking the lip of the halfpipe at an
awkward angle.
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In a fast-growing Inland Empire dren’s boutiques, bakeries and cafes than a dozen Inland Empire cities, in-
churning out new housing tracts, the serving gourmet waffle sandwiches cluding Riverside, Pomona and San
city of Redlands is a throwback to an out of brick-lined alleys. Bernardino, have been marked as
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older, more regal era. But danger lurks amid the idyllic dangerous — but remain unretrofit-
The college town is graced by his- charm of these brick buildings: As ted despite decades of warnings, ac-
toric mansions, old orange groves and many as 74 in the city are not retrofit- cording to a Times analysis of the lat-
a vintage downtown that stands in ted to withstand a major earthquake, est building and safety records.
deep contrast to the region’s big-box putting the public at risk should the These cities are far behind coastal
shopping centers and drive-through bricks start to topple onto sidewalks, regions of California, which have
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century-old buildings filled with chil- As many as 640 buildings in more [See Buildings, A10]
threatens to escalate
regional tensions into
international combat.
PYEONGCHANG By Noga Tarnopolsky
and Nabih Bulos
JERUSALEM — A drone
incursion into Israel early
Saturday spiraled into a ma-
jor confrontation that in-
cluded the downing of an Is-
raeli fighter jet and an exten-
sive attack on Iranian mili-
tary assets in Syria — the
first known time that Israel
has used force against Iran.
The attacks and counter-
attacks also mark the first
time since 1982 that Israel
and Syria have engaged in
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direct combat.
The chain of events
D I P LO MAT I C O P E NI NG threatened to escalate into
Emissaries for North Korean leader Kim Jong active combat between Syr-
ian government forces and
Un, including sister Kim Yo Jong, invite the Israel, which has remained
South for the first summit in 10 years. WORLD, A3 an outsider in the 7-year-old
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tongue. It would take something more to occupation. NATION, A6 sion. The drone, which was
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Border wall’s high hurdles
Path for Trump’s pet project to be long, hard, and wind through courts
By Jaclyn Cosgrove
It’s not long — just two
pages — but a notice re-
cently issued by the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers is
a reminder of the chal-
lenges, legal and otherwise,
facing President Trump’s
promised border wall.
The corps issued a notice
to contractors Friday saying
it might soon accept bids to
construct a 3-mile section of
border wall in south Texas,
with an estimated cost of
anywhere from $25 million
to $100 million — if the corps
gets the money.
The notice drew alarm
from environmentalists,
who say the wall will un-
doubtedly be built on the
Santa Ana National Wildlife
Refuge. The 2,088-acre
parcel in Texas has been
dubbed by the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service as “the jewel
of the National Wildlife
Refuge System.”
“The Santa Ana National
Wildlife Refuge proposal is
truly an outrage,” said Brian
Segee, a senior attorney at
the Center for Biological
Diversity. “I don’t say that
lightly. It will effectively
destroy the refuge because
the proposed border wall
will be built toward the
northern part of the refuge
so it will cut off not only
wildlife, but also … have
ecological, economic and
cultural impacts.”
The debate over the
refuge as a proposed loca-
tion for a 3-mile section of
the wall is reminder of the
various complexities that
face an attempt to strength-
en border security from San
Diego to Brownsville, Texas.
Here are some of the
difficulties that come with
Trump’s “build the wall”
campaign promise:
How many miles of
wall already exist?
The U.S.-Mexico border,
which is about 2,000 miles,
has barriers that block
people and vehicles along
653 miles, according to the
think tank Washington
Office on Latin America.
There’s no fencing on
about 1,300 miles of the
border, but the Rio Grande
forms a natural border
along a portion. The river,
however, can be crossed
many ways — sometimes by
boat, sometimes by floating
on inner tubes. In places
where it runs shallow, mi-
grants can wade across.
How much money is
requested this year?
The White House has
requested $1.6 billion to
build 74 miles of border wall
in 2018, with 60 miles con-
structed in new areas. The
other 14 miles of wall would
replace or enhance existing
barriers. And the White
Granada Club Chair, Loveseat, Moon Side Table
Joseph Reclaimed Teak Table & Washington Chairs
OVER 600 people protested border wall plans at the Santa Ana National Wildlife
Refuge in Texas last year. Environmentalists say a wall would harm wildlife.
House wants $18 billion for
722 miles of new or replace-
ment wall over the next 10
years, according to the
Latin America think tank.
Trump told reporters in
July that there are enough
natural barriers along the
border that a 2,000-mile wall
isn’t necessary.
“You have mountains.
You have some rivers that
are violent and vicious. You
have some areas that are so
far away that you don’t
really have people crossing.
So you don’t need that,”
Trump said. “You’ll need
anywhere from 700 to 900
miles.”
How might it affect
the environment?
Border barriers have
been proposed on local,
state and federal lands that
have been protected from
development to ensure that
plant and animal popula-
tions thrive. The Santa Ana
National Wildlife Refuge
was established in 1943 to
protect migratory birds.
Now, 400 bird species, 450
types of plants and half of all
butterfly species in North
America can be found there.
Overall, there’s concern
over the impact a wall would
have on the wide range of
animals that live along the
U.S.-Mexico border. For
example, jaguars and
ocelots have both been
making somewhat of a
comeback in recent years,
but the wall would signifi-
cantly limit their range,
affecting their mating and
hunting habits, said Javier
Sierra, an associate commu-
nications director at the
Sierra Club.
The wall could keep
Sonoran pronghorns and
black bear from important
food and water sources,
especially during drought,
according to the Wildlands
Network, a Seattle-based
conservation group. Addi-
tionally, a border wall could
permanently divide Mexi-
can wolf populations, lead-
ing to a lack of genetic diver-
sity and an increase in the
chance of local extinction.
“The wall would be a
tremendous disruption in
the flow of wildlife through-
out not only Texas but —
we’re talking about the
entire 2,000-mile border
with Mexico,” Sierra said.
What legal hurdles
does the wall face?
One legal challenge
argues that the Trump
administration violated the
law in its rush to build bor-
der wall and prototype
projects near San Diego.
Attorneys for environmen-
tal and wildlife advocacy
groups say the federal gov-
ernment cannot ignore
various environmental laws
in order to proceed with the
project.
A hearing on the case,
which consolidates three
lawsuits, was held in San
Diego on Friday — coinci-
dentally the same day the
Army Corps issued the
notice about bids for wall
construction.
Hearing the case is U.S.
District Judge Gonzalo
Curiel. He asked the attor-
neys for additional informa-
tion, due Tuesday, and will
probably issue a written
order this week.
Curiel is a familiar face to
the president. He presided
over the lawsuit against
Trump University and was
heavily criticized by then-
candidate Donald Trump,
who questioned whether
Curiel could act impartially
in the case because he was
“a member of a club or soci-
ety very strongly pro-Mexi-
can.” Curiel, who is of Mexi-
can descent, was born in
Indiana.
How about concerns
over the location?
Building near the Rio
Grande presents special
challenges. A wall can’t be
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built too close to the river in
case of flooding. One deli-
cate issue: Some people own
land that abuts the river.
Some portions of a wall
would have to be built on
private lands, prompting
many locals in Texas to
oppose fencing not just on
political grounds (the bor-
der area is largely Demo-
cratic and Latino), but
because barriers split their
land. It’s possible that
someone could own land
that’s north of the Rio
Grande, but south of the
border wall — cutting them
off from their own property.
To the east in
Brownsville, near where the
Rio Grande meets the Gulf
of Mexico, the federal gov-
ernment seized land in 2009
to erect a stretch of fence on
Eloisa Tamez’s ancestral
home, a Spanish land grant
from 1767.
Although she wants the
area secure, Tamez com-
plained that she had no
input before the fence was
built and, in an interview
with The Times, called it “a
monstrosity.”
What happens next
in Washington?
Congress, having forged
a budget deal, is set to take
up immigration this week.
Among the issues still to be
addressed is the fate of the
Obama-era program that
allowed young people
brought to the U.S. as chil-
dren to live and work here
legally. The Senate plans to
have an open debate on an
immigration bill. A new
White House idea calls for
maintaining legal immigra-
tion levels at about 1.1 mil-
lion a year — allowing a path
to citizenship for some while
curtailing certain forms of
legal immigration.
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North Korea proposes a meeting
Kim Jong Un’s
emissaries invite the
South for the first
summit in a decade.
By Matt Stiles
SEOUL — The diplo-
matic opening created for
North and South Korea by
the Winter Olympics wid-
ened — and perhaps got
even more complicated — on
Saturday as the totalitarian
state’s leader proposed the
first inter-Korean summit in
a decade.
The invitation came dur-
ing a lunch meeting between
North Korean leader Kim
Jong Un’s emissaries, in-
cluding his sister, Kim Yo
Jong, and South Korean
President Moon Jae-in.
Moon, a progressive who
has sought to improve rela-
tions with the North, espe-
cially ahead of the Games,
seemed open to such a meet-
ing after the two countries
“fulfill conditions” to ar-
range it, his office said.
The terms, timing and lo-
cation of any such meeting
were unclear. The potential
reaction from Washington, a
key South Korean ally on se-
curity issues, which has
sought to maximize pres-
sure on the North to aban-
don its pursuit of nuclear
weapons and ballistic mis-
siles, also remained uncer-
tain.
On Saturday, while re-
turning to the U.S. from
South Korea, Vice President
Mike Pence said “there is no
daylight” separating the
U.S., the South and Japan on
their view of the North and
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By Jill Langlois
SAO PAULO, Brazil —
Tuesday morning yoga is
canceled.
The call comes 15 min-
utes before it was supposed
to start, leaving Iran Giusti
no time to let students know
their teacher won’t make it
to the Casa 1 community
center in downtown Sao
Paulo for the 10 a.m. class.
As he hangs up the
phone, two students walk
into the large, high-ceilinged
former garage where Giusti
is working, his laptop sitting
on a long wooden tabletop
supported by trestle-style
legs.
Casa 1, a home for
LGBTQ youth kicked out by
their families because of
their sexual orientation or
gender identity, opened the
doors of its community cen-
ter in September, but the
original house, just up the
street and around the cor-
ner, celebrated its first anni-
versary on Jan. 25.
It was much needed.
While Sao Paulo is known for
having the largest Gay Pride
Parade in the world and
same-sex marriage has been
legal in Brazil since 2013, vi-
olent deaths of LGBTQ peo-
ple in the country hit an all-
time high last year, when at
least 445 Brazilians died be-
cause of violence related to
homophobia, according to
the watchdog Gay Group of
Bahia. Of that total, 387 were
homicides and 58 were sui-
cides.
“Sorry, there won’t be a
class today,” Giusti says to
the young men coming in
through the side door from
the center’s main lobby area.
Giusti’s three dogs circle the
room, tails wagging as they
walk out the open garage
door to the front gate.
One of the students
walks across the room and
hands Giusti a bag filled
THE WORLD
SOUTH KOREA’S unification minister, Cho Myoung-gyon, left, with Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean
leader Kim Jong Un, and Kim Yong Nam, who heads the North’s Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly.
its efforts on nuclear arms
and missiles, the Associated
Press reported. Pence, while
aboard Air Force Two, said
he left Asia “encouraged
that we will continue to work
very closely to continue and
intensify the maximum
pressure campaign” against
the North.
If an inter-Korean sum-
mit does take place, it would
be the first such gathering
since 2007. During the ensu-
ing decade-long gap in com-
munication, the North has
advanced as a nuclear state
despite efforts by the inter-
with toilet paper, tooth-
paste, soap and shampoo.
“I brought some dona-
tions, so it was still worth the
trip,” he says with a smile.
Giusti thanks him and
gives him a hug.
Giusti sets the bag next
to his feet and looks back at
his computer. Even with the
garage door open and two
fans spinning at maximum
speed, the summer heat is
stifling. He’s trying to access
Casa 1’s books to see what he
has to work with this month,
but the internet is out in the
whole neighborhood.
“We run this place just
like any other Brazilian
household: One month you
pay the gas bill, the next you
pay the lights,” he says with
a laugh. “Then at least noth-
ing gets shut off.”
The second floor of Casa
1’s red brick building was
originally expected to house
eight people, but Giusti had
to make room for 12 in its
first week. Now, Casa 1 is
home to up to 20 at a time.
The gender identity of resi-
dents tends to be split down
the middle: 50% transgen-
der, 50% cisgender (some-
one whose gender identity
matches their gender at
birth). In its first year, 78
people between the ages of18
and 25 passed through its
doors, staying for up to four
months each. While there,
finding permanent housing
and employment, finishing
education, and taking care
of both physical and mental
health are made priorities.
Most of the volunteers at
Casa1are healthcare profes-
sionals and educators who
help residents get back on
track when they have no-
where else to go.
Below the residence on
the first floor are three
spaces that are open to the
public: a library, a gallery
showcasing LGBTQ art,
and a clothing shop that do-
nates the items it receives to
people who are homeless.
Workshops and courses
used to take place here, but
the space was too small,
leading Giusti to open Casa
1’s nearby community cen-
ter. While residents are given
national community and
Seoul to curb its ambitions.
After inviting the North’s
officials, including Kim Yo
Jong, to the opening cere-
mony on Friday night, Moon
seemed to sense the oppor-
tunity. He offered a toast to
open the lunch meeting at
the Blue House, the presi-
dential complex named for
its distinctly colored tile
roof.
“The world’s attention is
on today’s meeting, and
there are high hopes for the
North and the South,” said
Moon, according to remarks
“IT’S BEEN great so far,” Reinaldo da Silva Freitas Jr. says of his time at Casa 1 in Sao Paulo. “All I need now
is a job. Then I can save some money so I can rent a room and go to college one day. I want to study fashion.”
MAX MILLIANO MELO draws a pattern during
sewing class at Casa 1’s nearby community center.
first pick, the free activities
are also open to the public,
and many of the center’s
neighbors come to take
classes in subjects as varied
as yoga, sewing, English and
computer basics.
It’s just before 2 p.m.
when Reinaldo da Silva Fre-
itas Jr. walks into the space
where the morning’s yoga
class was supposed to take
place. He spent his morning
handing out resumes and
walked from his home at
Casa 1 to the community
center after having a lunch of
released by his office. “We
have a heavy responsibility.”
The invitation comes as
Pence visited Seoul in an ef-
fort to keep the world — and,
perhaps, Moon — focused on
the North’s provocative ac-
tions in 2017, which included
an underground nuclear
detonation and the testing
of three long-range missiles
capable of striking the
American mainland.
Members of the North’s
delegation sat just behind
Pence at the Olympic sta-
dium for the festivities in
Pyeongchang, though the
roast beef, rice, beans and
salad left over from an event
the day before.
A second wooden table
has been set up parallel to
the first to make room for
this afternoon’s sewing
class. Two students are al-
ready sitting across from
each other. Freitas pulls a
white plastic chair from a
stack in the corner and sits
next to Andrea Ferrara, who
is talking to Max Milliano
Melo.
Other students trickle in
as the three wait for their
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Yonhap
vice president didn’t greet
them publicly or in private —
even as rumors swirled in
Seoul about that possibility.
The North’s involvement
in the Games only became
possible in the last month af-
ter Kim Jong Un delivered a
conciliatory message, with
themes of Korean solidarity,
during a New Year’s Day ad-
dress. That led Moon to pro-
pose talks, and the two sides
negotiated terms allowing
the entry of a large North Ko-
rean delegation for the
Games.
The invitation could have
Photographs by
teacher to arrive.
“How long have you been
at Casa 1 now?” Ferrara
asks.
“Since the end of Novem-
ber, so just over a month,”
Freitas says.
Freitas is 19 and Casa 1 is
the fourth home in his tu-
multuous life. His mother
died when he was a baby and
his father sent him to live
with family friends in a rural
area of Mato Grosso do Sul
state. When he was 7, his fa-
ther returned to send him to
Sao Paulo to live with a wom-
an he was told was an aunt,
although he would later
learn she was not a relative.
Despite that, he came to re-
gard her as his mother,
someone he could trust to
accept him when he told her
about his sexuality. Instead,
she gave him two days to get
out of her house.
“It’s been great so far,” he
says to Ferrara and Melo of
his time at Casa 1. “All I need
now is a job. Then I can save
some money so I can rent a
room and go to college one
day. I want to study fashion.”
Their sewing teacher,
Nawira Scarano, comes
through the open garage
door.
“Sorry I’m late, every-
one.”
She puts her bag down on
A3
been predicted immediately
after Kim’s address, said
Bong Young-shik, a visiting
research fellow at Yonsei
University in Seoul.
Bong, who doesn’t favor
such a meeting, said it’s a
sign that the international
pressure placed on the
North forced it to act with di-
plomacy. “He clearly stated
his intention to go all-out to
engage South Korea,” he
said of Kim Jong Un. “The
economic sanctions are fi-
nally beginning to really
work. They have hit the
North Korea leadership
where it hurts.”
Dialogue with the North
could be complicated for
Moon because of potential
objections from Washington
and Tokyo, but also from his
own citizens.
South Koreans, espe-
cially older generations who
still remember being sepa-
rated from relatives, have for
years felt an instinctive tug
toward unification.
But that sentiment is
changing as the population
has grown more skeptical of
the North’s empty diplo-
matic overtures — and as
younger generations have
emerged with fewer cultural
ties to the totalitarian state.
That divide is evident in
the reaction to the Olympics
deal, which included a joint
march during the opening
ceremony and a combined
women’s hockey team,
which lost to Switzerland in
its first game on Saturday.
Protests and online peti-
tions have sprouted in the
month since the parties be-
gan their negotiations.
Stiles is a special
correspondent.
Jill Langlois For The Times
the other table and explains
that today’s class will be
about the theory of pattern-
making.
“I’m going to show you
the hard way so that every-
thing else you do going for-
ward will seem easy.”
Scarano asks her stu-
dents to take out the sheets
of paper with the measure-
ments they took last week.
She circles the table to make
sure everyone understands
how to do the math to make
the pattern.
“Anyone who has a body
with curves or who wants
pleats at the waist, you can
put them in now,” she says.
“Unfortunately, when you
look up patterns online,
they’ll all be labeled as either
male or female. Patterns
without genders don’t exist
yet.”
As they continue to draw
their patterns, a student
new to the class comments
that his father was a tailor
and he has French curves at
home they can use.
“A tailor?” says Freitas.
“So where are all your luxury
clothes?”
“At home in my closet,”
he says, laughing. “Just like I
used to be.”
Langlois is a special
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A4 S U N DAY , FE B RUARY 11, 2 018
A drone incursion, a downed jet
[Israel, from A1]
shot down by Apache heli-
copters, was “an advanced,
low-signature model Israel
has never before captured,”
said Brig. Gen. Tomer Bar,
second in command of Isra-
el’s air force.
In retaliation for the in-
cursion, four Israeli F-16
fighter jets bombed the Ira-
nian drone control site in
Syria.
Returning from that mis-
sion, one jet was downed
over Israeli territory by Syr-
ian antiaircraft missiles. The
Israeli army said the plane
did not suffer a direct hit but
was struck by shrapnel from
a missile that blew up next to
it.
The pilots ejected and
were injured but survived.
The jet crashed next to a
high school in the Galilean
kibbutz community of
Hardouf. The school was
empty early on the weekend
morning.
Syrian state media re-
ported that the downing of
the aircraft was “a strategic
decision of Syria and the
axis of resistance to Israel.”
In retaliation, Israel
carried out what the army
called “a large-scale opera-
tion” into Syria targeting 12
Syrian and Iranian military
sites.
“Syria and Iran are
playing with fire,” said Israel
Defense Forces spokesman
Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus.
Syrian state television
described the attack as a
new “Israeli aggression” in
the form of explosions close
to the Syrian capital, Dam-
ascus. A community Face-
book page that tracks at-
tacks there reported strikes
on military sites near the
suburbs of Kiswah and Di-
mas.
The Iranian Foreign Min-
istry said the claim by Israel
that it intercepted a drone
was “ridiculous.”
“Reports of downing an
Iranian drone flying over Is-
rael and also Iran’s involve-
ment in attacking an Israeli
jet are so ridiculous.... Iran
only provides military ad-
vice to Syria,” Foreign Min-
istry spokesman Bahram
Ghasemi was quoted as say-
ing on Iranian television.
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A MISSILE’S remains sit in southern Lebanon, near the Syria border, after Israel carried out retaliatory attacks on 12 targets in Syria.
A statement issued by
the joint Syrian-Iranian op-
erations room said the
drones had been “on a rou-
tine mission” over eastern
Syria for operations against
remaining Islamic State
pockets in the area when the
Israeli warplanes struck the
control center at the Tiyas
airport, a military air base
also known as T4, roughly 55
miles southeast of the Syr-
ian city of Homs.
“This action by the Zi-
onist entity is a condem-
nable terrorist attack … and
any new aggression will face
a harsh and serious re-
sponse,” it said.
Meanwhile, commenta-
tors on news channels sup-
portive of the Syrian govern-
ment hailed the downing of
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the F-16 as a major turning
point in its relationship with
Israel.
“The Israeli entity is now
convinced it is unable to
bear the consequences of a
confrontation,” said Ghas-
san Mohammad, an analyst
on the Syrian Ikhbariyah
news channel.
Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu has
long warned of the danger of
Iran’s growing military pres-
ence along Israel’s northern
border.
In a video released by his
office Saturday, he said: “Is-
rael holds Iran and its Syrian
hosts responsible for today’s
aggression. We will continue
to do whatever is necessary
to protect our sovereignty
and our security.”
Zuma Press
A U.N. OBSERVER is posted near the border between Israel and Syria. The last
time that Israeli and Syrian forces engaged in direct combat was in June 1982.
Russia, Syrian President sobering juncture in Netan- that mechanism holds se-
Bashar Assad’s most stal- yahu’s intense efforts to cure.”
wart ally, which has estab- avoid military entangle- In a statement Saturday,
lished several military bases ments with Russia through the Pentagon said that the
in Syria during the course of a “deconfliction mecha- U.S. did not participate in
the civil war, said in a state- nism.” the Israeli military opera-
ment issued by the Foreign At a Jan. 30 meeting with tion in Syria and that it fully
Ministry that it urged “all Russian President Vladimir supports “Israel’s inherent
sides to exercise restraint Putin in Moscow, Netanyahu right to defend itself against
and to avoid any actions that said: “The most important threats to its territory and
could lead to an even greater thing I think is to make sure its people.”
complication of the situa- that we understand each It called for “greater
tion. other and that we don’t international resolve in
“It is necessary to uncon- shoot down each other’s countering Iran’s malign ac-
ditionally respect the sover- planes. And we decided to do tivities.”
eignty and territorial integ- what is called in this awful In a separate statement,
rity of Syria and other coun- jargon deconfliction, which U.S. State Department
tries in the region.” means not shooting each spokeswoman Heather
The downing of the Isra- other. And we established a Nauert said, “Iran’s calcu-
eli jet by Syria represents a mechanism to do that, and [See Israel, A5]
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Confrontation could
broaden Syria conflict
[Israel, from A4]
lated escalation of threat Homs
TIYAS
and its ambition to project MILITARY
AIR BASE
its power and dominance,
places all the people of the Mediterranean
Sea LEBANON
region — from Yemen to
Beirut SYRIA
Lebanon — at risk.”
“The U.S. continues to Damascus
push back on the totality of Israeli
Iran’s malign activities in F-16
the region and calls for an downed
end to Iranian behavior that Sea of
Haifa
threatens peace and stabil- Galilee
ity,” the statement said. Hardouf BEIT SHEAN
Daniel Shapiro, a former VALLEY
U.S. ambassador to Israel,
Tel Aviv WEST JORDAN
said in an interview that the BANK
Amman
U.S. appears to be “ceding all Sunday Alamba Associated Press
ISRAEL
the diplomacy to Russia” SOME OF the so-called Chibok girls who were freed in 2017. President Muham-
Jerusalem 50 MILES
and in doing so, was making madu Buhari on Saturday urged Nigeria’s army to step up efforts to free the rest.
a mistake. Sources: Mapzen, OpenStreetMap

13 hostages are released

“Thus far, the U.S. seems P au l D u gi n sk i Los Angeles Times
absent from the playing
field, which does not serve news, it was that the pilots
its own interests or that of
‘Thus far, the U.S. were not forced to eject over

after talks with Nigeria

its closest regional ally, Isra-
el.
“Normally, in a moment
of crisis or of potential esca-
lation, American diplomacy
coordinates very closely
with Israel and is critical
for containing these situa-
tions and deterring Israeli
and U.S. enemies from act-
ing aggressively,” said Sha-
piro, currently a visiting fel-
low at the Institute for Na-
tional Security Studies in
Tel Aviv.
In an official statement,
Hezbollah, the Lebanese-
based militia and a close Ira-
nian ally, announced that
the downing of the Israeli jet
represents “the start of a
new strategic era.”
The last time Israeli and
Syrian forces engaged in di-
rect combat was in June
1982, when Israel entered the
south of Lebanon to uproot
Palestinian guerrillas using
the area as a staging ground
for attacks into Israel.
Amos Yadlin, a former Is-
seems absent from
the playing field,
which does not
serve its own
interests or that of
... Israel.’
— Daniel Shapiro,
former U.S. ambassador
raeli air force general who
once headed Israel’s mili-
tary intelligence, said the
downing of the plane Sat-
urday in northern Israel
raised the possibility that
“Syria may have used a long-
range missile that Israel has
been worried about.”
In an interview, he added,
“This means Israeli jets are
exposed and vulnerable
within Israeli borders.”
Israeli observers noted
that if there was any good
Syrian territory, where they
could have been captured by
Islamic State militias or the
Syrian army. Although the
militants and the Syrian
army are fighting each other,
they share a common enemy
in Israel.
On Feb. 3, a Russian
fighter jet was shot down in a
rebel-held area of northern
Syria. The pilot survived the
initial attack by ejecting but
was killed by militia fighters
on the ground.
In a further indication of
regional volatility, Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Er-
dogan announced Saturday
that one of his army’s heli-
copters was shot down in
Syria during a mission
against U.S.-backed Kurd-
ish forces. Turkey and the
United States are NATO al-
lies.
Special correspondents
Tarnopolsky reported from
Jerusalem and Bulos from
Amman, Jordan.
Militant group Boko
Haram kidnapped
three academics and
10 others last year.
associated press
YOLA, Nigeria — Boko
Haram extremists have
freed three university lectur-
ers and 10 women the group
had kidnapped in separate
raids last year, Nigeria’s gov-
ernment said Saturday.
The academics were ab-
ducted by the Nigeria-based
Islamic militants while con-
ducting oil prospect evalu-
ations in the Lake Chad area
on behalf of Nigerian Na-
tional Petroleum Corp. last
year, said presidential
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Some of their colleagues
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The 10 women were kid-
napped in a Boko Haram
raid on a military and police
convoy last year near Maid-
uguri.
“Their release followed a
series of negotiations as di-
rected by President Muham-
madu Buhari and was facili-
tated by the International
Committee of the Red
Cross,” said Shehu, adding
that Buhari was pleased by
the news.
All 13 are now in the cus-
tody of the Department of
State Security Services and
are on their way to Abuja,
the capital, he said. Doctors
and psychologists are ready
to help the victims, who may
meet the president before
being released to their fam-
ilies if there are no security
issues, he said.
Buhari also urged Ni-
geria’s army to intensify its
efforts to bring home the re-
maining Chibok girls who
are still being held by Boko
Haram, Shehu said.
“We are so pleased that
these 13 people are free and
will be able to see their fam-
ilies again,” said Patrick
Youssef, ICRC deputy re-
gional director for Africa.
“There are many people
missing or being held
against their will…. We hope
that these people, too, will
get to return to their families
soon.”
The ICRC said it acted
only as a neutral intermedi-
ary in the negotiations.

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Driven to desperation in New York
A chauffeur’s suicide
highlights financial
struggles of the city’s
many drivers-for-hire.
By Nina Agrawal
NEW YORK — Before
daybreak one morning this
week, 61-year-old Douglas
Schifter posted a note on
Facebook in which he excori-
ated politicians and corpo-
rations for deregulating his
industry and destroying his
ability to make a living as a
car service driver in New
York.
“I will not be a slave work-
ing for chump change,” he
wrote. “I would rather be
dead.”
Then he drove his rented
gray Nissan sedan to the
east gate of New York’s City
Hall, and minutes after the
sun came up, without leav-
ing his seat, shot himself in
the head.
Schifter was at least the
second New York driver-for-
hire in recent months to
commit suicide, motivated,
at least in part, by economic
desperation. His death on
Monday has become a rally-
ing cry for taxi and livery
drivers whose livelihoods
have been swept away by the
forces of the modern econo-
my.
In the days after the sui-
cide, drivers have amplified
their calls for government
regulation aimed at reduc-
ing competition to boost
their wages. They held vigils
and news conferences. Black
Car News, the trade publica-
tion for which Schifter had
penned columns for several
years, announced it would
dedicate its March issue to
him.
In New York, the city that
made the yellow taxi a global
icon, being a cabbie simply
doesn’t offer the living it
THE NATION
used to.
“There’s no money in
driving anymore,” said John
McDonagh, 63, one of New
York’s best-known taxi driv-
ers, who started out in 1977
and today performs a one-
man off-Broadway play
about life behind the wheel.
Under a system that orig-
inated during the Depres-
sion, the city caps the num-
ber of medallions — each
taxi is required to have one
— at 13,587.
The city’s Taxi and Li-
mousine Commission issues
licenses, sets fare rates and
other rules, and oversees the
sale of medallions. In addi-
tion to yellow cabs, it regu-
lates private car services
known as liveries; black cars;
luxury cars and limousines;
and green cabs, for street
hails outside Manhattan.
Being a hack has always
required hustle. Cabbies
who don’t own medallions
start out in the red, forking
over as much as $132 each
day just to lease a yellow
taxi. With gas and tolls, they
might have to earn $175 be-
fore breaking even, which
sometimes they don’t. The
hours are long, and the job
can take a toll on health and
family life.
But up until just a few
years ago, drivers could still
take home $150 or $200 after
a 12-hour shift.
Those earnings offered a
way out of poverty for many
immigrants, who make up
the vast majority of cab driv-
ers in New York City.
“You say, ‘We’re going to
make a better life.’ And it
used to work,” said Saibou
Sidibe, 47, who immigrated
to the U.S. from Ivory Coast
in 2000. “I’m telling you, peo-
ple used to take care of their
families and even try to in-
vest.”
Before becoming a yellow
cab driver in 2002, Sidibe
struggled to find work that
paid well, because he spoke
CAR SERVICE driver Douglas Schifter, 61, was found dead by suicide in this vehi-
cle. On Facebook, he had written: “I will not be a slave working for chump change.”
poor English.
“When I started, the busi-
ness was really good and we
were making money — mon-
ey to feed family, pay your
bills,” Sidibe said.
Now he’s looking for a
new job. The industry has
changed dramatically in re-
cent years, as mobile apps
for private rides have prolif-
erated.
Uber began operating in
New York in 2011. Though the
company was the subject of
legal disputes, including
whether its technology
could be used to hail yellow
cabs and its role in diminish-
ing the value of taxi medal-
lions, it has largely prevailed.
In 2015 Mayor Bill de Bla-
sio proposed a cap on Uber’s
growth, pending a study of
traffic patterns, but he
backed down after the com-
pany blitzed local airwaves
with ads and New York Gov.
Andrew Cuomo, his fellow
Democrat, intervened to op-
pose the bill.
Today, there are more
than 100,000 for-hire vehicles
in New York, according to
the Taxi and Limousine
Commission. That’s up from
just under 40,000 in 2011. Yel-
low cab drivers now say
they’re lucky if they come off
a shift with $100 in their
pocket.
Neil Weiss, editor and
publisher of Black Car News,
said that not only are more
drivers competing for pas-
sengers, but the extra traffic
means fewer trips a day.
It’s not just yellow cab
drivers who have been af-
fected. Livery, black car and
luxury vehicle drivers are
having a hard time too, as
are the drivers for mobile
apps.
Sonam Lama, 34, an im-
migrant from Nepal, started
driving a yellow taxi in 2014
but shifted to Uber less than
Mark Lennihan Associated Press
a year later. At first, he said,
he could work 40 or 50 hours
a week and make up to
$2,000 before expenses.
Then Uber started lower-
ing its rates, and more and
more drivers came on board,
limiting how much Lama
could make.
“This morning, I drove
six hours,” Lama said on
Tuesday. “I only got one
fare.”
His total earnings: $46.74.
Driver after driver said
the money they can earn to-
day is not enough to live on.
“What we have seen in the
gig economy is the destruc-
tion of full-time work,” said
Bhairavi Desai, executive di-
rector of the New York Taxi
Workers Alliance, at a vigil
Tuesday for Schifter.
Desai said that about a
year and a half ago she began
receiving phone calls from
drivers who were depressed,
and she started giving out
the number for a suicide hot-
line.
Danilo Corporan, 57, a
for-hire driver in Harlem,
jumped off the roof of his
apartment building in De-
cember after facing the revo-
cation of his license for ac-
cepting illegal hails. The
charges were dropped, but
Corporan didn’t know it
then.
At around the same time
Schifter became increas-
ingly desperate.
A lifelong bachelor and
Brooklyn native, he had
started out driving a yellow
cab but eventually turned to
luxury chauffeuring, accord-
ing to his brother George. In
recent years, he had been liv-
ing out of his vehicle on
weekdays, showering at
truck stops and gyms and al-
ternating dry-cleaned suits
to work as much as possible.
When Schifter’s 2016
Yukon Denali XL engine
failed for the second time
last October, he didn’t have
the money to fix it.
“That was the straw that
broke the camel’s back,”
George said.
His brother couldn’t
work anymore, and stopped
making payments on his
home in Thornhurst, Pa., a
Pocono Mountains retreat
where Schifter liked to keep
the cupboards stocked, fire
up the grill and make his
own ice cream.
He began spending more
time in Florida, where two
brothers and his mother live,
but he talked about ending
his life.
Schifter loved being a
chauffeur because he en-
joyed the independence and
the chance to meet inter-
esting passengers, espe-
cially musicians, actors and
politicians, according to
George.
“Douglas wanted to keep
driving,” he said.
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L AT I ME S . CO M
Tribal recognition
sows Native divide
Long-sought goal
leaves Maryland tribe
split and other Indian
groups resentful.
By Christina Tkacik
CRISFIELD, Md. – When
he needed to clear his head
as a boy, Clarence Lone Wolf
Tyler would head to the
western shore of Smith Is-
land to look for Indian
arrowheads.
Tyler, a Native American
of the Accohannock tribe,
learned the technique from
his father: look in the clumps
of roots of the marsh reeds
after a high tide. The grass
died off from exposure to
saltwater, but the roots re-
mained intact.
For centuries, Tyler says,
his people concealed their
Native identity in Maryland,
hiding in plain sight from the
white man, to avoid dis-
crimination.
Tyler’s family took a crab
boat to secret Native meet-
ings, he says, where they in-
voked the creator and
learned Native ways.
Tyler, now the 64-year-
old chief of the Accohan-
nock, says they are ready to
emerge from the shadows. In
December, the 81-member
Accohannock became the
third Native American tribe
in Maryland to be recog-
nized by the state.
“It didn’t sink in right
away,” said Mike Hinman,
76, the tribe’s historian and
chairman. “We’ve had so
many disappointments.”
But not everyone is cele-
brating. Other Native
Americans are questioning
the Accohannocks’ histori-
cal claims.
It would have been im-
possible, they say, for an en-
tire tribe to keep its identity
secret in a town as small as
Crisfield, on the eastern
shore of the Chesapeake
Bay. Even if the members do
have Native blood, they say,
the fact that they concealed
their heritage means they
haven’t paid their dues —
and shouldn’t be recognized
by the state.
Norris Howard,
Pocomoke Indian, is an out-
spoken critic of Accohan-
a
nock recognition.
“When a group gets rec-
ognized, it’s going to be put
in textbooks, it’s going to be
put in lesson plans for the
curriculum of the public
schools,” he said. “To me,
that’s a lie.”
Reminders of the East-
ern Shore’s Indian past
come in fragments: road
signs bearing names such as
Nanticoke and Pocomoke
City, arrowheads in the
marsh reeds.
Ancient arrowheads cov-
er the shelves in Tyler’s
home in the town of Princess
Anne. Outside, a flag waves
with a Native American em-
blazoned on the Stars and
Stripes. Some of his neigh-
bors don’t like it, Tyler says,
but he’s quick to point out
the image doesn’t cover the
stars.
Unlike federal recogni-
tion, state recognition does
not bring specific benefits,
but might help win dona-
tions and grants. It does not
confer rights to property, or
to operate casinos.
The Accohannock first
sought recognition in 2010.
Vegas shooter autopsy results reveal few clues
The unremarkable
findings shed little
light on Stephen
Paddock’s motive.
By David Montero
LAS VEGAS — Stephen
Paddock was overweight,
had some anti-anxiety medi-
cation in his urine, and suf-
fered from the usual wear
and tear that comes with ag-
ing.
But the autopsy released
Friday failed to help answer
why Paddock chose to perch
himself in the window of his
32nd-floor hotel room and
kill 58 people while wound-
ing hundreds in the worst
mass shooting in modern
American history. He com-
mitted suicide by shooting
himself in the mouth. No sui-
cide note or manifesto has
been found.
The autopsy showed
An advisory committee,
which includes members of
Native heritage, voted
against forwarding it to the
governor.
Tribal leaders tried again
last year, using a genealogy
compiled using ances-
try.com. Tyler says he traced
his family line back to the
Occohannock nation in Vir-
ginia.
This time, the committee
agreed.
“They had to fight to
prove that this is their land,”
said committee member Di-
ana Purnell, a Worcester
County commissioner who
is part Native American.
“And they did it. They abso-
lutely did it.”
Gov. Larry Hogan signed
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Paddock to be physically an
otherwise unremarkable 64-
year-old man. He was bald-
ing. His teeth were in poor
condition. He suffered from
hemorrhoids.
The mystery of why he
trained his guns on more
than 20,000 people attend-
ing the Route 91 Harvest
country music festival Oct. 1
has been confounding. Clark
County Sheriff Joe Lom-
bardo has said Paddock — a
prolific high-stakes gambler
with a particular affinity for
video poker — had been on a
losing streak in recent years,
and he believes the losses
might’ve been a factor. The
FBI has said it will release a
report later this year on their
findings.
In a preliminary inves-
tigative report issued by
Lombardo last month, there
was testimony from Pad-
dock’s girlfriend, Marilou
Danley, that he had become
emotionally distant. She
also said he was germopho-
an executive order in De-
cember. State Sen. Jim Ma-
thias Jr., who has worked
with the Accohannock,
called it a “proud day” for the
Eastern Shore. “Quite
frankly the history, to me,
was solid,” he said.
Mathias says he looks
forward to working with the
tribe to obtain whatever
state grants they might be
eligible to receive.
Hinman hopes recogni-
tion will enable the tribe to
receive additional money
and support. He says the
tribe plans to apply for fed-
eral recognition.
The tribe’s critics con-
sider the state recognition
an affront.
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bic. In that same report, his
doctor said Paddock was
afraid to take medication
and may have been bipolar.
He also described Paddock’s
behavior as “odd” and said
he last saw him a year before
the shooting.
The doctor also noted the
only ailment Paddock suf-
fered from was a muscle tear
that came from a slip-and-
fall incident at a casino a few
years earlier.
The autopsy also in-
cluded a short report from
Stanford University, which
studied his brain to deter-
mine whether there was any-
thing unusual.
It revealed what it called
“the most striking abnor-
mality” in the hippocampus,
a part of the brain involving
human learning and memo-
ry. The report did not say
whether the abnormality
might have affected his be-
havior.
Hundreds of pages of
search warrants have also
CLARENCE LONE WOLF TYLER is chief of the Accohannock, the third Native
American tribe to be formally recognized by the state of Maryland.
hannock has pursued recog-
nition, Norris Howard has
fought to prevent it.
Like many members of
the Accohannock tribe,
Howard, 79, grew up in the
Crisfield area. He is pa-
ramount chief of the
A SNAPSHOT shows Las Vegas shooter Stephen
Paddock, right, with his brother Eric.
been released in the last few
weeks, but they only re-
vealed a man who had been
on a gun-buying binge a year
prior to the shooting.
In the 34 years before
September 2016, Paddock
had purchased 29 firearms.
S S U NDAY , F E B RUARY 11, 2 018
Pocomoke Indian Nation —
a tribe that has not sought
state recognition.
He says his Native iden-
tity was always known to
those in Crisfield — and he
experienced discrimination
because of it. Being Native in
John Raoux Associated Press
But in the following 11
months, he bought more
than 55.
When police entered his
hotel room, they found
about two dozen guns —
some fitted with “bump
stocks,” devices used to
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Crisfield, Howard says,
meant being put in the back,
facing racism and feeling
powerless to fight it, being
reluctant to speak up for fear
of retribution.
Those life experiences
have become part of his her-
itage.
“It wasn’t ‘hidden in plain
sight’ — which is the most ri-
diculous thing I’ve ever
heard in my life,” he said.
Tyler insists the Acco-
hannock did conceal their
Native ties for generations, a
strategy he says was advo-
cated by clan mothers, who
believed members should
intermarry with Europeans,
then allow their Native herit-
age to reemerge at a later
time.
Howard is deeply skepti-
cal.
“You couldn’t hide a
mouse in Crisfield,” he said.
On a recent weekday, a
few Accohannock members
sat in Clarence Tyler’s living
room, each wearing subtle
emblems of their Indian cul-
ture: beaded earrings, suede
moccasins.
At what should be a time
of celebration for the tribe,
the group was downcast.
Their future is now uncer-
tain, they say, because the
state recognition has come
with a rift among tribal lead-
ers.
Since recognition, Tyler
says, Hinman, the tribe his-
torian, has made decisions
that should have been made
by the full Native council.
Tyler says Hinman re-
scinded the membership of a
clan the Accohannock had
adopted into its ranks, and
sold some tribal assets, in-
cluding a van and a cook
wagon.
“Once Mike realized we
were getting recognition, he
went rogue,” said tribal
member Diane Baldwin.
Tyler says he hasn’t spo-
ken with Hinman since last
summer. He says he wasn’t
invited to the Annapolis cer-
emony announcing the state
recognition.
“They couldn’t have hurt
me no more if they’d take a
knife and cut my heart out,”
he said.
Hinman acknowledges
selling the cook wagon and
van. He says the tribe’s by-
laws give him the authority
to do so.
As for critics of the Acco-
hannock’s history and the
state recognition, he said:
“We played by the book. We
got all the documentation.”
He says Native Ameri-
cans have withstood cen-
turies of cultural erasure —
and continue to face skepti-
cism.
“We’re the only ethnic
group in the world that has
to prove who we are,” Hin-
man said.
“Think about it. If you’re
Irish, no one questions it.”
Tkacik writes for the
Baltimore Sun.
simulate automatic firing.
Paddock fired more than
1,100 rounds from his room.
Authorities also found ex-
plosives and ammunition for
AR-15 and AR-10 rifles.
Four laptops were also
seized from the room, in-
cluding one that contained
hundreds of images of child
pornography. Last year one
of his brothers, 58-year-old
Bruce Paddock, was ar-
rested in Los Angeles on
charges of possessing child
pornography.
Another brother, Eric
Paddock, picked up the re-
mains of Stephen Paddock
last month from the Clark
County coroner’s office.
The coroner released re-
dacted autopsy reports for
the 58 victims last month,
but it had delayed the re-
lease of Paddock’s until it
was finalized.
david.montero
@latimes.com
Twitter: @davemontero
A8 S U NDAY , F E B RUARY 11, 2 018
Purdue scales
back opioid
sales efforts
[Purdue, from A1]
Purdue had extensive evi-
dence pointing to illegal traf-
ficking of its pills but in
many cases did not share it
with local law enforcement
agencies or cut off the flow of
the drugs. The plaintiffs are
seeking to hold the company
financially responsible for a
raging opioid epidemic.
Brandeis University re-
searcher Dr. Andrew Kol-
odny, a longtime critic of the
pharmaceutical industry’s
role in the opioid epidemic,
welcomed Purdue’s an-
nouncement but said, “It’s
pretty late in the game to
have a major impact.”
“The genie is already out
of the bottle,” Kolodny said.
“Millions of Americans are
now opioid-addicted be-
cause the campaign that
Purdue and other opioid
manufacturers used to in-
crease prescribing worked
well. And as the prescribing
went up, it led to a severe epi-
demic of opioid addiction.”
One Los Angeles ring
tracked by Purdue and high-
lighted by The Times’ inves-
tigation supplied large
quantities of OxyContin to
gang members and other
criminals who trafficked the
drug to a Crips leader in Ev-
erett, Wash., from 2008 to
2010. That dealer sold the
highly addictive pills to low-
level dealers who blanketed
the entire region.
Many addicts later
switched to heroin, a
cheaper opioid.
Attorneys for Purdue
have argued that plaintiffs
who have sued the company
suffer from a number of legal
failings — including statute-
of-limitations problems and
a failure to demonstrate a
close connection between
the company’s conduct and
the criminal acts of drug
dealers and addicts.
“[T]here is no basis in law
for a municipality to bring
such an action against a
WST
pharmaceutical manufac-
turer,” Purdue’s lawyers
wrote in the case brought by
Everett, a city of 100,000
north of Seattle.
In an attempt to stem the
abuse of OxyContin, Purdue
spent a decade and several
hundred million dollars de-
veloping a version of the
painkiller that was more dif-
ficult to snort, smoke or in-
ject. Since those “abuse-
deterrent” pills debuted sev-
en years ago, misuse of Oxy-
Contin has fallen and the
company has touted them
as proof of its efforts to end
the opioid epidemic.
But a study released in
January 2017 found that
rather than curtail deaths,
the change in OxyContin
contributed heavily to a
surge in heroin overdoses
across the country and that,
as a result, there was “no net
reduction in overall over-
dose deaths.”
Experts have long
blamed skyrocketing heroin
use on painkiller addicts
transitioning to the cheaper,
more easily available street
opioid. But the study by sci-
entists at the University of
Pennsylvania and Rand
Corp. was the first large-
scale research to tie the
alarming growth in heroin
deaths to Purdue’s introduc-
tion of its new pills.
More than 7 million
Americans are estimated to
have abused OxyContin
since its 1996 debut. The
researchers from Penn’s
Wharton School and Rand
analyzed levels of Oxy-
Contin abuse on a state-by-
state basis in the years lead-
ing up to the pill reformu-
lation and then looked at
deaths from heroin in a
three-year period after the
change. They found that
heroin deaths more than
tripled — from 3,000 in 2010
to 10,500 in 2014. And states
where OxyContin abuse
rates were the highest “ex-
STEPH GASPAR picks up needles in Everett, Wash., where a drug ring blanketed the region with OxyContin.
perienced the largest in-
creases in heroin deaths,”
the authors wrote.
Washington University
School of Medicine profes-
sor Theodore J. Cicero, who
separately has studied the
role that OxyContin refor-
mulation played in heroin
addiction, said he found the
Penn-Rand study credible.
Though the marketing of
opioids directly to doctors
has received a lot of atten-
tion, there are other ways
drugmakers influence which
drugs get prescribed, said
University of North Carolina
researcher Nabarun Das-
gupta, who has advised fed-
eral health authorities and
the World Health Organiza-
tion on prescription opioid
abuse.
Pharmaceutical compa-
nies often conduct studies in
the hopes they can convince
a health insurance company
or Medicaid that their prod-
uct is superior, he said. A
drugmaker can negotiate
with an insurer to give pref-
erential reimbursement for
its drug but require prior au-
L AT I M E S. C O M
Ted S. Warren Associated Press
thorization for competitors’ dependent company op- generations of the family
drugs, Dasgupta said. erating in the U.S. and that now help oversee Purdue
“Doctors are not robots “the other companies op- and Mundipharma.
— they are part of a system erate under different leader- The family is known for
that influences their behav- ship structures, within dis- giving tens of millions of dol-
ior,” he said. “It’s those tinct regulatory environ- lars through its foundations
structural incentives to pre- ments.” to such renowned arts insti-
scribe one drug over another A Mundipharma repre- tutions as the Victoria and
that are more arcane and sentative did not immedi- Albert Museum in London,
more hidden and don’t gen- ately respond to a request the Dia Art Foundation and
erate the same level of public for comment Saturday. the Solomon R. Guggen-
alarm.” Kolodny said Mundi- heim Museum in New York.
One remaining question pharma is using the same In the January edition of
is whether other opioid mak- playbook abroad that Artforum magazine, pho-
ers will follow suit and cease Purdue used in this country tographer Nan Goldin wrote
marketing the drugs to doc- to increase prescriptions. an essay about her addiction
tors, said Kolodny, executive “If it takes off the way it to OxyContin, which she was
director and co-founder of did in the United States, taking for a wrist injury. Now
Physicians for Responsible these other countries will be clean, she wrote about the
Opioid Prescribing. dealing with the same prob- advocacy group, Prescrip-
“We would have more lem we are dealing with to- tion Addiction Intervention
success in encouraging cau- day,” he said. Now, that she started in an
tious prescribing if drug Purdue was a small New effort to press for the Sackler
companies stopped promot- York City pharmaceutical family and their drug com-
ing aggressive prescribing,” firm when brothers Morti- pany to pay for treatment
he said. mer and Raymond Sackler, and education programs.
It’s also unknown if both psychiatrists, bought it “The Sackler family and
Purdue will continue mar- in 1952. The spectacular suc- their private company,
keting the drug to doctors cess of OxyContin has gen- Purdue Pharma, built their
outside the United States erated tens of billions of dol- empire with the lives of hun-
through its international lars in revenue over the last dreds of thousands,” Goldin
arm, Mundipharma. two decades and made the wrote.
Spokesman Bob Joseph- Sacklers one of the nation’s
son said that Purdue is an in- wealthiest families. Three ben.poston@latimes.com
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Trump calls for do-over on memo
Democrats’ effort to
refute GOP criticism
of FBI has sensitive
information, he says.
By Brian Bennett
and Joseph Tanfani
WASHINGTON — Presi-
dent Trump said Saturday
that he wants Democratic
lawmakers to “re-do” a clas-
sified memo about govern-
ment surveillance of a for-
mer Trump campaign advis-
or before it is released.
Trump refused Friday to
approve the release of the 10-
page memo written by
Democratic minority mem-
bers of the House Intelli-
gence Committee, saying
that it contains sensitive in-
formation that would com-
promise national security.
The document aims to re-
fute Republican claims that
the FBI surveillance of Cart-
er Page was politically
motivated, even though the
counterintelligence war-
rants were renewed three
times by different judges
over the course of a year.
The Democrats’ docu-
ment details concerns about
a four-page GOP memo al-
leging FBI bias against
Trump in the Russia investi-
gation; the memo was
drafted by the staff of House
Intelligence Committee
Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes
(R-Tulare).
Trump allowed the
Nunes memo to be released
on Feb. 2 over objections
from the FBI and Justice De-
partment contending that it
is inaccurate and compro-
mises national security.
Democrats say the Republi-
can version of events left out
important details and was
misleading.
In a letter sent Friday
evening to the House Intelli-
gence Committee, White
House Counsel Donald Mc-
Gahn said Trump was “in-
clined to declassify” the
Democrats’ document, but
was holding back because of
requested redactions from
the Justice Department and
the FBI.
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but was holding back because FBI and Justice officials had requested that redactions be made first.
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unprecedented circum-
stances,” the administra-
tion said Justice Depart-
ment officials would consult
with the committee on re-
leasing a new version, Mc-
Gahn wrote.
The decision came after
FBI Director Christopher A.
Wray and Deputy Atty. Gen.
Rod Rosenstein sent a letter
to the White House pointing
out specific parts of the
Democratic memo they said
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security or intelligence
sources.
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bate a deepening partisan
divide on the House Intelli-
gence Committee over the
investigation into the
Trump campaign’s possible
cooperation with a Russian
scheme to interfere in the
2016 election.
The Senate’s senior De-
mocrat, Charles E. Schumer
of New York, said Trump
had no such security con-
cerns when he decided to re-
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‘The rationale for
releasing the
Nunes memo,
transparency,
vanishes when it
could show
information that’s
harmful to
[Trump].’
— Charles E.
Schumer,
Senate Democratic leader,
on Trump’s decision
information about Steele’s
Democratic connections
and did not reveal Steele’s
personal loathing of Trump.
The president seized on
the GOP memo to try to dis-
credit the special counsel in-
vestigation led by former
FBI Director Robert S.
Mueller III, claiming it “to-
tally vindicates” him. Other
Republicans said the Nunes
memo had little relevance to
the inquiry, which has so far
produced two indictments
and two guilty pleas, and in-
cludes an examination of
whether Trump has tried to
obstruct justice.
Democrats say the GOP
Olivier Douliery Pool Photo version of events omitted
key details to paint a mis-
leading picture. The Intelli-
gence Committee’s top De-
standard when it comes to tions in obtaining a secret mocrat, Rep. Adam B. Schiff
transparency is appalling,” Foreign Intelligence Surveil- of Burbank, said the Demo-
Schumer said in a state- lance Act court warrant on crats’ memo contained addi-
ment. “The rationale for re- Carter Page, a onetime tional facts “that were nec-
leasing the Nunes memo, Trump campaign advisor essary for the public to see
transparency, vanishes and energy businessman that the FBI acted properly”
when it could show informa- with ties to Russian officials. in seeking the warrants on
tion that’s harmful to him. He has not been charged. Page. The committee voted
Millions of Americans are The warrants were re- Monday to release the
asking one simple question: newed three times, at 90-day memo, pending the security
what is he hiding?” intervals. The Nunes memo review.
Nunes and other Repub- said all four FISA court ap- Schiff said the Demo-
licans on the Intelligence plications were flawed be- crats take the concerns of
Committee have devoted cause they relied heavily on Justice Department officials
much of their attention to intelligence gathered by seriously and hope to work
questioning decisions made Christopher Steele, a former with them to get the docu-
by the FBI and Justice De- British spy then working for ment cleared for release.
partment in the course of an opposition research
the Russia investigation. group under contract to law- brian.bennett@latimes.com
Despite the agencies’ ob- yers for Hillary Clinton’s Twitter: @ByBrianBennett
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REDLANDS, a college town graced by historic mansions and a vintage downtown, has up to 74 brick buildings that are not retrofitted to withstand a major quake.
RETROFITS REVISITED
[Buildings, from A1]
after devastating earth-
quakes exposed how deadly
they can be.
The risks are all the more
concerning because the In-
land Empire is particularly
vulnerable to a major earth-
quake.
Three of the state’s most
dangerous faults — the San
Andreas, the San Jacinto
and the Cucamonga — inter-
sect in this region east of
downtown Los Angeles. The
San Andreas alone, an omi-
nous battle line visible from
the foothills, is capable of
unleashing a devastating
magnitude 8.
Any shaking would be
amplified by the precarious
soil the region is built on — a
basin of loose sediment that
would rock like a bowl of
Jell-O.
The Inland Empire is
uniquely unprepared for a
major earthquake, in large
part because its economy
has struggled in ways more-
affluent coastal California
has not. City officials and
residents say myriad issues
weigh on their day-to-days
and seismic safety rarely
tops the list.
Antonio Canul, a long-
time restaurant owner in
San Bernardino, shrugged
off the risks and said there
was no point in saving the
city from an earthquake
when it was already in such
economic shambles. In the
34 years that he’s lived in the
city, Canul said, he’s had
more pressing matters to
worry about.
“I’m just here to do busi-
ness, feed people and make a
living,” said Canul, who
cooks, cleans and serves
each day, starting at 6 a.m. in
an old brick building down-
town. “If you’re gonna die,
you’re gonna die. Maybe it’s
cancer, maybe it’s an earth-
quake.”
Then there are the other
obstacles: Poor data up-
keep. Building chiefs who
stick around for only a few
years. Little, if any, public
pressure.
In dozens of interviews
and records requests, The
Times found a trail of starts
and stops by officials in each
city to identify and update
lists of old brick buildings.
One list dated back 27 years;
others were marked by hand
or indecipherable.
While Los Angeles, San
Francisco and others have
charged ahead on retrofit-
ting many types of vulnera-
ble buildings, many here still
have not tackled what struc-
tural engineers say is the
most basic, most dangerous,
most unsupported type of
building.
California learned the
dangers of brick construc-
tion when a major earth-
quake struck Long Beach
in 1933, crumbling schools,
S L AT I M E S. C O M
Unretrofitted
brick buildings
in the Inland
Empire
As many as 640 old brick
buildings in more than a
dozen cities in San
Bernardino and Riverside
counties could collapse in
an earthquake. The Times
obtained this information
through interviews and
records requested from 21
local governments.
Unreinforced
brick building
San Jacinto fault
as fault
San Andreas
Other faults
lts
210
Upland
Ontario
Pomona
15
Chino
71
5 MILES
Sources: USGS, local government records obtained through the California Public Records Act, Map Zen, OpenStreetMap
Graphics reporting by Rong-Gong Lin II and Rosanna Xia
churches and shops. Some
120 people died. These so-
called unreinforced ma-
sonry buildings, or URMs,
are vulnerable because the
mortar essentially crumbles
apart during shaking,
bringing down the roof and
walls.
Cities across California
now ban this type of con-
struction. URMs that had al-
ready been built were mostly
left to fate. But as the state’s
history of destruction con-
tinued — Sylmar in 1971,
Loma Prieta in 1989 — a
number of cities found the
political will to compile a list
of addresses and force own-
ers to either demolish or add
reinforcement to their brick
buildings.
When a magnitude 6.5
earthquake struck down-
town Paso Robles in 2003,
the two people who died
were found crushed under
an avalanche of bricks out-
side an unretrofitted his-
He said he’s reached out to
owners and is trying to find a
solution.
Others have thrown up
their hands, pointing to the
Highland Ave. same challenges their cities
210 faced decades ago that are
still holding them back to-
day.
Baseline St. Forcing owners to retrofit
or demolish these buildings
just doesn’t make sense in
San a predominantly working-
Bernardino class region like the Inland
66 Empire, some city officials
said. Many treasure the
area’s historical character,
Waterman Ave.
and a city could be put at an
215
economic disadvantage if
neighboring cities don’t en-
force the same strict rules.
“The jurisdiction that
does not require retrofit can
E St.
outcompete their neighbor
that does require retrofit
10 when attracting new busi-
ness,” said Mike Gardner, a
Colton
Col ton councilman in Riverside,
where the historic Mission
2 MILES
LES
Inn and some of its sur-
rounding brick buildings
have been retrofitted. In all,
the city has as many as 160
URMs left, the most of any
city examined by The Times.
“There is also a risk,”
Gardner said, “that build-
Fontana Highland ings that have not been
retrofitted may be aban-
Rialto doned by their owners
in economically depressed
10
areas.”
Colton Redlands Yucaipa Others shrug at the num-
215
ber of unsafe buildings. They
60 say many are only occupied
for a few hours each day and
question whether retrofit-
ting such old buildings —
Riverside
which might save lives but
not necessarily the building
215 after an earthquake strikes
91
— is even worth it. It makes
more sense to wait for real
estate demand to kick in,
they said, when new owners
decide it’s more cost-effec-
tive to tear these buildings
Raoul Rañoa Los Angeles Times down and build anew.
The city of Ontario at last
toric building. The roof had 1994, the retrofits proved life- count had 42 unretrofitted
slid onto the sidewalk, tak- saving: Not a single person brick buildings. “That’s not
ing the clock tower with it. died in a brick building. a high number,” building of-
(The city, which had a retro- The Times started sur- ficial Kevin Shear said.
fit law on the books, had giv- veying Inland cities in the Seismologist Lucy Jones,
en the owner until 2018 to wake of the 2014 Napa earth- whose work guided L.A. in
complete the seismic quake, which once again ex- 2015 to enact the most ambi-
strengthening.) posed the vulnerabilities of tious seismic safety laws in
“They are really danger- brick construction. Report- California history and is now
ous.… Even with moderate ers, under the California helping dozens of smaller
earthquakes, we see — all Public Records Act, re- cities do the same, said she
the time — collapse of these quested URM data from 21 understands — but also
structures,” said UC San Di- jurisdictions. Following questions — these economic
ego structural engineering these inquiries, a number of arguments.
professor Benson Shing, city officials restarted their “If you’re going to use an
who has researched the sub- efforts to identify which economic argument, you
ject extensively. “There’s no buildings remain at risk to- have to ask: What’s the value
spine. You can see the blocks day. of human life?” she said.
just one on top of another. So “We have to deal with it “URMs are the reason you
when you shake the struc- one way or the other, sooner have earthquakes in Iran
ture, it will just rock and col- or later,” said Ramon Her- that kill 60% of the popula-
lapse.” nandez, who became Col- tion. Most of us don’t have
In Los Angeles, after ton’s building official 18 them anymore.
three decades of chasing months ago and has been re- “And the idea that we do
down the owners of 8,080 tracing the steps of his many know exactly which build-
URMs, officials say there are predecessors. Hernandez ings are the most dangerous
now only three left in the city drove around the city in De- and where the dangers will
that still need to be retrofit- cember and updated a be … what’s the implication
ted or demolished. When the building list from 1991 in re- of a decision to not retrofit?”
Northridge quake struck in sponse to a Times inquiry. In San Bernardino,
Gina Ferazzi Los Angeles Times
which sits directly on top of
the San Andreas, officials
acknowledged the implica-
tions and said it’s time to do
something about the risks.
Despite the challenges
posed by a five-year bank-
ruptcy, a weary working
community and spotty re-
cords on the oldest proper-
ties in town, building offi-
cials have tried to push
ahead.
“It’s a daunting task. A lot
of people don’t understand
what a complicated issue it
is. People just think, ‘We’ve
known that these are high-
risk buildings for 25 years,
why haven’t cities done any-
thing?’ ” said Mark Persico,
who took over the city’s
building and safety staff in
2014. “One of the issues that
we’ve had — because there’s
been a high turnover in staff
as a part of the bankruptcy
— is really coming up with a
complete list of properties,
because the city has started
and stopped this process, I
think like many cities have,
since the early 1990s.”
By April, Persico and his
team had whittled the list
down to 89 buildings still in
need of retrofit. Many are
boarded up and vacant in
the city’s downtown.
Tucked in an otherwise
desolate stretch of aging
brick buildings, Canul’s cor-
ner restaurant, along his-
toric Route 66, is one colorful
hallmark to what a bustling
downtown could be. Steps
were taken in the 1990s to
retrofit the building when
the city had tried a manda-
tory retrofit law. Facing
pushback and limited suc-
cess, the city repealed the
ordinance in 1999, and it is
unclear today whether the
restaurant retrofit was com-
pleted, according to city
records and preliminary
surveys by Persico and his
team.
The current building
owner on record could not be
reached for comment.
Inside on one recent
Wednesday, the lunch rush
was lively. More than a dozen
tables, along with the bar,
were crowded with parents,
children, police officers and
government workers. An
outdoor patio offered more
seating along a painted
brick wall.
Canul, dismissing the
seismic risks, said the city
needed to focus on more
important problems than
telling owners what to do.
“Fix the economy first,”
he said. “Create more busi-
nesses around here. Create
an environment for more
people to come. If they do,
small businesses like this are
going to have money to
rebuild these old buildings.”
Persico has hosted a
number of community meet-
ings to bridge this discon-
[See Buildings, A11]
L AT I ME S . CO M
[Buildings, from A10]
nect, broaching the idea of
reviving a mandatory retro-
fit ordinance. Forcing build-
ing owners — most of them
mom-and-pop business op-
erators — to spend tens of
thousands of dollars to ret-
rofit was, and still is, unreal-
istic, Persico said. Unlike in
Los Angeles, real estate val-
ues are so low that even tak-
ing out a commercial loan for
a retrofit would be difficult.
Retrofitting a brick
building — which can involve
using steel braces, rods and
beams to hold up the bricks
in a way that keeps them
from coming apart during
shaking — could cost an
owner anywhere from
$30,000 to more than
$100,000.
Within the next year, Per-
sico hopes to secure some
form of grant to help owners
pay for a percentage of the
architectural or engineering
cost of retrofitting.
A handful of neighboring
cities — both wealthy and
working-class — have over-
come the economic push-
back. Following a magni-
tude 5.2 earthquake that
damaged numerous brick
buildings, Claremont in 1991
mandated all 33 of its URMs
retrofitted or demolished.
Rancho Cucamonga en-
acted a law that year forcing
owners of URMs to retrofit
or demolish within three
years of notification.
By 2006, the city was
down to 22 unretrofitted
brick buildings. Today just
one — fenced off and red-
tagged — remains.
In Chino, building offi-
cials in 1988 identified about
30 unsafe buildings and
chipped away at the issue.
Using redevelopment mon-
ey, the city purchased a
number of brick buildings in
its downtown, demolished
them and turned the empty
lots into a community park
and a new senior living com-
plex.
For the remaining un-
retrofitted brick buildings,
city officials bolted large
signs by each entrance,
declaring in English and
Spanish: “In the event of an
earthquake, this building
could be subject to structur-
al damage that could cause
death or injury to its occu-
pants and/or persons near
the building exterior.”
One owner, hoping to at-
tract more high-end retail
tenants, took all the steps to
retrofit his building and
WST S U N DAY, F E B RUA RY 11, 2 018 A11
Making buildings safer made a show of removing
the placard during a cere-
mony in 2007, recalled com-
Making old brick buildings safer can require more reinforcing material such as steel. Think of a wooden table — it’s more
munity development direc-
likely to fall apart without long steel screws that keep it together when shaken, says structural engineer Saif Hussain.
tor Nick Liguori. “That was
a big deal to him — to get
Three ways to retrofit The retrofit’s overall impact that building retrofitted so
Parapet The three retrofit methods combined give the brick building a steel he could take that placard
Diagonal steel brace skeleton that has a better chance of staying together when shaken. off.”
connects parapet to roof These placards were
Diagonal parapet bracing placed in accordance with a
Anchor decades-old state law that
bolt
requires owners to post
warnings outside unsafe
Diagonal brick buildings — but cities
brace are not required to enforce
the law, and many in the In-
land Empire do not, accord-
ing to interviews and spot
checks by Times reporters of
a number of old brick build-
Roof ings.
The lack of institutional
memory in many of these
cities is a major problem.
Steel beams or diagonal Building officials tend to
braces installed along wall come and go, handing off old
notes and addresses from
Anchor Brick wall one to another like a baton,
bolts
with no finish line. Yucaipa’s
Ceiling
building official currently is
also the top building official
for another city and the in-
terim chief for a third.
Back in Redlands, Corrie
Steel beams installed Bolts and rods Kates has been coming in
along brick wall join brick wall twice a week as the city’s
to floors. latest building official. A
third-party contractor, he
Steel beams replaces the former full-time
anchored to building chief, who left last
brick wall Connected brick walls can stay attached to the floors and roof, helping to year.
resist collapse prevent catastrophic collapse in an earthquake. Some of the brick build-
Direction of wall ings downtown have been
movement during retrofitted, Kates said, and
Brick any owner who wants to
wall earthquake
make significant renova-
tions would be required to
include a seismic update.
But the reason there remain
Floor so many unretrofitted
buildings in the city is sim-
ple.
“The owners don’t have
the money to retrofit them,
and there’s no funding out
there to help,” he said. “If
Bolts and rods tightly there were public funds
join brick wall to beams available, then cities would
go make an effort to promote
Bolts go through brick people to retrofit.”
wall from the exterior Kates said it was useful
and are anchored to floor for the city to have its list of
beams on the interior. 74 addresses, last updated 13
years ago, that are consid-
ered hazardous.
Floor If the alarm bells start
beam ringing and the ground
starts shaking, he said, fire
Steel Direction of and rescue officials will
bracket earthquake shaking know where to check first.
Brick rosanna.xia@latimes.com
Other ways of retrofitting include adding steel-reinforced concrete or
Twitter: @RosannaXia
layers of glass or carbon fiber to the walls and adding plywood to the
ron.lin@latimes.com
floors and roof.
Twitter: @ronlin
Sources: Structural engineer Saif Hussain, Federal Emergency Management Agency raoul.ranoa@latimes.com
Raoul Rañoa, Rong-Gong Lin II Los Angeles Times Twitter: @ranoa
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A12 S U N DAY, FE B RUARY 11, 2 018 WST L AT I M E S. CO M

Exploring a deal on immigration

[Immigration, from A1]
tours of a possible compro-
mise as lawmakers prepare
for marathon immigration
debates on the Senate floor
this week over how to pro-
tect from deportation — and
possibly provide legal status
for — the estimated 1.8 mil-
lion people brought to the
country illegally as children.
About 800,000 of them
were given protection from
deportation by the Obama
administration under the
Deferred Action for Child-
hood Arrivals program,
known as DACA. But the
Trump administration
abruptly ended the program
in September and set a six-
month cutoff date for renew-
al applications.
A federal judge has sus-
pended that March 5 dead-
line, but the White House
has used the so-called
Dreamers as a bargaining
chip in Congress for its own
immigration priorities, in-
cluding cuts to legal immi-
gration.
Democratic demands to
protect the Dreamers led to
a three-day government
shutdown during the con-
gressional budget show-
down last month, and an
epic eight-hour speech on
the House floor last week by
Minority Leader Nancy Pel-
osi. Both efforts failed to get
Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times
DACA in the spending pack-
ages. PROTESTERS in San Gabriel demonstrate on behalf of immigrants last week. A rare open debate on the topic is set in the Senate.
On Saturday, Trump ac-
cused the Democrats of try- security purposes. panic Christian Leadership the framework or to talk to “We don’t want to see ar- Senate Majority Leader
ing to politicize the Dream- The hardest sell for Conference, said he’s been Republicans,” Aguilar said. bitrary cuts to legal immi- Mitch McConnell plans to
ers’ plight ahead of the Democratic lawmakers and assured repeatedly by the “Both sides are going to have gration,” Garza said. take a House bill, strip its
midterm election in Novem- immigration advocates has White House that overall le- to accept things they don’t Critics already are lining contents, and in a step not
ber. been Trump’s insistence on gal immigration levels would like.” up. Mark Krikorian, execu- seen in modern times, open
“Republicans want to fix limiting the types of family not be cut under Trump’s Aguilar said he left the tive director of the Center for the floor for amendments to
DACA far more than the members that U.S. citizens plan. meeting believing the White Immigration Studies, a fill the bill. The White House
Democrats do,” he tweeted. and permanent residents “That number is not be- House would support ways group that advocates re- is working with senators to
Democrats “only want to use can help resettle in the coun- ing played with at all what- to speed up approvals of the stricting immigration, said craft an amendment that
it as a campaign issue.” try, and what happens to soever,” said Rodriguez, one nearly 4 million parents, sib- he would oppose a White addresses all Trump’s re-
Democratic leaders, in- those who already have ap- of the Latino conservatives lings and other relatives who House deal to keep legal im- quirements.
cluding Senate Minority plied. who attended the hourlong have applied for permanent migration at current levels “It will be an opportunity
Leader Charles E. Schumer Deriding the program as meeting Tuesday with Kelly residency and are in long for more than a decade, call- for 1,000 flowers to bloom,”
(D-N.Y.), have signaled pri- “chain migration,” Trump and Nielsen. backlogs. ing it “a reversal” of Trump’s McConnell (R-Ky.) told re-
vately to the White House says only sponsors’ spouses Alfonso Aguilar, presi- Another Latino in the previous proposals. porters last week, oddly
they are willing to negotiate and non-adult children dent of the Latino Partner- meeting, Daniel Garza, exe- “This argument that our echoing the phrase Chinese
Trump’s demand for $25 bil- should be admitted. People ship for Conservative Princi- cutive director of the Libre economy and our success re- leader Mao Tse-tung used in
lion as part of a broader im- now can sponsor parents ples, also attended the meet- Initiative, a free-market quires mass immigration is 1956 to encourage criticism
migration package that and, in some cases, siblings ing in the Roosevelt Room. group aimed at Latinos and absurd,” Krikorian said. of the Communist Party be-
would include help for the and adult children. He said the White House ap- bankrolled by the conserva- In Congress, bipartisan fore he violently purged the
Dreamers. However, the Rev. Samu- peared to be making a “seri- tive billionaire Koch broth- groups are seeking to devel- critics who stepped forward.
The money would go into el Rodriguez, an evangelical ous effort” to find common ers, said he was reassured by op legislation as the Senate The debate will be “fair to
a “trust fund” for walls or Christian pastor based in ground on immigration. the meeting and felt the prepares for a rare open de- everyone,” McConnell said.
fences on the southern bor- Sacramento who is presi- “Democrats are fabricat- White House was open to ne- bate on immigration this “And in the Senate, on those
der, as well as other border dent of the National His- ing reasons not to address gotiating. week. [See Immigration, A13]

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Hundreds rally for immigration activist
associated press
NEW YORK — Hundreds
of people rallied Saturday in
support of an immigration
activist from Trinidad and
Tobago who’s fighting de-
portation, accusing author-
ities of targeting him for
speaking out.
Ravi Ragbir had been fac-
ing removal from the United
States on Saturday. But a
judge in Newark, N.J., ruled
Friday that he could stay in
the country while a lawsuit
filed on his behalf is argued.
Ragbir, 53, still had to
check in Saturday with im-
migration officials at a fed-
eral office in Lower Manhat-
tan. That is where the New
Sanctuary Coalition of New
York City, comprising 150
faith-based, pro-immigrant
groups, staged the rally.
Beforehand, Ragbir led
demonstrators on a march
and told them he believes
the country’s immigration
For starters, an open debate
[Immigration, from A12]
rare occasions when we have
these open debates, who-
ever gets to 60 wins.”
Sen. Richard J. Durbin
(D-Ill.), the No. 2 ranking
Democrat in the Senate,
said McConnell has guaran-
teed “a fair and open process
for senators to finally act to
protect Dreamers.”
Durbin and Sen. Lindsey
Graham (R-S.C.) are coau-
thors of the Dream Act, a bi-
partisan bill that would cre-
ate a path to legal status
for Dreamers. Democrats
essentially want Trump to
accept that legislation,
which could be introduced
for an up-or-down vote this
week.
To get debate started,
McConnell may allow the in-
troduction of a narrow
amendment that extends
the DACA program by three
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We know that there is a
movement to remove people
of color, to learn that there is
an ethnic cleansing being
created by this administra-
tion. And it’s very hard
words, but let’s be real about
what we are seeing.”
Ragbir was detained last
month during a check-in
with U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement over
a 2001 conviction for a mort-
gage fraud scheme. He was
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treatment.
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in the fraud. He’s fighting to
vacate the conviction in fed-
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50,000 immigrants a year,
mostly from Eastern Europe
and Africa, and is geared
toward countries that
don’t send many immi-
grants to the U.S. Trump
has insisted the lottery be
eliminated.
Democrats in the past
were open to changing that
system. But after Trump re-
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migrants coming from “shit-
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elsewhere, several Demo-
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the Congressional Black
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Family seeks pardon for boxing hero

White jury found him
guilty of ‘immorality’
with a white woman
after he defeated a
series of white rivals.
By Kareem Copland
In Jim Crow America, it’s
no wonder that Jack John-
son was the most despised
African American of his gen-
eration.
The first black boxing
heavyweight champion of
the world, Johnson humili-
ated white fighters and
flaunted his affection for
white women, even fleeing
the country after an all-
white jury convicted him of
“immorality” for one of his
relationships.
Now, more than 100 years
later, Johnson’s great-great
niece wants President
Trump to clear the champi-
on’s name with a post-
humous pardon. And she
has the backing of Sen. John
McCain (R-Ariz.), who has
supported a Johnson par-
don since 2004.
“Jack Johnson was a box-
ing legend and pioneer
whose career and reputa-
tion were ruined by a racially
charged conviction more
than a century ago,” McCain
said in a statement to the
Associated Press. “John-
son’s imprisonment forced
him into the shadows of big-
otry and prejudice, and con-
tinues to stand as a stain on
our national honor.”
Johnson, the son of for-
mer slaves, defeated Tommy
Burns for the heavyweight
title in 1908, a time when
blacks and whites rarely en-
tered the same ring. He then
mowed down a series of
“great white hopes,” culmi-
nating in 1910 with the unde-
feated former champion
James J. Jeffries.
“He is one of the craftiest,
cunningest boxers that ever
stepped into the ring,” leg-
endary boxer John L. Sulli-
van said after the Jeffries
bout, which was called “the
fight of the century.”
But Johnson also refused
to adhere to societal norms,
living lavishly and brazenly
and dating outside his race
in a time when whites often
killed African Americans
without fear of legal reper-
cussions. In 1913, he was con-
victed of violating the Mann
Act, which made it illegal to
transport women across
state lines for “immoral”
purposes.
After seven years as a fu-
gitive, Johnson eventually
returned to the U.S. and
turned himself in. He served
about a year in federal pris-
JACK JOHNSON, pictured in 1932, was the first black world heavyweight cham-
pion. In and out of the ring, he refused to stick to society’s expectations for blacks.
on and was released in 1921.
He died in 1946 in an auto
crash.
Muhammad Ali often
praised Johnson and his
courage.
“They say I’m controver-
sial and they say I’m bold,
but I wasn’t nothing like
Jack Johnson,” Ali once told
broadcaster Howard Cosell.
“They had lynchings and
rapings and burnings, and
every time he’d fight they’d
lynch Negroes and burn
houses. This man was told if
you beat this white man
we’re going to shoot you
ing himself.”
Haywood has pressed to
have Johnson pardoned
since President George W.
Bush was in office a decade
ago.
Posthumous pardons are
rare, but not unprecedent-
ed. President Clinton par-
doned Henry O. Flipper, the
first African American offi-
cer to lead the Buffalo Sol-
diers of the 10th Cavalry Re-
giment during the Civil War;
he was framed for embezzle-
ment. In 2008 Bush par-
doned Charles Winters, an
American volunteer in the
Arab-Israeli War convicted
of violating the U.S. Neutral-
ity Acts in 1949.
Haywood wanted Presi-
dent Obama, the nation’s
first black president, to
pardon Johnson, but Justice
Department policy says
that “processing post-
humous pardon petitions is
grounded in the belief that
the time of the officials in-
Associated Press volved in the clemency proc-
ess is better spent on the
pardon and commutation
requests of living persons.”
from the audience. He said, The Justice Department
‘Well, just shoot my black so- makes decisions on poten-
and-so because I’m-a knock tial pardons through an
him out.’” application process and
The stain on Johnson’s typically makes recom-
reputation led some family mendations to the presi-
members to live in shame of dent. The general policy is to
his legacy — the exact oppo- not accept applications for
site of how Johnson led his posthumous pardons for
life. federal convictions, accord-
Family “didn’t talk about ing to the department’s web-
it because they were site.
ashamed of him, that he “In terms of Jack John-
went to prison,” Linda E. son, I think the Department

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He’s eager to regain his touch
[White, from A1]
The previous few years
had not gone well for the
most successful snowboard-
er in history, the superstar
with the flaming red hair
who, for better or worse, had
dragged his renegade sport
into the mainstream and
earned millions upon mil-
lions of dollars in the proc-
ess.
After dominating the
halfpipe for the better part of
a decade, winning back-to-
back Olympic gold in Turin,
Italy, and Vancouver, Cana-
da, White had come up short
at the 2014 Winter Games in
Sochi, Russia.
People quietly wondered
if a brazen new generation of
riders had passed him by. Af-
ter his training crash in Oc-
tober, the whispers grew
louder.
Lying in a hospital bed,
the 31-year-old had doubts of
his own.
“It really threw me for a
loop,” he recalls. “I was, like,
do I really want to do this?”
::
The last few months have
seen a remarkable string of
performances in men’s half-
pipe.
Top dogs such as Scotty
James of Australia and
Ayumu Hirano of Japan
have one-upped each other
with new tricks or combina-
tions in one contest after an-
other.
Which makes it all the
more startling that White,
barely four months removed
from his gruesome crash,
ranks among the favorites at
the 2018 Winter Olympics.
“I feel more like I know
who I am,” he says. “And I
know my riding.”
His words slur the slight-
est bit because of a few
stitches remaining in his
tongue. That doesn’t stop
him from answering a flurry
of questions from the report-
ers who crowd around.
They want to know about
his final run — a perfect 100
— at the recent Toyota U.S.
Grand Prix in Colorado.
Tears filled his eyes that day.
“It was, obviously, one of
the highlights of my career,”
he says.
White needed the 100 to
edge James, who had put to-
gether a dazzling run of his
own moments earlier. At the
X Games a week later, with
White laid up by a cold,
James and Hirano traded
haymakers before the Japa-
nese rider prevailed.
So the stage is set for a
showdown on the sport’s
biggest, brightest stage.
Cold, dry weather should
make for a perfectly shaped
halfpipe, icy and fast, in
Pyeongchang. There will be
pressure to go bigger and
better, to outdo the next guy.
And that might just favor
a rider known for generating
big air, an athlete who has
scores of X Games medals
and is eager to regain his
touch for coming through in
the clutch.
“Shaun likes to have his
back against the wall,” says
Todd Richards, a former top
snowboarder who now
serves as an NBC analyst.
“This is his redemption.”
::
Looking back, it seems
obvious why things went
wrong in 2014. The sport had
been chasing White for so
long, other riders were
bound to catch up, and stay-
ing hungry was a problem.
“Win after winning after
winning,” he calls it.
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Two Ohio police officers re-
sponding to a 911 hang-up
call were fatally shot on Sat-
urday after entering an
apartment in a Columbus
suburb, and a suspect was
taken into custody, author-
ities said.
Westerville Police Chief
Joe Morbitzer said Officer
Eric Joering, 39, died at the
scene and his colleague
Tony Morelli, 54, died at a lo-
cal hospital. He said the offi-
cers were responding to a
“potential domestic situa-
tion.”
“The officers gave their
lives in defense of others,”
S L AT I M E S. C O M
SHAUN WHITE dominated the halfpipe for the better part of a decade, winning gold in Turin and Vancouver, but he fell short in Sochi.
WHITE practices at Phoenix Snow Park in Pyeongchang. “Shaun likes to have his back against the wall,” says
Todd Richards, a former top snowboarder who now serves as an NBC analyst. “This is his redemption.”
Maybe the need for some-
thing new, a spark, prompt-
ed an ambitious plan head-
ing into Sochi as White de-
cided to enter both the half-
pipe and the new slopestyle
event.
“The same things that
got me motivated weren’t
really working anymore,” he
says.
But any thoughts of
a double gold in Sochi
ended quickly. A treacher-
ous slopestyle course led to
multiple riders crashing in
practice, and White with-
drew after tweaking his wrist
in a fall.
“The potential risk of
injury is a bit too much for
me to gamble my other
Olympics goals on,” he said
then.
Conditions at the half-
pipe weren’t much better,
with walls that needed ad-
justing and then a sugary,
bumpy base. Richards says
that, with White’s speed, it
was “like having a bullet
Morbitzer said, struggling
to keep his emotions in
check.
He called the officers
“true American heroes.”
Police provided no de-
tails about the suspect dur-
ing a brief news conference.
The Columbus Dispatch re-
ported that the suspect was
wounded and treated at a
hospital.
Republican Gov. John
Kasich, who lives with his
family in a nearby township,
tweeted that he was “very
saddened to learn of the
deaths of two of my home-
town police officers.” He
asked Ohio residents to join
him in “lifting up these offi-
cers’ families in prayer.”
President Trump
train take a dirt road.”
Some riders had runs
that could be adapted;
White did not. He finished
fourth.
“It was one of the most
frustrating things for me,”
he said afterward. “If I land
my run and I’m beat, I’m OK
with that. But I definitely
didn’t get that chance.”
Sochi was an eye-opener.
After a lifetime in the sport,
call it burnout or simply
growing older. Back home,
White took some time to
think about his life and what
he really wanted.
Nothing was above ex-
amination, maybe not even
the sport that had been the
center of his life since boy-
hood.
Trying to describe this
struggle to the reporters, he
settles on a comparison.
“It’s like if you’ve ever
been in a relationship and
someone loves you and
you’re like, I wish I could flip
a switch and love you back,”
tweeted: “My thoughts and
prayers are with the two po-
lice officers, their families,
and everybody at the
@WestervillePD.”
Joering was a 17-year po-
lice veteran, and Morelli was
a 30-year veteran.
“These were two of the
best we have,” Morbitzer
said. “This was their calling.”
He added that they “both
gave their life for the protec-
tion of others, and that’s
what they lived and breath-
ed.”
Westerville, on the north-
east side of Columbus, is a
suburb of about 39,000 with
a per capita income well
above the rest of Ohio’s. It
regularly tops lists of the
country’s best suburbs.
he suggests. “You know what
I’m saying?”
Then comes a big laugh
as he rocks backward.
“It’s a bit deep, guys.”
In the end, it made the
most sense to do things
that made him immediately
happy. He went on tour with
his rock band, Bad Things,
and worked on business
projects. Also, he says, “I got
a dog.”
As for snowboarding, his
focus returned to his first
love — the halfpipe — and he
began working with a new
coach, J.J. Thomas, who
years earlier had beaten him
out for the final spot on the
2002 Olympic team.
“He can read me,” White
says. “He’s the one taking
my ups and downs and
straightening them out.”
The work began to pay off
last season with a World Cup
gold in Mammoth and a sil-
ver at Phoenix Snow Park,
the venue in Pyeongchang
where this week’s Olympic
INVESTIGATORS check the scene after the shooting deaths of two officers in
Westerville, Ohio. An unnamed suspect was wounded and treated at a hospital.
David Ramos Getty Images
contest will be held. White
had clawed his way back to
the upper echelon and the
other riders noticed.
“I have a lot of respect for
the guy,” James says. “He
has been a pioneer in the
sport for a long time.”
Everything seemed to be
moving in the right direction
as the Winter Games drew
near. Then came the train-
ing session in New Zealand.
::
Snowboarders know
their sport can be danger-
ous.
Over the years, the half-
pipe has grown steadily, to
the point where the walls
now stand 22 feet high. As
riders become stronger and
more skilled, perhaps more
audacious, they twist and
flip an additional 20 or more
feet in the air.
So a “deck check,” when a
rider hits the rim of the pipe
instead of landing on the
Jay L. Clendenin Los Angeles Times
downslope, can be like tum-
bling out of a fourth-story
window.
“There are falls that rat-
tle you physically and falls
that rattle you mentally,”
Richards says. “The fall that
Shaun took? I mean, there
are a lot of people who would
have said, ‘I’m done with
this.’ ”
But walking away wasn’t
that easy.
Nowhere else could White
find the satisfaction of mas-
tering a trick. Nowhere else
could he take what he had
learned and transform it
into the adrenaline rush of
gold.
So those initial doubts in
the hospital soon dissi-
pated.
“I set my goals and
worked on my runs,” he says.
At the U.S. Grand Prix,
when James landed a switch
backside double cork 1260 —
perhaps the sport’s most
technical trick — it would
take something extraordi-
nary to win. Standing at
the starting gate, White
changed on the fly.
His impromptu run in-
cluded a Double McTwist
1260 and a frontside double
cork 1440. Reaching the base
of the hill, he thrust his arms
into the air, then grabbed his
helmet as if he could not be-
lieve what had happened.
The score might have
raised a few eyebrows —
James wasn’t happy — but
that didn’t matter.
“I feel stronger than I’ve
ever felt,” White says.
Something about his de-
meanor seems different now,
easier, more assured.
There is still the weight of
expectation, still a slight fear
of failure, especially as he ap-
proaches what could be the
toughest halfpipe competi-
tion in Olympic history.
But there is also certi-
tude, as if he has landed ex-
actly where he needs to be.
“That’s the simplest an-
swer,” he says. “It just feels
right.”
david.wharton
@latimes.com
Twitter: @LAtimesWharton
Tom Dodge Columbus Dispatch
A16 S U N DAY, FE B RUARY 11, 2 018
He’s eager to regain his touch
[White, from A1]
The previous few years
had not gone well for the
most successful snowboard-
er in history, the superstar
with the flaming red hair
who, for better or worse, had
dragged his renegade sport
into the mainstream and
earned millions upon mil-
lions of dollars in the proc-
ess.
After dominating the
halfpipe for the better part of
a decade, winning back-to-
back Olympic gold in Turin,
Italy, and Vancouver, Cana-
da, White had come up short
at the 2014 Winter Games in
Sochi, Russia.
People quietly wondered
if a brazen new generation of
riders had passed him by. Af-
ter his training crash in Oc-
tober, the whispers grew
louder.
Lying in a hospital bed,
the 31-year-old had doubts of
his own.
“It really threw me for a
loop,” he recalls. “I was, like,
do I really want to do this?”
::
The last few months have
seen a remarkable string of
performances in men’s half-
pipe.
Top dogs such as Scotty
James of Australia and
Ayumu Hirano of Japan
have one-upped each other
with new tricks or combina-
tions in one contest after an-
other.
Which makes it all the
more startling that White,
barely four months removed
from his gruesome crash,
ranks among the favorites at
the 2018 Winter Olympics.
“I feel more like I know
who I am,” he says. “And I
know my riding.”
His words slur the slight-
est bit because of a few
stitches remaining in his
tongue. That doesn’t stop
him from answering a flurry
of questions from the report-
ers who crowd around.
They want to know about
his final run — a perfect 100
— at the recent Toyota U.S.
Grand Prix in Colorado.
Tears filled his eyes that day.
“It was, obviously, one of
the highlights of my career,”
he says.
White needed the 100 to
edge James, who had put to-
gether a dazzling run of his
own moments earlier. At the
X Games a week later, with
White laid up by a cold,
James and Hirano traded
haymakers before the Japa-
nese rider prevailed.
So the stage is set for a
showdown on the sport’s
biggest, brightest stage.
Cold, dry weather should
make for a perfectly shaped
halfpipe, icy and fast, in
Pyeongchang. There will be
pressure to go bigger and
better, to outdo the next guy.
And that might just favor
a rider known for generating
big air, an athlete who has
scores of X Games medals
and is eager to regain his
touch for coming through in
the clutch.
“Shaun likes to have his
back against the wall,” says
Todd Richards, a former top
snowboarder who now
serves as an NBC analyst.
“This is his redemption.”
::
Looking back, it seems
obvious why things went
wrong in 2014. The sport had
been chasing White for so
long, other riders were
bound to catch up, and stay-
ing hungry was a problem.
“Win after winning after
winning,” he calls it.
2 Ohio cops shot dead
responding to 911 call
associated press
WESTERVILLE, Ohio —
Two Ohio police officers re-
sponding to a 911 hang-up
call were fatally shot on Sat-
urday after entering an
apartment in a Columbus
suburb, and a suspect was
taken into custody, author-
ities said.
Westerville Police Chief
Joe Morbitzer said Officer
Eric Joering, 39, died at the
scene and his colleague
Tony Morelli, 54, died at a lo-
cal hospital. He said the offi-
cers were responding to a
“potential domestic situa-
tion.”
“The officers gave their
lives in defense of others,”
S L AT I M E S. C O M
SHAUN WHITE dominated the halfpipe for the better part of a decade, winning gold in Turin and Vancouver, but he fell short in Sochi.
WHITE practices at Phoenix Snow Park in Pyeongchang. “Shaun likes to have his back against the wall,” says
Todd Richards, a former top snowboarder who now serves as an NBC analyst. “This is his redemption.”
Maybe the need for some-
thing new, a spark, prompt-
ed an ambitious plan head-
ing into Sochi as White de-
cided to enter both the half-
pipe and the new slopestyle
event.
“The same things that
got me motivated weren’t
really working anymore,” he
says.
But any thoughts of
a double gold in Sochi
ended quickly. A treacher-
ous slopestyle course led to
multiple riders crashing in
practice, and White with-
drew after tweaking his wrist
in a fall.
“The potential risk of
injury is a bit too much for
me to gamble my other
Olympics goals on,” he said
then.
Conditions at the half-
pipe weren’t much better,
with walls that needed ad-
justing and then a sugary,
bumpy base. Richards says
that, with White’s speed, it
was “like having a bullet
Morbitzer said, struggling
to keep his emotions in
check.
He called the officers
“true American heroes.”
Police provided no de-
tails about the suspect dur-
ing a brief news conference.
The Columbus Dispatch re-
ported that the suspect was
wounded and treated at a
hospital.
Republican Gov. John
Kasich, who lives with his
family in a nearby township,
tweeted that he was “very
saddened to learn of the
deaths of two of my home-
town police officers.” He
asked Ohio residents to join
him in “lifting up these offi-
cers’ families in prayer.”
President Trump
train take a dirt road.”
Some riders had runs
that could be adapted;
White did not. He finished
fourth.
“It was one of the most
frustrating things for me,”
he said afterward. “If I land
my run and I’m beat, I’m OK
with that. But I definitely
didn’t get that chance.”
Sochi was an eye-opener.
After a lifetime in the sport,
call it burnout or simply
growing older. Back home,
White took some time to
think about his life and what
he really wanted.
Nothing was above ex-
amination, maybe not even
the sport that had been the
center of his life since boy-
hood.
Trying to describe this
struggle to the reporters, he
settles on a comparison.
“It’s like if you’ve ever
been in a relationship and
someone loves you and
you’re like, I wish I could flip
a switch and love you back,”
tweeted: “My thoughts and
prayers are with the two po-
lice officers, their families,
and everybody at the
@WestervillePD.”
Joering was a 17-year po-
lice veteran, and Morelli was
a 30-year veteran.
“These were two of the
best we have,” Morbitzer
said. “This was their calling.”
He added that they “both
gave their life for the protec-
tion of others, and that’s
what they lived and breath-
ed.”
Westerville, on the north-
east side of Columbus, is a
suburb of about 39,000 with
a per capita income well
above the rest of Ohio’s. It
regularly tops lists of the
country’s best suburbs.
he suggests. “You know what
I’m saying?”
Then comes a big laugh
as he rocks backward.
“It’s a bit deep, guys.”
In the end, it made the
most sense to do things
that made him immediately
happy. He went on tour with
his rock band, Bad Things,
and worked on business
projects. Also, he says, “I got
a dog.”
As for snowboarding, his
focus returned to his first
love — the halfpipe — and he
began working with a new
coach, J.J. Thomas, who
years earlier had beaten him
out for the final spot on the
2002 Olympic team.
“He can read me,” White
says. “He’s the one taking
my ups and downs and
straightening them out.”
The work began to pay off
last season with a World Cup
gold in Mammoth and a sil-
ver at Phoenix Snow Park,
the venue in Pyeongchang
where this week’s Olympic
INVESTIGATORS check the scene after the shooting deaths of two officers in
Westerville, Ohio. An unnamed suspect was wounded and treated at a hospital.
David Ramos Getty Images
contest will be held. White
had clawed his way back to
the upper echelon and the
other riders noticed.
“I have a lot of respect for
the guy,” James says. “He
has been a pioneer in the
sport for a long time.”
Everything seemed to be
moving in the right direction
as the Winter Games drew
near. Then came the train-
ing session in New Zealand.
::
Snowboarders know
their sport can be danger-
ous.
Over the years, the half-
pipe has grown steadily, to
the point where the walls
now stand 22 feet high. As
riders become stronger and
more skilled, perhaps more
audacious, they twist and
flip an additional 20 or more
feet in the air.
So a “deck check,” when a
rider hits the rim of the pipe
instead of landing on the
Jay L. Clendenin Los Angeles Times
downslope, can be like tum-
bling out of a fourth-story
window.
“There are falls that rat-
tle you physically and falls
that rattle you mentally,”
Richards says. “The fall that
Shaun took? I mean, there
are a lot of people who would
have said, ‘I’m done with
this.’ ”
But walking away wasn’t
that easy.
Nowhere else could White
find the satisfaction of mas-
tering a trick. Nowhere else
could he take what he had
learned and transform it
into the adrenaline rush of
gold.
So those initial doubts in
the hospital soon dissi-
pated.
“I set my goals and
worked on my runs,” he says.
At the U.S. Grand Prix,
when James landed a switch
backside double cork 1260 —
perhaps the sport’s most
technical trick — it would
take something extraordi-
nary to win. Standing at
the starting gate, White
changed on the fly.
His impromptu run in-
cluded a Double McTwist
1260 and a frontside double
cork 1440. Reaching the base
of the hill, he thrust his arms
into the air, then grabbed his
helmet as if he could not be-
lieve what had happened.
The score might have
raised a few eyebrows —
James wasn’t happy — but
that didn’t matter.
“I feel stronger than I’ve
ever felt,” White says.
Something about his de-
meanor seems different now,
easier, more assured.
There is still the weight of
expectation, still a slight fear
of failure, especially as he ap-
proaches what could be the
toughest halfpipe competi-
tion in Olympic history.
But there is also certi-
tude, as if he has landed ex-
actly where he needs to be.
“That’s the simplest an-
swer,” he says. “It just feels
right.”
david.wharton
@latimes.com
Twitter: @LAtimesWharton
Tom Dodge Columbus Dispatch
A18 S U N DAY, FE B RUARY 11, 2 018
Burning through money at Time Inc.
By Karl Taro Greenfeld
I
started as a writer at Time
Magazine on a Monday in
1998. I turned up that morn-
ing to find the 23rd floor of
the Time-Life building, the
editorial offices, deserted. Nobody
at Time went in to work on Mon-
days. The magazine operated on a
Tuesday through Friday schedule.
That was the first of many quirks I
would enjoy at what was still an
immensely profitable enterprise.
Time, that year following the
death of Princess Diana and pre-
ceding the death of John F. Ken-
nedy Jr., was a cash cow. Those
celebrity death covers sold so well
that Time published second-week
covers on the same celebrity
deaths.
Now Time Inc., Time’s parent
company, has joined the ranks of
the celebrity dead: It was acquired
recently by Meredith Inc., a Des
Moines-based publisher, and
officially ceased to exist on Feb. 1.
Time Inc. signage no longer
adorns corporate headquarters in
Manhattan, a symbolic coup de
grace. But the company’s decline
was long in the making, steady and
unremitting. And in retrospect,
the cracks in the foundation were
present even during the boom
years.
At Time Inc.’s flagship maga-
zine, there was no orientation, no
instruction, no one to welcome me
to the empty offices on my first
day. I was one of a dozen or so
George
North is
famous
at last
VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN
P
lagiarism is impossible
to avoid. Unless you
speak glossolalicly — “in
tongues”— your words,
phrases and systems of
metaphor are not your private
inventions. And if you’ve found
yourself saying “cuck” or “double
down” or “take a knee” in the last
year — as if they just suddenly
seemed right — you can be sure
you inhaled those devilishly infec-
tious memes like second-hand
smoke.
Some information analysts
even believe that meme cam-
paigns on social media, especially
the tendentious ones circulated
by bots and trolls, compromise
our cognitive security, exploiting
mental vulnerabilities to false and
dangerous narratives in the diso-
rientation of the Internet.
It’s well worth protecting
yourself against bombardments
of propaganda. But have no
shame about being derivative. As
T.S. Eliot wrote, “Immature poets
imitate; mature poets steal; bad
poets deface what they take, and
good poets make it into some-
thing better, or at least something
different.”
On Thursday, literary clickbait
broke in the New York Times that
Shakespeare, a good poet, had
been caught red-handed in some
plagiaristic adventuring. (In
London, this was gossip hot
enough to hit the tabloids.) Using
software designed to nab kids
who crib from SparkNotes, Den-
nis McCarthy, a self-taught
Shakespearean, found that the
language and ideas from an ob-
scure 1576 manuscript pervade
some of Shakespeare’s most
famous plays, including the “Now
is the winter of our discontent”
soliloquy, from “Richard III.”
Will’s finished!
JK, as the texters say; that’s
short for infinite jest.
It’s well known that Shake-
speare built every single one of his
plays, except possibly “The Tem-
pest,” from source material. “King
Lear,” as Harvard English profes-
sor Stephen Greenblatt and
others have shown, draws from a
1603 Montaigne essay about
clingy old men. Shakespeare also
took ideas from Chaucer, Spenser
and, above all, Plutarch, whose
ideas Shakespeare filched from
an English translation by Sir
Thomas North.
The difference this time is that
the source text is not by a lumi-
nary such as Plutarch, but a
schmo courtier to Queen Eliza-
beth named George North. Pay-
ing attention? Yes, George North
was likely a cousin to Thomas, the
Plutarch translator, which is
perhaps how Shakespeare found
George and vaped his words.
S L AT I M E S. C O M
younger writers hired by Manag-
ing Editor Walter Isaacson to
infuse the magazine with a youth-
ful sensibility. I was assigned to the
business section, where instead of
infusing, I started mimicking,
seeking to make my stories as
indistinguishable as possible from
those that came before and after,
whether in that particular issue or
chronologically since the founding
of the magazine in 1922. I watched
some of my peers fail, and was
jealous when some — hello, Joel
Stein! — seemed to become favor-
ites of Isaacson and his successor,
Jim Kelly.
Isaacson would later insist that
they never instructed us by design,
so they could ascertain who was a
self-starter. We competed to be the
best at mimicking the magazine,
which meant we were essentially
mimicking each other, as gradu-
ally, once the less successful im-
personators were weeded out, we
became the writers relied upon to
fill the book each week.
The late 1990s turned out to be
the last lush years at Time Maga-
zine, when almost all of the Time
Inc. titles — Sports Illustrated,
Fortune, Entertainment Weekly,
People — made money, lots and
lots of it. They gave me an organi-
zation chart, that first week, that
included everything Time-Warner
owned. There were TV networks,
news channels, a movie studio,
sports franchises, record labels,
book publishers, comic book pub-
lishers, even a wrestling league.
McCarthy says George North’s
work informed so much of Shake-
speare’s that it seems the poet
leaned on it as a go-to resource.
Unlike Thomas, though, George
never found fame. Better late
than never: McCarthy, with the
renowned Shakespeare scholar
June Schlueter, published North’s
“A Brief Discourse of Rebellion
and Rebels” on Friday.
How McCarthy found North’s
quirky manuscript is a tale more
Victorian than Elizabethan. The
short version is that McCarthy,
who had developed an interest in
Thomas North’s influence on
Shakespeare, saw a reference to
cousin George’s “A Brief Dis-
course” online in an auction cata-
log. A tantalizing note marked the
work as potentially similar to
Shakespeare. McCarthy called up
Schlueter, and together they
enlisted a “manuscript detective,”
a kind of Inspector Bucket of
libraries. The inspector finally
dug up the treatise stashed under
a weird shelfmark at the British
Library. The two fed North and
Shakespeare into Wcopyfind —
the open-source catch-a-plagia-
rist software — and voila.
Just one example of what they
found: North used the words
“proportion,” “glass,” “feature,”
“fair,” “deformed,” “world,” “shad-
ow” and “nature” in a passage
about ugliness and beauty. A
tidbit from North, with modern
spellings: “To view our own pro-
portion in a glass, whose form and
feature, if we find fair and worthy,
to frame our affections accord-
ingly, if otherwise she have by skill
or will deformed our outward
appearance and left us odible to
the eye of the world.”
(Mental note: Use “odible” as
soon as possible.)
Then Shakespeare used the
same words in almost the same
sequence in the opening to “Rich-
ard III.” The difference between
North and Shakespeare is that
North used the words to make a
banal point about how homely
people ought to cultivate inner
beauty, whereas Shakespeare
used them to show that Richard,
who sees himself as exiled from
beauty and pleasure, has doubled
down on villainy.
There’s more. “Macbeth,”
“King Lear,” “Henry V” and sev-
eral other Shakespeare plays
show North’s influence.
OP-ED
The disastrous merger with
AOL was still a couple of years
away. The legendary drink carts
were gone, but we took a livery car
home every night if we wanted and
we had unlimited expense ac-
counts. And I mean unlimited: I
remember turning in monthly
T&E’s exceeding $25,000, and one
editor supposedly ran up $880,000
in expenses in a single year. The
process of submitting expenses
required calling a subcontracted
company and then manually
inputting each item using the
phone keypad. We all complained
about the laborious process but
nobody ever complained about the
ridiculous amounts we were
charging to the company.
We had corporate matching for
our 401ks, profit sharing, stock
options and stock awards. It felt
like we were getting paid six differ-
ent ways.
In my first year I sensed I was
going to make it at Time; by the
second, year, Time Inc. Editor in
Chief Norman Pearlstine had
somehow deduced from my mim-
icry that I was management mate-
rial, and began offering me all
sorts of jobs. To Time Inc.’s credit,
the higher-ups were always look-
ing to promote writers and editors
of color.
I was eventually made the
editor of Time Asia, based in Hong
Kong, with a circulation of 450,000,
a staff of a few hundred, and bu-
reaus all over Asia. I had a housing
allowance — the company rented
Dennis Odom Knight Ridder Tribune
In a field of scholarship gener-
ally thought to have been picked
clean by critics and historians,
McCarthy’s discovery of this
manuscript is a monumental
contribution to both literary
studies and Shakespeare’s biog-
raphy. Michael Witmore, who
directs the Folger Shakespeare
Library in Washington, called it “a
once-in-a-generation — or several
generations — find.”
At the same time, Ron Rosen-
baum, the author of “The Shake-
speare Wars,” cautions against
making too much of Shake-
speare’s influences. “I distrust the
tendency of source hunters to say
the sources ‘explain’ Shake-
speare,” Rosenbaum told me.
“Sources are a distraction from
the question raised by the plays
themselves: what makes Shake-
speare Shakespeare?”
Indeed, what makes any of us
any of us if not our idiosyncratic
interpretation of stock human
thoughts, words and deeds?
There’s a difference between
making your own poetry from the
work of poets past, a sort of com-
pliment, and property theft.
Recently, a journalist named Julie
McDowall published a vivid piece
in the Guardian about the dogs of
Chernobyl, the site of the 1986
nuclear catastrophe. She had
paid her own way for the trip,
taken risks. Almost as soon as the
article appeared, the Daily Mail
ripped it off, consigning McDow-
all’s name to a footnote.
“I paid for my nuclear trip, and
the Guardian paid for the story.”
McDowall told me. “The Mail
have made no effort here. They're
simply parasites.”
That’s odible. But years ago,
my writing partner came across
this sentence in a magazine:
“Most plagiarees are secretly
pleased.” Even as he knew that
wasn’t entirely true — most writ-
ers have been burned by a plagia-
rist at least once — he trimmed
out the line, framed it and hung it
over his desk. He liked the long “e”
sounds. But he also liked the idea
— someone else’s idea, which he
made his own.
There is little doubt that for-
merly forgotten courtier George
North — now the biggest name in
Shakespeare news — is post-
humously pleased.
Twitter: @page88
me a beautiful flat on Barker
Road, near the Peak — a company
car, club memberships, a generous
cost of living allowance and tax
equalization. I flew business class.
I never knew our budget. I just
hired staffers and spent freely on
freelancers, assuming that, at
some point, if I was overspending,
someone would come to my office
and alert me. Nobody ever came.
At the end of the year, Time man-
aging editor Jim Kelly would give
me a $100,000 bonus. And it all felt
normal.
It turned out we were over-
spending. Horrendously. That’s
what we were best at.
We wrote some good pieces and
I certainly learned a great deal
about writing, but Time had al-
ready lost whatever scrappiness or
journalistic hustle it had once had,
if, indeed, it had ever had any.
The magazine that Henry Luce
and Briton Hadden founded had
always been a clip job, a digest of
the week’s news. It didn’t break
stories, it broke them down so that
Middle America could easily di-
gest them. The internet obviated
that function and the AOL deal,
finalized in 2000, was both vision-
ary and tragic in that CEO Gerald
Levin saw the future coming, but
totally misread how to play it.
We became a magazine com-
pany attached to a dial-up com-
pany as the whole world was get-
ting wired for high-speed internet.
We didn’t have the reflexes to
survive in this new newsgathering
‘Solastalgia’
strikes the
Winter Olympics
By Auden Schendler
A
t a cross-country ski
area outside of Carbon-
dale, Colo., the thin
track was recently re-
freshed with a meager
two inches of snow. Yet people were
out in droves, delighting in all man-
ner of snow sliding. It was a hot
January day, so blistering that a lo-
cal rancher called it beautiful “for
April.”
Around one turn, some skiers
had built two miniature snowmen.
They had raisin eyes and stick
arms, and they stood only 10 inches
high — scale replicas, really, an
homage to a past era of abundance.
It didn’t matter. Give people even a
little snow and they will find a way
to celebrate being alive.
It’s not much of a leap from
those two underweight snowmen
to the Winter Olympics. Yes, the
Games are big business. But every
Winter Olympian’s love of their
sport began with a childlike vision
of fun. That’s the real reason cli-
mate change poses such a menac-
ing danger to winter sports: Rising
temperatures are threatening not
just what we do, but who we are.
There’s even a word for it: so-
lastalgia. A climate scientist
friend, Elizabeth Burakowski, told
me the term describes “the exist-
ential distress caused by environ-
mental change, the homesickness
felt when one is still at home. It is
the unease one feels during those
warm, snowless winters.” Today,
many lifelong winter athletes are
familiar with solastalgia — and a
lot of everyday Vermonters and
Utahans and Californians are too.
The anxiety is justified. NASA
scientists named 2017 the second-
warmest on record, surpassed only
by 2016. According to both NASA
and the National Oceanic and At-
mospheric Administration, 17 of
the 18 hottest years have occurred
since 2001.
Colder places and colder sea-
sons are changing faster than
warmer ones. NOAA has reported
that since the turn of the 20th cen-
tury, winter temperatures in the
U.S. have increased at almost twice
the rate of summer temperatures.
Researchers at the University of
Waterloo predict that, by 2050, 9
out of 21 former Winter Olympic
sites will be too warm to host the
games. Pyeongchang, fortunately,
is one of the predictably cold ones,
though organizers still expect this
year’s games will require man-
made snow.
The athletes grasp the full
scope of global warming. Bode
Miller, the most decorated Ameri-
can Olympic ski racer, recently told
the Colorado Springs Gazette:
“We’re dealing with a climate issue
that’s massive, and it’s going to
screw everything up. If you’re not
on the cutting edge of that, you’re
going to get toasted.”
It’s fair to say that American ski
areas already are getting toasted.
Unseasonably warm temperatures
and limited snow delayed resort
openings across the country this
ecosystem because what we ex-
celled at, besides overspending,
was mimicking news gathering.
I would return from Hong Kong
to edit and write at Sports Illus-
trated, helping to launch Sports
Illustrated China before the Bei-
jing Olympics. By then, ESPN had
already changed the sports land-
scape and no one needed a maga-
zine to keep them up to date with
scores or results. Sports Illus-
trated had and still has great
sports writers. And there is an
audience that wants to read litera-
ry sports writing.
That audience, though, is not
large enough to sustain the Time
Inc. infrastructure. The expense
accounts. The black cars. The
generous bonuses. You need circu-
lations in the mid-seven figures
and dozens of pages of advertising
to fuel all that.
When circulations contracted,
advertisers moved on to the web.
We all know the story.
But here’s some perspective as
to how flush it all was. Scripted
television is a booming industry
and I’m in my second season as a
writer on a popular show. Without
adjusting for inflation, I made
more money as a writer at Time
Magazine in 1999.
You can’t blame us for enjoying
it while it lasted, even if our enjoy-
ment is why it couldn’t last.
Karl Taro Greenfeld is a writer
on “Ray Donovan.” His latest
novel, “True,” is due out in June.
Lars Baron Bongarts/Getty Images
BODE MILLER , the most
decorated American ski racer,
is outspoken about warming.
winter. One season doesn’t make a
trend, but even one dry year means
hundreds of millions of dollars in
losses.
In a report that will be released
after the Olympics, the nonprofit
Protect Our Winters finds that
high-snow years in the U.S. pro-
duce, on average, an additional
$692.9 million in economic value
and more than 11,750 additional
jobs nationally. During low-snow
years, snow country loses $1 billion
in value and more than 17,350 jobs
compared with an average season.
Of course the numbers distract
from greater potential losses —
afternoons of family sledding, the
madness of skitching, the look of
street lamps in a blizzard.
Olympic athletes are uniquely
positioned to sound alarms about
climate change. Many of them al-
ready do: Ski racing legends Ted
Ligety and Steve Nyman; cross-
country skiers Kikkan Randall,
Andy Newell and Simi Hamilton;
and snowboarders Jamie Ander-
son, Kelly Clark and Danny Davis.
They represent a new breed of
competitor, focused almost as
much on the need to save their
craft as they are on the craft itself.
Increasingly, their sponsors align.
Burton, the company that made
the U.S. snowboard team’s
Olympic uniforms, is one of the
most outspoken businesses about
the perils of global warming.
But we need more than leader-
ship from a few. The Olympics are
an international stage from which
athletes can demand action from
the countries they represent and
mobilize their sponsors and fans.
This year, all the Olympians com-
peting in Pyeongchang should be
vocal in some way — every last one.
The Olympics are about
achievement and execution, about
pushing the limits of human phys-
ical ability.
Pyeongchang, more than any
other winter games in the past, will
also be about other limits: how
much humans will allow global
temperatures to rise and the will-
ingness of elite athletes to use their
power, money and global platform
to save their livelihoods, and ours.
Auden Schendler is a senior vice
president of Aspen Skiing Co. and
a board member of Protect Our
Winters.
L AT I ME S . CO M
IMMIGRANTS wait in line at Ellis Island in this undated photograph. About 16 million people came to the United States through the facility between 1892 and 1924.
Missing from the debate: receipts
By Jennifer Mendelsohn
M
y friend Brian used
to tell a charming
story about the deri-
vation of his last
name. His paternal
grandfather had been born “Dam.”
But upon arriving at Ellis Island,
the first thing Grandpa Harry saw
was a fruit seller, so he changed his
name on a whim to Fruchter, later
changed again to the more easily
spelled Frazer.
At least that was the story until I
offered to help Brian with his family
tree a few years ago. I found his
grandfather’s birth record from
Navariya, a town in the former Aus-
tro-Hungarian province of Galicia.
Harry’s name at birth had in fact
been Dam. But “Fruchter” was
clearly listed on that 1904 document
as well: it was his mother’s maiden
name. And “Fruchter” was actually
the surname printed on Harry’s
Polish passport and the name he
had given when he boarded the S.S.
Paris in Le Havre to come to the
United States in 1930, before ever
setting foot on Ellis Island. It was all
right there in black and white.
“Fruit seller” indeed.
Myths and secrets — some be-
nign in the “fruit seller” vein, some
far more explosive — can burrow
themselves into family narratives
with surprising ferocity. But geneal-
ogists come along and unpack
them. We turn up the hidden arrest
records and the never-discussed
babies who died in infancy. We know
that Great-Aunt Sadie was really
What students know that experts don’t
School is all about
signaling, not skill-building
By Bryan Caplan
P
arents, teachers, politi-
cians and researchers
tirelessly warn today’s
youths about the unfor-
giving job market that
awaits them. If they want to suc-
ceed in tomorrow’s economy, they
can’t just coast through school.
They have to soak up precious
knowledge like a sponge. But even
as adulthood approaches, students
rarely heed this advice. Most treat
high school and college like a game,
not an opportunity to build lifelong
skills.
Is it possible that students are
on to something? There is a mas-
sive gap between school and work,
between learning and earning.
While the labor market rewards
good grades and fancy degrees,
most of the subjects schools re-
quire simply aren’t relevant on the
job. Literacy and numeracy are vi-
tal, but few of us use history, poetry,
higher mathematics or foreign lan-
guages after graduation. The main
reason firms reward education is
because it certifies (or “signals”)
brains, work ethic and conformity.
It’s therefore sensible, if un-
seemly, for students to focus more
on going through the motions than
acquiring knowledge.
Almost everyone pays lip serv-
ice to the glories of education, but
actions speak louder than words.
The current nativist
furor is shrouded by a
puzzling selective
amnesia.
five years older than she let on and
that Cousin Harold had a shotgun
wedding. We know that Uncle Mor-
ris, who passed himself off as
British even to his children, was
born Jewish in Riga, Latvia. In ge-
nealogy, we always have receipts.
And it’s receipts that are sorely
missing from the current debate
over immigration policy. I’ve
watched in dismay as the rhetoric
has become both increasingly
fraught and increasingly divorced
from reality, with policy positions
justified by little more than varia-
tions of urban legend-ish “fruit
seller” stories.
Contemporary immigrants are
demonized as bottom feeders living
off “handouts,” uninterested in as-
similation. They skulk their way
into the country through what the
right now calls “chain migration,”
dragging unsavory associates
across the border with them. As
Mara Liasson of National Public
Radio put it, “The message is immi-
grants are coming here to kill us.”
(For the record, those “migrants”
are people, and the “chain” they are
part of is more often called a family.)
Immigrants of old, on the other
hand, are beatified with nostalgic
but grossly simplified generaliza-
Ponder this: If a student wants to
study at Princeton, he doesn’t
really need to apply or pay tuition.
He can simply show up and start
taking classes. As a professor, I as-
sure you that we make near-zero ef-
fort to stop unofficial education; in-
deed, the rare, earnestly curious
student touches our hearts. At the
end of four years at Princeton,
though, the guerrilla student would
lack one precious thing: a diploma.
The fact that almost no one tries
this route — saving hundreds of
thousands of dollars along the way
— is a strong sign that students
understand the value of certifica-
tion over actual learning.
You can see the same priorities
when students pick their classes.
Students notoriously seek out
“easy A’s” — professors who give
high grades in exchange for little
work. On the popular Rate My Pro-
fessor website, students evaluate
classes’ “easiness” but not “useful-
ness” or “relevance.” And when pro-
fessors cancel lectures, students
don’t demand a refund, they cele-
brate. Because future employers
don’t monitor faculty attendance,
every canceled lecture is a chance
to party in the present without
hurting job prospects in the future.
Academics and administrators
also sense the importance of signal-
ing, even if they won’t admit it. Why
else would they bother to combat
cheating? If school were merely a
place for students to invest in their
skills, cheaters would literally “only
be cheating themselves,” spending
time and tuition for naught. If, how-
ever, school is primarily a place to
OP-ED
tions: they worked 12 jobs and never
took a penny of assistance from
anyone. They effortlessly adapted
to American life, casting off all
traces of their native countries and
burning the midnight oil to learn
English as soon as possible. Oh, and
they walked to school uphill both
ways while carrying a hot potato.
“Legal Italian immigrants didn’t
wave Italian flags coming into
America,” reads one social media
meme. “They didn’t riot and try to
stop the election process. They
didn’t try to make Americans speak
Italian. They learned English.”
The objective truth that
emerges from census documents,
naturalization papers, ships’ mani-
fests and the like is nuanced and
messy. Besides, crowing about “le-
gal” immigration from Europe prior
to1924 is essentially meaningless, as
there were almost no laws in place
for immigrants to break.
Were our immigrant forebears
all model Americans? Spend any
time perusing census records and
you’ll see that many early 20th cen-
tury immigrants never learned to
speak English, some of them even
after living here for decades. In 1911,
a congressional commission pub-
lished the results of a comprehen-
sive three-year study of immigra-
tion. Of more than 246,000 immi-
grants working in mines and manu-
facturing, for instance, only slightly
more than half, 53.2%, were able to
speak English. Didn’t take hand-
outs? The same commission found
that, nationwide, roughly 38% of
charity was given to immigrants. In
convince firms you’re worthy of em-
ployment, cheating has a slew of
victims. The cheater who success-
fully impersonates a good student
doesn’t just rip off whoever hires
him. He also taints the prospects of
all his peers who toiled for their de-
grees.
Researchers consistently find
that most of education’s payoff
comes from graduation, from
crossing the academic finish line.
The last year of high school is worth
more than the first three; the last
year of college is worth more than
double the first three. This is hard
to explain if employers are paying
for acquired skills; do schools really
wait until senior year to impart use-
ful training? Or consider how differ-
ently employers treat failing a class
versus forgetting one. If you flunk a
class, plenty of employers will trash
your application. But if you pass
that same class, then forget every-
thing you learned, employers will
shrug.
These behaviors make perfect
sense if — and only if — employers
are eager to detect workers who du-
tifully conform to social expecta-
tions. In a society where parents,
teachers and peers glorify gradua-
tion, failing classes and dropping
out are deviant acts.
One of the most glaring perver-
sities of the modern labor market is
credential inflation. While the edu-
cation workers need to do a job is
quite stable, the education they
need to get a job has skyrocketed
since the 1940s. Sure, the average
job is more intellectually demand-
ing than it once was, but research-
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15 of the 43 cities studied, more than
half of the charity recipients were
immigrants.
Surely none of their descen-
dants could possibly be among
those now bashing immigrants for
not learning English and draining
the social services system, right?
The current nativist furor is
shrouded by a puzzling selective
amnesia. The founding narrative of
our country is an immigrant narra-
tive. “American culture” is an evolv-
ing amalgam — one built by eradi-
cating native cultures and exploit-
ing slave labor, to boot — so that the
definition of “American” is always
going to be a subjective moving tar-
get, at best.
Of course, nativism is nothing
new. Every generation of newly as-
similated Americans has looked
down upon the next and considered
pulling up the ladder behind them;
it’s practically a rite of passage.
Benjamin Franklin, for instance,
worried that the Germans in Penn-
sylvania would “shortly be so nu-
merous as to Germanize us instead
of our Anglifying them, and will ne-
ver adopt our Language or Cus-
toms, any more than they can ac-
quire our Complexion.” “Shortly?”
That was in 1751. (The reference to
complexion is hardly coincidental,
either, as racism plays an undeni-
ably troubling role in our immigra-
tion history.)
“Fifty, even thirty years ago,
there was a rightful presumption
regarding the average immigrant
that he was among the most enter-
prising, thrifty, alert, adventurous,
ers find that only explains 20% of
the workforce’s rising education.
What explains the remaining 80%?
Employers’ expectations have ris-
en across the board. Waiter, bar-
tender, cashier, security guard:
These are now common jobs for
those with bachelor’s degrees.
Despite all these tell-tale signs
of signaling, many of my fellow re-
searchers refuse to take the idea se-
riously. Sure, signaling seems to fit
our firsthand experience. Yet why
would profit-seeking employers
base their decisions on mere cre-
dentials instead of potential to per-
form well on the job?
To start, employers can’t readily
judge your job performance until
they actually hire you — and they
can only hire a tiny fraction of their
applicants. If they ignore less-cre-
dentialed prospects, they may lose
a few good workers but they save
tons of precious time.
And once they hire, it usually
makes sense to stand pat. Suppose
a well-credentialed worker turns
out to be mildly disappointing.
Summarily firing him would be bad
business, because replacement
takes time, and time is money. A
subpar worker may therefore profit
from his credentials for years. In-
deed, because few firms are run by
unfeeling robots, even incompetent
workers often enjoy handsome
educational payoffs because their
employers are too squeamish to
dismiss them.
Education is a weird industry.
You study arcane subjects year af-
ter year, knowing you’ll never use
most of what you learned after
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Associated Press
and courageous of the community
from which he came,” bemoaned
the Atlantic 145 years later. “Today
the presumption is completely re-
versed.” Those words were pub-
lished, incidentally, before Presi-
dent Trump’s Scottish mother and
Vice President Pence’s Irish grand-
father had even been born in their
respective countries.
I’ve seen this particular trope
play out in my own family: my
“greenhorn” grandfather, who ar-
rived in 1920, was belittled by his
American wife’s sisters, who
thought he was beneath them. One
of those sisters was born in New
York City in 1895, a mere four years
after her mother had stepped off
the boat from Ukraine. If that kind
of entitlement can breed in just four
years, imagine what can happen in
50 years. Or 100. Or 250.
When Rep. Steve King of Iowa
asks how we can restore “our” civili-
zation with “somebody else’s ba-
bies,” I say: “How do we define ‘our,’
exactly?” King’s grandmother was
once one of those very babies, arriv-
ing steerage at Ellis Island from
Germany in1894 with her family. It’s
all there on the ship’s manifest for
the SS New York, which indicates
they were headed to the United
States for a “protracted sojourn.” I
feel confident there wasn’t a fruit
seller in sight.
Jennifer Mendelsohn is a
Baltimore-based writer and the
creator of #resistancegenealogy, a
project that highlights the unifying
nature of our immigrant past.
graduation. Yet parents, teachers,
politicians and researchers urge
you to finish, promising ample ca-
reer rewards for your efforts. De-
spite the many college graduates
who end up working as waiters, the
experts are, on average, right: Di-
plomas pay well. What experts mis-
understand is why. Instead of scru-
tinizing what schools really teach,
they rush to a just-so story in which
schools transform low-skilled stu-
dents into high-skilled graduates.
Students, much closer to the ac-
tion, see what’s going on: As long as
they have good grades and finish
their degrees, employers care little
about what they’ve learned.
Does it matter why education
pays? At the individual level,
barely. Excel in school, impress em-
ployers, profit; the recipe works.
Socially speaking, though, the why
is all-important. If, as experts
preach, students are building a
stockpile of precious skills, taxpay-
ers are getting a solid return on
their money. But if students’ first-
hand experience tells the real story,
taxpayers are mostly fueling a futile
arms race. Generous government
support has caused massive cre-
dential inflation. Educational aus-
terity is the simplest path back to
an economy in which serious on-
the-job learning starts during high
school — not after college.
Bryan Caplan is professor of
economics at George Mason
University and author of “The Case
Against Education: Why the
Education System Is a Waste of
Time and Money.”
A20 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2018 S LOS ANGELES TIMES

UNITED IN SPORT
When we are united, together, we are at our best. But today our world,
our country, even our communities are as divided as they have ever been.

No one seems to have time or tolerance for anyone with an opinion

differing from their own. Turn on the news or flip through your phone
and it seems as though someone or something is trying to drive us apart.

Those forces will not succeed because you can’t break the human spirit,
which at its core is indivisible.

As a proud sponsor of Team USA and a company rooted in sport, we are

fortunate enough to see humanity at its best every single day … on fields,
rinks, courts, tracks, diamonds, gridirons, bleachers and in locker rooms.
Sport shows us that the similarities that bind us are infinitely stronger
than the differences that divide us. It is the diversity of race, religion and
gender that truly moves us forward, together.

For 17 days, as Team USA and the world compete in the 2018 Olympic
Winter Games, we will put our differences aside and simply play games.

We will play with excitement and pride. We will play by the rules.
And we will play with sportsmanship and respect for our opponents.

For 17 days, the world will be united by the joy and spirit of sport.

Sport has the power to bring us together as one community, one country
and one world. Sport has always been one of the great uniters.

The Olympic Winter Games will show those divisive forces that they are
fighting a losing battle. We will see how the human spirit can be lifted to
new heights. We will see that when we are united, we are at our best.

So let us remember the power sport has to unite us as one race ... the
human race, living together with respect, tolerance and love.
Not just for 17 days every two years, but always.

Sincerely,

Edward W. Stack
Chairman & CEO
DICK’S Sporting Goods
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CALIFORNIA S U N D A Y , F E B R U A R Y 1 1 , 2 0 1 8 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L I F O R N I A

D.A.
probed
2012
trash
pact
Inglewood’s waste-
collection contract
went to a firm that
hired mayor’s brother.
By Kim Christensen

When the Inglewood City

Council approved a $100-mil-
lion waste-collection con-
tract in 2012, the job went not
to the low bidder but to an-
other company with higher
fees — and a link to Mayor
James Butts Jr.
Consolidated Disposal
Services landed the 10-year
contract that June, about
three months after it hired
the mayor’s brother, Photographs by Al Seib Los Angeles Times
Michael Butts, as a $72,000- ALISON HARDEY, left, owner of Jeannine’s bakery and restaurant in Montecito, hugs Nancy Read, who has yet to return to her home.

In Montecito, a bakery
a-year operations manager.
The timing was no coinci-
dence, according to a previ-
ously undisclosed complaint
filed that year with the Los
Angeles County district at-
torney’s office. The com-

warms a shattered town

plaint alleged that “as a con-
dition for his support,” the
mayor asked bidders to hire
his unemployed brother.
One of the bidders con-
firmed that account.
“I don’t remember the ex-
act language, but the con-
text was, ‘It would be favor-
able for you if you could find
my brother a job,’ ” Gary For residents traumatized by fire and flood, Jeannine’s reopening is a sign of resilience
Clifford, executive vice presi-
dent at Athens Services, the STEVE LOPEZ There were hugs, tears and
[See Butts, B6] smiles too.
MONTECITO, Calif. Retirees Tom Konig and Bob
— Alison Hardey got Hirsch took an outdoor table, next
to work early Friday to the disaster-relief bulletin board

Again,
morning, about 6:30, and volunteer sign-up sheet, with
to prepare for the big their coffee and cinnamon rolls.
day. “The most important thing is
“People were that I’ve never seen a community

LAUSD
waiting outside,” she come together like this,” said
said, and when the Hirsch.
doors opened at 7 Across the street was the real
a.m., about 20 people stepped to estate office of 61-year-old Rebecca

seeks a
the counter to order breakfast. Riskin, who perished when a wall of
It wasn’t necessarily hunger mud crashed through her home.
that brought the locals back to “We both lost a dear friend,”
Jeannine’s bakery and restaurant, Konig said of Riskin. “Her husband

leader
By Anna M. Phillips,
Howard Blume
and Joy Resmovits
Less than two years after
members of the L.A. school
board chose a superintend-
ent from the district’s ranks,
they now find themselves in
which had been closed since the
silence was shattered and the
illusion of safety buried under walls
of mud, ash, boulders and debris in
the early morning hours of Jan. 11.
It was the need to know that
something normal, familiar and
comforting was possible again. The
reopening of Hardey’s family-
owned restaurant was a sign of
hope and resilience.
Hardey placed spring flowers on
the deck as a symbol of rebirth.
Like a lotus coming up through the
mud, she said.
was on the roof of their house and
got saved, but she got washed
away.”
There will be no closure in Mon-
tecito, where people will never
forget the thunderous violence of
the mudslides that killed 21 people
and ripped away homes.
“But I believe this is a fabulous
community, and it’ll come back,”
said Hirsch.
Jaime Hernandez, a 39-year-old
HARDEY , right, visits with Julie McKinley and therapy dog waiter, came by to say hello to
Jameson. She thinks about the way the disaster has been a hum- Konig, who stepped up as a donor
bling equalizer, uniting one and all like never before. [See Lopez, B5]

Mudflow holds lessons for future

search of a new one — and
the task may be harder than
ever.
The nation’s second-larg-
est school system has a diz-
zying array of problems, but
the board is divided on how
to solve them. Meanwhile,
there aren’t many candi-
dates considered qualified
for such a daunting job, and
those who are may be get-
ting other offers.
The challenge of improv-
ing large urban school dis-
tricts — and of keeping the
job for more than a year or
two — can be seen in the job
openings. New York City, the
nation’s largest school sys-
tem, also is searching for a
superintendent. So was Chi-
cago, the third-largest dis-
trict, until a new leader re-
cently was hired.
Being a superintendent
today is a “very different job
than 10 or 20 years ago,” said
Randi Weingarten, presi-
dent of the American Fed-
eration of Teachers. There
are “lots of high expecta-
tions, few resources and very
few people on the bench who
really understand educa-
tion.”
Supt. Michelle King re-
cently announced that she
has cancer and will not re-
turn from medical leave. A
career district employee, her
selection was considered an
attempt by board members
[See LAUSD, B5]
Scientists analyze the path of last month’s destruction to better predict such disasters
By Joseph Serna
A wall of sandstone boul-
ders, some the size of RVs,
barreled through Montecito,
followed by a growing tail of
water, mud and debris.
On its way to the ocean,
the mudflow’s momentum
shifted as it choked creeks
and slammed into curbs,
walls and buildings.
Trying to make sense of
the flow’s path, which left
more than 20 people dead
and destroyed scores of
homes Jan. 9, scientists sur-
veyed the area days after the
slide. They noted that a pre-
dicted rainstorm’s unex-
pected ferocity combined
with the community’s un-
usual geological makeup to
maximize devastation.
The work of the research-
ers is part of a larger effort to
better understand the dead-
liest flooding event in Cali-
fornia in several decades.
The death toll has sparked
questions about why the
mudslides were so intense
and whether more could
have been done to get people
out of harm’s way before the
mud and debris inundated
homes.
Santa Barbara County
released conflicting evacua-
tion instructions that left
the hardest-hit neighbor-
hoods out of mandatory
evacuation zones. It did not
send out Amber Alert-style
bulletins to cellphones until
the mudslides had begun.
By then, it was too late for
residents to flee.
On Thursday, Sheriff Bill
Brown announced changes
aimed at better preparing
residents for fires and
floods.
“Was what we did suffi-
cient on January the 8th? …
Obviously, in retrospect, it
was not,” Brown said.
Beyond better prepara-
tions and evacuation plans,
scientists believe there are
lessons in the flow of the
mud.
Unlike other communi-
ties singed by fire and then
U.S. Geological Survey visited by rain, the hills
USGS scientist Dennis Staley studies the aftermath of the deadly Jan. 9 mud- above Montecito are almost
slides. Montecito’s unique geology compounded the effects of a massive storm. [See Mudflows, B5]
B2 S U N DAY , FE B RUARY 11, 2 018 S L AT I M E S. CO M
SURROUNDINGS
It’s no longer a sign for the times
The “immigrant cross-
Last of the iconic ing” signs have become
obsolete, said Cathryne
freeway placards Bruce-Johnson, a spokes-
warning to watch for woman for the California
Department of Transporta-
immigrants is gone. tion. The department
stopped replacing the signs
KATE MORRISSEY
years ago because it con-
structed fences along medi-
While politicians are ans to deter people from
embroiled in a polarized running across highways.
national debate over immi- The last sign, which
gration, an iconic road sign stood on the side of the 5
cautioning drivers near the Freeway near the San
San Diego border to watch Ysidro border crossing,
for migrants running across vanished in September.
the freeway has quietly “It’s gone,” Bruce-John-
disappeared. son said. “Caltrans crews
did not remove it, so it’s
assumed stolen.”
Signs are more often
damaged or vandalized
Lottery results than stolen, Bruce-Johnson
For Friday, Feb. 9, 2018 said, but when they are
Mega Millions taken, there isn’t much
Mega number is bold Caltrans can do to get them
28-34-41-46-47—Mega 14 back.
Jackpot: $136 million California Highway
California winners per category: Patrol Sgt. Dan Kyle said
No. of Amount that officers who worked
winners of prize(s) during the years before the
5 + Mega 0 — fences were added recalled
5 0 — responding weekly to fatal
4 + Mega 1 $18,217 collisions between cars and
4 38 $539 immigrants on the freeway
3 + Mega 114 $204 in San Ysidro.
3 2,568 $10 Fewer people have tried
2 + Mega 2,399 $10 to sneak into the U.S. over
1 + Mega 18,372 $4
the last two decades, fur-
Mega only 44,702 $2
ther decreasing the need for
Winning jackpot ticket(s) sold in other the crossing signs.
states: None
Both in San Diego and
For Saturday, Feb. 10, 2018 across the Southwest bor-
SuperLotto Plus der, the number of people
Mega number is bold caught crossing into the
27-32-33-41-42—Mega 7 U.S. has dropped dramati-
Jackpot: $8 million cally in the 21st century. The
federal government esti-
Powerball mates the number of people
Powerball number is bold
trying to cross into the U.S.
1-13-27-41-59—Powerball 20 based on the number of
Jackpot: $184 million people caught entering
Fantasy Five: 9-11-12-24-35 illegally, so fewer apprehen-
sions means that fewer
Daily Four: 6-1-9-9 people are trying to slip in.
Daily Three (midday): 1-4-0 In San Diego, Border
Patrol agents apprehended
Daily Three (evening): 2-2-0
26,086 people in fiscal 2017,
Daily Derby: an 83% drop from the 151,681
(8) Gorgeous George people caught in fiscal 2000.
(9) Winning Spirit Across the Southwest,
(5) California Classic the Border Patrol appre-
Race time: 1:46.03 hended 1.6 million people in
Results on the internet: fiscal 2000, according to
www.latimes.com/lottery data from the agency.
General information: In fiscal 2017, agents
(800) 568-8379 apprehended 303,916 people,
(Results not available at this number) an 82% decrease.
THE LAST “immigrant crossing” sign stood next to the 5 Freeway near the San
Ysidro border crossing. The signs became obsolete, a Caltrans spokeswoman said.
The yellow sign’s image
has been the source of con-
troversy, with some seeing it
as an offensive caricature of
Mexican immigrants.
Justin Akers Chacón, a
professor of Chicano studies
at San Diego City College,
said critics of the sign’s
imagery felt that it dehu-
manized migrants by lik-
ening them to animals.
Critics also were bo-
thered by the way the sign’s
message fit into the immi-
gration enforcement sys-
tem. “The deaths of migrant
crossers was treated as an
acceptable consequence of
the enforcement model, not
a reflection of the failure of
the model,” Akers Chacón
said.
An early version of the
sign was entirely text: “Cau-
tion watch for people cross-
ing road.” Motorists weren’t
able to read and process
that sign quickly enough, so
Caltrans asked artist John
Hood to design an image to
convey the message.
“It doesn’t just mean
they are running across the
freeway,” Hood told the
Union-Tribune in 2005,
describing his choice of
imagery. “It means they are
running from something
else as well. I think it’s a
John Gastaldo San Diego Union-Tribune
struggle for a lot of things —
for opportunities, for free-
dom.”
Caltrans installed 10
signs, focusing on areas
such as San Ysidro and the
San Clemente checkpoint,
where migrants were known
to cross the interstate on
foot frequently.
The silhouette of a man
with a mustache and a
woman in a dress running
with their young daughter,
her hair in pigtails flying
behind her, has been repur-
posed by different sides of
the immigration debate
over the years.
Those on the restriction-
ist side use the image to
symbolize an unruly border,
adding guns or nuclear
bombs to political cartoons
of the sign.
Those who advocate for
migrants have reworked the
sign as a family of pilgrims
or college graduates.
“There’s only a handful of
really iconic images that
have been successfully
mobilized for the purposes
of immigration politics,”
said Everard Meade, direc-
tor of the Trans Border
Institute at the University of
San Diego. “The thing with
these symbols is that the
response is 50-50.
“Some people see that
sign and think, ‘My God,
this is a sign that represents
how our immigration policy
has just failed, and we’ve
put people in this vulnera-
ble position such that we
have to have a road sign so
people don’t run them over
on the highway,’ ” Meade
said.
Others take it as a sign of
an out-of-control border,
Meade said, and that per-
ception contributed to
support for movements
such as California’s Pro-
position 187, which barred
immigrants here illegally
from the public education
system and from public
health services, except for
emergency care required by
federal law. A federal judge
blocked the proposition
from taking effect.
Even the sign’s disap-
pearance caused split reac-
tions among those in the
political debate.
Joshua Wilson, vice
president of the San Diego
chapter of the National
Border Patrol Council, has
supported President
Trump’s restrictionist
immigration policies.
Wilson said he sees not
needing the signs anymore
as a positive thing. It shows
what investing in border
security can do, he said.
“I grew up in Los Ange-
les, and I remember those
signs as a kid coming down
here,” Wilson said. “What it
symbolizes to me is how out
of control things were before
we put in the infrastructure
with Operation Gatekeep-
er.”
Operation Gatekeeper, a
ramped-up enforcement
strategy implemented along
the San Diego border in the
mid-’90s, shifted migrant
routes east over mountains
and through deserts.
Pedro Rios, director of
the U.S.-Mexico Border
Program for the American
Friends Service Committee,
advocates for migrant
rights and opposes Trump’s
immigration policies.
Rios said he remem-
bered clearly when the signs
were installed and the
deaths that were happening
along the border.
“If there are no more
Caltrans immigrant cross-
ing signs left, I think it will
reflect a reality about immi-
gration that overzealous
politicians fail to acknowl-
edge when advocating for
increasing border enforce-
ment measures — that
migration into the United
States has been at a decline
since at least the year 2000,
and perhaps longer than
that,” Rios said.
He pointed out that
Operation Gatekeeper
didn’t mean that fewer
migrants were dying trying
to cross the border. The
number of border crossing
deaths increased signifi-
cantly, but they were away
from major cities and out of
public view.
“Ironically, as Operation
Gatekeeper pushed mi-
grants into less-populated
desert and mountainous
areas, fewer migrants died
crossing in the San Diego
region, but this meant more
migrants were in peril in the
less-visible treacherous
crossing routes,” Rios said.
kate.morrissey
@sduniontribune.com
Morrissey writes for the San
Diego Union-Tribune.
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ESSENTIAL POLITICS
POLITICAL ROAD MAP

Months later,
high court still
lacks 7th judge
JOHN MYERS

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown’s answer to a re-

porter’s question during a January news conference was
both evasive and, by the end, unflinchingly honest. The
topic was his search for a new California Supreme Court
justice.
“It’s going very well,” Brown said cagily. “I’m searching
my mind very carefully.”
Moments later came the bottom line: “I’ve appointed
three. The fourth could be very decisive.”
It’s now been almost six months since former Justice
Kathryn Werdegar retired after more than 23 years, one of
the longest runs in state history. And it wasn’t as though
she quit suddenly, having given Brown more than five
months’ notice. But summer turned to fall and now win-
ter, and the governor has still not appointed someone to
take Werdegar’s place, leaving the court with six of its sev-
en members. There is no deadline for Brown to make his
selection.
This kind of cautious approach — on a decision that Randall Benton Sacramento Bee
will profoundly affect California’s highest court — is per- REP. TOM McCLINTOCK , center, is escorted from an event last year. The Elk Grove lawmaker is among the
haps one of the most significant changes between Brown California Republicans being targeted by Democrats who are hoping to regain control of the U.S. House.

GOP incumbents far

1.0, the man who governed from 1975 to 1983, and Brown
2.0, who’s been on the job since 2011.
In his first tour of duty, Brown appointed seven jus-
tices, one shy of the record held jointly by his father, the
late Gov. Edmund “Pat” Brown, and Gov. George Deuk-
mejian. But it was the 1977 selection of a chief justice who
had never been a judge, Rose Bird, that left a lingering im-

behind in fundraising
pression about the man who selected her. Criticized for
relying on her personal beliefs as much as the law on top-
ics like the death penalty, Bird was removed by voters in
1986. Two other Brown appointees also were dismissed in
that election.
Brown, who also served as California’s attorney gen-
eral from 2007 to 2010, has appeared more deliberate in his
choices this time around: Justices Goodwin Liu, Mari-
ano-Florentino Cuéllar and Leondra Kruger. The gover- crowded primaries, but it’s For the first time this even stretches to Republi-
nor again has selected men and women who had not pre- Challengers gather also likely that many of the election cycle, three Repub- can strongholds where
viously served as judges. And the three justices he’s al- ads, mailers and campaign licans reported having less Democrats aren’t expected
ready chosen have the kind of legal resumes that seem to historic amounts of messages will focus instead money in the bank than to make inroads in 2018,
align with Brown’s cerebral approach to the law and gov- campaign cash in bids on the already-vulnerable some of their challengers, a including Rep. Doug
erning. Republicans they are trying sign of trouble because in- LaMalfa’s district along the
While voters must agree to retain California Supreme to unseat Republicans. to unseat. Donors who are cumbents have the advan- state’s northern border and
Court justices at least every 12 years, Brown’s current ap- getting engaged early also tage of carrying over money Rep. Paul Cook’s district
pointees are in their 40s and poised to serve long enough could consolidate behind a they’ve socked away in pre- along the southern Nevada
to become one of his greatest legacies. By Christine Mai-Duc single Democratic candi- vious elections. Rep. Dana state line.
A number of items on the 2018 docket for the high court and Sarah D. Wire date once the field dwindles. Rohrabacher, who hasn’t
pose fascinating questions about life and work in the built up much of a war chest, $4,050,672
Golden State. From cases on the rules regarding over- WASHINGTON — If $22.5 million ended 2017 with a bank ac- How much money the
time pay to local taxation to potential liabilities in the Democrats are going to re- The total that the Demo- count balance that was Democratic challengers
world of online advertising, the six justices could no doubt gain control of the U.S. cratic challengers in the key $120,000 less than his closest gave or loaned their own
use some help. House and return Nancy races raised in 2017. That’s competitor, Harley Rouda. campaigns in the last three
And then there are a handful of cases involving public Pelosi to the speakership, nearly double the $13.9 mil- Rep. Duncan Hunter’s months of 2017.
employee pensions, cases that have sparked great inter- they must forge a path lion raised last year by GOP fundraising last quarter was There are more than a
est in California’s political world. The justices will be through California. incumbents who are sup- particularly anemic. Hunter few millionaires seeking to
asked to rule on the core premise of the state’s long- A close look at the latest posed to benefit from clout raised just $50,000 in the last unseat Republicans this cy-
standing principle that pension promises made on the money picture in the com- and name recognition that three months of 2017 (with cle, most of them in Orange
day a public sector worker is hired can’t be taken back, petitive congressional races often allows them to raise just a single contribution County, In total, 23 of 53
even if that employee won’t retire until years later. shows Democratic candi- large amounts from political from someone living in his Democrats running in the 10
In one of the cases, Brown has filed his own brief to de- dates already are raising his- action committees and district). That’s less than most competitive districts
fend a 2012 law he signed that eliminated a pension perk toric amounts of money, wealthy donors. what two Democrats and pumped their own money
boosting retirement benefits. The person he’s soon to se- even in unexpected districts. We’ll say that again in even a Republican challeng- into their campaigns last
lect could be a key vote on that very case. Here are a few major case it didn’t sink in: Califor- er raised over the same time. quarter.
Which gets us back to what the governor said about takeaways by the numbers, nia Democrats have raised Granted, the FBI is inves-
this next state Supreme Court pick being decisive. “I want which suggest a Democratic nearly two times as much tigating whether Hunter $5 million
to understand how that decisiveness should work,” wave could indeed be on the money as the Republicans misused campaign funds. How much Democratic
Brown told reporters. So, too, do a lot of other Califor- horizon: they are trying to oust. He also spent more than candidates raised from indi-
nians. It’s anyone’s guess when the governor will come to The reports cover fund- three times what he raised in vidual donors in three
that understanding. 18 raising through Dec. 31, be- the fourth quarter on legal months.
The number of Demo- fore Reps. Darrell Issa of fees. That’s nearly three times
john.myers@latimes.com cratic challengers who Vista and Ed Royce of Ful- Democrats whose dis- the $1.7 million that Republi-
raised more than $500,000 by lerton said they wouldn’t tricts have been identified as can incumbents raised from
the end of 2017. seek reelection. Their cash is top priorities for the GOP to individual donors in the
GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN That’s a staggering num- included in the total, which flip are not having the same same time period. Even the
ber of candidates compared means the Republicans problems, maintaining heal- $1.4 million the Republicans

Republican puts $1M with previous years. Just

four challengers in the 10
jumping into these races will
have to raise funds at a
thy cash leads as of Dec. 31.

5
raised from political action
committees and other

more of own cash in race

GOP-held seats we’re cur-
rently watching raised that
much in the entire 2016 elec-
Republican John Cox told supporters he is putting an- tion cycle. None of them had
other $1 million of his own money into his campaign, add- raised $500,000 by the end of
ing to his financial advantage over his GOP rivals. the first year.
The move brings the businessman’s total investment By raising such substan-
into his bid to $4 million — $1 million more than Republi- tial sums so early, these can-
can Neel Kashkari spent on in the 2014 governor’s race. didates have passed a key
Despite Cox’s financial domination of his GOP rivals, test for demonstrating via-
he is many millions behind the three top Democrats in the bility: amassing enough
race, who also lead in the polls. Still, he is the first candi- money to run a competitive
date to buy radio and television ads. campaign and get their mes-
— Seema Mehta sages out to voters.
Republican strategists
argue that Democrats are
going to spend a lot of this
#METOO MOVEMENT money fighting each other in
breakneck pace to catch up
to the Democrats by the
June 5 primary.
9 Democratic candidates
The number of Califor-
nia’s 14 Republican incum-
bents who were out-raised
by their opponents.
It’s no secret Democrats
have put seven of these
members of Congress on
lists of seats they are aiming
to flip this fall. The numbers
suggest most of them either
aren’t prepared for a poten-
tial wave or don’t seem to be
taking it seriously.
The number of districts
with surprisingly strong
Democratic fundraising.
from Rohrabacher’s coastal
Orange County turf, Hunt-
er’s inland San Diego
County constituency and
McClintock’s suburban-
heavy Sacramento district
are all seeing surges in fund-
ing despite Republican
voter registration advan-
tages of at least 10 percent-
age points.
The trend of challengers
out-raising incumbents
groups was dwarfed by the
money challengers raised
from donors.
Why does that matter?
Ask Bernie Sanders and his
army of small donors that
had pundits talking about a
revolution in the 2016 presi-
dential election. People will-
ing to give any amount to a
campaign are more likely to
knock on doors, put a sign in
their yard and encourage
others to vote.
sarah.wire@latimes.com
christine.maiduc
@latimes.com

Harassment news in state

politics is closely watched ESSENTIALS

Nearly 60% of likely voters are closely following harass-

487
ment and misconduct allegations in Sacramento, accord- Minutes House Minority
ing to a new survey by the Public Policy Institute of Cali- Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke
fornia. By contrast, only around a third of likely voters say on the U.S. House floor
they’re closely tracking news in the governor’s race. Wednesday in a filibuster
PPIC’s poll found that 38% of adults approve of how over immigration
the matter has been handled; 36% disapprove. Demo-
crats are more likely to give legislative leaders high marks
— 52% said they approved of their actions — while just18%
of Republicans and 28% of independents felt that way. ‘Having yielded
—Melanie Mason
one minute to
the leader is the
LATIMES.COM/ ESSENTIALPOLITICS most profound
>>> Right-wing blogger Mike Cernovich one minute
considers congressional run in California probably in the
history of this
>>> Voters divided over proposed measure institution.’
to repeal increase in gas tax, survey finds Bill Clark CQ Roll Call

—Rep. Maxine
R E C OR D- S ET T E R Waters,
>>> Feb. 6 to become Ronald Reagan Day, describing the parliamentary
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi leaves the chamber floor Wednesday
Gov. Jerry Brown declares after delivering a speech about immigration and “Dreamers” that lasted eight
maneuver used to allow Pelosi to
dominate the floor
Find these stories on our minute-by-minute newsfeed and hours and seven minutes. It was the longest speech ever given on the House
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B4 S U N DAY, FE B RUARY 11, 2 018
L.A. MAYOR Eric Garcetti and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hit the trail after a news conference at Griffith Observatory.
A neighborly morning stroll
In shorts and T-shirts, Canada’s Trudeau and L.A.’s Garcetti take a hike at Griffith Park
By Brittny Mejia
On his last stop in a
three-day visit to California,
Canadian Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau met with
Los Angeles Mayor Eric
Garcetti on Saturday for an
early morning hike at Grif-
fith Park.
The two men, wearing
shorts and T-shirts, met
briefly with reporters at
Griffith Observatory.
Garcetti noted that Canada
was a major trading partner
with the city.
“Mr. Prime Minister, it’s
such an honor to receive you
here in Los Angeles,”
Garcetti said, amid overcast
skies and cool temperatures.
“We brought a little Canadi-
an weather to make you feel
right at home.”
“This isn’t Canadian
weather,” Trudeau said with
a laugh, not bothering to
mention that the overnight
low back in Ottawa was 16
Ex-Guatemalan official charged with visa fraud
By Joseph Serna
A former Guatemalan
police chief is facing charges
that he failed to disclose on
immigration documents
that he was facing kidnap-
ping and murder charges
back home when he entered
the U.S. in 2013, prosecutors
said Friday.
In a one-count indict-
ment returned by a grand
jury last week, prosecutors
say Catalino Esteban Va-
liente Alonzo failed to reveal
that he had been arrested
and tried for kidnapping and
Huntington Beach police found deeply divided
By Hannah Fry
Team-building among
police staff, leadership de-
velopment, infrastructure
improvements and addi-
tional staffing are among 16
recommendations made by
an independent consulting
firm tasked with studying
operations at the Hunting-
ton Beach Police Depart-
ment.
City officials in Novem-
ber hired Costa Mesa-based
Management Partners to
gather employee perspec-
tives on the department’s
strengths and limitations
amid mounting tension be-
tween Chief Robert Handy
and the city’s police unions.
The city released the
firm’s findings in a report
Friday afternoon.
The 65-page report notes
S L AT I M ES . C O M
CITY & STATE
degrees.
Garcetti thanked
Trudeau for the time he
spent connecting with key
industries in California, em-
phasizing that the friend-
ship with Canada is “criti-
cally important to us.”
“This is the largest collec-
tion of Canadians outside of
Canada here in Southern
California and we’re very
proud of that,” Garcetti said.
“It shows why these relation-
ships are so important at a
time when we need to have
more bridges and more con-
nections and not more divi-
sions.”
Trudeau, alternating be-
tween French and English,
answered a few questions
from reporters. At one point
he touched on immigration,
calling it a “source of
strength.”
“Canadians know that
having a strong [immigra-
tion] process — where we en-
sure security, ensure that
people coming are going to
murder in his home country
when he successfully ap-
plied for a lawful permanent
resident card, commonly
known as a green card, and
entered the United States.
Valiente, 77, who lives in
Fontana, was chief of the Na-
tional Police in Guatemala’s
second-largest city, Quetzal-
tenango. In 1987 he was
charged with the kidnap-
ping and murder of two peo-
ple affiliated with the Agron-
omy Department at the
Centro Universitario de Oc-
cidente, according to prose-
cutors.
He was twice convicted
THE UNION representing rank-and-file Hunting-
ton Beach police renewed its call for Chief Robert
Handy’s ouster. Above, officers monitor the pier.
be able to be successful — is
integral to keeping a strong
system,” Trudeau said. “So
that’s continuing to be my
message on immigration,
that we are are an open and
welcoming country, because
it’s our strength.”
“Amen,” Garcetti re-
sponded.
Trudeau emphasized
that there has always been a
strong relationship between
Canada and the U.S.
“I continue to engage
regularly and constructively
with President Trump,”
Trudeau said. “There’s
things we don’t agree on, but
there’s a lot we do agree on
as well, and looking for com-
mon ground and trying to
build shared prosperity here
in North America is some-
thing we agree very much
on.”
Afterward, Trudeau
joined Garcetti for the week-
end hike the mayor usually
takes with friends and fam-
ily. As the pair made their
and sentenced to two 30-
year sentences, but both
were overturned on appeal
and sent back to trial court
for further proceedings in
1993, officials said. An arrest
warrant was issued for Va-
liente in Guatemala that
year.
Prosecutors said he en-
tered the United States with
a green card in 2013 while the
warrant was still in effect.
The warrant was ultimately
rescinded in 2015, and it’s not
clear what charges remain
outstanding against him in
Guatemala, officials said.
A request for comment
Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times
Damian Dovarganes Associated Press
way toward the Mt. Holly-
wood hiking trail, starstruck
hikers and residents
snapped photos.
Monica Santino, along
with Ron Basical and his
wife, Kira, were outside the
observatory when Trudeau
greeted them with a wave
and a hello.
“He was super-friendly,”
said Santino, a Pasadena
resident. “He seems very
personable and very unas-
suming.”
Nicholas Rachowicz, a
St. Louis resident, saw the
prime minister on the trail.
“He’s a real charismatic
leader,” he said, “someone
really to look up to. We need
more of that today.”
On Friday night,
Trudeau spoke at the Ron-
ald Reagan Presidential Li-
brary in Simi Valley. A Cali-
fornia Highway Patrol
motorcycle officer accompa-
nying his motorcade was in-
jured in a crash after
Trudeau left the library.
from his defense attorney
was not immediately re-
turned Friday afternoon. He
faces up to 10 years in prison
if convicted.
Valiente is not the first
person federal authorities
have dealt with in the U.S.
who apparently fled Guate-
mala while facing serious
charges.
In 2016, Immigration and
Customs Enforcement an-
nounced they had arrested
and deported Santos Lopez
Alonzo, a former member of
the Guatemalan army who
witnesses said participated
in the 1982 massacre at Las
“deep divisions” in the Police
Department, with a lack of
trust and negative employee
relations.
As part of its $52,900 con-
tract with the city, Manage-
ment Partners interviewed
staff, met with union lead-
ers, circulated a confidential
employee survey and held
focus groups, according to
the group.
The report concludes
that city leaders, police
management and employ-
ees and the Huntington
Beach Police Officers Assn.,
which represents the de-
partment’s rank-and-file,
will need to work together to
move the agency forward.
The strain between the
union and Handy culmi-
nated last year in a no-confi-
dence vote among the rank-
and-file and a request for the
chief ’s ouster. That later was
The officer was treated
for moderate injuries at a
hospital. Trudeau and
Garcetti told reporters Sat-
urday that the officer was
doing well.
The mayor said the offi-
cer suffered a broken clavi-
cle, “but he’s going to heal,
he’s going to be OK.”
On Friday, Trudeau met
privately with Gov. Jerry
Brown and Lt. Gov. Gavin
Newsom in San Francisco to
discuss economic, health-
care and environmental is-
sues. The day before, the
prime minister lobbied Sili-
con Valley tech companies to
invest more in Canada.
On the hike, Trudeau and
Garcetti got a good workout
and learned that they had a
lot in common, Garcetti
said. The mayor also man-
aged to snag an invitation to
visit Trudeau in Canada.
“I might just take him up
on that,” Garcetti said.
brittny.mejia@latimes.com
Dos Erres that left more
than 200 men, women and
children dead.
Last year, another sus-
pected participant in that
massacre, Jose Mardoqueo
Ortiz Morales, was arrested
by agents from Homeland
Security Investigations’ Bal-
timore office.
Two other alleged partic-
ipants in that massacre are
serving 10-year federal pris-
on terms for naturalization
fraud — similar to what Va-
liente was charged with last
week.
joseph.serna@latimes.com
echoed by the Huntington
Beach Police Management
Assn., which represents cap-
tains and lieutenants.
City officials said Friday
that Handy will take the lead
in addressing the issues in
the report and will work with
his staff to implement the
recommendations.
“I am 100% committed to
improving my working re-
lationships with HBPOA
leadership and the manage-
ment team,” Handy said in a
statement. “I also want to
ensure that every employee
understands and embraces
our vision for the future and
has a voice in our plan to get
there.”
The rank-and-file officers
union had renewed its call
for Handy’s removal on
Monday, the day the City
Council heard that violent
crime in Huntington Beach
Survey
details
hunger
at CSU
Black first-generation
students struggle most
with food and housing
insecurity, report says.
By Teresa Watanabe
Cal State students who
are African American and
the first in their families to
attend college struggle most
with food and housing inse-
curity, including homeless-
ness, according to a new sur-
vey by the nation’s largest
public university system.
Researchers surveyed a
sample of the population at
all 23 Cal State campuses
and interviewed selected
students to explore their ex-
periences in the two areas.
The resulting report, re-
leased at a Cal State
conference in Sacramento
last week, found that about 2
in 10 African Americans who
were the first in their fam-
ilies to attend college at
times lacked a fixed, regular
and adequate place to stay
at night, which is among the
federal definitions of home-
lessness. That number was 1
in 10 for surveyed students
overall.
First-generation black
students also reported the
highest rate of food insecuri-
ty. Nearly two-thirds of those
surveyed said they lacked a
consistent source of nutri-
tious and varied food, com-
pared with about 4 in 10 stu-
dents across races.
Students said their
struggles to find adequate
food and housing negatively
affected their academic per-
formance and mental and
physical health, according to
the study by Rashida
Crutchfield of Cal State
Long Beach and Jennifer
Maguire of Humboldt State.
The study marked the
second phase of a sys-
temwide effort launched by
Cal State Chancellor Timo-
thy P. White in 2015 to ad-
dress food and housing inse-
curity among students.
White released a separate re-
port last week detailing how
each campus is offering sup-
port.
Each campus, for in-
stance, now operates a food
pantry or food distribution
program, and a majority
provide short-term emer-
gency housing.
The problem is growing
nationwide but is particu-
larly acute in California,
where rents in many campus
communities have skyrock-
eted.
The University of Califor-
nia also has launched a sys-
temwide initiative to ad-
dress students’ lack of stable
housing and regular access
to nutritious food. UC Presi-
dent Janet Napolitano has
given each campus $3 mil-
lion to use for housing assist-
ance.
teresa.watanabe
@latimes.com
Twitter: @TeresaWatanabe
rose 28% in 2017 compared
with the year before. The
presentation noted that
overall crime was down 2.6%.
Yasha Nikitin, vice presi-
dent of the Huntington
Beach Police Officers Assn.,
said Friday that the Man-
agement Partners report
further shows why Handy
needs to be replaced.
“It’s sad that virtually the
entire Police Department,
including his own manage-
ment staff, opposes Chief
Handy’s failed management
practices and policies,”
Nikitin said. “Violent crime
is skyrocketing. Officers are
being shot and attacked. It’s
time that city leaders face
the truth and replace Rob
Handy.”
hannah.fry@latimes.com
Fry writes for Times
Community News.
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Study
aims to
model
floods
[Mudflows, from B1]
exclusively made up of large
rocks or fine, sandy dirt
without much in between,
said U.S. Geological Survey
research hydrologist Jason
Kean.
So when a once-in-200-
year storm cell dropped half
an inch of rain in five min-
utes early that morning, it
created what Kean called “a
moving dam.” The largest
parts of the mudflow — the
boulders — naturally rolled
to the front, creating a wall
that let the river behind it
grow in height and force in-
stead of dispersing its ener-
gy wider across the land-
scape.
“It had really big tools to
do destruction and a lot of
fine-grain material to keep
them mobile,” Kean said.
“It’s definitely bad.”
When the storm and
mudflow subsided, the de-
struction was worse than
anyone had predicted.
That’s something that Kean
and his colleagues at the
USGS, California Geo-
logical Survey, California
Department of Forestry and
Fire Protection, and Santa
Barbara County Fire De-
partment want to change.
Current USGS maps show
only which hillsides are
prone to debris flows, but
not where those flows will go.
Should something like
this happen again — a very
real possibility for at least
the next five years in areas
below the Thomas fire burn
area — scientists want to be
able to accurately predict
debris flows’ paths.
“Though a lot of sedi-
ment has been evacuated,
there’s still a lot there,” Kean
said. “It’s tough for residents
to hear, but there’s plenty of
ammunition left there.”
After measuring every-
thing they can about the de-
bris flow, scientists will try to
recreate the event using
computer models. They will
use the speed of the flow, its
geological makeup, boulder
size and the trajectories that
occurred when it hit natural
and artificial barriers such
as hills and houses.
“It’s tricky,” Kean said.
“It’s computationally more
demanding to model flows
downstream…. A small thing
like topography can really
change where the flow goes.”
But if scientists can suc-
cessfully create formulas to
map out what happened in
Montecito, or something
close to it, emergency plan-
ners can better inform their
communities of the risks
they face before a storm.
Authorities in Montecito
were criticized after last
month’s storm for limiting
mandatory evacuations to
an east-west zone above the
town’s main highway, even
though the area’s creeks run
north-south.
Officials said the storm
they planned for was not the
storm they received. A map
of potential debris flows
showing what could happen
in 100- or 500-year storms
was provided by a private
company before the Jan. 9
storm and proved remarka-
bly accurate. Kean said a
USGS model would offer ad-
ditional scenarios.
The model could show
different scales of a potential
disaster zone, depending
not only on the level of rain-
fall, but on what stands in
the path of a debris flow. The
group plans to compare
what was in place in Mon-
tecito with Carpinteria,
where a mudflow also oc-
curred but was successfully
contained in large catch
basins.
“One thing we learned
from this event is that struc-
tures, especially bridges and
culverts, played a big role in
determining where the flows
went,” Kean said. “Our hope
is to have maps that show
the broad-scale potential for
inundation and reasonably
reflect where the flow could
be substantially diverted by
man-made structures or na-
tural/constructed topo-
graphy.”
Kean said Southern Cali-
fornia offers the best loca-
tions to model potential di-
saster zones because of its
high frequency of fires fol-
lowed by rain, the region’s
steep terrain and dense
population centers.
The study results are ex-
pected to be published later
this year.
joseph.serna@latimes.com
Twitter: @JosephSerna
The familiar is possible again
[Lopez, from B1]
when Hardey asked for help.
Her restaurant — like other
local businesses — took a
financial beating and she
temporarily lowered wages
so she could keep everyone
on the payroll. Konig was
one of the locals who offered
to cover the wage gap.
“Thank you,” said Her-
nandez, who along with his
wife, a housekeeper, strug-
gled to pay the bills over the
last month.
Hernandez has a second
job, at a restaurant in Santa
Barbara, but with roads
closed, he had trouble mak-
ing it there from his home in
Carpinteria. Konig said he
was happy to help the wait-
er, his wife and their three
kids.
As we spoke, Hardey
hugged a regular customer
named Alan Keyser, who
has spent the last month
volunteering in search-and-
rescue operations. Keyser
teared up as he told me
about a neighbor who lost
her husband, stepfather
and two children. Hardey
hustled back into the
restaurant, grabbed a nap-
kin, and returned to dry his
eyes.
“Since Dec. 4, it’s a blur,”
said Keyser, referring to the
L.A. Unified on another tough search
[LAUSD, from B1]
to restore calm and focus af-
ter years of tumult. It was
also a milestone: King was
the first African American
woman to run the district.
But during her brief ten-
ure, neither King nor the
school board ever developed
a detailed set of plans to im-
prove the district’s schools.
Many wondered about the
practically of her focus on
“100% graduation” — her
mantra while in office.
This time around, the
board could choose an in-
sider again. If it doesn’t, the
pool of well-regarded super-
intendents of other large, ur-
ban school districts is lim-
ited.
Big-city superintend-
ents’ tenures tend to be
short — a 2014 study by the
Council of the Great City
Schools found they spend an
average of just over three
years in the job — and it is
often difficult to determine
how effective they have been.
The constant churn
makes certain people peren-
nial candidates. Some of the
same names are being
floated in both L.A. and New
York City. They include
Rudolph Crew, who led New
York City’s schools in the
late ’90s; Alberto Carvalho,
the superintendent of Mi-
ami-Dade County Public
Schools since 2008; and An-
dres Alonso, who was chief
executive for six years of Bal-
timore City Public Schools
before becoming a professor
at the Harvard Graduate
School of Education.
The two big school dis-
tricts’ selection processes
and political dynamics are
markedly different.
New York City’s 1,800
public schools are under
mayoral control, a system
that gives Mayor Bill de
Blasio complete authority to
choose the next chancellor.
This virtually assures that
candidates there will reflect
de Blasio’s political leanings,
favoring public-sector un-
ions and more traditional
approaches over market-
based education reform ide-
as. They must also be con-
tent to finish out the remain-
ing years of de Blasio’s sec-
ond term, knowing that the
next mayor will probably ap-
point someone new.
L.A. Unified’s seven-
member board makes the
choice, which makes it more
complicated, both politi-
cally and practically. Last
year’s elections upended
the school board’s balance
of power, weakening the
unions’ influence and em-
powering a four-person ma-
jority elected with the back-
ing of wealthy charter school
supporters. Charter-school
advocates celebrated, hope-
ful that sweeping changes
were coming.
Then in September, local
prosecutors filed criminal
charges against board mem-
ber Ref Rodriguez, who is ac-
cused of laundering cam-
paign money and is under in-
vestigation for separate con-
flict-of-interest allegations.
Rodriguez has pleaded not
guilty to the charges and he
remains a voting member of
the board, which has led to
speculation that the existing
majority could still choose a
Thomas fire that was
driven by wicked winds and
scorched thousands of acres
in Ventura and Santa Bar-
bara counties, engulfing
homes and forcing massive
evacuations.
“I have neighbors whose
homes were damaged or
destroyed, or they’re dead,”
said Keyser, who once lived
in Thailand and has served
as a translator for the neigh-
bor who lost four family
members, a Thai woman.
“I’ve had to deliver death
notices for three people. I’ve
had to take missing-persons
reports. I saw a mother
push a button at a cremato-
rium to burn her child.”
Keyser and Hardey
shared notes on a memorial
service for the Thai family
planned for Sunday. As they
spoke, Keyser received a
text message from his griev-
ing neighbor, thanking him
for helping her translate the
speech she intended to
make at the memorial.
Back inside the restau-
rant, Hardey asked long-
time employee Juan Carlos
Delgado, a barista, how he
was doing.
Delgado smiled and
thanked her, but his face
betrayed the shock, sadness
and disbelief that people
Al Seib Los Angeles Times
MICHELLE KING,
battling cancer, stepped
down as superintendent.
superintendent who favors
aggressive changes, such as
increasing the number of
charter schools and using
standardized tests to evalu-
ate teachers and principals.
If Rodriguez were forced
out of office, the board would
have no clear majority, a pos-
sibility that could lead its
members to opt for a more
moderate consensus pick.
“This board is looking for
long-term stability,” said
Carl Cohn, a former superin-
tendent of Long Beach Uni-
fied and San Diego Unified
who now works with school
districts including L.A. Uni-
fied. “That involves naviga-
ting the politics of a board of
education, successfully get-
ting along with unions, and
strong stakeholder engage-
ment in terms of direct con-
tact with parents and local
advocacy and civil rights
groups.”
Candidates likely to ap-
peal to a politically divided
board can’t hold extreme
views on charter schools,
said Pedro Noguera, a pro-
fessor at the Graduate
School of Education and In-
formation Studies at UCLA.
“As long as the person is
perceived to be neither char-
ter-hostile or overly friendly,
they should not be ruled out
as a candidate,” Noguera
wrote in an email.
According to multiple
sources who requested ano-
nymity to discuss a secretive
process, some names being
discussed for L.A. include
Miguel Santana, L.A.’s for-
mer chief administrative of-
ficer, who has advised the
school board on financial
matters; Joan Sullivan, chief
executive officer of the Part-
nership for L.A. Schools, a
nonprofit that oversees 18
district schools; and Matt
Hill, superintendent of the
Burbank Unified School
District.
Candidates within the
district include Chief Aca-
demic Officer Frances Gip-
son and Acting Supt. Vivian
Ekchian.
There is recent prece-
dent for picking a home-
grown leader. In Chicago,
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has
burned through three public
school chief executives dur-
ing his tenure. Forrest Clay-
pool, the latest to resign, had
previously served as Eman-
uel’s chief of staff.
In December, the mayor
named Janice Jackson, one
of the district’s top adminis-
trators and a graduate of the
city’s schools, as acting chief
executive officer.
One factor that is likely to
loom large in the selection of
L.A.’s next superintendent
is the district’s budget woes.
S S U N DAY , FE B RUARY 11, 2 018 B5
still carry with them in a cup of coffee, a scone, a nerability, Hardey said. The
Montecito. Delgado lives in willingness to listen. digging out will continue for
Carpinteria and said that “People came in and I’d months and the next rains
when the mudslides began, look in their eyes and say may bring more danger.
he tried to drive to Mon- OK, I’ve only got a little bit, “But this place is worth
tecito to check on a friend. but it’s something,” said fighting for,” she said, “and
“I couldn’t go in because Hardey, whose offerings and maybe we can build some-
the roads were blocked,” kindly presence were a form thing better.”
said Delgado. of much-needed therapy. She took a seat at a table
His friend, Antonio Ben- “And then they would with Rick Lemmo, who
itez, lost his wife and 3-year- launch into these stories. A works for Rick Caruso prop-
old daughter. Antonio’s woman who rafted out on a erties, which made a huge
brother lost his wife and mattress with two boys but donation to Red Cross
10-year-old son. had to leave the puppy. rescue operations. R. Peter
Jeannine’s kept a door Someone who almost gave Jackson, who owns the
open during the weeks when up, until the firefighters nearby Coffee Bean & Tea
the restaurant was closed knocked through the door. Leaf, also pulled up a chair.
for business. Hardey, who All these stories kept pour- A red bin sat before her,
also lives in Carpinteria, ing out of them.” and Hardey began going
brought coffee and cookies She thought about the through a stack of envelopes
from her Santa Barbara way the disaster had been a collected by 93108FUND.org,
restaurants so locals would humbling equalizer, indis- which was set up by resi-
have a place to gather, get criminately taking the lives dents to help cover the lost
the latest information on of the wealthy and the work- income of hourly wage earn-
rescue efforts and find out force, and uniting one and ers who were out of work for
how they could help. all like never before. weeks.
As a young girl, Hardey “We live in one of the “Look at this,” Hardey
said, she rode her yellow most beautiful places in the said, opening envelopes and
Schwinn ten-speed through world and it has given us so finding checks for hundreds
the hills and along the coast, much, and it’s our turn to of dollars.
never oblivious to how lucky give back, to build a better “I’m going to give you a
she was to grow up in such a infrastructure, to build thousand dollars,” said
place. She went on to Stan- better waterways, to build a Jackson as customers filed
ford in the 1980s as a tennis better alert system.… It was into Jeannine’s for coffee, or
star and psychology major. a woefully insufficient sys- food, or just to be a part of
When tragedy hit Monte- tem for getting information the next step in Montecito’s
cito, Hardey thought back out to people.” recovery.
on an altruism class in Everyone has been re-
college, and she decided to minded that on mountain steve.lopez@latimes.com
offer what little she could — slopes, there’s always vul- Twitter: @LATstevelopez
While New York City’s healthcare costs are swal- demands from labor unions
public student population lowing an ever-greater por- and politicians, and outsize
has held steady at 1.1 million, tion of its funding. expectations. The job pays
L.A. Unified has been losing “L.A. will wind up bank- well — L.A.’s superintendent
students for more than a rupt if it does not put in place makes $350,000 a year — but
decade to charter schools, a system that looks at evi- is no match for private-
declining birth rates and dence in funding programs sector salaries.
rising housing costs that that are successful,” said Ra- “You’re being pushed in
have priced low-income fam- mon Cortines, who served every direction by every con-
ilies out of many neighbor- three stints as the district’s stituency that exists,” said
hoods. The district’s enroll- superintendent. “We’re past Jean-Claude Brizard, who
ment is directly linked to the the point where a modest was named chief executive of
amount of state funding it amount of tweaking will do Chicago’s public schools in
receives, and it is tanking. As the job. It won’t work.” 2011. He resigned after 17
one district official put it, In addition to having to months.
L.A. Unified is losing the win over board members, su-
equivalent of a small school perintendents here, as in anna.phillips@latimes.com
district each year. other large school districts, howard.blume
At the same time, the dis- face unending scrutiny from @latimes.com
trict’s pension and retiree the media and the public, joy.resmovits@latimes.com
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D.A. probed Inglewood garbage contract

[Butts, from B1] ing their pockets or those of rity division in July 2012 by state. She could not be reac-
low bidder, said in an inter- their families,” said Ann Inglewood City Council hed for comment.
view. Ravel, former head of Cali- member Judy Dunlap, who Mayor Butts disputed
“Put it this way,” Clifford fornia’s Fair Political Prac- cast the lone no vote on the that Inglewood would have
said. “We didn’t hire his tices Commission. “It would contract. fared better with Athens.
brother, and we didn’t get be inappropriate for a mayor The complaint, a copy of “I personally did not be-
the contract. The company to even address the contrac- which was obtained by The lieve that their bid could be
that hired his brother got tors in that way and discuss Times, alleged that Butts relied upon,” he said. “Fur-
the contract. And they this with them.” had approached executives ther, Consolidated employ-
were $10 million more than Jessica Levinson, a Loyo- at two bidders with an offer ees were represented by a
us.” la Law School professor and of support in exchange for a union paying competitive
The deal was not only lu- government ethics special- job for his brother. wages while Athens was
crative for Consolidated ist, agreed. Clifford, from Athens not.”
Disposal Services, but con- “I think you could cer- Services, was one of the two It is unclear how aggres-
sequential for Inglewood tainly say that it’s a misuse of bidders named in the letter sively the D.A.’s public integ-
residents and businesses: office, that it is an improper and he told The Times that rity division, which investi-
Their refuse-collection rates action,” she said. Butts had made the offer to gates complaints of official
are tied to the agreement for Inglewood received three him in a face-to-face conver- corruption, pursued Dun-
a decade, with more than responsive bids for the con- sation at a waste-handling lap’s allegations.
four years to go. tract, city records show. facility. Several people contacted
Butts denied asking any Mayor Butts participated in The other, Doug Corco- by the The Times, including
of the bidders to hire his preliminary votes on the ran of Waste Management, Clifford, said they were in-
brother and abstained from contract, including approv- said the mayor did not come terviewed by district attor-
the final vote on the con- ing exclusive negotiations to him with such an offer. ney’s investigators about
tract. Marcus Yam Los Angeles Times with Consolidated. He ab- But he knew that Michael the contract. Clifford and
“There is nothing to INGLEWOOD Mayor James Butts Jr., shown at a stained from the final vote, Butts needed a job, he said, another potential witness
this.… I didn’t approach any- 2016 City Council meeting, denies he asked bidders on on June 5, 2012, in which the and he met with him to dis- said they also were visited
one,” he said, then abruptly a city waste-collection contract to hire his brother. council approved the con- cuss it. later by FBI agents.
ended a telephone interview. tract 3 to 1. “I became aware of it In response to The
In a subsequent email ex- James Castro, who han- Eldridge and the mayor. In his email to The Times, through somebody else,” Times’ public records re-
change, he said his brother’s dled the contract bid for Details of the brother’s Butts said he sat out the fi- said Corcoran, who inter- quest, the district attorney’s
employment by Consoli- Consolidated Disposal employment were included nal vote because his brother viewed Michael Butts but office confirmed that it re-
dated was unrelated to the Services, referred an inter- in his May 2013 bankruptcy worked for Consolidated. did not hire him. “We talked. ceived Dunlap’s complaint
company’s winning bid. view request to Jennifer El- protection filing, in which he “My brother was an em- We did not have a fit for him.” on July 31, 2012. But prose-
“My brother’s hiring had dridge, a spokeswoman for said that the company paid ployee of one of the bidders Dunlap’s complaint also cutors said they were unable
no bearing on the award of Republic Services, its par- him just under $6,000 a at the time of the vote to contended that Inglewood to find the case file and could
the contract,” Butts said. ent company. She acknowl- month. award, and I abstained be- residents would pay sub- provide only “limited infor-
Both the district attor- edged The Times’ emailed Without commenting cause of the optics of the sit- stantially more for Consoli- mation” on the investiga-
ney and the FBI investi- questions but did not re- specifically on Mayor Butts’ uation,” Butts said. dated’s trash services than tion, said Michele Gilmer,
gated the garbage contract, spond to them or to a subse- situation, two legal experts To avoid a conflict of in- Athens’. assistant head deputy dis-
said Clifford and another po- quent series of emails and told The Times that an terest in that situation, “These additional fees trict attorney.
tential witness, but no voice messages. elected official who solicited Levinson said, the mayor amount to approximately “The matter was investi-
charges were filed. The The mayor’s brother, a job for a close relative in ex- should have recused himself $25 [million] to $30 million gated and on March 6, 2013,
D.A.’s office confirmed the Michael Butts, still works for change for his support of a from all actions on the con- dollars extra over the life of closed,” Gilmer wrote in a
investigation, but said it Consolidated, in its Gar- contract bid would have a tract negotiations, not just the contract,” she wrote. letter to The Times.
could not locate its case file. dena office, according to a conflict of interest. the final vote. “This is unconscionable!”
A spokeswoman for the FBI company employee in Ingle- “Public officials are abso- Butts’ alleged conflict Dunlap, a 20-year mem- kim.christensen
said she could neither con- wood. He did not respond to lutely required to be in those was the subject of a com- ber of the council, lost her @latimes.com
firm nor deny an investiga- phone messages or to inter- jobs for the interest of the plaint letter sent to the dis- seat in a June 2013 election twitter:
tion. view requests made through public, not the interest of lin- trict attorney’s public integ- and has since moved out of kchristensenLAT
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he majored in biology. While in college, he started
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where he served at Juvenile Hall for
ten years. During the last few years
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remained in the paints and coatings business for graduated from the San Fernando
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awarded patents in his field. Mark had an innate became employed as a staff trial
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and Hunk began learning about art and collecting Mexico. Mark and Zandra married in 1997 and
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children, Alexander, Isabella and Andrea were
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at Hexion, the family moved to Katy, Texas, where Judge Goldman was a dedicated
newsletter. just went ahead and did it” and “keep your powder
they enjoyed the love and support of a wonderful jurist who took his job seriously and
“We will compassionately dry!” These Hunk-isms were especially meaningful
circle of friends and neighbors. enjoyed the decision-making process.
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transactions accompanied is survived by his wife of nearly 21 years, Zandra, for attorneys and he was a member of
intention to share, and significant gifts were made the State Bar Workers’ Compensation
by stunning photos. to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and his children, Alex, Bella and Andy, his mother, Julia,
sister Maria (Brian) Hoye, niece and nephew, Pilar Law Section Executive Committee for
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standing museum housing a gift of 121 artworks by
aunts, uncles, and cousins. Mark’s family would
like to thank their extended family, friends and
In 2000, Barry met the love of his
life, Shirley Alexander, a court reporter
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achievements and was immensely grateful to those and support during his illness. A rosary and funeral
mass were held in Texas on January 24. in 2003 and they maintained their
who helped make his dream a reality. residence in Chatsworth. Barry and
Shirley retired from their state jobs and
Hunk died of natural causes in his home – enjoyed their retirement with travel,
surrounded by his loving wife, daughter, and restaurants, plays at the Ahmanson
granddaughter – on February 7, 2018. We will miss Theater, Dodger games, and
him dearly but know that his legacy lives on. To place an obituary ad Hollywood Bowl summer programs.
Judge Goldman will be missed. He
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314 Lomita Drive, Stanford, CA 94305. Services will be held at Groman Eden
Mortuary in Mission Hills at 3 pm on
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Ronald Lee Luebke
August 22, 1932 - January 28, 2018
Our beloved husband, father, grandfather,
great grandfather and hero, passed away Sunday
morning, January 28, surrounded by his family
at his home in Newport Beach. Ron was born in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, delivered by a mid-wife at
his grandparent’s home during the depths of the
Great Depression. He grew up in a household
filled with an abundance of relatives and love.
Ron graduated with honors from Washington
High School in Milwaukee and achieved the rank
of Eagle Scout. Ron then attended the University
of Madison, Wisconsin, earning a degree in
Mechanical Engineering. While at the University,
Ron founded the North Lake Yacht Club, serving
as Director and Commodore. Ron was an active
member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity. It was
at the KS Christmas Formal that he “pinned” a
golden haired beauty and love of his life, Bonnie
Stephan, who was the reigning Miss Madison. After
graduation, Ron reported for duty to the U.S. Air
Force at Moffet Field in Mountain View, California as
a Second Lieutenant. He was assigned to a special
aeronautical research group at the NASA facility.
While at Moffet, Ron and Bonnie became engaged
and were married in 1956. He retired from the Air
Force as Captain. Ron began his career as a Project
Engineer with Murphy Diesel Co. in Milwaukee, and
then to Western Gear Corp. Bonnie’s longing for
the California sunshine convinced Ron to accept
an offer from Westinghouse in Sunnyvale. After
only eight months, Ron was named Westinghouse
Man of the Year. While Ron’s career bloomed, the
Luebke family grew to seven, including Stephanie,
Debbie, Caroline, Melissa (baby Heavenly now
in heaven), and Ron Jr. Ron’s final project at
Westinghouse was as Project Engineer at the
radio telescope complex in Lonepine for Caltech.
The success of the project earned Ron an offer
from MAAG Gearwheel Company of Zurich.
As Ron set all time sales records for MAAG, he
founded his own company, American Machinery
and Engineering Corp., representing MAAG and
other heavy machinery lines. With the income
generated through American Machinery, Ron
and Bonnie were able to offer their children the
best life had to offer. In the 1980’s Ron and Ron
Jr. partnered with the Van Mechelens of ADAPT
Automation and began consulting to the fledgling
automotive airbag industry. Over the decades to
follow, the partnership never wavered and to date
the company has delivered advanced automation
to air bag manufacturers worldwide. Ron gave
generously of his time to numerous community
organizations. “Tiger”, as his fraternity brothers
knew him, raised $2 million in 1996 to refurbish the
beautiful Kappa Sigma fraternity house in Madison.
For his effort, he was named KS Man of the Year,
elected to the KS Hall of Fame and received the
coveted Distinguished Alumni Award. Being family
oriented, Ron did extensive genealogy research
and wrote a 500 page book entitled “The Ronald
Lee Luebke Family Outdoor Journal”. Leather
bound copies were given to his children who refer
to it lovingly as “The Book”, a treasured gift that is
read and referred to frequently. Ron loved model
railroads. To his grandchildren’s delight, his trains
ran through the whole house at Christmas time.
Ron and the Luebke clan were avid Green Bay
Packer fans. After church, Sundays were spent with
the family cheering on the green and gold. Trips
in the family motorhome were epic! The family
enjoyed many cruises, exploring different parts of
the world. Ron and Ron Jr. spent countless hours
on the ocean, sport fishing and sharing their love
of the sea. His love of the outdoors, hunting, fishing
and adventure never waivered. Closer to home, he
took pleasure in his membership at Big Canyon
Country Club. Ron remained a devout Catholic and
made sure the whole family attended Mass EVERY
Sunday! He served his beloved church through
the Legion of Mary. His faith in God guided him
through his lifetime. Ron was a true gentleman;
he was generous, compassionate and kind. He
was old school and raised his children accordingly.
A firm handshake and look in the eye were his
trademarks, passed down to his children and
grandchildren. Ron’s family loves him beyond words
and misses him dearly. He gave us everything he
had, no sacrifice too big. We take solace in the
belief that he is in Heaven with our Lord and all
those who went before him. We have faith that we
will be encircled in his loving arms in eternal life.
Ron is survived by his loving wife Bonnie of 62
years; children, Stephanie Rados, Debbie Nelson,
Ron Luebke Jr., Caroline Bryan, Melissa Misetich,
their spouses, Steve Rados, Bill Bryan, and Chris
Luebke; grandchildren, Bobby, Brittany, Brooke,
Chase, Lauren, Riley, Michael, Clayton, Cole,
Christian, Bonnie, Aubrey and Angelina; and great
grandchild, Audrey. Ron was laid to rest at a private
family Mass and burial. Details are pending for his
Celebration of Life. In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made in his memory to The Michael J Fox
Foundation for Parkinson’s and Our Lady Queen of
Angels, Newport Beach.
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GuttinG, Fr. John
August 31, 1927 - January 28, 2018
GUTTING, Fr. John. August 31,
1927 - January 28, 2018. Fr. John
Gutting was called home to The Lord
on January 28, 2018. He is survived
by his brothers Clifford, Fallbrook CA
and Lawrence, Valley Center CA. Fr.
Gutting also leaves nieces, nephews,
grand nieces, grand nephews and
cousins. Fr. Gutting was ordained to
the priesthood on May 5, 1954 at St. KAPLAN, Scott
Vibianas Cathedral, Los Angeles. He August 10, 1963 - February 2, 2018
served in several parishes in southern Scott Kaplan of Claremont, CA passed
California over the last 63 years and away in his home due to complications
touched many lives. He was named with heart failure on February 2, 2018.
Pastor of St. Anthanasius parish, Long He was 54 years old. Scott is survived
Beach in 1977 where he served for 20 by his soul mate and wife Kelly (née
years. He retired as pastor emeritus in Moore); cherished father of Brett,
1997 and moved to Nazareth House Blake, Bradley; beloved stepfather of
where he enjoyed saying mass, visiting Alex, Austin; treasured son of Judy
with the other residents and feeding
the birds and squirrels. While living at
Sherwin, Stanley Kaplan (Raelie);
loving stepson of Maxine Elkun (née
Nazareth House, Fr. Gutting assisted Siegel); dear brother of Kimberly
with masses at nearby St. Timothy’s. Axelrod (Joseph), Sean Kaplan, Kari
He was loved by his family, friends Kaplan; buddy and brother-in-law of
and the many parishioners he served.
Ron Moore (Michelle); former spouse
He will be remembered for his love of of Karen Kaplan (née Kowalski); a
people, animals and his wonderful
loving uncle, cousin and nephew. He
sense of humor. Vigil will be at St. was a most loyal (and to his family,
Timothy’s Church on February 15 at
unacceptable) fan of the Miami
9:30 am followed by the Funeral Mass Dolphins, Pittsburgh Pirates, Iowa
at 11:00am. Internment at All Souls
Hawkeyes and New York Rangers. As a
Cemetery, Long Beach at 2:30pm. In transformative leader, Scott cherished
lieu of flowers, donations may be made
his roles as mentor, colleague, partner
to St. Anthanasius Church, Long Beach. and friend. He was an inspiration
to many and held a deep love and
admiration for his community at Jones
Lang Lasalle (JLL) and CB Richard Ellis
(CBRE). Scott was born on August 10,
1963 in Chicago. He graduated from
Glenbrook South High School in 1981
on the Dean’s List, member of the
National Honors Society and catcher
for the Titans varsity baseball team. At
the University of Iowa, Scott graduated
Summa Cum Laude/Phi Beta Kappa
with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology,
and was a fraternity member of
HacHigian, gabriel Alpha Epsilon Pi. He went on to be
August 23, 1927 - February 3, 2018 accepted to the University of Iowa
Gabriel Hachigian, 90, died February College of Law but instead returned to
3, 2018, at his home in Culver City. Chicagoland to partner with his uncle,
Born in Chicago Illinois on August 23, co-owning a chain of Hallmark stores.
1927, Gabriel attended Crane Technical He was the first President of Crown
High School where he graduated with Mac, Hallmark’s internal financing
distinction. He entered the U.S Army division for its Gold Crown Store
in 1946 and was honorably discharged Network. He served on Hallmark’s first
in 1947. In 1948, across a crowded Gold Crown Advisory Board as the voice
room, he met Jule Torosian of South of the Midwest. He went on to create
Milwaukee and they were married a a two-decade, distinguished career in
year later in February 1949. Gabriel, a commercial retail based in Southern
lifelong Bruin, graduated from UCLA in California. Throughout his career,
1951 with a degree in Theater Arts and Scott has been involved in the sale
later earned a degree in Engineering and development of land along with
from USC. For nearly 40 years Gabriel the leasing of more than 25 million
worked as an aerospace engineer for square feet of retail space nationwide
Douglas Aircraft and Rockwell. As a for more than $4 billion in total real
lifelong liberal he enjoyed politics as estate value. Scott developed a stellar
well as running and bicycling. Gabriel reputation and track record helping
is survived by his wife Jule, his sons to take major retail projects from a
Dorian and Gregory, and his brother vision to reality. Scott held several
Alexander. He is predeceased by his leadership positions within CBRE,
parents Michael and Varvar. including Senior Managing Director
of Retail Services, Western Region
and Senior Managing Director of the
HoHman, Larry Inland Empire Region. He received the
August 15, 1937 - January 30, 2018 Larry Perrish“The Power of We”Award,
the highest honor bestowed within
In the early evening of January the company’s retail line of business.
30, 2018, William Lawrence “Larry” As Executive Vice President, Retail
Hohman died at his West Los Angeles Brokerage for JLL, Scott collaborated
home in the loving embrace of family to create a best-in-class team with
and friends at the age of 80 years Erik Westedt, Blake Kaplan, and
young.
Holly Cauthron. Scott’s most recent
We will gather on Monday, February visionary work was dreaming about
12, 2018 from 6-9pm at the Carousel/ the creation of future company wide
Merry-Go-Round on the Santa Monica programs that would focus on the
Pier to share and say goodbye. Please mentorship of early career, all-star
come along to help us remember and brokers, exploring partnership with
salute the rich life of the luckiest man a focus on vision, communication,
on the face of the Earth. Bring a story gratitude and integrity. His family
from your heart and we will see you suggests donations be made in his
there! Team Hohman
name to the University of Iowa Center
for Advancement, One West Park
Road, Iowa City, IA 52242, to support
a mentorship fund in Scott’s name at
the University of Iowa John Pappajohn
Entrepreneurial Center.
Please join friends and family in
a Celebration of Scott’s life: Sunday,
February 11th, 3-6 PM at Nico Osteria,
1015 N. Rush St., Chicago, IL 60611 and
Thursday, February 15th, 2-5 PM at the
Balboa Yacht Club, 1801 Bayside Drive,
Corona Del Mar, CA 92625.
Kennedy, Rosalie
October 5, 1925 - January 29, 2018
At 92 years old, Rosalie (“Ro”)
IndermIll, mary Alice Kennedy passed away on January
February 21, 1929 - November 29, 2017 29, 2018 after a brief illness in Los
Mary Alice Indermill was one of Angeles, CA. Ro was born in McAdoo,
only four women in the University Pennsylvania on October 5, 1925.
of Colorado at Boulder’s College of She met her husband, John (“Jack”)
Engineering in 1945. She married Burl Kennedy, in 1947, and they married
Indermill, a fellow engineering student shortly after in Bayonne, New Jersey.
returned from WWII, in 1949. With Ro and Jack relocated to Los Angeles,
children Janet, Eric, Bruce and Donald, CA; they were married for 59 years
the family settled in the San Fernando and raised 10 children together.
Valley. Mary joined the Ralph M. Ro was known and loved by many.
Parsons Company as an architectural She is predeceased by her husband,
and construction engineer, earned Jack, daughters Patricia Matthews
both a civil engineering certification & Kathleen Kennedy, & grandson
and an MBA, and served as the Water Jonathan Freese.
Rates Manager for LADWP. She was Ro is survived by her other 8 children:
awarded Fellow by the Society of Mike (Estee) Kennedy, Sheila (Gary)
Women Engineers in 1993. Mary was Nemer, Tony (Katharyne) Kennedy,
an optimistic woman committed to Mary Anne Steward, Rosemary
education and equality. She is survived McAlary, Johnny Kennedy, Chris
by her four children, six grandchildren, Kennedy, & Eileen Kennedy. She also
and one great-grandchild. leaves behind her 12 grandchildren &
Memorial February 24, 1:00 p.m. at 6 great grandchildren. Ro was always
the Valencia Summit HOA Clubhouse, happiest when surrounded by her
24600 W. Del Monte Drive. children and grandchildren. She will
be greatly missed. Services will be
held at, St. Jerome Catholic Church,
5570 Thornburn, LA, 90045: Rosary:
Thursday 2/15 at 7:30; funeral, Friday,
2/16 at 10:00 AM.
Lamaoureux, antonia
“Toni”
September 24, 1924 - January 28, 2018
Toni, 93, passed away peacefully
in Arvada, Colorado. She is
survived by her 2 children, Donald
Lamoureux (Redondo Beach, CA)
and Cathryn Reimanis (Golden, CO),
and 6 grandchildren. She enjoyed
gardening, traveling, dancing and
singing songs of her generation. Toni
loved her family deeply. She was
placed to rest adjacent to where she
was born – in Santa Monica, CA.
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Mallett, Richard P.
1944 - February 4, 2018
Richard P. Mallett of Glendale died
peacefully at home. He had many
friends and connections to Glendale
and Maine. He was a great traveler.
Dick, we will miss you.
Mccaffery, Mary Margo
September 29, 1938 - January 8, 2018
Mary Margo McCaffery, a pioneer in
the care of people with pain, passed
away peacfully at the age of 79 in
Marina Del Ray, CA. Margo was born
and raised in Corsicana, Texas. She
was preceded in death by her parents,
Marley William and Mary Katherine
(Adams) Smith, her brother, Marley
Donald Smith, her only child Melissa
Ruth Mielke, and her husband, John
Richard Brewer.
Margo received a BS in Nursing from
Baylor University in 1959 and a MS in
Nursing from Vanderbilt University
in 1961. She became an assistant
professor in pediatric nursing at UCLA
in 1965. In 1970, Margo became
self-employed as a consultant and
educator on the nursing care of
patients with pain, until she retired
in 2011. Margo authored numerous
articles, guidelines, videos, and five
books on pain. She became a Fellow of
the American Academy of Nursing and
received numerous prestigious awards
and appointments.
Margo was a trailblazer in the field
of pain management and inspired
generations of nurses and physicians.
She was an impassioned advocate
for the relief of people suffering with
pain. She is best known for her 1968
clinical definition of pain, embraced
worldwide: “Pain is whatever the
experiencing person says it is, existing
whenever he says it does.”
Margo was a wonderful women
who lives on through her life’s work
and through those whose lives she has
touched. She will be forever loved and
forever missed by those who knew her.
Moore, Betty Ann
June 21, 1924 - January 29, 2018
Betty Ann Moore, 93, a longtime
Malibu resident, passed away January
29, 2018 at a Santa Paula, Ca., nursing
home. Born June 21, 1924 in San
Bernardino, California, Betty was the
daughter of Joe and Ethel Schmidt,
natives of Lafayette, Indiana. Betty’s
brother, Charles, passed away in 2015.
Betty was raised in South-Central
Los Angeles, and was a graduate of
George Washington High School. In
1944 she was married to Carl Eugene
Moore. Carl, a State Farm Insurance
Agent in Santa Monica for 35 years,
passed away in 2002.
In 1962 Betty and Carl moved into
their home in Malibu. Betty was a
homemaker who loved to cook and
spend time with family and friends.
Carl was a member of the Santa Monica
Sunrise Optimist Club, and Betty often
worked on the club’s annual scrap
books. Betty and Carl led an active
social life and loved to golf, party and
travel with their many friends.
Betty is survived by her son and
daughter-in-law, Tom and Mary Moore
of Malibu; grandchildren: Andrew
(Toby) Moore, Deborah Sanchez and
her husband Steve, Jennifer Harris,
and Jason Harris. In addition, Betty
had 5 great-grandchildren: Nicole
Kingsley and husband David, Steven
Sanchez and his wife Griffin, Abby
Sanchez, Joshua Moore, and Dakota
Markow. She also had 4 great-great-
grandchildren: Marcus, Aurelia and
Theo Kingsley, and Phoenix Sanchez.
They will all greatly miss their
“Grandma Betty.”
She is also survived by her sister-
in-law Evelyn “Joy” Schmidt, niece Jan
Clifton and nephews Steve, Greg and
Jeff Schmidt.
Betty will be cremated. The family
and friends will soon gather for a
celebration of Betty’s life.
Pivovaroff, Daniel
William
Daniel William Pivovaroff, a long-
time resident of Southern California,
died on January 23, 2018. Dan was
born on June 27, 1938 to Jack William
Pivovaroff and Jennie Kashergen. He
graduated from Leuzinger High School
in Lawndale in 1956. He wed Jo Anne
Hesser on July 11, 1959. They were
married for 27 years, and they had
two children, Jamie Lynn and Michael
James.
Dan worked as a mechanic, welder
and machinist early in his career,
before opening his own metal
fabrication business in the early 1980s.
He kept that business until he retired
in 2000. He devoted much of his free
time to auto racing and working on
cars. He owned and operated Sprint
Cars over two decades, and several of
his teams had great success, winning
main events at tracks across California,
Arizona and the mid-west.
In 2006, Dan moved to Oakland
so his son and daughter-in-law
could help with his medical care.
He is survived by his sister Florance,
daughter Jamie and her three children,
and his son Michael. He is preceded in
death by his brothers John, Jake, Harry
and David and his sister Diane. He was
interred on February 9 in a small family
ceremony at Mountain View Cemetery
in Oakland.
Nancy G. Mathisen
December 31, 1921 - February 3, 2018
Born and raised in South Milwaukee, WI, an only
child, Nancy attended an all girl’s Catholic school.
She left WI to attend Western State Colorado
University where she earned a Bachelor’s
degree, and was a member of Alpha Sigma Alpha
Sorority, becoming a National Officer years later.
After earning her BA, Nancy then enlisted in the
Army during WWII. She was stationed 2 years
in New Guinea and the Philippines, assigned to
the Provost Marshal’s Office at the rank of S/Sgt.
Nancy returned to WSCU and earned a double
Master’s degree, then moved to CA and worked
at the LA Times where she met and married Alex
O. Mathisen. Together, they raised 4 children and
resided in Anaheim for 62 years where she was
heavily involved in her children’s school functions
and outside extra curricular activities. She was
always present and supported all of her children’s
activities.
Nancy was a devoted, loving daughter, wife,
mother and grandmother who had a deep Catholic
faith and when not involved in family functions, gave
her time to volunteering for over 30 years to the
Braille Institute, Martin Luther Hospital (Anaheim),
Anaheim Memorial Hospital and St Justin’s Martyr
Church where she provided for and fed the needy.
Preceded in death by husband, Alex, she leaves
behind her children, Tom, Terry, Ted and Monica;
3 grandchildren and a great-grandchild. She will
be forever missed as she is loved. The family is
eternally grateful for the TLC from Mila and Rose
who will forever be in our hearts. Funeral Services
are February 13th at St Justin Martyr’s Church in
Anaheim at 11:00 a.m.
Thomas S. Maddock
March 23, 1928 - February 3, 2018
Thomas S. Maddock passed away peacefully in
Newport Beach, CA, on February 3, 2018. Thomas
was born to John Francis and Eileen Smothers
Maddock in Norfolk, VA, in 1928, where he also
graduated from Maury High School. He later
graduated at Virginia Tech with a BS degree in Civil
Engineering and completed his graduate work at
MIT with a MS degree in Engineering. In the Korean
War, Thomas attended Navy Officer Candidate
School in Newport, RI, and was commissioned
an Ensign in the Navy Civil Engineering Corps.
He was assigned to the Navy Seabees on the
construction of Naval Air Station Cubi Point in the
Philippine Islands. He was later stationed at Marine
Corps Air Station El Toro, CA.
Thomas began his work career in 1957 with
Boyle Engineering in Bakersfield, CA, where he
took on major state and worldwide water projects
and became President and CEO in Orange County
in 1975. He became Chairman in 1993, retired
in 2001, and continued to work as a consulting
engineer. Thomas was elected to the National
Academy of Engineering in 1993 and later as
Honorary Member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers (ASCE). He was a Distinguished Alumni
of Virginia Tech, School of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, and served on numerous boards
and societies; he was a licensed professional
engineer in 18 states. In 1993, the Governor
appointed him to represent CA on the Western
States Water Council—part of the Western
Governors Association. Rear Admiral Maddock
served on the Board of Trustees of the Navy CEC/
Seabee Historical Foundation, and a new US Navy
Seabee Museum was built in 2010 at the Port
Hueneme Naval Base. He was also instrumental
in the support of the Maturango Museum in
Ridgecrest, CA, where his wife Caroline donates
her archeological publications and artwork.
Thomas is survived by his wife Caroline
Maddock of Newport Beach, daughters Victoria
Maddock and Kimberly Clark, granddaughter Lilian
Clark, and many nieces and nephews. Thomas
was preceded in death by three brothers (John,
Joseph, and James) and two sisters (Mary and
Patricia). Thomas was an avid tennis player and
enjoyed hiking in Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada
mountains. He was a true patriot who loved serving
his country, and he was a kind, intelligent and
honorable man. He will be greatly missed by family
and friends alike. In honor of Thomas’ wishes, no
service will be held, and any donations may be
made directly to Hoag Hospital Foundation.
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Potter, Vilma L.
January 3, 1924 - January 29, 2018
Sic transit Gloria mundi
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Vilma
attended Brooklyn College at age
15 and thence Duke University for
graduate studies, the springboard to
her university teaching career. She
was an accomplished piano player and
academic. Vilma was a professor of
English at California State University,
Los Angeles, from 1961 to 1992. She
remained active with the university
emeriti community and taught
poetry long after her retirement.
Her several volumes of poetry while
dense, have been widely enjoyed.
She remained intellectually curious
well into her 90s and continued to
polish her Mozart until illness and
old age swept her away. Throughout
her life she was more interested in
critical thinking than in fitting-in
or joining-in. She encouraged her
children, grandchildren, and great-
grandchildren to place a premium on
scholarship. Vilma, a rock for many
who knew her, will be missed by all.
Wife of Bertram L. Potter (1917-
2008) and mother to Paul Potter
(1947-2016) (Esther), Vilma is
survived by her children Alexandra
Watts (Donald) and Joshua Potter
(Dorothy); grandchildren Billie (Jason
Melillo), Pablo (Jenny), Moira (Shawn
Thomas), Meghan (Mike Shea),
Fiona, Sara, and Amanda; and great-
grandchildren Cameron, Audrey, Colin,
Spencer, Miette, Eleanor, and Kitty.
Rosenblum, nellie may
(nel) (nay)
May 13, 1924 - February 4, 2018
Born to the late Nels and Nora Sten,
Nay passed away at age 93 on February
4, 2018 in Thousand Oaks, California
after a brief illness.
A Canoga Park High School graduate
and U.C. Berkley alumni, she earned a
bachelor’s degree and pursued a career
in teaching.
Nay was a musician, photographer,
crossword puzzle enthusiast, and avid
reader. Her thirst for knowledge and
sharp mind never waned. Nay enjoyed
humor; her distinctive laughter could
fill a room.
She is survived by daughters
Katharine (Richard) Ross, of New York;
Nora Ross, of Minnesota; grandson
Stephen Gil, nephew, nieces and their
families.
Nay is predeceased by her sister
and brother-in-law Anna (Happy) and
Vernon Bennett.
Soto, Julia A
November 14, 1948 - February 3, 2018
Julia Angie Soto passed away
peacefully in Lancaster, CA at the age
of 69. She is survived by her husband
of 48 years Arthur R Soto and her son
Arthur A Soto. She came from a family
of 9 brothers & sisters and raised in the
San Fernando Valley. She was loved by
all she encountered and will be sorely
missed by family and friends.
Julia’s memorial service will be held
Monday Feb 12th at the following:
San Fernando Mission Cemetery
11160 Stranwood Ave,
Mission Hills, CA 91345
10am-12:45pm Public viewing
1pm-2pm Mass service with burial
to follow
Reception to follow at Casa Torres on
455 San Fernando Mission Blvd
Starman, Peter E.
September 25, 1968 - February 2, 2018
Peter E. Starman, 49, of South
Pasadena, passed away February 2,
2018, after a brief battle with cancer.
He was born to Judith L. Edwards and
the late Peter W. Starman, September
25, 1968, in Arcadia, California. Peter
grew up in Altadena and Rowland
Heights and graduated from John
Marshall High School, Los Angeles, in
1987. He earned a BA in Photography
from the Art Center College of Design
in 2000. Peter worked as a freelance
photographer, starting out shooting
bands for the music industry and
assignments for the Los Angeles Times.
He transitioned to portrait work and
editorial features later in his career.
In addition to photography Peter had
a second career as an online reseller.
Peter’s passions were mountain
biking, collecting and restoring
vintage mountain bikes, spending
time outdoors, and his beloved kitty,
Scion. In addition to his mother,
Peter is survived by his partner of 16
years, Michelle Bal-Ut; his five sisters:
Kimberly Starman, of Seattle; Kristina
Barker, of Chicago; Joeve Starman,
Kerri Leonard and Erika Leon, of
Apple Valley; and by his 4 nieces and
3 nephews.
A memorial service will take place
at 2 PM on Saturday, February 24 in
the Ross Chapel at Neighborhood
Unitarian Universalist Church in
Pasadena. A reception will follow.
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Stewart, Janet M.
September 14, 1940 - December 5, 2017
Janet M. Stewart passed away
December 5, 2017, at the age of 77.
She grew up in Santa Monica,
California, attending Santa Monica
High School. She graduated from
California Western University, San
Diego. Jan is survived by her older
brothers, John Stewart and James
Charles Stewart.
She began her teaching career
for the Hermosa Beach City School
District in 1965 and retired June 2010.
She was a 2nd grade teacher for the
majority of her time here at Hermosa
Schools. Many students, parents and
friends are grieving the loss of this very
popular and special teacher. Jan had
a great impact on many young lives.
She always called her classes “The True
Blue Crew.”
In her short period of retirement,
Jan became an active volunteer with
the HB 50 Senior Center, the Hermosa
Garden Club and continued her
volunteer activities with the Hermosa
Beach Historical Society. She also took
time to take a cruise to Alaska and
recently a trip to Paris.
A memorial and celebration will be
held Sunday, February 18, 2018, from
2:00-4:00pm at the Hermosa Beach
Community Center in HB50 Senior
Center and Hermosa Beach Museum,
710 Pier Ave., Hermosa Beach, CA
90254. Donations in memory of Jan
will be collected at the event to “The
Jan Stewart memorial fund” for a
memorial bench. Donation can also
be made to the Peter Zippi Fund at
peterzippifund.org.
For reservations, please email:
kvint@hermosabch.org
sweeney, Jack e.
April 19, 1930 - January 30, 2018
Jack E. Sweeney, 87, died peacefully
in his sleep the morning of January
30th, 2018. Born in Los Angeles on
April 19th, 1930, to Jack J. Sweeney
and Helen Richter. He graduated from
Cathedral High School in 1947; his
father was in the first graduating class
in 1928. Jack was drafted into the Army
in 1950. After serving our country
he received a degree in Advertising
from Woodbury College. In 1953 he
married his high school sweetheart
Lee Gallagher and they settled in San
Marino. Jack began working in radio
sales for Golden West Broadcasting,
KMPC-710. He retired as General Sales
Manager after 33 years in 1992.
In 1993 they moved to Niguel Shores
in Monarch Beach. Jack was President
of the Men’s Club and Garden Club. He
enjoyed golf, horse racing, traveling,
gardening, and cooking. He was
an avid Angels and UCLA fan. Jack
attended daily mass at St. Edward’s
and was an usher at the Saturday
evening mass.
Jack is survived by his wife of 64
years Lee; his children Jack (Andrea),
Mark (Teri), Bob (Leslie), Tom
(Shelley) and Kerry (Eric) Hinkelman;
his grandchildren, Jack, Patrick,
Kevin, Cory, Troy, Robin, Danny, Ryan,
Thomas, Bridget, Erin and Will; and
great grandchildren Olivia, Elle and
Mikayla.
Funeral services will be held on
Thursday, February 15th at 11:00am
at St. Edward’s Catholic Church in Dana
Point.
O’Connor Mortuary (949) 581-4300
www.oconnormortuary.com
TabaTa, Sachiko
November 9, 1940 - January 27, 2018
Services to be held Feb. 17th at 10:00
am at Faith United Methodist Church,
2115 W. 182nd St., Torrance, CA 90504.
Warheit, Deborah (ashe)
January 18, 1941 - January 17, 2018
Debbie died peacefully watching TV
in her West L.A. apartment at almost
77. She is survived by 2 daughters:
Linda Cheung of Seattle and Evelyn
Blackford of El Cerrito, CA, as well as
4 grandchildren. She was divorced in
1985, after 21 years of marriage.
Debbie, a lifelong Dodger fan,
was born in 1941 to David & Lillian
(Hurwitz) Ashe of Brooklyn, NY. She
earned a B.A. from Syracuse in 1962
and an M.Ed. from N.Y.U. in 1963,
and was a primary teacher in NYC.
Moving to San Francisco in 1970, then
West L.A. in 1973, Debbie raised her
daughters while sharing her passion
for literature as a school aide and a
bookseller.
A memorial gathering isn’t planned.
To share your photos & memories of
Debbie, please mail to Linda Cheung,
P.O. Box 18594, Seattle, WA, 98118, or
contact either daughter online.
A fitting tribute to Debbie would be
donating a children’s book to a local
library or charity in her memory.
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WAUKE, Ellen (94) Passed away Wallace Wade Williams passed away
peacefully on January 15, 2018. early on the morning of Saturday,
She is survived by her loving family; Feb 3rd at his home in Reseda, Ca.
children, Myrtle (Richard) Higa, Bruce from complications of Alzheimer’s
(Necy) and Eric (Leslie) Wauke, Wendy Disease, he was 82 years old. He was
(Lloyd) Nicolay; grandchildren, Todd born June 28th, 1935 in Waverly, Fl
(Anna) Shiroma, Ashley Higa, Akemi to parents Talmadge and Ruby who
and Neil (Kelly) Wauke, Erin (Ryan) later moved the family to Jacksonville,
Miyamoto; (2) great-grandchildren; Fl. Mr. Williams enlisted in The U.S.
siblings, George Arakaki of HI, Yusei Marine Corps where he received a
(Akiko) Arakaki of CA, Betty (Richard) hardship discharge after the death
Taira, Elaine Gushiken and Walter of his father. Shortly after that he
(Caroline) Arakaki all of HI; also many enlisted in The U.S. Army where
nieces, nephews and other relatives. he became a member of The 101st
A private family service was held. Airborne and was stationed in Korea.
www.fukuimortuary.com Upon completing his enlistment he
(213) 626-0441 returned to civilian life and enrolled
in Luther Rice Seminary where he was
later ordained as a Baptist Minister,
he would later become the Asst.
Pastor and Pastor at several different
churches. After seminary he then James Theodore Bashor
To place joined The International Brotherhood
of Electrical Workers as a apprentice August 25, 1931 - January 25, 2018
an obituary ad electrician in The Inside Wireman
program, which would be his trade
James “Jim” Theodore Bashor, 86, was born August 25, 1931 in
Covina, California, to the late Orin Paul Bashor and Edith M. Hay. Jim
please go skill for over 50 years. He is survived
by his wife of 25 years, Patty Williams
passed away Thursday, January 25, 2018, with his wife Dianne by his
side from complications related to COPD. He died peacefully and
online to: along with her sons Jim, Chris and
Greg Harden. He is survived by siblings
without pain.
Having moved to San Diego, Jim graduated from Hoover High School. He later
Wanda Lord in NC and brother Robert
joined the Army and was part of the Berlin Airlift. Jim’s commitment to the military
Williams in ID. Mr. Williams is also continued throughout his life. He actively supported the Military Day Parade and
latimes.com/placeobituary survived by his daughter Melody
the USS Midway. His lifelong patriotism culminated with one of San Diego Zoo’s
Beigle in CA, daughter Kristina Brunt largest gifts providing support for the Zoo’s Wounded Warrior Project and free
in PA, and sons Adrian and James
admission in perpetuity for active members of the military and their families.
in FL. He also leaves behind a total After being honorably discharged from the military, Jim decided he needed
of 21 Grandchildren and 16 Great
to earn his college degree. Having watched numerous football games at the
Grandchildren. He was a devoted Los Angeles Coliseum, Jim decided to attend University of Southern California
or call Christian who struggled through
life’s adversities but always strived to
where he graduated with a Master’s degree in Business Administration. USC
also became one of Jim’s favorite charitable endeavors.
1-800-234-4444 stay on God’s path for him. There will Business career opportunities led Jim back to San Diego. At the same time,
be a graveside service at Oakwood Jim met the love of his life, Dianne, on a blind date. They married the following
Memorial Park Cemetery, located at
year and were married for 49 years.
22601 Lassen St, Chatsworth, CA. The Long known for his positive outlook, sense of humor and passion for living, Jim
services will be Tuesday, February 13th
always included his friends in travel and sporting events. Having won a part in
at 1pm. the show “Mama Mia” on Broadway, Jim took several of his friends to New York
to watch his performance on Broadway. After watching the show, all agreed Jim
Cemetery Lots/Crypts should stick with his business endeavors in San Diego.
Jim loved sports. If it was skiing in Aspen, attending USC football games or
Double plot for sale at Inglewood watching his horse win, each event brought great joy to Jim. One of his great
Cemetery in Inglewood, CA for $7,500,
thrills came in 2016 when his horse Danzing Candy led the Kentucky Derby for
valued at 10,500. Call 9492955084 most of the race.
Jim will always be remembered as a loving husband, a man of honor and a
generous friend.
A viewing will be held from 4:00PM to 8:00PM on Friday, February 16, 2018 at
Salli Lynn Chapel of Greenwood Mortuary, 4300 Imperial Ave., San Diego, CA.
Jim’s funeral service will be at 1:30 PM on Saturday, February 17, 2018 at The
Village Community Presbyterian Church, 6225 Paseo Delicias, Rancho Santa
Fe, CA, with his committal service to follow at Greenwood Memorial Park. ln lieu
of flowers, Dianne would be honored by a gift to UCLA Department of Head and
Neck Surgery or Father Joe’s Villages.
Mikio Matsubayashi
September 23, 1938 - February 2, 2018
Mikio Matsubayashi, born in Hiroshima, Japan,
on September 23, 1938, passed away on February
2, 2018 in Torrance, California, at the age of 79.
Mikio was a dynamic, well-loved, and respected
man who lived a full and accomplished life. A
loving husband, Miko is survived by his wife
Kimberley, her daughters September and Bridget,
5 grandchildren, and his sister Midori. Dean Richard Kukuk (Dean Reynolds)
He developed many lasting relationships and
was highly respected in the sports marketing May 19, 1925 - January 29, 2018
industry. Mikio was a friend to everyone who knew
Dean Reynolds, born Dean Richard Kukuk, May 19, 1925 in Volga, South
him. Dakota. Shortly afterwards his parents took him, his four brothers and one sister
He had a passion for life and a positive outlook,
to Sioux City, Iowa, where he grew up. He is a direct descendent of John Quincy
always with a smile on his face. He loved traveling Adams. As a small boy, Dean showed great interest in things artistic. In between
the world and experiencing culture through art, three broken noses suffered by typical schoolboy rough-housing and flailing fists
music, history, and dining. Mikio was very proud of
on the corner of the street, he enjoyed rearranging the furniture in his parents’
his Japanese heritage and loved to share it with his home and the homes of his buddies. Invariably the rooms looked much the better
grandchildren. His sense of humor was present up
because of his instinctive good taste, sense of color, and flair for the spectacular
to the very end. which keynotes his work portfolio.
Mikio was an undeniably impactful individual who
At the age of 14, Dean ran away from his home and hitchhiked to Los Angeles,
touched the lives of all who were fortunate enough traveling with a Chinese circus and ended up having to sleep under billboards on
to have known him. His legacy will live forever. A
Wilshire Boulevard. He got a job as a porter in a restaurant near the Lockheed
celebration of Mikio’s life will be scheduled for a Aircraft plant and spent a great deal of time riding buses and streetcars in the
later date.
residential sections of the city studying the homes he passed. He familiarized
himself with the myriad architectural styles which grace our streets. After a year
and a half his parents persuaded him to return to Sioux City. The next year he
spent living at the YMCA and attending Central High School.
Next Dean joined the Navy and as seaman first class spent the next two years
in Farragut, Idaho. At the time of his honorable discharge, he was a Naval Air
Cadet.
Back in civilian clothes he again was lured to California and the next year
and a half worked as traffic manager for the west coast division of the Donut
Corporation of America in San Francisco, and time keeper at MGM Studios in
Hollywood. To supplement his income, he worked part time for the Red Cross
making donuts for the returning troops on ships crowding the harbor.
In 1948, he returned to Los Angeles and had a whirl at being an actor. He
studied under John Morley, was tested for the role of Terry in the “Terry and the
Pirates” picture which Sam Goldwyn made, but decided that acting was not his
first choice for a career.
He rented an apartment and decorated it to suit him. One day a woman saw
the apartment and liked what she saw and commissioned Dean to redecorate
her home. This first successful venture cinched his deep underlying desire to
be a designer/decorator. In his first crucial step in this direction he became a
painting contractor for the famous Barbara Baroness MacLean. When one of
her associated decorators who was doing a client’s house became ill, Dean
stepped in and finished the job. His next decision was to open his own shop
on La Cienega Boulevard. For the next six years he successfully remodeled,
John Anders Svenson decorated, and redecorated the homes of many famous theatrical figures and
society leaders. Then he moved his shop to Westwood Village and stayed there
December 9, 1942 - January 26, 2018 for two years. Another move toward success was to buy a business building on
Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood. He moved his shop to this location. To name
John Anders Svenson died January 26, 2018 at just a few of his many pleased clients, there are: Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hennessey,
his home in Henderson, Nevada, of a heart attack Peggy Lee, Walter Pigeon, Olga San Juan, Diana Lynn and Hortimor Hall, Ben
at age 75. John was born on December 9, 1942 in Blue, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Arrouge (Norma Shearer), Les Baxter, Al Mathis,
Worcester, Massachusetts, the son of the late Dr. John Frankenheimer, and Stephen Crane, Julie London, Bobby Troupe, and
Sven O. Svenson and Edahjane C. Svenson. John good friends Jim and Peggy Schaefer who owned Schaefer Oil Company in
spent some of the World War II years in Austin, Bakersfield California.
Texas, living with his mother and his grandparents,
Dean Reynolds’ name is synonymous with glamour, exquisite taste, daring
Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Castner while his father innovation, and complete divorcement from the dull ware-worn conventional
served as a US Navy officer in the Pacific. After
paths of the decorating world. As he puts it: “Anyone can take a good house
the war, John grew up in Worcester and graduated and put beautiful things into it, the real challenge of the designer-decorator is
from Worcester North High School. John was a
a problem house, its defects, etc., and turn it into a place of livable beauty.”
proud graduate of Norwich University in Northfield, His brilliant and always spectacular exhibits at the yearly decorator shows were
Vermont. After graduation, he took some graduate
always eagerly anticipated.
courses in biology before entering the business Dean attracted people from all walks of life. He studied braille just to be able
world as a management consultant with Wells
to communicate with afflicted friends including; Morris Broderson deaf mute
Management in New York City. He later moved with known for paintings including; The ballad of Lizzy Borden who chopped up her
Wells to Los Angeles where in 1984 he served as a
papa in Massachusetts, a ballet by Nora Kaye, and listening to the flowers. He
senior officer with the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, was a shrewd businessman as well as an artist, a rare combination. Dean was
working with major Olympic sports associations
preceded in death by his parents Arthur Kukuk and Grace Reynolds Kukuk,
and venues, as well as going to China to secure sister Verna Mae Aspleaf, and brothers Orel and Robert and Bruce Kukuk. He
the first Chinese participation in recent Olympic
is survived by his partner of 52 years Robert Wilson (married November 8th,
Games. After the Olympics, John founded a 2008) and brother Don of Sun City, Arizona, niece Lisa Kukuk of Idaho, nephew
sports consulting business working with various
Craig Kukuk of Arizona, nieces Cathie Mahrt and Lori Anfinson of Sioux City,
sports groups and especially the world of golf, Iowa, nephews Robert Jr., Larry, Kirk, and Brad Kukuk (all of Sioux City Iowa),
a lifelong passion. This passion led him to work
Cindy Blanchard of Sheridan, Wyoming, and Marty Kukuk of Lincoln, Nebraska,
and partner with Percise, Gripos and AME in the Candy Zook of Marian, Indiana, Dan Aspleaf of North Sioux City, South Dakota,
sports equipment business with particular focus on
Kim Friesen of Windom, Minnesota, David and Bruce Kukuk of Mission Viejo,
precision grips for golf clubs, bicycles, motorcycles California, and Tein Roberts of Portland, Oregon.
and other activities. When this company moved
On February 7th, 2018 a memorial service was held at Westwood Memorial
from California to the Las Vegas area, John gardens where Dean’s ashes will be kept in the Garden of Serenity. The Service
became a resident of Henderson.
was conducted in the chapel at Westwood Memorial Garden by All Saints
John never having children of his own, adored Episcopal Church of Beverly Hills.
his nephews and nieces. He is survived by his
brother Charles and wife Sally, of New York
City and their children, Alicia L. Svenson and
husband Dr. Matthew B. Friese of Jamaica Plain,
Massachusetts, and Tait O. Svenson and wife
Lindsay V. Svenson, and their sons Mason T.
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Svenson and Porter O. Svenson of Walnut Creek,
California. John is also survived by his niece
Tracie S. McWade, of Milford Massachusetts, the
daughter of John’ s late brother Orlin S. Svenson.
John is also survived by his legion of friends who
enjoyed his love of life and spirit of joy. He will
be missed by family, friends and all who knew or
worked with him. A celebration of John’s life will be
held in Henderson, Nevada, on February 10, 2018. To sign a guest book please go to latimes.com/guestbooks
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Dow Jones industrial average since President Trump’s election Dow Jones industrial average over the past
Daily close, Nov. 8, 2016 - Feb. 9 two weeks Hourly, Jan. 29-Feb. 9
30,000 30,000

Jan. 29-Feb. 9

Jan. 29, 6 a.m.

Jan. 26, 2018 26,582
Feb. 9, 1 p.m.
26,617
24,191

25,000 25,000

Feb. 9, 10 a.m.
Feb. 9, 2018 23,601
24,191

20,000 20,000

Nov. 8, 2016
18,333

15,000 15,000

Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. 1/29 1/30 1/31 2/1 2/2 2/5 2/6 2/7 2/8 2/9
2016 2017 2018

S&P 500 sector performance drops in 2018

% change in sector performance in 2017 and 2018*

1.5% -5%
Consumer discretionary Materials
21.2% 21.4%

-2.2% -6.1%
Healthcare Consumer staples
20% 10.5%

-2.7% -7.6%
Information technology Energy
36.9% -3.8%

-2.9% -7.8%
Financials Telecommunication services
20.3% -6%

-3.5% -9.9%
S&P 500 Utilities
19.4% 8.3%

-3.7% -10.8%
Industrials Real estate
18.5% 7.2%
*Jan. 1 - Feb. 8
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MARKET MAYHEM
What Wall Street’s roller-coaster ride of a week is telling investors
By James F. Peltz
Financial advisor Todd Morgan has plenty of rich
clients in Southern California who needed to hear a
soothing word about the stock market’s wild gyrations
last week.
“This calls to mind my favorite saying, ‘The market
will do whatever it has to do to prove the most people
wrong,’ ” said Morgan, chairman of Bel Air Investment
Advisors in Century City, which caters to high-worth
customers.
His point: Until this month, many investors had
grown accustomed over the prior year to nearly opti-
mum conditions in the stock market. Shares kept
climbing to record levels, propelled by growing econo-
mies and corporate earnings worldwide, low inflation,
subdued interest rates and, perhaps most important,
relative calm in trading each day.
The calm abruptly ended last week when the mar-
ket tanked — with the Dow Jones industrial average
plunging a record 1,175 points on Monday, after a 666-
point drop the prior Friday — and then swung sharply
up and down the rest of the week.
After the Dow plummeted an additional 1,033
points Thursday, the average of 30 blue-chip stocks
had officially endured what’s known as a “correction,”
or a loss of 10% from its most recent high, which was
Jan. 26 when the Dow hit a record peak of 26,616.71.
Technically the correction lasted all of one day, as
the Dow capped its wild week with a 330.44-point gain
Friday to finish at 24,190.90. But the Dow still lost 5.2%
for the week, its worst weekly decline in two years, to
leave it 9.1% below its record high.
The broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index, widely
viewed as the market’s main gauge, and the
technology-heavy Nasdaq composite index were down
8.8% and 8.4%, respectively, since they also reached all-
time highs Jan. 26.
Volatility and a sharp reversal in prices suddenly
were back on Wall Street and on foreign markets, all in
response to reignited fears among investors that U.S.
inflation and interest rates are going up.
So what was the market telling us?
[See Market, C8]

A risky bet for novice traders Complexities of

Lured by a quick buck,
amateurs are getting
burned by VIX trades.
By Rob Urban
and Rachel Evans
Jamie Evans jokes that
he might have a gambling
problem.
When stocks slid last
week with little discernible
cause, the 37-year-old used a
product mirroring the VIX
volatility index to bet mar-
kets would return to their re-
cent calm. They didn’t. In-
stead, they went into free fall
and Evans faces the loss of
his entire $1,500 wager. Cred-
it Suisse Group, the issuer of
his exchange-traded note, is
shutting down the fund after
it dropped more than 90%.
“I think I’m smarter than
other people,” said Evans,
who works in the entertain-
ment industry in Los Ange-
les. “And then I get these re-
alizations every now and
then that ‘No, you don’t
know what you’re talking
about and you should prob-
ably just do what everybody
else does.’ ”
Whether junk bonds in
the 1980s, dot-coms in the
’90s, subprime-mortgage
bonds in the ’00s or volatility
plays now, Wall Street never
tires of selling small-time in-
vestors on the next big thing.
No matter how many times
money managers and in-
vestment funds warn folks
about the risks of arcane fi-
[See Investors, C8]
single-payer care
MICHAEL HILTZIK roar (including the threat of
a recall effort), forcing him
California to create a special commit-
Assembly tee to examine the possibil-
Speaker ity of achieving universal
Anthony health coverage in the state.
Rendon may On Monday and Wednes-
have ex- day, the Select Committee
pected to on Health Care Delivery
torpedo the Systems and Universal
idea of a Coverage held its final hear-
statewide ings.
single-payer healthcare The panel ended up
system for the long term last where it started, with the
June, when he blocked a recognition that the project
Senate bill on the issue from is hellishly complex and
even receiving a hearing in politically daunting but still
his house. worthwhile — yet can’t
Scott Olson Getty Images He was wrong, of course. happen overnight. “I’m
E-TRADE will stop allowing investors to bet on vola- His shelving of the Senate anxious to see what it is that
tility exchange-traded funds with borrowed money. bill created a political up- [See Hiltzik, C6]
C2 S U N DAY , FE B RUARY 11, 2 018
MONEY TALK
‘Poor man’s trust’ may be poor plan
So-called transfer-on-
death accounts and
deeds can go wrong.
Get legal advice.
By Liz Weston
Dear Liz: I am 85 and my
wife is 76. We have a house
free of mortgage worth
about $1 million. We have
market investments above
$4 million and life insurance
of $1 million. We do not have
a trust, just a will. Our finan-
cial advisor says we do not
need a trust because we
named both of our grown
children as beneficiaries on
all our accounts and on the
house deed. Please advise
us if a trust is needed in our
situation or if we are fine the
way things are set up.
Answer: If your financial
advisor is an estate-plan-
ning attorney, he or she may
be correct. Otherwise, you’d
be smart to seek out a law-
yer experienced in these
matters to review what
you’ve done.
Naming beneficiaries on
financial accounts, and on
deeds in states that allow
that, can allow those assets
to pass to heirs without
going through probate.
So-called transfer-on-death
accounts and deeds are
sometimes called “the poor
man’s trust.” You’re far from
poor, though, and a living
trust may be a better option
for distributing your wealth
because there are many
ways the current arrange-
ment could go wrong.
The surviving spouse, for
example, could change the
beneficiaries. You both may
be of sound mind now, but
there’s no guarantee you’ll
remain so. Fraud experts
can tell story after story of
caregivers, relatives,
friends, advisors and ro-
mantic interests persuading
a vulnerable older person to
change beneficiaries in favor
of the interloper. A living
trust that bypasses probate
can include language to
prevent your children from
being completely disinher-
ited.
Another potential prob-
lem: paying funeral costs
and the expenses of settling
the estate. If everything
does go to the kids at the
survivor’s death, the execu-
tor may have to go after
them to return some of the
money.
This column isn’t long
enough to detail all the
other ways transfer-on-
death arrangements can
misfire, so you’ll want to
make an appointment with
S L AT I M E S. CO M / B U SI N E SS
PERSONAL FINANCE
A LIVING WILL may be a better option for distributing wealth than so-called transfer-on-death accounts and deeds.
an experienced estate-
planning attorney soon.
Emergency fund
trumps credit score
Dear Liz: I am trying to
raise my credit scores,
which are very low. I have
one negative mark on my
account from a paid collec-
tion and I just got my first
secured credit card. I have a
bit of extra money right now
and I’m wondering what’s
the best way to use it to raise
my scores. Should I get
another secured credit card
from a different issuer, get a
secured 12-month loan
through my financial insti-
tution or something else?
Answer: People rebuilding
their credit often overlook
the importance of an emer-
gency fund. Having even a
small amount of savings can
keep a financial setback,
such as a decrease in in-
come or an unexpected
expense, from causing you
to miss a payment and
undoing all your efforts to
boost your scores. You can
start with just a few hun-
dred dollars and slowly
build the fund over time.
Adding an installment
loan can assist with building
credit as well, but a secured
loan may not be the best
option if money is tight. The
cash you deposit with the
lender as collateral for the
loan won’t be available
again until you pay off the
loan. Consider instead a
credit-builder loan, in which
the money you borrow is
placed in a savings account
or certificate of deposit to be
Keeping calm in a sell-off
Market corrections
are normal. And
panic can lead to bad
investment moves.
By Anna-Louise
Jackson
A sell-off in the U.S. stock
market that began Feb. 2
worsened last week, as the
major indexes wiped out
their year-to-date gains.
What’s to blame? In-
vestors are spooked about
signs of faster inflation,
which could lead the Federal
Reserve to raise interest
rates more times this year,
thereby raising borrowing
costs for companies and
consumers.
While Monday’s 1,100-
point drop in the Dow Jones
industrial average was the
biggest in years, followed by
another 1,032-point drop on
Thursday, it’s important to
put the recent losses in con-
text. The percentage drops
are well below those seen in
the 2008 financial crisis and
other market crashes.
The U.S. stock market to-
day is essentially at the same
level it was a few months ago.
That may be of little comfort
as the value of your portfolio
shrinks, but should the mar-
ket plummet even more dra-
matically at some point, this
drop will serve as a trial run.
And the good news is, the
stock market is resilient, so
you’ll make it through this
sell-off — and future ones —
with a little patience.
Staying invested for the
long haul is the most pru-
dent approach, especially
when it seems you should
run for the exits. Here are
three ways to cope with
those times.
Stay calm — this
is a normal event
No pussyfooting around
here: Sell-offs are painful. In
a matter of days — or hours
— your portfolio’s value
tumbles, wiping out hard-
claimed when you’ve fin-
ished making the monthly
payments, typically after
one year. That means you
can keep the cash you al-
ready have for emergencies.
Credit-builder loans are
available from some credit
unions and Self Lender, an
online company.
You’ll want to make sure
both the credit card issuer
and the installment loan
lender are reporting your
payments to the three credit
TRADERS work on the floor of the New York Stock
Exchange on Thursday, a down day for markets.
won gains. They’re also
pretty common. Since the
start of 2011, the Standard &
Poor’s 500 index has experi-
enced six sell-offs ranging
from 5% to 10% in magni-
tude, according to data com-
piled by Yardeni Research.
Painful as the prospect is,
fretting about a market
crash can lead you to invest
too conservatively, and out-
right panic could put you at
risk of making disastrous,
emotional investing deci-
sions. And it’s best to avoid
the inevitable debate raised
when sell-offs do occur: Is
the slump a harbinger of
more drastic declines?
You may need to redefine
what’s normal. After an un-
usually steep rise in stock
prices in January — in which
the S&P 500 rose more than
7% in less than four weeks —
many professional investors
see the current sell-off as
long overdue.
“The straight-up rally we
had been experiencing was
not normal, nor healthy,”
Matt Maley, managing di-
rector at capital markets
firm Miller Tabak & Co.,
wrote in a recent note to cli-
ents. What is normal and
healthy? Declines in the
magnitude of 5% to 10%, he
said.
Don’t pull out of
the stock market
If the stock market’s lat-
bureaus. If your accounts
don’t show up on your credit
reports, they’re not helping
to build your scores.
In addition to making
payments on time, you’ll
want to avoid using too
much of the available credit
on the card. There’s no
bright line for how much to
charge, but typically 30% or
less is good, 20% or less is
better and 10% or less is
best. Use the card lightly
but regularly and pay it off
Spencer Platt Getty Images
est slump has you feeling
sick to your stomach, take a
deep breath. These declines
feel more severe because it’s
been such a long time since
the market experienced this
type of volatility.
While many investors
didn’t tune in every day as
stocks inched higher over a
prolonged period in 2017, the
market’s got their attention
now, says Kate Warne, an in-
vestment strategist at finan-
cial services firm Edward
Jones. “The next time stocks
are down 10%, emotions will
run higher.”
Even so, staying invested
is the key to long-term suc-
cess. And rather than sell-
ing, Warne says investors
should consider being op-
portunistic. “We continue to
see pullbacks as opportuni-
ties,” she says.
Lower stock prices are an
underappreciated perk of
market sell-offs. If your in-
vestment thesis still stands
— and you have money to in-
vest — now is a good time to
consider adding to existing
positions or finding new
ones. But prepare for some
possible angst: You could
buy assets only to watch
their prices sink even lower.
In addition, ensuring
your portfolio is well-diversi-
fied will help you weather a
market storm. You can
broaden your portfolio’s ex-
posure by investing in the
following products: ex-
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there’s no advantage to
carrying a balance.
Liz Weston, certified
financial planner, is a
personal finance columnist
for NerdWallet. Questions
may be sent to her at 3940
Laurel Canyon, No. 238,
Studio City, CA 91604, or by
using the “Contact” form at
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change-traded funds, mutu-
al funds, bonds and individ-
ual stocks. In addition, se-
lect investments within
those groups across a range
of geographies, industries
and company sizes.
Look for
perspective
Even with these declines,
U.S. stocks still are in the
midst of history’s second-
longest bull market, with the
S&P 500 more than quadru-
pling over that stretch.
There have been 12 cor-
rections — losses of at least
10% — since 1980, four of
which happened during the
current bull market cycle.
When losses reach 20%, it’s a
bear market. These are less
common. There have been
only four since1980, the most
recent of which helped usher
in the Great Recession at
the end of 2007.
Even if that worst-case
scenario happens, there’s a
silver lining. Bear markets
are generally shorter —
clocking in at 1.4 years on av-
erage, versus nine years for
bull markets — and less se-
vere, with average cumula-
tive losses of 41% compared
with gains of 480% in bull
markets, according to First
Trust Advisors.
Need more reassurance?
The market has bounced
back from worse. Perhaps
you’re old enough to remem-
ber Oct. 19, 1987 — or “Black
Monday” — when the Dow
plummeted more than 20%,
the worst single-day sell-off
in history.
But wait, is the
worst over?
It’s anyone’s guess, but
people love to do exactly
that. Pundits have predicted
an end to the current bull
market for years — and yet it
has endured. Only time will
prove whether this sell-off
will be the catalyst that fi-
nally ends it.
Jackson writes for
NerdWallet, a personal
finance news website.
L AT I ME S . CO M / B U S IN E S S
HOW I MADE IT: JANICE BRYANT HOWROYD
How she built a $1-billion business
It’s all about getting
the right fit, founder
of employment
agency Act 1 says.
By Ronald D. White
The gig: Janice Bryant
Howroyd, 65, is founder and
chief executive of Act 1
Group, an employment
agency that also provides
consulting and business
services, including back-
ground checks and screen-
ing. She’s the first African
American woman to op-
erate a company that gener-
ates more than $1 billion in
annual revenue, according
to Black Enterprise Maga-
zine. Act 1, which includes
other brands such as Agile 1,
A-Check Global and Ap-
pleOne, has contracts with
17,000 clients in 19 countries.
“If you visit any of our
offices,” Howroyd said,
“you’ll see that we live by the
mantra that ‘the applicant
is the center of our universe.’
It’s always been our belief
that if you get that applicant
in the right job, then they
will be the best representa-
tion of who we are as a com-
pany.”
Early lessons: Growing up
in Tarboro, N.C., as one of 11
children, Howroyd had early
lessons in team building.
Each sibling was assigned
an older one to act as a
mentor.
“My sister Sandy was my
appointed guardian angel,”
Howroyd said, “so it was up
to her to see that I’d gotten
my homework done, my hair
was done, and my thoughts
and process were in line
with what the family
wanted. We were very organ-
ized.”
Big move: After studying
humanities and English at
North Carolina A&T,
Howroyd faced culture
shock when she moved to
Los Angeles in 1976 with just
$900. Her older sister again
provided welcome advice to
“settle myself into knowing
who I was, learning the
power of that and under-
Mother Nature gains
popularity in offices
A leafy, naturally lit
workplace that evokes
the outdoors is said to
improve productivity.
By Rebecca Greenfield
The modern office is
starting to look more like a
Rainforest Cafe than a place
of business. Amazon.com
Inc.’s new Seattle head-
quarters has 40,000 plants.
Down the coast, every other
floor in Samsung’s
2 1⁄2-year-old San Jose office
space is a garden.
In a bid to keep workers
happy, productive and, most
important, in the office for as
long as possible, companies
have flocked to all sorts of
design trends over the years.
Last decade it was kegs and
pingpong tables; now
Mother Nature is in vogue.
The trend, called bio-
philia, is based on the idea
that humans have an innate
connection to nature.
“We see it as returning to
what our bodies and our
brains need,” said Ryan Mul-
lenix, a design partner at
NBBJ, the architecture firm
that worked on the new Am-
azon office.
Because the wilderness is
our natural habitat, bio-
philia advocates say, we feel
more at ease there than in a
sterile office. Research has
found that offices outfitted
to look more like the natural
world lead to happier,
healthier and more produc-
tive employees.
Another way to look at it:
If we have to be stuck inside
all day without a minute to
go out and get some fresh air,
WORK LIFE
“MY PERSONAL business protocol, my life mantra: Never compromise who you are personally to become
what you wish to be professionally,” said Janice Bryant Howroyd, 65, founder and CEO of Act 1 Group.
standing it.”
Brother-in-law Tom
provided a temporary job at
Billboard and saw entrepre-
neurial talents in the way
Howroyd interacted with
clients. Even when she was
ill at ease, “I would revert to
what I do well, which is
strategize. I love to look at a
problem, break it apart, find
the better potential, know-
ing when to eliminate what
doesn’t need to be there.”
Word of mouth: Howroyd,
who didn’t even own a fax
machine, opened Act 1 in a
small office in Beverly Hills
in 1978. She started out by
making full-time job place-
ments for companies needi-
ng workers, then shifting to
temporary placements.
Pleased clients were her
best advertisements.
why not make our time in the
sterile office as pleasant as
possible?
Many people prefer day-
light and plants to darkness
and formica. “Every day I
wish for a small meteorite to
crash through our building’s
roof at night so we can get
some sunlight in,” said Mar-
tin Bate, an analyst at BNSF
Railway Co. Bate works in a
converted factory with lim-
ited natural light. “We’re cer-
tainly not vampires, so why
don’t we have windows?”
Creating a nature-in-
fused workplace isn’t as sim-
ple as buying a few thousand
ferns. (Amazon hired a full-
time horticulturist for its hy-
per-green space.) In its new
office, North Carolina-based
insurance brokerage Jack-
son Sumner & Associates in-
stalled View Dynamic Glass,
a “smart” window that re-
duces glare and heat from
the sunlight. No matter how
bright or hot the sunlight,
the company can keep the
windows unobscured to let
in natural light all day.
Healthy buildings have
been on the rise for at least a
few years. In 2014 two former
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
partners launched the Well
Building Standard, a set of
guidelines for designing
buildings to make people
happier, healthier and more
productive. (Think LEED
certification, but swap envi-
ronmentalism for health
and wellness.)
Buildings that have clean
air, an emphasis on walka-
bility and healthy food —
and meet a series of other
criteria in seven categories
— can achieve Well certifica-
tion. The International Well
Building Institute lists 545
“It still matters in busi-
ness more what someone
else says about you than
what you say about your-
self,” Howroyd said. “You
can have the best advertis-
ing, but unless someone else
certifies what they are say-
ing, you won’t last long.
Word of mouth has always
been my best referral sys-
tem.”
Standing out: Early on,
Howroyd employed a strate-
gy that allowed her to com-
pete against bigger compa-
nies, preparing her prospec-
tive hires by training them
in what their employers
were looking for in new
workers.
“It always works best
when you can tailor a hire to
fit into a company’s philoso-
phy,” Howroyd said. “They
office buildings around the
world that qualify.
Many offices haven’t
gone full Well but have bor-
rowed elements of the heal-
thy building lifestyle.
View Dynamic Glass win-
dows have been installed at
more than 400 companies,
including FedEx and Delta
Air Lines. Plant walls aren’t
an uncommon sight in of-
fices these days. Some com-
panies have even adjusted
the air circulation in their
workspaces to offset “vola-
tile organic compounds” in
the air. Others have ex-
pressed interest in having an
on-site aviary, said NBBJ’s
Mullenix.
Like many office design
trends, much of this is done
in the name of productivity.
Myriad studies point to the
benefits of natural spaces.
Plants make us more pro-
ductive, one international
study found.
Elementary school stu-
dents scored 20 percentage
points higher on tests when
they sat in naturally lit class-
rooms. And studies have
linked stale office air to lower
productivity.
Not all offices have to look
like a jungle to have the in-
tended effects. Aaptiv, a New
York City-based technology
company, has about 20
plants scattered across its
one-floor open office.
“It makes it feel more
laid-back and a little more
peaceful,” said Jake Ludwig,
a production coordinator in
the audio department at
Aaptiv. “It’s New York. It’s
kind of gray. It’s nice to have
a lot more green around.”
Greenfield writes for
Bloomberg.
S S U NDAY , F E B RUARY 11, 2 018 C3
one, these days, is a little
more concerned about
avoiding problem employ-
ees, especially when it
turns out they were poorly
vetted.
“When companies began
demanding that we screen
and do background checks
on the people we were send-
ing them, we felt, wow, this is
a service to the community.
It’s also really important for
us to get it right,” Howroyd
said, “so that’s how we got
into that business.”
Hostile climate: “Many
young women have grown
up with the perspective of
the denigration of women,”
Howroyd said, “by what
they heard in music, in
social activity. So they
started to face this before
they faced the reality of it in
an employment relation-
ship. While they can’t accept
that this is right, they can
accept this as common and
believe then that they have a
need to figure out how to
navigate that.”
Advice: Howroyd suggests
that young people sample
potential careers and em-
ployers through inter-
nships. “Figure out not only
if you like the work but also
if you like the company,” she
Al Seib Los Angeles Times said. “Explore all of your
opportunities before you
dedicate yourself to one
because you may surprise
walk in better prepared and sionally.” yourself.”
it’s more likely to be a very
good fit for your client.” Adding niches: There’s a Personal: Howroyd has
reason why it’s called the been married to her hus-
Standing up: Whether it Act 1 Group; the company band, Bernard, for nearly 40
was dealing with racist kept adding new divisions to years. “He’s a fantastic
students and teachers in her fill new employer needs, husband; make sure you
youth or businesspeople sometimes unexpectedly. quote me on that,” she said.
who uttered the most stun- Once a client called on They have two grown chil-
ningly insensitive remarks, Howroyd and a small team dren, a son and a daughter.
Howroyd said there were to come and help with an Even now, there’s not a lot of
times when she was forced emergency without even downtime. Howroyd re-
to bite her tongue and mud- being able to explain it over mains a sought-after
dle through and other times the telephone. The com- speaker and a huge sup-
when it was clear a stand pany then wanted to buy the porter of her alma mater.
had to be made, as frighten- technology that Act 1 devel- She also devotes consider-
ing as that might clearly be. oped to solve the problem. able time to philanthropy.
“In order to be outstand- “My brother encouraged In 2017, for the second con-
ing, sometimes, you’re just me,” Howroyd said. “ ‘Don’t secutive year, Forbes maga-
going to have to stand out” sell the technology. Sell zine listed her among the
and not hide, Howroyd said. them the service. Make nation’s wealthiest self-
“My personal business them keep you in it.’ That’s made women, with a family
protocol, my life mantra: why you see the evolution of net worth of $420 million.
Never compromise who you our different brands.”
are personally to become ronald.white@latimes.com
what you wish to be profes- Security conscious: Every- Twitter: @RonWLATimes
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information on company policies, benefits,
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able to negotiate a more appealing package. But
again, the key is being realistic. A junior employee
is not likely to score an extra week of vacation up
front, but if you think there’s wiggle room on time
off, work that into your negotiation.
4. Know what your limits are. Part of being
realistic about your negotiation means having a
dealbreaker in mind as well. It’s not defeatist to
think about what could make you walk away from
the negotiating table. You should decide ahead of
time what your minimum is for this job. Maybe
it’s the same salary as you make now. Or maybe
you truly don’t want the job unless you can get
a 2 percent raise over what you’re making now.
Whatever the case may be, have that “last chance”
number in mind before you get started. That way,
if the negotiating drags on and you don’t see the
company offering more than the bottom of your
range, consider walking away and turning down
the offer.
5. Don’t panic. Once you’ve started negotiating,
you may feel a little jumpy, like you overstepped
your bounds. That can lead to accepting a
counteroffer too quickly, just to get the process
over with. If you’ve done your due diligence and
have your range in mind, you know what you
can realistically get. If the company indicates that
they’re standing firm, then it’s time to accept (or
reject) and move on.
6. Keep it civil. When you’re negotiating salary
or a raise, both you and the company are doing it in
good faith, with the goal of finding an employment
package that works for both parties. If you blatantly
threaten to walk away if they don’t meet particular
demands, then you just may find the job offer
rescinded anyway. Or if you’re negotiating a raise
and threaten to quit if you don’t get your way, you
risk doing irreparable damage to your relationship
with your boss and company.
7. Keep an eye on the clock. You want the
job, and the company wants someone in the job
soon. Try not to sit on any offer for more than
a day without checking in with the company, or
letting them know your decision timeline. When
you get an offer, it’s fine to say, “I’d like to take
a day to consider. Is it okay if I get back to you
on Wednesday?” Or “I’m traveling this weekend.
Okay if I let you know on Monday?” That way, the
company knows you haven’t disappeared, and that
you’re considering the next move.
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global Indirect Tax (VAT)
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resume to Technip USA, Inc.,
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Arrow Highway, Claremont,
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Ste 600S, Santa Monica, CA less than 20%. Mail resume:
the appropriate requisition
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retirement
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cript, REST API endpoints, Sys + 1 yr exp in job offrd or CA) Design, develop, modify, AMESim, MTS & ECU testing Dow Hydraulic Systems Inc
Magento, Shopify, Demand- rltd postn. Skills/knwldge in &/or test software needed eqpmt, & embedded control in La Verne, CA seeks Hone
and Lap Fitter. Requires High

Seniors go back to work for

ware-Salesforce, Mailchimp, dvlopmnt on Android plat- for various Google projects. software. Resumes to HR,
Exacttarget-Salesforce Mar- form, Java, C, C++, SQLite #1615. 29533 Exp Incl: C++ LiquidSpring Technologies, School Diploma. Mail re-
keting Cloud, Bronto & Fire- Database, Standard Tem- or Java; Python; Machine Inc., 104000 Pioneer Blvd, #1, sume to R. Dow, 1835 Wright
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Site: Los Angeles, CA. rial Design & PHP. 40hrs/ retrieval; natural lang pro-

money, benefits, interaction

Email Resume to Social An- wk. Job/Intvw Site: Venice, cessing; & distrib & parallel
nex, Inc. DBA Annex Cloud CA. Email Resume to Whis- computing. Senior Product Engineer
at jobs@annexcloud.com perText Inc. at aschwartz@ sought by Skyworks Solu- Graphic Designer
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CONSULTANT CA based IT non, CA) needed to analyze CA: Responsible for Charac- brochure, update company’s
Company RJT Compuquest, based on latest building terization, ATE & probe data website, and manage e-
Inc. has multiple openings code to dsgn seismic & wind analysis. Dvlpg production & commerce websites
at various levels at its El force for ordinary retrofit, characterization test specifi- Applicant must have a BA in uth Witter says she used money. “That’s reality for me,” says
Segundo CA headquarter residential, commercial, & cations. Creating & manag- Graphic Design, Industrial
and unanticipated locations custom house. Must have a ing product documenta- Design, Fine Arts, or related. to wake up every morning Patricia Bruno, a retired hair stylist in
across the U.S. for : Software Master’s deg in Civil Engg; 1 Mail your resume to K TOO at
Developer. /Engr. to dev., yr exp in building structural
tion. Must have unrestricted
1635 E 22nd St., Los Angeles, with a knot in her stomach. Syracuse, N.Y. “I don’t have much of a
right to work in U.S. Mail all
create and modify computer dsgn as an engineer; profi- resumes to Angela Ho, Sky- CA 90011; Attn: Ms. Kim “For 20 years or so,” says retirement package, and I want to wait
applications software & cient in using Risa-3D, Ener- works, 5221 California Ave.,
specialized utility programs calc, Retain Pro., SAP & Auto Irvine, CA 92617. Must refer- the 67-year-old former until I’m 66 to collect social security.”
and customize software for CAD. Send resume to HR at ence job code CA1017CH.
clients Sys. Analyst,- analyze Optimum Seismic, Inc., 5508 social worker from Springfield, Ill. “Every Bruno can’t cut hair these days because
user requirements to au- S Santa Fe Ave., Vernon, CA day, I’d have to fight bureaucracy, I’d she says she has a hard time staying on
tomate & improve existing 90058. REF: HYCA2017
systems & computer sys- have to fight society. It was stress, stress, her feet for more than 30 minutes at a
tems capabilities ; analyze
commercially available soft- Advertising Supplement stress.” time. “I stood up my entire career, every
ware like SAP/Oracle; Project
She retired in 2012 at the age of 62. “As day, 10 hours a day or more,” she says.

Prepare your kids

Mng’r, Syst. Mn’gr.- Coordi-
nate, direct project activities
;Bus. Anlyst-analyze busi-
crazy as it sounds, I loved my job,” says “Now I take customer service calls for a
ness & other data processing Witter, who mainly worked with new and credit card company. I do it from home,
problems for application to
electronic data processing
systems; Sys. Engr.- ana-
lyze, design, develop & test
software apps. & test &de- Jobs for seniors

for career success

bug computer programs;
Mgm’t./Fin Anlyst- quantita-
tive analysis, of bus. & invest- If you’re 55 or older and looking for a few extra bucks but don’t feel like
ment information, work w/
financial information for bus
re-entering the rat race, here are some job options:
& economic forecasts. Travel
and/or relocate required to
unanticipated client sites/
Aide to social worker Seasonal sales help
locations throughout the Clerical assistant Security guard

U.S. with expenses paid by
employer. Bachelor’s degree
or equivalent is minimum
education required in Com-
Sci, MIS,CIS, Math, Engg or
related. Please send resume
with position desired to:
Attn: HR, RJT Compuquest
Inc., 222 N SEPULVEDA
BLVD., SUITE 2250, EL SE-
GUNDO CA 90245.
PRINCIPAL CONSULTANTS,
ORACLE APPLICATIONS:
El Segundo, CA: Research,
design, dev & test Oracle E-
Business Suites & ERP Cloud/
Fusion apps/sys w/ in the
Supply Chain, Manufactur-
ing & Distribution modules.
Dev proj plans, objectives,
schedules & funding. Man-
age app testing, user train-
ing & transition to new app.
Travel 50% of the time to
support clients. Some job
duties can be performed
from home. Send res to Daz
Systems, Inc., c/o Sylvia Fer-
rari, 880 Apollo Street, Suite
201, El Segundo, CA 90245
CUSTOMER
Service
Phone Agents
Woodland Hills, CA
Caine & Weiner has open-
ings for energetic phone
agents to work PT or FT
in its Woodland Hills loca-
tion. All shifts available.
Must have solid commu-
nication skills. Competi-
tive wages and flexible
hours.
Please contact HR
Department at Caine &
Weiner E-mail hr@caine-
weiner.com or call 818
251-1733
Store Service Supervisor in
Los Angeles, CA: Please send
resume to I Love Boba, Inc.
1001 S. Vermont Ave., Los
Angeles, CA 90006
Data Warehouse Engineer
sought by TVG in Los An-
geles, CA to dsgn & implmt
new AWS Redshift Data
Warehouse architecture &
migration roadmap. REQ: MS
Comp Sci, EE or clsly reltd
+ 3yrs.exp. Will accept BS +
5 yrs.exp. Full term of exp.
must incl: SSIS & SSRS; 2 yrs
exp. with SQL Server archi-
tecture & dvlpmt; Database
administration. To Apply:
go to http://app.jobvite.
com/m?3Cyfkjwx
Data Management Devel-
oper
MS & 1 yr; or BS & 5 yr exp
reqd. Send resume & refer-
ence DMD03 to Oceanx, 100
N Sepulveda Blvd, 15th Fl, El
Segundo, CA 90245.
they learn, mature, and grow, and you’ll be setting
I
f you’re a parent, chances are you
spend a great deal of time worried
about your kids. You do your best
to ensure that they grow up happy and
healthy, prepared for the world around
them, and well positioned to achieve
fulfillment and success in life.
The truth is, some of what will happen
to your kids in their lives will be out of
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That said, as a parent, there is plenty you
can do to help set them up for their best
shot at success. Use the following tips
to help guide your kids along the right
path:
Build a learning partnership.
When it comes to the job of educating
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envisioned as a collaboration — a
partnership of sorts — between you and
your child’s teachers. Make time to work
closely together with them to ensure
that your child’s needs are met and that
they are getting the most out of their
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and stay involved in their educational
development.
Make learning a lifelong pursuit.
Learning should not begin and end in the
classroom; it’s a lifelong journey, and
those who learn early in life that we are
constantly surrounded by opportunities
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your child can develop a love of learning
and a fascination with the world.
Encourage their passions. The most
successful and fulfilled people in life
aren’t necessarily the ones who make the
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who have discovered the things in life that
Although we can’t guarantee success for our
children, as parents we want to make our best
effort to help our children have successful
futures. Use the tips here to guide your kids as
them up well for achieving their goals in life.
they are truly interested in and passionate
about and have found a way to make it a
significant part of their life — either as
a profession or a hobby. Encourage your
children early on to explore the world
around them and find something that
truly excites them, and then support and
encourage them to follow their passions.
Instill the value of lifelong
friendships. Building strong social bonds
early in life can be invaluable. Help your
child recognize the value of building and
cultivating solid friendships early in life.
It will help them recognize the importance
of having a strong network of support —
to find new opportunities, face obstacles,
overcome challenges, and make the most
out of life.
Dare to fail. Too often in life, we
avoid trying something new — and
potentially wonderful — for fear that we
won’t be good at it, or worse, that we’ll
completely fail at it. This can be a great
way to completely miss out on success
and happiness in life. Instead, teach your
children that it’s okay to fail, that life is a
learning process full of trial and error, and
that the only way to know what they’re
truly capable of is to test their limits, step
outside of their comfort zones, and be all
right with the notion of potential failure.
Face the future. Many people are
really good at putting things off that they
don’t want to confront — sometimes until
it’s too late. Like it or not, the future is
coming for all of us, and those who plan
for it as early as possible are most likely
to be prepared for a variety of outcomes
and develop a winning strategy for
success.
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expectant mothers. “But the toll it took on
my psyche, my body. I just knew when I
had the chance to retire, I’d take it.”
And then she went back to work.
“Work. Not quite,” Witter practically
snorts. “My kids calls it my hobbies.”
Since leaving her job with the state of
Illinois, Witter has worked as a bookstore
cashier, a tutor, a restaurant hostess
and a tour guide. And if something
“complicates” the job, she’s out. “As soon
as something happens that causes me a
little stress, I quit,” Witter says. “I tell
them I’m an old broad. I don’t have time
for the nonsense.”
The U.S. Department of Labor estimates
that nearly 400,000 people 55 and older
are looking for full-time work, while
180,000 are looking for part-time hours.
Witter is one of many former retirees who
have headed back into the workforce for
a variety of reasons, although Witter’s
reason may be a bit unique. “My
husband’s also retired, but he’s an artist,”
Witter says. “He uses our living room as
his studio. Ever try staying at home all
day with a man who thinks he’s the next
Edward Hopper? It’s no picnic.”
Jobs with benefits
Many workers 60 and older will tell
you they work for the health insurance.
“You can find some places that will give
you a decent insurance package for 20 or
30 hours,” says Lauren Pileski, a Boston-
based career consultant who specializes
in transitioning older workers into new
fields. “A lot of people can’t afford a
good health plan if they don’t qualify for
Medicare just yet, so they choose to work
until they’re 65. It’s one of the major
reasons people go back to work.”
Other older workers simply need the
Substitute teacher
Retail greeter
Retail sales
Restaurant host
Tax preparation
Teacher’s aide/assistant
Tutor
sitting in a comfy chair. It’s not perfect,
but it pays the bills.”
Former social worker Witter
acknowledges she’s not ready to give
up working just yet. “Luckily, I don’t
need the money that badly,” she says. “I
use it to travel and to send gifts to my
grandchildren. But I like interacting with
people. I did it for nearly 30 years. I’m not
ready to give it up.”
Act your age
Finding a job when you’re older
requires a little honesty and a little finesse.
Here are a few tips:
• Don’t run from your age. Embrace
it. Employers who interview older adults
are looking for employees who are stable,
dependable and mature. If you show up
for an interview dressed in clothes from
H&M and filled with stories of your
weekend kayaking adventure, you’re
probably projecting the wrong image.
• Keep the resume or job application
brief. No one wants to read “War and
Peace” when she’s looking for a store
greeter.
• During the interview, discuss your
career as a whole. Use specifics when
discussing the last several years. Use
anecdotes and stories to illustrate your
ability to adapt to any situation. Highlight
your willingness to work as a member of
a team.
• Suggest your maturity as a positive
for the employer. Younger employees
will see someone who projects strength
and wisdom and who, let’s face it, has no
interest in taking their job.
• Use younger references when
possible. It will illustrate your willingness
to work with people younger than you and
will help boost your overall image.
C6 S U NDAY , F E B RUARY 11, 2 018
Many hurdles for single-payer healthcare
[Hiltzik, from C1]
we can actually be working
on this year,” committee
Co-Chair Jim Wood (D-
Healdsburg) said toward
the end of Wednesday’s
seven-hour session. “Some
of the logistics and the
challenges we have to deal
with are multiyear chal-
lenges.”
Little has changed since
last year, when a measure
sponsored by the California
Nurses Assn., SB 562, pas-
sed the Senate in June and
was killed by Rendon (D-
Paramount) in the Assem-
bly. The same bill, aimed at
universal coverage for all
residents of the state, in-
cluding undocumented
immigrants, is the subject of
the select committee’s
hearings and the template
for statewide reform.
Backers of the Healthy
California program envi-
sioned by the bill feel as if
they’re in a race with federal
officials intent on disman-
tling healthcare reforms
attained with the Affordable
Care Act, and even those
dating from the 1960s with
enactment of Medicare and
Medicaid.
In just the last few weeks,
the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Serv-
ices has approved adding a
work requirement to Medi-
caid in Kentucky and begun
considering a plan to place
lifetime limits on Medicaid
benefits — profound
changes in a program tradi-
tionally aimed at bringing
healthcare to needy fam-
ilies.
The Republican-con-
trolled Congress effectively
repealed the individual
mandate in the Affordable
Care Act. That is likely to
drive up premiums for un-
subsidized middle-income
insurance buyers and has
prompted California and
other states to consider
implementing such a man-
date on their own. (Idaho is
moving distinctly in the
opposite direction from
California, proposing to
allow “state-based health
plans” that allow insurers to
discriminate against appli-
cants with preexisting con-
ditions.)
Healthy California would
be the most far-reaching
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I
f you’re a student with no work experience or otherwise
entering the workforce for the first time, how do you
deal with that on a resume? Lean on personal qualities
instead of personal experience. Bilingual? List it. Can do
a vlookup like nobody’s business? That’s Excel expertise
— list it. And if you’re feeling light on skills as well as
experience, don’t sweat it. Skills are something you can
build with time and effort, not just prior experience. You
don’t need work experience to take a class on coding or
public speaking. And those are skills that look great on a
resume — ones you can highlight.
Build your brand
I t can be hard to develop a professional brand, but there
are some things within your control here. If you’re
interested in getting a job in graphic design, build a site
where you can showcase your work. If you’re interested
in social media, build up your presence and focus your
energies on developing a professional network in the field
in which you want to work. Bottom line: You have more
experience than you think you do. When you’re building
a resume without the luxury of having work experience,
look at all aspects of your life for skills and bullet points
that you can use to show you’re an awesome entry-level
candidate.
WST S L AT I M E S. C O M /B U S I NE S S
DEMONSTRATORS march May 19 in Sacramento in support of single-payer
healthcare. A special committee is examining universal coverage in the state.
single-state project for
universal health coverage in
the nation. That’s to be
expected, since the state’s
nation-leading population
(39 million) and gross do-
mestic product ($2.6 tril-
lion) provide the impetus to
solve big social and econo-
mic issues on its own.
The program would take
over responsibility for al-
most all medical spending
in the state, including fed-
eral programs such as Medi-
care and Medicaid, employ-
er-sponsored health plans,
and Affordable Care Act
plans. It would relieve em-
ployers, their workers and
buyers in the individual
market of premiums, de-
ductibles and co-pays,
paying the costs out of a
state fund.
All California residents
would be eligible to obtain
treatment from any licensed
doctor in the state. Dental
and vision care and pre-
scription drugs would be
included. Insurance compa-
nies would be barred from
replicating any services
offered by the program.
Doctors and hospitals
would be paid rates roughly
analogous to Medicare
reimbursements, and the
program would be expected
to negotiate prices with
providers and pharmaceu-
tical companies, presum-
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“The No. 1 experience miss- requirements that a portion
ing from the American of tax revenues be devoted
healthcare system is peace to education. A California
of mind. People are not universal coverage plan
afraid that what they have would require “a high de-
will be taken away, but that gree of collaboration be-
what they have will not be tween the federal govern-
adequate for what they ment and the state,” Juliette
need.” Cubanski of the Kaiser
In terms of funding, the Family Foundation told the
idea is for the state to take committee Monday. Waivers
over the $370 billion to from Medicare and Medi-
$400 billion a year already caid rules would have to be
spent on healthcare in secured from the Depart-
California. (The higher ment of Health and Human
estimate is from the state Services; redirecting Medi-
Legislative Analyst’s Office, care funds to the state
the lower from the nurses might require congressional
association.) That includes approval.
$200 billion in federal funds, A federal law that preem-
chiefly Medicare, Medicaid, pts state regulation of em-
and Obamacare subsidies; ployee health benefits might
and an additional $150 bil- limit how much California
lion to $200 billion in premi- could do to force employer
ums for employer and pri- plans into a state system.
Jay L. Clendenin Los Angeles Times vate plans and out-of- Obtaining the legal
pocket spending by families. waivers needed from the
University of Massachu- federal government to give
setts economist Robert the state access to federal
ably by offering them access never have difficult or costly Pollin, the nurses’ program funds would take two to
to more than 39 million interactions with the consultant, estimates that three years “with a friendly
potential patients. healthcare system. Horror the program will be about administration,” Wood said.
Wood stressed that the stories of treatments denied 18% cheaper than existing “We don’t have a friendly
goal of reform is to lower and astronomical bills health plans, thanks to administration now.”
healthcare prices, or at least charged are legion. But the administrative savings, Advocates of change are
to slow the rate of growth. truth is that annual health- lower fees for drugs, physi- understandably impatient
Yet that may mean focusing care spending is very heavily cians and hospitals, and a in the face of rising health-
on the wrong challenge. concentrated among a step up in preventive serv- care costs and the federal
The mechanics of cost small number of people. ices and a step down in government’s hostility to
reduction aren’t much of a The top 5% of spenders unnecessary treatments. reform. Gasps went up from
mystery. As several wit- account for half of all spend- That would leave about the hearing audience
nesses at the latest hearings ing, the top 20% of spenders $106 billion a year, as of 2017, Wednesday when Wood
observed, the key is reduc- for about 80%. The bottom needed to replace the em- casually remarked, “It is
ing unit prices — lower 50% of spenders account for ployer and private spending absolutely imperative that
prices per dose of drug, less than 10% of all spending. that would be eliminated. we slow this down.” Startled
lower reimbursements for (In one study based on 2009 Pollin suggests doing so by the reaction, he quickly
physicians and hospitals, all data, the spending figure for through an increase of 2.3% specified that he meant
of which are higher in the this group was less than in the sales tax and the “slow the costs down.”
U.S. than the average 3%.) addition of a 2.3% gross The desire to pursue the
among industrialized coun- These are annual figures, receipts tax on businesses goal of universal coverage,
tries. It will also help to so over a lifetime any person (or a 3.3% payroll tax, whether through a single-
remove insurance industry may have more contacts shared by employers and payer model or a hybrid,
profit and overhead (an with the system. But that workers, instead of the gross plainly remains strong in
estimated 15% of healthcare may explain why it’s hard to receipts tax). Each levy Sacramento, in the face of
spending), not to mention persuade Americans to would include exemptions the vacuum created by the
the expenses they impose abandon a system many for small businesses and Republican Congress and
on billing departments at consider to be just good low-income families. the Trump White House.
medical offices and hospi- enough for something en- Anyone with experience As Betsy Estudillo, a
tals, from the system. tirely new, replete with in California tax politics senior policy manager for
The real challenge, how- possibilities that it could knows this is a potential the California Immigrant
ever, lies in the politics of turn out to be worse. brick wall. Taxes of this Policy Center, put it at
transitioning to a new The nurses association is magnitude will generate Wednesday’s hearing, “The
healthcare system. Advo- pegging its reform cam- intense opposition, despite nation needs California’s
cates of reform often over- paign to the uncertainties the nurses’ argument that leadership, now more than
look an important aspect of built into the existing sys- relief from premiums and ever.”
how Americans view the tem. “The experience of other charges means that
existing system. Although most Americans is that families and business will Keep up to date with
it’s roundly cursed in the they’re satisfied with what come out ahead. Michael Hiltzik. Follow
abstract, most people are they’re getting, but there’s a But that’s not the only @hiltzikm on Twitter, see
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Craft scene’s second act: spirits?
Independent distillers
in San Diego hope to
find success on a trail
blazed by breweries.
By Peter Rowe
A basketful of ingredi-
ents provides the flavors of
Sunday Gin, the signature
product of San Diego East
Village’s You & Yours distill-
ery: grapefruit, Valencia or-
anges, kaffir limes, rose hips,
raspberry leaves, juniper
berries, coriander and mint.
While not in the bottle,
another ingredient provides
the inspiration: beer.
San Diego County’s
emerging craft spirits indus-
try is cribbing from the craft
beer playbook. Like the San
Diego Brewers Guild, the
San Diego Distillers Guild
stresses its status as inde-
pendent, small-batch pro-
ducers and has adopted
craft beer’s all-for-one ethos,
focusing on collaboration
rather than competition.
“Craft distilling across
the country and here in San
Diego — probably even more
so — is absolutely on the
same trajectory as craft
beer,” said Laura Johnson,
You & Yours’ founder and
distiller.
There are some key dif-
ferences between the two
groups, starting with their
respective products’ po-
tency.
“You can drink a lot of
beer,” said Johnson, whose
Sunday Gin is 40 proof, or
80% alcohol. “You are not go-
ing to drink spirits the same
way.”
This month marks the
29th anniversary of the
county’s oldest brewery.
Since the original Karl
Strauss brewpub opened in
1989, craft beer has become a
runaway success — more
than 160 local breweries now
provide more than 1 million
barrels of beer a year, with an
economic impact equal to
two San Diego Zoos.
San Diego’s craft distill-
ers are trying to follow an
equally profitable path.
“The target audience is
similar,” said Bill Rogers,
Severity of
Equifax data
breach grows
associated press
The Equifax data breach
exposed more of consumers’
personal information than
the company first disclosed
last year, according to docu-
ments given to lawmakers.
The credit-reporting
company announced in Sep-
tember that the personal in-
formation of 145.5 million
consumers had been com-
promised in a data breach. It
originally said that the infor-
mation accessed included
names, Social Security num-
bers, birth dates, addresses
and — in some cases — driv-
er’s license numbers and
credit card numbers. It also
said the personal informa-
tion from thousands of dis-
pute documents was access-
ed.
However, Atlanta-based
Equifax Inc. recently dis-
closed in a document sub-
mitted to the Senate Bank-
ing Committee, which was
shared with Associated
Press, that a forensic investi-
gation found criminals ac-
cessed other information
from company records. That
included tax identification
numbers, email addresses
and phone numbers. De-
tails, such as the expiration
dates for credit cards or issu-
ing states for driver’s li-
censes, were also included in
the list.
The additional insight
into the massive breach was
first reported by the Wall
Street Journal.
Equifax’s disclosure,
which it has not made di-
rectly to consumers, under-
scores the granular detail
the company keeps on indi-
viduals that it may have put
at risk. And it adds to the
string of missteps the com-
pany has made in recovering
from the security debacle.
Equifax spokeswoman
Meredith Griffanti said that
“in no way did we intend to
mislead consumers.” The
company last year disclosed
STEVE GRELLA, left, is a distiller at Liberty Call Distilling Co. in Spring Valley, founded by Bill Rogers,
right. “The tasting room here pays our rent,” said Rogers, who is president of the San Diego Distillers Guild.
owner of Liberty Call Distill-
ing in Spring Valley. “We are
betting that people who like
craft beer will want to drink
craft spirits.”
A community spirit
Early one morning last
September, an electrical fire
erupted in the cramped, ga-
rage-like Spring Valley of-
fices of San Diego Distillery.
Before it was extinguished,
the blaze had caused
$300,000 in damage and de-
stroyed the still.
Co-owner Trent Tilton’s
reaction? “No harm, no
foul,” he said.
Tilton and his wife and
business partner, Maria
Tilton, could afford to take
only the information that af-
fected the greatest number
of consumers and wanted to
“act with the greatest clar-
ity” in terms of the informa-
tion provided the commit-
tee, she said.
Griffanti also said that al-
though the list provided to
the committee includes all of
the potential data points
that may have been access-
ed by criminals, those el-
ements affected a minimal
portion of consumers. And
some data — such as pass-
port numbers — were not
stolen. The company re-
iterated that the total num-
ber of consumers affected is
unchanged.
“When you are making
that kind of announcement,
where do you draw the line?
If you saw the list we pro-
vided the banking finance
committee it was pretty ex-
haustive,” Griffanti said.
“We wanted to show them
that no stone was un-
turned.”
But to consumers whose
information was exposed, it
may feel like yet another slap
in the face. Equifax waited
months to disclose the hack.
After it did, anxious con-
sumers experienced
jammed phone lines and un-
informed company repre-
sentatives. An Equifax web-
site set up to help people de-
termine their exposure was
described as sketchy by se-
curity experts and provided
inconsistent and unhelpful
information to many.
Equifax has tried to make
changes, replacing its chief
executive, as well as spend-
ing millions to research and
rectify the breach. And it
continues to deal with multi-
ple regulatory investiga-
tions into the matter, as well
as hundreds of consumer
lawsuits. Sen. Elizabeth
Warren (D-Mass.) released a
report on the hack Wednes-
day that described it as “one
of the largest and most sig-
nificant data security lapses
in history.”
this setback in stride. Al-
ready planning to move to
larger quarters, they had or-
dered a new, more capable
still. They also were buoyed
by their fellow Distillers
Guild members.
“Every single distillery in
San Diego reached out and
was willing to help out in ev-
ery way that we needed,”
Trent Tilton said. “Every
single one either texted or
called and said, ‘Hey, if you
need anything don’t hesitate
to reach out.’ ”
Established in 2014, the
Distillers Guild was de-
signed to assist all members,
in good times and bad. “Yus-
eff Cherney put it together,”
said Rogers, the guild’s cur-
rent president. “He was talk-
ing about the Brewers Guild
and how it helped the entire
industry.”
Cherney, a co-founder of
Ballast Point, opened a
small distillery at that brew-
ery in 2008. While he had few
San Diego peers in spirits
then, liquor was already
flowing from out-of-town
breweries — San Francisco’s
Anchor, for instance, had
been distilling since the
1990s.
In 2013, distilleries
opened at two more local
breweries, BNS and Twisted
Manzanita, both in Santee.
After Constellation Brands
bought Ballast Point in 2015,
Cherney left the brewery to
launch a new, independent
distillery, Cutwater.
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water is the county’s largest
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At last September’s San
Francisco World Spirits
Competition, Cutwater won
17 medals, including gold for
its canned Bloody Mary with
Fugu Vodka, as well as its
bottled Devil’s Share Single
Malt Whiskey and Barrel
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prices — 750ml of that single
malt will set you back $90 —
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other beers from large con-
glomerates. In both craft
beer and craft spirits, pro-
prietors say that consumers
will pay more for a high-
quality, more flavorful prod-
uct.
“We use food-grade corn
and brewery’s barley,” Cher-
ney said. “Both are higher-
end than usual.”
A bottle of Malahat’s Rye
Whiskey costs more than
twice as much as a bottle of
Bulleit Rye, more than triple
a bottle of Jim Beam Rye.
But that rye from Miramar’s
Malahat took a gold medal
at the same San Francisco
competition where Cutwa-
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said Ken Lee, Malahat’s co-
founder. “By bringing out
the real ingredients, the true
ingredients, it completely
changes the flavor.”
Tasting rooms a hit
When the Distillers Guild
was founded, it had five
members. There are 13 today
and more on the way.
“By the end of the year,”
Rogers predicted, “we
should have 20.”
Local distilleries benefit
from the nation’s growing
thirst for hard liquor. Beer
remains more popular, with
47% of the nation’s alcoholic
beverage sales, but its share
is slipping. Sales of spirits
rose 4.5% last year, rising to a
total share of 35.9%. (Wine
was in third place, at 17.1%.)
Changes in state and fed-
eral laws also fuel this boozy
renaissance. Since Jan. 1,
2017, craft distilleries —
again, like craft breweries —
have been allowed to operate
tasting rooms.
“The tasting room here
pays our rent,” Rogers said.
Without its spacious
tasting room, You & Yours
may have been Dead &
Done. “Distributors don’t
want to pick you up if you
don’t have existing ac-
counts,” founder and distill-
er Laura Johnson said. “And
you can’t get accounts if you
don’t have a distributor.”
Within 10 months,
though, her popular tasting
room landed her on Forbes’
“30 Under 30” list for 2018. It
also led distributors to her
East Village doorstep. You &
Yours gin and vodka now are
found at stores like Lazy
Acres and Bristol Farms and
at dozens of restaurants.
Congress’ recent tax plan
means that Washington now
levies a per-bottle charge of
43.5 cents, down from $2.14.
“That extra buck eighty a
bottle is helping people ex-
pand,” Rogers said.
Liberty Call is planning a
distillery, restaurant and
bar, a major expansion
made possible in part by
making whiskey for an Ohio
company that sells it under
the Freedom Bourbon label.
Among craft brewers, this is
known as contract brewing.
At Liberty Call, it’s
known as good business. “At
this point,” Rogers said, “we
don’t have enough volume to
keep up.”
San Diego’s craft distill-
ers owe all this success —
well, some of it, at least — to
beer.
“We are fortunate to have,
and grateful to have, the rich
foundation that craft beer
established here in San Di-
ego,” You & Yours’ Johnson
said. “San Diegans love craft
beer culture, they love local
products, they are very loyal
— and this is a whole new
frontier for those people.”
Will anyone drink to
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SHARES in Asia tumbled after the Dow Jones industrial average plunged a record 1,175 points on Monday. Above, a Tokyo securities firm’s electronic stock indicator.
MARKET’S WILD RIDE
[Market, from C1]
Primarily that investors finally
decided that stock prices had risen
too far too fast even though corpo-
rate earnings, one of the main driv-
ers of share prices, also have been
rising. Also, that years of excep-
tionally low interest rates might be
coming to an end.
After all, the Dow had surged
25.1% last year and then jumped an
additional 5.8% in January alone.
Even after last week’s drop, the
Dow is still up 32% since President
Trump was elected Nov. 8, 2016, and
the S&P 500 is up 22%.
The losses last week might have
seemed scary to the casual ob-
server, and market watchers and
the financial media trotted out in-
vestment strategies for “surviving”
the market’s pullback. But the
downturn was not unusual in re-
sponse to how much prices had ral-
lied, analysts said.
“Market psychology was bor-
dering on euphoria in late January
and is coming back down to earth
now,” investment strategist Paul
Eitelman of Russell Investments
said in a blog post.
In addition, the market re-
minded investors who had been
lulled into complacency that it’s
not unusual for prices to swing
widely on occasion.
“This is an important reminder
to investors that 2018 is not 2017
when it comes to the stock mar-
ket,” analysts at the investment
Amateurs burned by widely hyped VIX trades
[Investors, from C1]
nancial-derivative products such
as the one Evans bet on, called the
XIV, the prospect of making a
quick buck lures them back.
Together with savvier investors,
small investors have put almost
$6 billion into exchange-traded
products tied to the VIX, with more
than 65% of that cash flowing into
funds or notes that bet against
price fluctuations. The exchange-
traded notes, or ETNs, have be-
come some of the most hyped in-
vestments available.
The availability of such prod-
ucts to individual investors is part
of a trend that has given people
more control over their finances
and retirement. It has also exposed
more of them to getting ripped off,
said Tyler Gellasch, executive di-
rector of Healthy Markets Assn., a
Washington investor-advocacy
group.
“We don’t want to deny ordinary
Americans the ability to trade in
ways that can help them,” Gellasch
said. “At the same time, these
things are very complicated, they
can really blow up.”
The VelocityShares Daily In-
verse VIX Short-Term ETN, or
XIV, that Evans bought makes
money when markets are calm and
loses money on days like Monday.
These products are especially risky
for the uninformed because they
must frequently renew their fu-
tures contracts at a cost that adds
up for investors if the fund is held
for more than a day or two.
“I know people who tried to do
this themselves and didn’t know it
was a daily product and they
bought it and stayed in it,” said
Maura Griffin, chief executive of
Blue Spark Financial, a New York
wealth manager. “It’s not using
S L AT I M E S. C O M /B U S I NE S S
firm Robert W. Baird & Co. said in a
note to clients.
Indeed, some of the biggest
losses last week were suffered by
investors who had poured money
into exchange-traded products,
which track sections of the market
and are essentially a bet on contin-
ued low volatility.
But the market on average has
abruptly pulled back between 5%
and 10% at least once a year going
back to World War II, so the latest
decline “would be completely nor-
mal,” said Steve Nielander, a fi-
nance lecturer at San Diego State
University and a partner at the
wealth management firm HPM
Partners in Costa Mesa.
“We went over 400 trading days
without a 5% pullback” before last
week’s turmoil, Nielander said.
“There really had been no volatility
in the market.”
Before last week, the market
last had abruptly fallen in mid-
June 2016 after the surprise vote by
Britain to leave the European
Union, a two-day sell-off that
knocked 4.8% off the Dow. But then
the market quickly roared back to
erase those losses.
This time, investors — knowing
they were sitting on very healthy
profits from the market’s run-up —
wasted no time in selling to cash in
some of those profits, and a herd ef-
fect took over on the days when
prices fell precipitously.
The return of volatility has been
MARKETS plunged Monday, causing the VelocityShares Daily Inverse VIX Short-Term ETN to
lose money. Such products have exposed more inwitting investors to losses, advocates say.
your intellect to determine
whether something has value or
not. It’s just betting on your intu-
ition.”
It’s not that the regulators
haven’t tried, in their own mild way,
to crack down on sales to naive or
unknowing investors.
Wells Fargo & Co. got a slap on
the wrist in October for oversight
failures that enabled “unsuitable
recommendations” on volatility
funds more than five years ago. At
least four individuals have been
called out for similar failures on
VIX products over the last two
years, including for lapses that
especially pronounced among the
highflying tech stocks such as Ap-
ple Inc., Google parent Alphabet
Inc. and Amazon.com, because so
much of the valuations of tech com-
panies rest on their prospects
rather than prior results. Any dis-
ruption to their growth forecasts
can rattle investors.
“Most of their value is based on
what they will become in the fu-
ture,” said Lawrence Harris, a fi-
nance professor at USC’s Marshall
School of Business.
The market’s latest sell-off was
sparked by a strong U.S. jobs re-
port Feb. 2 that included news that
workers’ average wages went up in
January. Wall Street instantly in-
terpreted the reports as evidence
that the economy is heating up.
That would seem to bode well
for businesses and consumers. But
for the stock market, it also carried
the prospect that interest rates
and inflation will rise as a result,
which can hurt share prices.
Last week’s roller-coaster ride
was the latest illustration of how,
while the stock market can some-
times be a leading indicator of the
economy, it is not the economy.
The market mainly reflects in-
vestors’ collective perception
about where the economy and cor-
porate profits are headed.
“Nothing is wrong economi-
cally,” Greg McBride, chief finan-
cial analyst at Bankrate.com, said
in an email. “The economy is doing
happened years earlier, the Finan-
cial Industry Regulatory Authority
website shows.
Moms and pops have direct ac-
cess to the products via platforms
run by companies such as E-Trade,
which on Tuesday said it would no
longer allow investors to bet on vol-
atility exchange-traded funds with
borrowed money.
Wannabe investors typically
must acknowledge the risk of the
products before they buy. But
that’s usually a mere ticking of a
box on a web page.
Still, the Securities and Ex-
change Commission “doesn’t
better now than it has at any time
in the past decade.”
“This is just some healthy, and
overdue, volatility to wring out any
excess” in the market, he said.
Still, the yield on the 10-year
Treasury note has climbed to a
four-year high of about 2.84%, and
the Federal Reserve — now under a
new board chairman, Jerome Pow-
ell — has said the central bank
plans three more small increases in
its benchmark short-term interest
rate, currently at 1.25% to 1.5%.
Some analysts fear the Fed
might raise rates more often than
that as the economy picks up
steam. Investors will watch closely
on Wednesday, when the latest
reading of the consumer price in-
dex is released.
But William Dudley, president
of the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York, told Bloomberg TV last
week that the Fed’s current plan
“still seems like a very reasonable
projection.”
The question of whether higher
rates actually could brake the
economy’s growth “to me is the X
factor in all of this,” said Eric Schif-
fer, chief executive of the Patriarch
Organization, a private equity firm
in Santa Ana.
The economy’s fundamentals
“are strong and will be getting
stronger,” especially as the re-
cently enacted tax plan fully takes
hold, Schiffer said. The tax over-
haul includes cutting the federal
Richard Drew Associated Press
really ever look at whether an ETF
is a ‘good idea’ or ‘risky’ for in-
vestors, but rather focuses on the
mechanics of how it operates and
the accuracy of its disclosures,”
Gellasch said. “The agency doesn’t
generally pass judgment on the
risks or wisdom of a product. An
accurately described time bomb
for an investor could be approved.”
Seth Golden, a former logistics
manager at a Target store, has be-
come a guru of sorts for VIX bet-
tors through his YouTube channel.
“Unfortunately, people get
wrapped up when they see markets
react so quickly and they get used
Shizuo Kambayashi Associated Press
corporate tax rate to 21% from 35%
and lowering personal rates.
But higher costs for credit
“could be a byproduct of that suc-
cess,” he said.
Regardless, some see the mar-
ket’s pullback as a perfect buying
opportunity, especially in sectors
such as technology, financials, re-
tail, energy and aerospace and de-
fense, which also is expected to
benefit from the Trump adminis-
tration’s push for higher military
spending.
Before last week’s declines, the
price-to-earnings ratio of the S&P
500 for the next 12 months was run-
ning about 18 to 20, well above the
historical average of 15.5 and a sig-
nal that prices were getting rich.
But after the declines, that ratio
dropped back to 16.3 on Friday, ac-
cording to FactSet Research Sys-
tems Inc.
That’s one reason why Bel Air’s
Morgan said he’s been generally
advising his clients to stay the
course and why he’s been buying
more stocks.
Prices have plummeted mainly
because “we were due for a correc-
tion,” Morgan said. Now that it’s
happened, he added, “we’re
putting a lot of money to work. I
think the market is going to end the
year much better.”
james.peltz@latimes.com
Times staff writer Tracey Lien
contributed to this report.
to the buy-the-dip mentality,”
Golden said in an interview from
his home in Florida. “You get
caught in a manner that doesn’t
help you.”
The stock market’s recent run
of serenity may have fooled in-
vestors into thinking the waters
would stay calm forever. The mar-
ket has been unaffected, so far, by
turmoil in Washington. For in-
stance, the average volatility rate
for 2017 was lower than for every
single trading day from Dec. 22,
1995, to June 20, 2005. The VIX fin-
ished below a rating of 10 — super
quiet — on only nine days before
May 2017 and 68 days since.
The current version of the Cboe
Volatility Index, a gauge of ex-
pected price swings for the S&P
500 index, was created 15 years ago
and is sometimes referred to as the
barometer of fear.
Initially, it wasn’t intended to be
an investment product itself, just a
measure of what’s happening in
the market.
“In my wildest imagination, I
don’t know why these products ex-
ist,” said Devesh Shah, who helped
create the index when he was in his
20s.
That’s cold comfort for Jamie
Evans, who had to tell his wife he’d
lost a chunk of their retirement
savings on an XIV wager.
“I actually appreciate it that
Vanguard allowed me to buy it,” he
said. “They gave me a warning
along the lines of ‘You’ve got to be
really stupid to buy this thing.’ I
knew it was a gamble. The way it
works on the back end is just way
over my head and I shouldn’t have
gotten into it.”
Urban and Evans write for
Bloomberg.
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TRAVEL BRIEFCASE

Airlines bump fewer passengers

After a doctor was left
bloodied, new policies
spur a major drop in
involuntary removals.
By Hugo Martin
The disturbing image of a
bloodied passenger being
dragged by security officers
off a commercial plane last
April continues to have ram-
ifications for passengers on
all airlines in the U.S.
The nation’s biggest air-
lines reported that in 2017
they had the lowest rate of
passengers involuntarily de-
nied boarding since the
Transportation Depart-
ment began keeping such re-
cords in 1995.
The rate of passengers
booted from overbooked
flights was 0.34 for every
10,000 passengers in 2017,
down from 0.62 in 2016, data
from the federal agency
show. Airlines are allowed to
sell more tickets than they
have seats on a plane as long
as they compensate or re-
book those passengers who
are denied a seat.
The dramatic decline fol-
lows last year’s incident, in
which passenger David Dao,
a doctor from Kentucky, re-
fused to give up a seat on a
full flight operated by a re-
gional carrier for United Air-
lines. Crew members told
him they wanted his seat for
another airline employee.
Dao was dragged from his
seat and suffered a concus-
sion and other injuries in the
incident.
The incident, which was
caught on cellphone video,
created such a backlash that
United and several other air-
lines vowed to improve pas-
senger service and slash the
number of passengers re-
moved from overbooked
flights. United and others
adopted new policies, in-
cluding a vow to offer pas-
sengers up to $10,000 to vol-
untarily give up their seats.
The efforts seemed to
have worked. United re-
ported a bumping rate of
THE NATION’S biggest airlines reported that in 2017 they had the lowest rate of fliers involuntarily denied
boarding since the Transportation Department began keeping records in 1995. Above, Chicago O’Hare airport.
0.23 per 10,000 passengers in
2017, down from 0.43 in 2016,
according to the Trans-
portation Department.
American Airlines reported
a rate of 0.38 per 10,000 pas-
sengers, down from 0.64 pas-
sengers, and Delta reported
a rate of 0.05 per10,000 in 2017,
down from 0.10 in 2016, the
federal agency reported.
Luggage policy
causes confusion
Most of the nation’s ma-
jor airlines began enforcing a
policy last month that bans
checked luggage with built-
in batteries out of fear that
the lithium ion power supply
will start a fire in the cargo
hold.
At least one luggage man-
ufacturer is already report-
ing confusion with the new
rules.
American, Delta, United,
Southwest, Alaska, Hawai-
ian and other airlines have
adopted rules to address the
increasing popularity of
smart luggage, which comes
with built-in devices that
can weigh the bag, track its
location using GPS and lock
it remotely using a smart-
phone app. Some bags even
include wheels and a motor
so that travelers can ride the
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luggage like a scooter.
Because of the risk of fire,
the airlines require that the
battery be removed before
the luggage goes into the
cargo hold, but the battery
can be carried into the cabin.
Steph Korey, chief execu-
tive and co-founder of the
luggage maker Away, sent a
memo to her staff last week
saying owners of her luggage
are having trouble flying on
Delta Air Lines because
flight attendants are refus-
ing to let the loose batteries
be placed in the overhead
compartments. Her bags in-
clude a battery for recharg-
ing smartphones and other
devices.
“Over the past several
weeks, we have heard from
hundreds of customers re-
garding incidents where air-
line employees have made it
clear they don’t understand
their own airline’s policy,
causing unnecessary prob-
lems for our (and their!) cus-
tomers,” her memo said.
In an interview, Korey
said that her company has
been talking with Delta
about clearing up the misun-
derstanding. So far, the new
airline policies have not hurt
sales of her luggage, she said.
A Delta representative
declined to comment on the
dispute, except to cite the
airline’s new luggage policy.
Support animal
rejected, flushed
Another emotional sup-
port animal is making head-
lines and causing grief for
airlines.
United turned away a
woman last month who was
trying to fly out of Newark
Liberty International Air-
port with a peacock, which
she claimed she brought to
give her comfort and sup-
port during the flight.
Spirit Airlines is now em-
broiled in a controversy over
an emotional support ham-
ster, which ended up being
flushed down a toilet after
the carrier refused to let it on
a plane at the Baltimore-
Washington International
Airport.
The hamster’s owner, Be-
len Aldecosea, a college stu-
dent who was flying home to
Miami, said she called Spirit
Airlines before her Nov. 21
flight and was assured she
could bring along her minia-
ture hamster, Pebbles, ac-
cording to her attorney Ad-
am Goodman.
When she got to the air-
port, a Spirit employee told
her she could not bring the
hamster on the plane and
suggested she either release
it outside of the terminal or
flush it down the toilet,
Goodman said.
Aldecosea flushed the
creature because she felt she
had no other option, accord-
ing to Goodman, who is con-
sidering legal action against
the carrier.
In a statement, Spirit ac-
knowledges that it erro-
neously told Aldecosea that
she could bring the hamster
but denied that anyone sug-
gested she harm the animal.
“We can say confidently
that at no point did any of
our agents suggest this
guest (or any other for that
matter) should flush or oth-
erwise injure an animal,”
Spirit Airlines spokesman
Derek Dombrowski said.
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