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COLUMN ONE

That personal
touch at check
stand? Priceless
In age of increased isolation, some
skip self-service for friendly faces
By Marisa Gerber

O
n a hot Friday morning this summer,
Marliss Myers pushed her grocery cart past
the cluster of self-checkout kiosks and
directly toward check stand No. 1.
It was the start of her weekly trek to the
Albertsons in Arcadia, where the 83-year-old first met
cashier Sharon Hechler almost a decade ago. Hechler
spotted Myers, and her arms burst from her sides in
excitement.
“Good morning, honey!” she said, pulling Myers into
a hug. “You’re nice and toasty.”
“And you’re cool,” Myers said.
“Happy shopping.”
The weekly interactions with Hechler provide a
steady spark of joy in Myers’ routine, which she has
tried to maintain in the months since her husband
died. The couple — he dressed casually, she in heels and Photographs by Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times
with neatly coiffed hair — shopped together on Fridays A MAN looks out from his cell at the Main Jail in downtown Sacramento, where most inmates are supposed to
for years, always picking out two steaks for dinner be allowed to spend at least 17 hours out of their cells each week. But that still doesn’t happen.
before checking out in Hechler’s lane. After his death,
Myers gave Hechler a copy of the eulogy she read at his

THE SOLITARY ISSUE


funeral, a gesture so thoughtful it drove the longtime
cashier to tears.
“We all need that human, personal touch,” Hechler
said.
This year, in a stark warning about epidemic levels
of loneliness and isolation, the U.S. surgeon general
dedicated a section of his advisory to the effects of
technology on social connection. Two-thirds of Ameri-
Bill seeks to limit confinement in jails, but it’s not so easy
cans said technology has made it harder to meaning-
fully connect, and nearly 70% said it has led to a de-
crease in empathy, according to a recent survey from By Hannah Wiley
PlayUSA, a website that covers online gambling. and Keri Blakinger
Still, 66% of respondents said they would choose a
self-service kiosk over a human-run checkout, often In Sacramento, county inmates
citing speed and a preference not to talk to anyone. But sometimes go weeks without feeling an
there was a sharp divide along generational lines: outside breeze on their faces. In San
Whereas 84% of Gen Zers [See Checkout, A9] Francisco, some haven’t seen sunlight
in years. And in Los Angeles, detained
people complain of cells covered in
blood or feces.
Across more than 120 jails in Califor-
nia’s 58 counties, conditions behind
bars can vary wildly, from the sprawling
campus of San Diego’s women’s jail to
the 60-year-old “dungeon” known as
Men’s Central Jail in Los Angeles.
But there’s one thing California’s lo-
cal lockups have in common: prisoners
who spend weeks, months or even years
in isolation without any meaningful hu-
man contact or rehabilitation.
Assemblymember Chris Holden is
trying to change that. The Pasadena
Democrat introduced Assembly Bill
280 this year to limit “segregated con-
finement”— what is colloquially known
Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times as “solitary.” Generally, that means
MARLISS MYERS now shops alone at Albert- locking people in cells for 22 or more THE BILL seeks to restrict isolated confinement to 15 consecutive days,
sons in Arcadia after her husband died in 2021. hours per day. [See Solitary, A12] or 45 total days in six months, and let inmates out for four hours daily.

‘It was frightening. Things were just going so fast. An undersea oasis
... Everything was spinning.’
— B ELOND T HOMAS , a resident of Perry, Fla.
with brooding secret
be a fairly boring dive, said
California seamount’s Chad King, the chief scien-

Hurricane Idalia whips into Florida


tist on the 2018 cruise. Much
warmer spring waters research had been done near
attract thousands of the top and slope of the
seamount, but King and his
‘pearl octopuses.’ fellow scientists wanted to

It brings 125-mph winds, rain and flooding before heading for Georgia By Faith E. Pinho
explore around its base, ex-
pecting to find little sponges
or corals amid lots of
It was the last hour of a seafloor muck.
By Daniel Kozin 30-hour dive, nearly two But then, just as Hercu-
murky miles below the les crossed over a ridge, a cu-
CEDAR KEY, Fla. — ocean’s surface. rious sight floated across the
Hurricane Idalia tore into A remotely operated ve- screen: small, almost irides-
Florida with winds howling hicle called the Hercules was cent bulbs clinging to the
at the speed of a fast-moving exploring the foothills of the seamount wall. The scien-
train Wednesday, splitting Davidson Seamount, an tists directed Hercules
trees in half, ripping roofs off underwater volcano 75 miles down, farther into the
hotels and turning small west of San Simeon, Calif. depths.
cars into boats before Aboard the boat carrying re- “And sure enough, that’s
sweeping into Georgia as a searchers monitoring the where we ran into thousands
still-powerful storm that Hercules, it was expected to [See Octopus, A7]
flooded roadways and sent
residents running for higher
ground.
“All hell broke loose,” said
Belond Thomas of Perry, a Giuliani liable Hotel strikers
mill town just inland from for defamation target conference
the Big Bend region where
A judge also criticizes Walkouts in Los Angeles
Idalia came ashore.
him for not turning over coincide with American
Thomas fled with her
documents to two Geor- Political Science Assn.’s
family and some friends to a
gia election workers meeting. BUSINESS, A8
motel, thinking it would be
suing him. NATION, A6
safer than riding out the Weather
storm at home. But as Mostly sunny.
Idalia’s eye passed over
Michigan could
L.A. Basin: 87/66. B6
about 8:30 a.m., a loud be title-worthy
whistling noise pierced the Times college football
air and the high winds writer J. Brady McCol-
ripped the building’s roof off, Chris O’Meara Associated Press lough makes his season
sending debris down on her TAMPA Fire Rescue Department members remove a street pole Wednesday after predictions. SPORTS, B10
[See Idalia, A7] an apartment complex’s large awnings blew off from Hurricane Idalia’s winds.

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PERSPECTIVES

Study ties dementia risk to pollution exposure


cides or herbicides in agri- It has surpassed tailpipe
The findings are part culture, because some ingre- emissions in recent years, as
dients could be neurotoxic,” evidenced by higher copper
of a growing body said Zhang, the Michigan re- and iron concentrations. Al-
of research linking searcher. though this trend shows how
“For wildfires, we only much cleaner vehicle en-
air quality to think about trees or grass- gines have become, it also
cognitive health. lands burning. But it burns underscores an emerging
everything in their path, in- concern.
cluding gas stations and As a growing number of
By Tony Briscoe houses, emitting some really heavy electric vehicles hit
toxic components.” the road, there could be an
Long-term exposure to This could spell trouble increase in metal particles
one of the most prevalent for residents of the San from eroding brakes and
types of air pollution may in- Joaquin Valley, California’s tires — and these substan-
crease the risk of developing agricultural hub, which ex- ces are more toxic than vehi-
dementia, a debilitating periences the nation’s high- cle exhaust.
neurological disease associ- est levels of PM2.5 annually “The heavier vehicles are
ated with memory loss and from livestock manure and going to produce more tire
reduced cognitive function, dust. It also emphasizes the wear for sure,” Paulson said.
according to a new study. need for California residents “A lot of [EVs] have regen-
Researchers at the Uni- to protect themselves from erative braking, which prob-
versity of Michigan have wildfires. ably mitigates some emis-
concluded that people living “When you inhale any sions, but we’re not entirely
with higher levels of fine par- sort of particle, you’re body sure if it goes far enough.”
ticulate matter, or PM2.5, is going to have some sort of Paulson’s research has
could face a greater risk of Brian van der Brug Los Angeles Times immune response,” said already concluded that dis-
being stricken with demen- WILDFIRE smoke fills the L.A. Basin in 2020. Pollution from fires and agricul- Suzanne Paulson, a UCLA advantaged communities
tia, according to a study tural dust had the strongest connection to dementia, the study found. professor of atmospheric endure the highest concen-
published recently in the and oceanic sciences. “But trations and most toxic
Journal of the American As people live longer and Hong Chen, of Zhejiang Uni- that exposure to traffic-re- composition matters be- types of PM2.5.
Medical Assn. the global population con- versity in China. lated air pollution altered cause if you’re near the The authors of the Michi-
Scientists monitored the tinues to trend older, the The theory that this the brain development of coast, you might be breath- gan study are among a grow-
cognitive health of nearly findings underscore the im- could accelerate the larger rats. ing sea salt, which is not that ing chorus of scientists who
28,000 people aged 50 or old- portance of limiting expo- problem of antibiotic resist- Whether cognitive or bad for your body to deal say new research demon-
er living across the United sure to air pollution to cogni- ance has been met with cardiovascular, the wide- with. strates the health benefits of
States between 1998 and tive health. But the study some skepticism, however. ranging health effects of “When you have wildfire reducing the annual PM2.5
2016. Fifteen percent of this also arrives amid a particu- “Just because particulate PM2.5 have been attributed smoke, you have these big standard. The U.S. Environ-
group developed dementia, larly devastating Canadian matter is perhaps increasing to oxidative stress — the complicated organic mol- mental Protection Agency
and those who lived in areas wildfire season when smoke the permeability of the cell physical toll from the body’s ecules that interact with has proposed a rule lowering
with more PM2.5 were more and soot drifted across membrane, that does not natural response to the en- metals very strongly and the federal limit for PM2.5
likely to succumb to the North America and engulfed necessarily mean that trans- try of foreign objects, which change their chemistry from 12 micrograms per cu-
neurodegenerative illness. such cities as Chicago and fer of these antibiotic-resist- can lead to inflammation. sometimes ... So that’s why bic meter, to 9.
Based on those results, Detroit, highlighting how ant genes is going to hap- The severity of oxidative we think that things like The EPA’s Clean Air Sci-
the study estimates fine par- these intensifying natural pen,” said Adam Smith, a stress depends on the type of wildfire smoke are particu- entific Advisory Committee
ticulate pollution may be re- disasters can imperil mil- USC professor who discov- PM2.5 a person is exposed larly problematic.” has recommended the
sponsible for 188,000 demen- lions of people thousands of ered bacteria in L.A. County to. In the Michigan study, Much of PM2.5 in South- agency lower it to 8.
tia diagnoses each year in miles away. wastewater that were resist- scientists modeled PM2.5 ern California is the result of Nationally, PM2.5 has
the United States. And evi- The research is also con- ant to colistin, a last-resort pollution from traffic, agri- traffic on the region’s notori- been significantly reduced
dence suggests the health cerning for Californians, antibiotic. culture, windblown dust, ously congested roads. But over the past two decades.
risk may vary with the type who have seen their state But the University of coal-fired power plants and the composition of this pol- But some emissions, like
of PM2.5 — a catchall term ravaged by record-setting Michigan study bolsters a various industrial emis- lution has recently changed, those from wildfires, are dis-
for suspended material wildfires and drought that growing body of research sions, among other sources. according to Paulson. rupting this progress.
about 30 times smaller than turned thousands of acres of linking air pollution to neu- Except for windblown Paulson examined PM2.5 “Global aging and the
the width of a human hair. farmland into dust bowls. rological illnesses. In a 2022 dust, all other sources were across more than 50 loca- problem of dementia is be-
Scientists examined ex- The study also serves as a study examining the cogni- correlated with higher de- tions in Greater Los Ange- coming more and more seri-
posure to nine types of par- reminder of the sweeping ef- tive health of women be- mentia prevalence. Surpris- les. Though vehicle exhaust ous worldwide,” Zhang said.
ticulate ranging from traffic fects air pollution can have tween 74 and 92 years old, ingly, wildfires and farm was once the primary source “We’ve known for a long time
to coal combustion. Expo- on human health. Particu- USC researchers found the dust had stronger ties to de- of particulate pollution in that air pollution is a risk
sure to pollution from wild- late pollution has already risk of dementia decreased mentia prevalence than traf- the region, metal particles factor for respiratory and
fires and agricultural dust been found to contribute to by 14% in areas with the fic pollution and coal com- from brake and tire wear are cardiovascular disease. But
had the strongest ties to the lung disease, heart attacks, greatest PM2.5 reductions. bustion. now a significant and grow- we’re only just beginning to
prevalence of dementia, ac- strokes, low birth weight In a 2020 study, researchers “This could be partially ing source of PM2.5, Paulson understand more about the
cording to Boya Zhang, lead and diabetes. at UC Davis found evidence explained due to the pesti- said. impact on dementia.”
author and research fellow And, earlier this month, a
at the University of Michi- new study suggested a con-
gan. nection between PM2.5 ex-
“The main reason for this posure and the prevalence of
distinction may be due to
the different physical or
chemical characteristics of
antibiotic-resistant bacter-
ia, also known as superbugs.
Exposure to PM2.5 can
Maui rescue mission continues for lost pets
the PM2.5 from these differ- make cell membranes more
ent sources. All particles are permeable, making it easier are impeding lifesaving
harmful to you, but wildfires for bacteria to share DNA Humane Society has work.
and agriculture [dust] may that would give them immu- “Every day that goes by,
be more harmful to your cog- nity to certain antibiotics, received 1,350 reports they’re more likely to be
nitive health.” according to lead author of missing animals dead,” said Sarah Haynes,
who runs her own animal
since the fires. Owners rescue on Maui, Kitty Charm
are getting desperate. Farm.
Haynes said she under-
stood the health concerns
How to contact us By Jeremy Childs that led to the closures and
(800) LA TIMES had followed all guidelines
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He drove her to the The Maui Humane Soci- was caring for 88 animals at lice officer directed Polson to
house, in an area not af- ety, the island’s only open- its main emergency shelter where she’d seen her dogs
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Monday–Saturday $18/week, $936 in May, 4 in June, 3 in Aug., 1 in Oct., 3 in sor Andrea Smith said she zation had deployed field Shannon said the Hu- search.
annually (also includes Sundays, except services and veterinary mane Society had been ask- For Haynes, the joy of
2/19, 4/9, 9/3, and 10/8). Monday–Friday
Nov. and 5 in Dec. pushed to disband a Native
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studies reading group at UC teams daily to track down ing first responders to res- finding homes for the ani-
Santa Cruz in the late 1990s animals. The field teams go cue any animals they en- mals is what makes all the
because it had no Native through areas cleared for countered. Officials rescued work worth it.
members. The group did safety and collect stray ani- seven cats while searching “I believe that the best
have Native members but mals and the remains of burn areas one day, she said. way we can find healing for
was not exclusive to them. those that were killed. Every “We know that there are some of these people who
animal found has its loca- reports and sightings of ani- have lost everything is to get
Chilean coup: In the Aug. tion recorded, is checked for mals in the burn zones,” their beloved pets back,”
Download the app. 29 Section A, an article identification and scanned Shannon said. “We are set- Haynes said. “It’s one of the
Discover more. about newly unclassified for a microchip to contact ting up feeding stations to only things that could bring
U.S. documents about the the owner. The cataloging try and draw those animals some happiness to people
1973 coup in Chile identified process is done to bring clo- out.” who are in great pain.”
Gloria de la Fuente as Chile’s sure to pet owners. The entry restrictions More information on how
foreign minister. She is the Katie Shannon, a spokes- have drawn criticism from to support search efforts can
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L AT I M E S . C O M T H U R S DAY , AU G U S T 31, 2 0 23 A3

THE WORLD

Russia accuses Ukraine of heavy drone assault


age in the overnight attacks. country now has drones with istry spokeswoman Maria
At least six regions Smoke from the massive a range of up to 300 miles, Zakharova said Ukraine was
fire billowed over the city of though he did not claim relying on foreign help be-
are targeted, causing Pskov, the region’s name- responsibility for any at- cause the drones “simply
a huge fire at one sake capital, images posted tacks inside Russia or on would not be able to fly such
on social media showed. Crimea, which Russia il- a distance without care-
airport and damaging Videos featured loud bangs legally annexed from fully researched information
transport aircraft. and flashes punctuating the Ukraine in 2014. from Western satellites.”
night, along with the crackle “If you look carefully at Russian state TV largely
of air-defense systems and the news recently, in general, ignored the strikes, aside
By Susie Blann tracers soaring into the sky. every day there [is] news from a brief mention of
and Dasha Litvinova Pskov regional Gov. about long-range drones the Pskov fire. But Russia 1’s
Mikhail Vedernikov ordered that hit various targets both popular political talk show
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine all flights to and from the air- in occupied Crimea and in “60 Minutes” opened with
sent waves of drones deep port canceled for the day to the territory of Russia,” Fe- the attacks. It showed
into western Russia in night- assess damage, which he lat- dorov told the AP in a recent videos of the Pskov fire and
time attacks that lasted er said was not major, add- interview. “So in this regard, blasts in Bryansk that had
more than four hours and ing that normal operations let’s say, that more or less a flooded social media.
struck military assets, Rus- would resume Thursday. mass production of these Russia, meanwhile, also
sian officials and media re- Other regions hit in drones has appeared.” used drones as well as mis-
ports said Wednesday. Ostorozhno Novosti via Associated Press the barrage were Oryol, Dmitry Peskov, the siles in its biggest bombard-
The drones hit an airport A BLAZE sends smoke billowing over the Russian south of Moscow; Ryazan, Kremlin spokesman, said ment of Ukraine’s capital in
near Russia’s border with city of Pskov after drones struck a regional airport. southeast of Moscow; Kalu- the Russian military would months, Ukrainian author-
Estonia and Latvia, causing ga, southwest of Moscow; analyze “how this was done ities said.
a huge blaze and damaging Moscow. of its territory. Ukraine has Bryansk, which borders in order to take appropriate Two security guards,
four Il-76 transport aircraft, There was no immediate increasingly targeted Rus- Ukraine; and the region sur- measures to prevent these ages 26 and 36, were killed
which can carry heavy ma- comment from Ukrainian of- sian military assets behind rounding Moscow, accord- situations in the future.” and a third person was
chinery and troops, Russian ficials, who usually refuse to the front lines in the coun- ing to the Russian Defense Firing at distant Russian injured by falling debris,
state news agency Tass re- claim responsibility for any try’s east and south. Ministry. Minor damage was targets could reflect a Serhiy Popko, the head of
ported, citing emergency of- attacks inside Russia. Ukraine has also claimed reported in those areas. Ukrainian tactic of stretch- the Kyiv military adminis-
ficials. The Kremlin’s forces, to have used maritime Three main Moscow re- ing the Kremlin’s resources tration, wrote on the mes-
With at least six regions meanwhile, hit Ukraine’s drones against Russian gion airports — Shere- as Moscow scrambles to but- saging app Telegram.
of Russia targeted, the bar- capital with drones and mis- ships in the Black Sea. metyevo, Vnukovo and Do- tress its air defenses, said Russia launched Shahed
rage appeared to be the siles during the night in Ukrainian media have said modedovo — temporarily Douglas Barrie, senior fel- exploding drones at the city
most extensive Ukrainian what Ukrainian officials that Kyiv saboteurs used halted operations. low for military aerospace at from various directions and
drone attack on Russian soil called a “massive, combined drones last week to hit The Associated Press the International Institute then followed with missiles
since the war began 18 attack” that killed two peo- bomber aircraft parked at was unable to confirm for Strategic Studies. from Tu-95MS strategic
months ago. The Kremlin ple. air bases deep inside Russia. whether the drones were “Putting air-defense sys- aircraft, Popko said. It was
has repeatedly accused the Aerial attacks on Rus- The airport in the Pskov launched from Ukraine or tems there means you can’t unclear how many were
Ukrainian military of cross- sian soil have escalated in re- region, about 400 miles from inside Russia. put them somewhere else,” launched, but Popko called
border incursions on the cent months as Ukraine pur- north of Ukraine’s border Mykhailo Fedorov, the he said. “This draws on Rus- the attack the biggest on
Belgorod region and of sues a counteroffensive to and 400 miles west of Mos- digital transformation min- sian capability.” Kyiv since the spring.
launching drones toward drive the invading forces out cow, suffered the most dam- ister of Ukraine, said his Russian Foreign Min- Afterward, Kyiv resident
Iryna Oblat pointed to de-
bris in the street and shat-
tered windows in surround-
ing buildings.

Prigozhin crash might’ve been intentional, Kremlin says “Look where it hit, look
what happened to the
house,” she told the AP. “Ga-
rages are on fire. We don’t
Speaking to reporters tersburg on Aug. 23, killing not be an international in- pect foul play. know how many cars and ga-
It says possible causes during his daily conference all seven passengers and vestigation into why the The crash occurred two rages were destroyed be-
call, Kremlin spokesman three crew members. plane plummeted from the months after Prigozhin cause firefighters and police
include ‘deliberate Dmitry Peskov noted that The Interstate Aviation sky, and urged reporters to mounted a short-lived won’t let us in.”
wrongdoing.’ “different versions” of what Committee, the Moscow- wait for the Investigative armed rebellion against Also early Wednesday,
happened exist and “are be- headquartered body that Committee of the Russian Russia’s military leadership, Russian-installed officials in
ing considered,” including, oversees civil aviation in Federation to complete its posing the biggest challenge Crimea reported repelling
associated press
“let’s put [it] this way, delib- Russia and most other for- review. to President Vladimir drones targeting the harbor
erate wrongdoing.” mer Soviet republics, said in The committee said last Putin’s authority in his 23- in the city of Sevastopol.
MOSCOW — The Krem- A business jet carrying an online statement week that it had opened a year rule. Explosions were also re-
lin said Wednesday that “de- Prigozhin, the founder and Wednesday that it was not criminal case based on The Kremlin has denied ported in the southern
liberate wrongdoing” was leader of the private military currently investigating the charges of flight safety viola- involvement in the crash. Ukrainian city of Odesa and
among the possible causes force known as the Wagner crash, although the agency tions, a standard move used Prigozhin, 62, was buried the Cherkasy region.
of the plane crash that killed Group, and his top lieuten- has an accident investiga- for plane crash investiga- in St. Petersburg, his
mercenary leader Yevgeny ants crashed halfway be- tion division. tions in Russia when there is hometown, in a private cere- Blann and Litvinova write
Prigozhin last week. tween Moscow and St. Pe- Peskov said there could no immediate reason to sus- mony. for the Associated Press.
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General named
Gabon leader
after coup
serenity in our beautiful
Ousted president, country. ... At the dawn of a
new era, we will guarantee
whose family has the peace, stability and dig-
ruled for 55 years, is nity of our beloved Gabon,”
Lt. Col. Ulrich Manfoumbi
under house arrest. said Wednesday on state TV.
Oligui, the military
By Yves Laurent Goma leader designated to sup-
and Sam Mednick plant Bongo, used to be the
bodyguard of Bongo’s fa-
ther, the late President
LIBREVILLE, Gabon — Omar Bongo, said Desire
Mutinous soldiers in Gabon Ename, a journalist with
proclaimed their republican Echos du Nord, a local media
guard chief as the country’s outlet. Oligui also was head
leader Wednesday after of the secret service in 2019
placing newly reelected before becoming head of the
President Ali Bongo republican guard.
Ondimba under house ar- Ali Bongo Ondimba, 64,
rest, alleging betrayal and has served two terms since
massive embezzlement dur- coming to power in 2009 af- Mary Altaffer Associated Press
ing his longtime rule over the ter the death of his father, DEPOSED Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba, shown last September, urged supporters to “make noise.”
oil-rich African nation. who ruled the country for 41
The coup leaders said in years, and there has been ment, the coup leaders said Bongo faced an opposition United Nations Secre- and military ties with Gabon
an announcement on Ga- widespread discontent with people around the president coalition led by Albert Ondo tary-General António and has 400 soldiers sta-
bon’s state TV that Gen. his reign. Another group of had been arrested for “high Ossa, an economics profes- Guterres condemned the tioned there for a military
Brice Clotaire Oligui mutinous soldiers at- betrayal of state institu- sor and former education coup and called on military training operation. The U.S.
Nguema had been “unani- tempted a coup in 2019 but tions, massive embezzle- minister. Minutes after leaders to ensure the safety Africa Command said it has
mously” designated presi- was quickly overpowered. ment of public funds [and] Bongo was declared the win- of Bongo and his family, no forces stationed in Gabon
dent of a transitional com- The former French co- international financial em- ner, gunfire was heard in the spokesman Stephane Du- other than at the U.S. Em-
mittee to lead the country. lony is a member of OPEC, bezzlement.” capital, Libreville. Later, a jarric said. bassy.
Oligui is a cousin of Bongo, but its oil wealth is concen- Analysts warned that the dozen uniformed soldiers Ossa, the opposition Unlike Niger and two
who earlier Wednesday had trated in the hands of a few takeover risked bringing in- appeared on state TV to an- leader, told the AP he wasn’t other West African coun-
been declared the winner of — and nearly 40% of Gabo- stability, and could have nounce they’d seized power. ready to comment and was tries run by military juntas,
the country’s latest presi- nese aged 15 to 24 were out of more to do with divisions Libreville is a stronghold waiting for the situation to Gabon hasn’t been racked
dential election following 55 work in 2020, according to among the ruling elite than of the opposition, but it was evolve. by jihadist violence and had
years of rule by him and his the World Bank. Its oil ex- efforts to improve the lives of unclear how the coup was The mutinous officers been seen as relatively sta-
late father. port revenue was $6 billion in ordinary Gabonese. seen in the countryside, vowed to respect “Gabon’s ble.
In a video from detention 2022, according to the U.S. The Bongo family has where more people tradi- commitments to the na- White House National
in his residence, Bongo Energy Information Admin- been associated with “sys- tionally back Bongo. tional and international Security Council spokes-
called on people to “make istration. tematic misappropriation of The president pleaded community.” But the coup man John F. Kirby said the
noise” to support him. But Nine members of the state revenues,” but the lat- for support in a video show- threatened to bring the events in Gabon were being
the crowds who took to the Bongo family, meanwhile, est events “should be viewed ing him sitting in a chair with economy to a halt. followed with “great con-
streets of the capital instead are under investigation in with great caution, as they a bookshelf behind him. A man who answered the cern.” He said it was too
celebrated the coup against France, and some face pre- offer no guarantee of good “I’m calling you to make phone at the airport said early to call it part of a trend
a dynasty accused of getting liminary charges of embez- governance and democratic noise, to make noise, to flights were canceled or a “domino effect” in mili-
rich on the country’s re- zlement, money laundering transition,” Sherpa said in a make noise really,” he said in Wednesday, and the private tary takeovers in the region.
source wealth while many of and other forms of corrup- statement. English. The video was intelligence firm Ambrey Nigeria’s President Bola
its citizens struggle. tion, according to Sherpa, a The coup occurred about shared with the Associated said all operations at the Tinubu, however, cited a
“Thank you, army. Fi- French nongovernmental one month after mutinous Press by BTP Advisers, a country’s main port in “contagion of autocracy we
nally, we’ve been waiting a organization dedicated to soldiers in Niger seized communications firm that Libreville had been halted. are seeing spread across our
long time for this moment,” accountability. Investiga- power from the democrati- helped the president with Several French companies continent” in a statement is-
said Yollande Okomo, tors have linked the family to cally elected government, polling for the election. said they were suspending sued by his office.
standing in front of soldiers more than $92 million in and is the latest in a series of Shortly after the video operations. It said he was conferring
from Gabon’s elite republi- properties in France, includ- coups across West and cen- went public, people with “France condemns the with other heads of state
can guard, one of the units ing two villas in Nice, the tral Africa in recent years. Bongo had their phones military coup that is under- and the African Union,
that staged the takeover. group says. The impunity those putsch- seized by soldiers, said Mark way in Gabon and is closely whose commission con-
Coup leaders said that A spokesman for the ists enjoyed may have in- Pursey, the chief executive monitoring developments,” demned the coup and called
there would be a curfew from coup leaders said that Bon- spired the soldiers in Gabon, officer of BTP Advisers. French government spokes- for a return to “democratic
6 p.m. to 6 a.m. go’s “unpredictable, irre- said Maja Bovcon, senior an- Bongo’s son and communi- person Olivier Véran said constitutional order.”
“The president of the sponsible governance” alyst at Verisk Maplecroft, a cations director were being Wednesday.
transition insists on the risked leading the country risk assessment firm. held at military head- France has maintained Goma and Mednick write
need to maintain calm and into chaos. In a later state- In the weekend election, quarters, Pursey said. close economic, diplomatic for the Associated Press.

U.S. OKs arms aid to Taiwan


tial $2 billion set aside by states based in Ethiopia, ac-
It is the first military Congress — but the implica- cording to American offi-
tions of using the so-called cials.
transfer under a Foreign Military Financing The notification, a copy
program usually for program to provide it will of which was obtained by the
probably infuriate China. Associated Press, did not
sovereign nations. Beijing, which regards specify what military equip-
Taiwan as a renegade prov- ment or systems would be
associated press
ince, has warned it won’t paid for under FMF, which
rule out the use of force to re- commits U.S. taxpayer dol-
WASHINGTON — The unite the self-governing is- lars to pay for the supply of
Biden administration has land with the mainland and materiel to foreign coun-
approved the United States’ vociferously protests all U.S. tries.
first military transfer to Tai- arms sales to Taipei. But, it said items that
wan under a program gener- However, previous arms could be covered would in-
ally reserved for assistance sales to Taiwan have been clude air and coastal defense
to sovereign, independent approved under other au- systems, armored vehicles,
states. thorities that do not neces- infantry fighting vehicles,
The State Department sarily imply statehood. U.S. drones, cyber- and ballistic
notified Congress of the sale officials were quick to say missile defenses and ad-
on Wednesday. It said the that the provision of FMF vanced communications
materiel would “be used to funding to Taiwan did not equipment. It added that

Is osteoarthritis strengthen Taiwan’s self-de-


fense capabilities through
joint and combined defense
capability and enhanced
represent a change in policy.
It’s a position the Chinese
are sure to disagree with.
The only other time the
protective gear, an array of
small, medium and heavy
weapons systems, ammuni-
tion and armored and in-

knee pain slowing maritime domain awareness


and maritime security capa-
bility.”
The package is modest —
U.S. has provided a non-
nation state with military
assistance under FMF was
to the African Union, an
fantry fighting vehicles
could also be included.
In addition, FMF may
also be used to support

you down? only $80 million of a poten- organization of sovereign training for Taiwan’s forces.

Netanyahu son ordered to pay


If you are age 40 or older with A court rules against
tanyahu posted a series of
unsubstantiated state-
Cassidy has told Israeli
media in the past that she
ments implying that Gantz dealt with a flood of online
osteoarthritis knee pain, take a the Israeli prime was having extramarital af- harassment in the wake of
minister’s adult child fairs, according to the ruling. the posts.
step in a new direction with the in a defamation case. “The insinuation that the
young activist had an inti-
“The son of the prime
minister ought to exert self-
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mate relationship with the
head of the party, a married
control,” Peleg wrote in the
ruling, calling Yair Netanya-
man who is decades older hu “evasive and stammer-
JERUSALEM — Israeli than her, could humiliate ing.”
Prime Minister Benjamin her and make her a target of Yair Netanyahu, who has
Netanyahu’s son must com- hatred, contempt or ridi- served as a close informal
pensate a woman who sued cule,” Judge Ronen Peleg advisor to his father, is
him after he implied she was wrote in the ruling. known for posting incendi-
having an affair with his fa- Yair Netanyahu first ary messages on social me-
ther’s chief political oppo- posted a screenshot of Cas- dia and has been involved in
nent, a court ruled Wednes- sidy’s Facebook profile on several defamation cases
day. the platform X, formerly over the years. Earlier this
The court ordered Ne- known as Twitter, writing, year, a judge ordered him to
tanyahu’s eldest son, Yair “Does anyone know who this pay $18,000 to a former law-
Learn more to Netanyahu, to pay more
than $34,000 in compensa-
is?”
He then reposted an arti-
maker in Israel’s opposition
Labor Party whom he called
see if you qualify: tion and $6,000 in legal costs
to Dana Cassidy. Cassidy
cle with a photo of Cassidy
and Gantz hugging at a po-
“ugly.”
Benjamin Netanyahu
sued him for defamation in litical event for Blue and heads Israel’s far-right gov-
(888) 538-1422 2020 after he insinuated on White, Gantz’s centrist po- ernment, which includes a
social media that she was ro- litical party. At the time, number of lawmakers and
www.trialkneepain.com mantically involved with Cassidy was an active mem- ministers with close ties to
Benny Gantz, who was run- ber. The bottom of the pic- his son.
ning against his father for ture says, “he made me a cup Israeli media reported
prime minister at the time. of tea and it turned me on,” earlier this year that the
Over the course of the according to the ruling. prime minister and his wife,
election, which ultimately In the post, Yair Netanya- Sara, have urged Yair Netan-
V1 | 20JUL2023 returned Benjamin Netan- hu wrote, “to each his own yahu to stop posting on so-
yahu to leadership, Yair Ne- cup of tea.” cial media.
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THE NATION

Giuliani liable for defaming 2 election workers


sliver of the financial docu- tion, Howell said, has “more
Federal judge’s ruling ments required to be pro- holes than Swiss cheese”
duced.” and suggested Giuliani was
in Georgia election “Perhaps, he has made more interested in conced-
lawsuit also criticizes the calculation that his over- ing the workers’ claims than
all litigation risks are mini- actually producing mean-
the Trump lawyer for mized by not complying with ingful discovery in the case.
withholding records. his discovery obligations in “Yet, just as taking short-
this case,” Howell said. cuts to win an election
“Whatever the reason, obli- carries risks — even poten-
associated press
gations are case specific, tial criminal liability — by-
and withholding required passing the discovery proc-
WASHINGTON — A fed- discovery in this case has ess carries serious sanc-
eral judge on Wednesday consequences.” tions, no matter what reser-
held Rudolph W. Giuliani lia- The judge said “Giuliani vations a noncompliant
ble in a defamation lawsuit has given only lip service to party may try artificially to
brought by two Georgia compliance with his discov- preserve for appeal,” she
election workers who say ery obligations.” said.
they were falsely accused of Giuliani has blamed his Moss had worked for the
fraud, ruling that the former failure to produce the re- Fulton County elections de-
New York mayor gave “only quested documents on the partment since 2012 and su-
lip service” to complying fact that his devices were pervised the absentee ballot
with his legal obligations seized by federal investiga- operation during the 2020
while trying to portray him- Brynn Anderson Associated Press tions in 2021 as a part of a election. Freeman was a
self as the victim in the case. RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI, shown last week, has conceded that he made false separate Justice Depart- temporary election worker,
U.S. District Judge Beryl statements about the election workers, but cited the 1st Amendment as defense. ment investigation that did verifying signatures on ab-
Howell said the punishment not produce any criminal sentee ballots and preparing
was necessary because Giu- ments. Giuliani as the defamation via private plane to Atlanta charges. them to be counted and
liani had ignored his duty as “Nothing can restore all case proceeds to a federal to surrender to charges Ted Goodman, a political processed.
a defendant to turn over in- we lost, but today’s ruling is trial in Washington, where a there. He has pleaded not advisor to Giuliani, said in a Giuliani and others al-
formation requested by elec- yet another neutral finding jury would determine dam- guilty. statement that the judge’s leged during a Georgia legis-
tion workers Ruby Freeman that has confirmed what we ages he may be liable for. “Donning a cloak of vic- ruling “is a prime example of lative subcommittee hear-
and her daughter, Wandrea have known all along: that He will have a “final op- timization may play well on a the weaponization of our ing in December 2020 that
“Shaye” Moss, as part of there was never any truth to portunity” to produce the re- public stage to certain audi- justice system, where the surveillance video from
their lawsuit. any of the accusations about quested information, known ences, but in a court of law process is the punishment. State Farm Arena showed
Their complaint from De- us and that we did nothing under the law as discovery, this performance has served This decision should be re- the election workers com-
cember 2021 accused Giu- wrong. We were smeared for but could face additional only to subvert the normal versed, as Mayor Giuliani is mitting election fraud.
liani, one of Donald Trump’s purely political reasons, and sanctions if he fails to do so. process of discovery in a wrongly accused of not pre- As those allegations cir-
lawyers and a confidant of the people responsible can In the meantime, Howell straight-forward defama- serving electronic evidence culated online, the two wom-
the former Republican pres- and should be held account- said, Giuliani and his busi- tion case, with the concomi- that was seized and held by en said, they suffered in-
ident, of defaming them by able,” they said. ness entities must pay more tant necessity of repeated the FBI.” tense harassment, both in
falsely stating that they had The ruling compounds than $130,000 in attorneys’ court intervention,” Howell Last month, Giuliani person and online. Moss
engaged in fraud while the legal jeopardy for Giu- fees. wrote. conceded that he made detailed her experiences in
counting ballots at State liani at a time when he and Howell expressed skepti- Howell said that aside public comments falsely emotional testimony before
Farm Arena in Atlanta. Trump are among 19 defend- cism at Giuliani’s claims from an initial document claiming the election work- the members of Congress in-
In a statement Wednes- ants charged this month in a that he cannot afford to re- production of 193 pages, the ers committed ballot fraud vestigating the Jan. 6, 2021,
day, the women said they racketeering case related to imburse the plaintiffs in the information Giuliani had during the 2020 election, but Capitol insurrection. The
had endured a “living night- efforts to overturn the 2020 case, noting that he recently turned over consisted large- he contended that the state- Jan. 6 committee also played
mare” and an unimaginable election in Georgia. It also listed his apartment in Man- ly of “a single page of com- ments were protected by the video testimony from Free-
“wave of hatred and threats” creates the potential for a hattan for $6.5 million and munications, blobs of inde- 1st Amendment. man during the hearing in
because of Giuliani’s com- massive financial penalty for was reported to have flown cipherable data” and “a That caveated stipula- June 2022.

Former Cardinal
McCarrick is ruled
unfit to stand trial
tained his innocence and
The onetime D.C. pleaded not guilty in Sep-
tember 2021.
archbishop, suffering He was also charged in
dementia, is charged April with sexually assault-
ing an 18-year-old man in
with sexually abusing Wisconsin more than 45
a teenage boy in 1974. years ago.
In February, McCarrick’s
attorneys asked the court to
associated press
dismiss the case, saying a
professor of psychiatry and
DEDHAM, Mass. — The behavioral science at the
once-powerful Roman Cath- Johns Hopkins University
olic Cardinal Theodore Mc- School of Medicine had ex-
Carrick will not stand trial amined him and concluded
on charges he sexually as- that he has dementia, prob-
saulted a teenage boy dec- ably Alzheimer’s disease.
ades ago after a Massachu- At that time, lawyers said
setts judge dismissed the McCarrick had a “limited
case against the 93-year-old understanding” of the crimi-
Shane Smith Red Antler Processing via Associated Press on Wednesday because both nal proceedings against him.
prosecutors and defense at- McCarrick, who lives in
HUNTERS CATCH A MISSISSIPPI RECORD torneys agree he suffers Dittmer, Mo., was charged
from dementia. with three counts of inde-
A male alligator killed Saturday in west Mississippi weighed 802.5 pounds and measured 14 feet,
McCarrick, the former cent assault and battery on a
3 inches long, breaking the state record for length by more than 2 inches, the state wildlife depart- archbishop of Washington, person over 14. He was not
ment said. Tanner White, from left, Donald Woods, Will Thomas and Joey Clark, posing with help D.C., was defrocked by Pope exempt from facing charges
from a forklift, caught it in a designated hunting zone. The season runs Aug. 25 through Sept. 4. Francis in 2019 after an inter- for abuse allegations that
nal Vatican investigation de- date back decades because
termined he sexually mo- the clock on the statute of
lested adults as well as chil- limitations was paused once
dren. The McCarrick scan- he left Massachusetts.
Turbulence on jet to Atlanta sends 11 to hospital dal created a crisis of
credibility for the church,
primarily because there was
Mitchell Garabedian, a
well-known lawyer for clergy
sexual abuse victims who is
“experienced severe turbu- There were 151 passen- gency landing in Wichita, evidence Vatican and U.S. representing the man accus-
Passengers and crew lence” before landing safely gers and 14 crew members Kan., after its crew reported church leaders knew he ing McCarrick, said in June
Tuesday at Hartsfield-Jack- aboard the aircraft, an Air- a possible pressurization is- slept with seminarians but that his client was discour-
members are injured son Atlanta International bus A350-900, Delta said. sue that required operating turned a blind eye as McCar- aged by the prosecution’s ex-
on a Delta flight Airport, Delta said in a The flight landed in Atlanta the aircraft at a lower alti- rick rose to the top of the pert findings.
statement. at 7 p.m., according to tude. U.S. church as an adept “In spite of the criminal
from Italy, but all are The 11 injured passengers FlightAware, a flight-track- A spokesperson for Delta fundraiser who advised court’s decision today, many
expected to recover. and crew members were tak- ing website. said the crews decided to di- three popes. clergy sexual abuse victims
en to a hospital and are ex- It was not the only Delta vert the flights “out an abun- During Wednesday’s feel as though former Cardi-
pected to make a full recov- flight to encounter problems dance of caution,” and both hearing, Kerry Nelligan, a nal Theodore McCarrick is
By Alexandra E. Petri ery, a Delta spokesperson Tuesday. A flight from Salt planes made safe landings. psychologist hired by the and will always be the per-
said. Lake City to New York made The issues on the interna- prosecution, said she found manent personification of
Eleven people were The flight was about 40 an emergency landing in tional and the domestic significant deficits in Mc- evil within the Catholic
rushed to the hospital after miles northeast of Atlanta Denver after the crew re- flights are unrelated, the Carrick’s memory during Church,” Garabedian said
their Delta flight hit intense when the crew reported se- ported a possible hydraulic spokesperson said. two interviews in June, and Wednesday.
turbulence as it neared At- vere turbulence, the Federal issue, the airline said. Both aircraft were in op- he was often unable to recall The Associated Press
lanta, according to officials. Aviation Authority said in a Another Delta flight from eration Wednesday. The what they had discussed and The Times generally do
Delta Air Lines Flight 175 statement. The FAA said it Memphis, Tenn., to Salt FAA said it is investigating from one hour to the next. As not identify alleged victims
from Milan, Italy, to Atlanta will be investigating. Lake City made an emer- both incidents. with any form of dementia, of sexual assault unless they
she said there are no medi- come forward publicly.
cations that could improve The accuser told author-
the symptoms. ities during a 2021 interview
“It’s not just that he cur- that McCarrick was close to
Chicago TV crew covering robberies joins list of victims rently has these deficits,”
Nelligan said. “There is no
the man’s family when he
was growing up. Prosecutors
way they are going to get bet- say McCarrick would attend
“They were approached three men drove up in a gray volving a Chicago news crew, ter.” family gatherings and travel
associated press
with guns and robbed. sedan and black SUV. After after a WLS-TV photogra- Without being able to re- on vacations with them and
Mainly it was personal the armed robbers took pher was assaulted and member discussions, he that the alleged victim re-
CHICAGO — Members items, and they took a cam- items from the news crew, robbed Aug. 8 while prepar- could not participate with ferred to the priest as “Uncle
of a Chicago television news era,” Luis Godinez, vice they fled in their vehicles. ing to cover a weekday after- his lawyers in his defense, Ted.”
crew reporting on a string of president of news at Uni- No injuries were reported noon news conference on she said. Prosecutors say McCar-
robberies ended up being vision Chicago, told the Chi- and no one is in custody, po- Chicago’s West Side, the sta- McCarrick appeared via rick committed the abuse
robbed after they were ac- cago Tribune. lice said. tion reported. a video link during the hear- over several years including
costed at gunpoint by three Godinez said the news Godinez said Univision The robberies prompted ing. He was slightly slumped when the boy, who was
men wearing ski masks. crew was filming a report on Chicago, the local TV affili- the National Assn. of Broad- in his chair wearing a light then 16, was at his brother’s
Spanish-language sta- robberies in the West Town ate of international media cast Employees and Techni- green shirt and what ap- wedding reception at Wel-
tion Univision Chicago said community that was due to company TelevisaUnivision, cians Local 41, which repre- peared to be a gray sweater lesley. The man said McCar-
a reporter and photogra- run on the morning news. He is not disclosing the names sents TV photographers in vest or sweater around his rick also sexually assaulted
pher were filming just said the video the crew shot of the reporter and photog- Chicago, to warn about the shoulders. He did not speak him in a coat room after
before 5 a.m. Monday in Chi- was in the stolen camera, rapher to protect their pri- growing safety threats to during the hearing. they returned to the recep-
cago’s West Town neighbor- and the story never made it vacy. those who cover the news. The former prelate faced tion.
hood when three masked on the air. “They’re OK, and we’re “We are committed to charges that he abused the Prosecutors say McCar-
men brandishing firearms Chicago police identified working on it together as a making sure that their safe- teenage boy at a wedding re- rick told the boy to say the
robbed them, taking their the victims as two men ages team,” he said. ty comes first,” Raza Sid- ception at Wellesley College “Hail Mary” and “Our Fa-
television camera and other 28 and 42. Police said the The episode was the sec- diqui, president of the union in 1974. ther” prayers before leaving
items. pair were outside when the ond robbery this month in- local, said in a statement. McCarrick has main- the room.
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Hurricane Idalia lashes Florida with winds, rain


[Idalia, from A1] hurricane’s wake. Airports
pregnant daughter, who was in the region, including
lying in bed. Fortunately, she Tampa International,
was not injured. planned to restart commer-
“It was frightening,” cial operations Wednesday
Thomas said. “Things were afternoon or Thursday. By
just going so fast. ... Every- midday Wednesday, more
thing was spinning.” than 900 flights had been
After coming ashore, canceled in Florida and
Idalia made landfall near Georgia, according to track-
Keaton Beach at 7:45 a.m. as ing service FlightAware.
a high-end Category 3 hurri- In Valdosta, Idalia’s
cane with maximum sus- fierce winds uprooted trees
tained winds near 125 mph. and sent rain flying side-
It had weakened to a tropi- ways, toppling a large tree
cal storm with winds of 70 onto a house and mangling
mph by Wednesday after- an awning. Georgia Gov. Bri-
noon. an Kemp told reporters that
As the eye moved inland, there were no confirmed re-
high winds shredded signs, ports of injuries.
blew off roofs, sent sheet “The good thing is this is
metal flying and snapped a narrow storm and it’s very
tall trees. But as of midday fast-moving, so it’s not sit-
Wednesday, there were no ting on us and dumping even
confirmed deaths in Florida, more rain,” Kemp said.
although fatal traffic acci- As he finished tying down
dents in two counties may about 20 sailboats and mo-
end up being storm-related, tor yachts docked on Wilm-
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ington Island east of Savan-
said. nah, Ga., Brandon Long said
Unlike last year’s Hurri- his biggest worry was that
cane Ian, which hit the heav- the storm surge was forecast
ily populated Fort Myers Rebecca Blackwell Associated Press to coincide with a higher-
area, leaving 149 dead in the HURRICANE Idalia left a trail of damaged homes Wednesday in Keaton Beach, Fla., before entering Georgia. than-normal tide.
state, Idalia blew into a very “If these docks float off
lightly populated area places. Some counties im- hurricanes in more urban compared to some of the dead,” said Wick, who ended their pylons or come apart
known as Florida’s “nature plemented curfews to keep areas, said Kevin Guthrie, other storms,” Wright said. up getting rescued by anoth- because of the violent cur-
coast,” one of the state’s residents off roads. director of the Florida Divi- The system remained a er family member. rent and the choppy waters,
most rural regions that lies Less than 20 miles south sion of Emergency Manage- hurricane as it crossed into The National Hurricane then that’s what destroys a
far from crowded metropo- of where Idalia made land- ment. Georgia, with top winds of Center forecast Idalia to marina,” said Long, owner of
lises or busy tourist areas fall, businesses, boat docks “You may have two 90 mph at 11 a.m., after move deep into the Atlantic the Bull River Marina.
and features millions of and homes in Steinhatchee, houses on a five-mile road, drenching Florida mostly to this weekend. Officials in Bermuda
acres of undeveloped land. Fla., were swallowed up by so it’s going to take some the east of Tallahassee. In Tallahassee, Florida’s warned that Idalia could hit
That doesn’t mean that it water surging in from Dead- time,” Guthrie said. Forecasters said it would capital, the power went out the island early next week as
didn’t do major damage. man Bay. Police officers On the island of Cedar punish the Carolinas well before the center of the a tropical storm. Bermuda
Rushing water covered blocked traffic into the Key, downed trees and de- overnight as a tropical storm arrived, but the city on Wednesday was being
streets near the coast, un- coastal community of more bris blocked roads, and storm. avoided a direct hit. lashed by the outer bands of
moored small boats, and than 500 residents known for propane tanks exploded. Jonathon Wick said he The National Weather Hurricane Franklin, a Cate-
nearly a half-million custom- its fishing and foresting in- RJ Wright stayed behind didn’t take the approaching Service in Tallahassee called gory 2 storm that was on
ers in Florida and Georgia dustries. on Cedar Key so he could hurricane seriously until Idalia “an unprecedented track to pass near the island
lost power. In Perry, the State officials, 5,500 Na- check on elderly neighbors. Wednesday morning when event” since no major hurri- in the Atlantic.
winds blew out store win- tional Guardsmen and res- He hunkered down with he awoke to howling winds canes on record have ever President Biden called
dows, tore siding off build- cue crews were in search- friends in a motel, and when outside his home in Val- passed through the bay the governors of Florida,
ings and overturned a gas and-recovery mode, inspect- it was safe, walked outside dosta. After plucking his abutting the Big Bend. The Georgia, North Carolina and
station canopy. Heavy rains ing bridges, clearing toppled into chest-high water. It young nephews from a tram- state, still dealing with lin- South Carolina on Wednes-
partially flooded Interstate trees and looking for anyone could have been a lot worse poline in their backyard gering damage from last day and told them their
275 in Tampa and toppled in distress. for the island, which juts into where waters were at his year’s Hurricane Ian, feared states had his administra-
power lines onto the north- Because of the remote- the Gulf of Mexico, since it knees, they started piling disastrous results. tion’s full support, the White
bound side of Interstate 75 ness of the Big Bend area, didn’t take a direct hit, he into his car when a tree fell More than 30,000 utility House said.
just south of Valdosta, Ga. search teams may need said. right in front of the vehicle. workers in Florida were
The storm surge could more time to complete their “It got pretty gnarly for a “If that tree would have gathering to make repairs as Kozin writes for the
rise as high as 16 feet in some work compared with past while, but it was nothing fell on the car, I would be quickly as possible in the Associated Press.

McConnell freezes up again


Senate GOP leader
goes silent while
speaking to reporters
before resuming.
By Faith E. Pinho

For the second time in


just over a month, Senate
Minority Leader Mitch Mc-
Connell (R-Ky.) appeared to
freeze while answering ques-
tions from reporters, stand-
ing silently for around half a WCPO via Associated Press
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute minute at a Kentucky event AIDE Robbin Taylor assists Senate Minority Leader
THOUSANDS OF Muusoctopus robustus — or “pearl octopus” — nestle at the foot Wednesday afternoon. Mitch McConnell at a news conference in Kentucky.
of the Davidson Seamount off California to brood their eggs in its warmer waters. McConnell’s previous
freeze-up, on July 26, “Running for reelection in confused and forgetful since

A favorite brooding ground


sparked concerns about the 2026?” she returned to the Senate in
81-year-old GOP leader’s McConnell stood quietly May after an extended ab-
health and led to calls for for 20 seconds longer before sence while she recovered
elderly politicians such as clearing his throat and say- from shingles. President

of these tentacled denizens McConnell and Sen. Dianne


Feinstein (D-Calif.) to step
down
positions.
from leadership
ing, “OK.” Without respond-
ing to the first inquiry, he
took another question,
speaking slowly.
Biden, 80, is the oldest presi-
dent in U.S. history, and if re-
elected, he’ll be expected to
serve until he’s 86. Former
[Octopus, from A1] 51 degrees. and shown that other The GOP leader at first “Leader McConnell felt President Trump, now 77,
and thousands of these octo- “So we’re still unsure ex- animals live around under- seemed unable to hear a re- momentarily lightheaded leads early polls for the Re-
pus,” King said. “And we actly about what kind of geo- water volcanoes. But she porter’s question Wednes- and paused during his press publican nomination to
were just absolutely floored. logical circulation drives called this study’s discovery day. conference today,” a spokes- challenge Biden in 2024.
We were just giddy.” these springs, but essen- about how warm water af- “What are my thoughts person for the senator said “Mitch is a friend, as you
The scientists, led by the tially water’s getting heated fects octopuses’ brooding about what?” McConnell in a statement. An aide add- know — not a joke. People
National Oceanic and At- somewhere underground time “interesting, exciting asked, according to video a ed that McConnell would don’t believe that’s the
mospheric Administration’s there,” said Steve Litvin, a and important.” WLWT reporter posted on consult with his physician case,” Biden told reporters
Monterey Bay National Mar- marine ecologist at the “I think the idea that X, formerly known as before his next event. Wednesday afternoon, ac-
ine Sanctuary, had alighted institute. “And just like a warm fluids can speed up re- Twitter. Last month, McConnell cording to CBS News. “We
upon what they called an warm spring, you know, I production and that ani- “Running for reelection had to be ushered away from have disagreements politi-
“octopus garden.” The im- don’t want to say ‘Old Faith- mals have evolved to use this in 2026,” the reporter re- a press gaggle after stopping cally, but he’s a good friend,
ages they captured revealed ful,’ but it’s bubbling up is probably more wide- sponded. midsentence and appearing so I’m going to try to get in
nearly 6,000 octopuses — there out of the rocks.” spread than we know, and “Oh,” McConnell chuck- unable to complete his re- touch with him later this
leading scientists to esti- The relatively warm we’re just beginning to dis- led, before staring into space sponse. afternoon. I don’t know
mate the total population of spring water raises the cover how this happens and unblinking for about 10 sec- McConnell is one of sev- enough to know.”
the area could exceed 20,000. mother octopus’ metabo- where,” said Levin, profes- onds. eral elderly officials leading
The discovery of the lism, speeding up the egg sor emerita at Scripps Insti- “Did you hear the ques- the nation. Feinstein, the Special correspondent
thousands of Muusoctopus development process. Re- tution of Oceanography at tion, Senator?” an aide Senate’s oldest member at Cameron Joseph
robustus — or “pearl octo- searchers found that octo- UC San Diego. asked, coming to his side. 90, has repeatedly appeared contributed to this report.
pus,” as researchers dubbed pus eggs in the area hatch in Scientists still don’t
it, for the animal’s shape and less than two years — far less know where the grapefruit-
opalescent shine — led a than the estimated five to sized octopuses came from,
team of scientists on a five- eight years it takes in colder or how they knew to

GOP’s Scalise has blood cancer


year quest to solve the mys- temperatures. settle against the Davidson
tery: Why are there so many “They’re in warm water, Seamount’s warm rocks.
thousands of pearl octo- the metabolism is much But over years of monitoring
puses at the foot of the faster,” King said, “so their them, they watched the oc-
Davidson Seamount, and life history has been very topuses mate, settle, brood on lawmakers on a baseball Scalise also thanked his
how did they come to be liv- compressed relative to most and hatch new offspring. No. 2 House leader field in Alexandria, Va., out- medical team and said he
ing there? deep-sea animals.” After the eggs hatch, side Washington. Scalise was “incredibly grateful we
The researchers visited Solving one mystery only the mother octopus dies. describes his case of was shot in the hip and were able to detect this early
the spot more than a dozen spawned other questions for Shrimps, snails, anemones multiple myeloma as endured lengthy hospital- and that this cancer is treat-
times to find out, and a study the scientists: Where did the and other organisms feed off izations, multiple surgeries able.”
published last week in the octopus come from? Do they the carcass. ‘very treatable.’ and a painful rehabilitation “I will tackle this with the
journal Science Advances instinctively know that the Once hatched, the ju- process. same strength and energy as
associated press
shows they solved one part warm waters would speed veniles swim into the dark- The cancer diagnosis I have tackled past chal-
of the mystery: The pearl oc- up the brooding process? ness, Litvin said. Where do came, Scalise said, after he lenges,” Scalise said.
topus came to the Davidson How many other octopus they go? That’s a question WASHINGTON — Rep. had not been feeling like Colleagues in the House
Seamount, they discovered, nurseries exist on the for future research, he said. Steve Scalise, the No. 2- himself in the last week. and members of Louisiana’s
to nestle into the warm seafloor around the world? “The thought that these ranking House Republican, Blood tests showed some ir- congressional delegation of-
crooks of its wall and brood “We know so little about kinds of ecosystems are still said Tuesday that he has regularities and after addi- fered Scalise and his family
eggs. the deep ocean,” Litvin said. hiding from us — that after been diagnosed with a form tional screening, he said he their encouragement in re-
The ambient tempera- “The discovery of the garden a couple of decades of a of blood cancer known as was diagnosed with multiple sponse to the announce-
ture of water around the and all these thousands of lot of deep-sea exploration, multiple myeloma and is myeloma. ment, some recalling his de-
seamount is about 35 de- octopus ... just highlights there’s still that scale of a undergoing treatment. “I have now begun treat- termination following the
grees Fahrenheit, according that this is the biggest discovery — is just amaz- Scalise, 57, said he will ment, which will continue for 2017 shooting.
to Monterey Bay Aquarium ecosystem on our planet, ing,” Litvin said, “and really continue to serve in the the next several months,” “The same faith, family
Research Institute scien- and we know less about it highlights the need for con- House. He described the Scalise said in a statement. support and internal
tists. But by using sophis- than we know about the sur- tinued investment in tech- cancer as “very treatable” “I expect to work through strength that made Steve
ticated marine thermom- face of the moon.” nology so we can expand our and said it was detected this period and intend to re- such an inspiration to others
eters, the researchers found Lisa Levin, a deep-sea bi- efforts to explore the deep early. turn to Washington, con- after he was shot will bring
that the octopuses were set- ologist who was not involved sea, find the next octopus The Louisiana Republi- tinuing my work as Majority him through this illness and
tling into crevices warmed in the study, noted that garden and ... understand can was among several peo- Leader and serving the peo- once more inspire us all,”
by spring water, where the other studies had found how that biggest ecosystem ple wounded in 2017 when a ple of Louisiana’s First Con- said Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-
temperature reached nearly warmth around seamounts in our planet works.” rifle-wielding attacker fired gressional District.” La.).
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BUSINESS
Biden’s proposal to lift
U.S. overtime coverage
lags behind California’s
job. The proposal also calls
President unveils plan for automatically updating
the earnings threshold
affecting more salaried every three years — some-
workers in low-paying thing the Obama adminis-
tration had proposed in
jobs. Here’s what you 2015.
need to know.
How many workers will the
change affect?
By Laurence The administration
Darmiento estimates that 3.4 million
workers will benefit from
The Biden administra- the change. Ken Jacobs,
tion proposed changes chairman of the UC Berke-
Wednesday that would en- ley Center for Labor Re-
hance overtime protections search and Education, said
for millions of U.S. white-col- he expected the fast-food
lar workers who receive sala- and retail industries where
Gary Coronado Los Angeles Times ries but typically work in supervisory wages are low
“DIRTY ROOMS and nonstop noise will be the only amenities” for professors coming for a conference this relatively low-paying jobs. to be affected the most.
week, said Kurt Petersen, co-president of Unite Here Local 11. Above, picketers at the Beverly Hilton in July. More than an estimated
3 million Americans could Is there any sense of how
stand to benefit from the much they will benefit?

Strikers target L.A. conference plan when they work more


than 40 hours a week. Will
you? Here is a rundown of
the new rules.
The department esti-
mates that in the first year,
the rule will put $1.2 billion
in employees’ pockets, both
in the form of more overtime
counts more than 11,000 aca- from members, the group senting “a solid” wage and What are the changes the pay and also salary in-
Latest hotel walkouts demics and other political announced on its website benefits offer. He said the Biden administration is creases by employers to
scientists as members, for that hundreds of panels pre- hotel coalition is calling on proposing? ensure their white-collar
coincide with meeting refusing to cancel its L.A. viously scheduled to be held Unite Here Local 11 to return The proposed changes workers will be exempt from
of Political Science meeting despite the ongoing in the JW Marriott would be to the bargaining table after by the U.S. Department of the new rules.
hotel walkouts. relocated to the Los Angeles Labor Day. Labor would make workers
Assn., which drew ire “Dirty rooms and non- Convention Center. In its proposal — which who receive salaries of up to Will I benefit if I live in
for not rescheduling. stop noise will be the only The association did not the union rejected — the ho- $1,059 per week, or $55,068 California?
amenities” for professors immediately respond to a re- tel group offered an initial annually, eligible for over- The proposed raising of
coming into town for the quest for comment Wednes- hourly pay raise of $2, which time pay. the salary threshold will not
By Suhauna Hussain conference, said Kurt Peter- day. would go into effect after Typically, overtime is affect California workers,
sen, co-president of Unite Occidental College pro- ratification of a new con- broadly defined as a rate of who already benefit from a
Hotel workers at the JW Here Local 11, in a Wednes- fessor Peter Dreier said at a tract, and several subse- at least one and a half times more generous standard.
Marriott, Sheraton Grand, day news release. rally by hotel workers last quent raises amounting to a regular pay and is granted Salaried workers in Cali-
Hotel Figueroa and several Earlier this summer week that leadership of the $5.50 per hour total increase after a worker has exceeded fornia are eligible for over-
other properties, primarily Unite Here Local 11 had American Political Science by January 2027. 40 hours in a week. Salaried time if they are paid up to
in downtown Los Angeles, urged the academic Assn. had “run roughshod” Striking hotel workers workers are usually exempt $64,480, or twice the state
walked off the job early association to cancel or over the wishes of many of its are demanding a $5 immedi- from overtime pay rules minimum wage of $15.50 per
Wednesday morning in an move its conference — members. Dreier said many ate hourly wage increase and that apply to hourly work- hour.
action timed to coincide scheduled for Thursday academics have since can- a $3 boost each subsequent ers.
with the start of the Ameri- through Sunday — to re- celed their plans to attend year of the three-year con- What do businesses think
can Political Science Assn.’s spect the strike. But the or- the conference, and he pre- tract, for a total raise of $11. What are the existing regu- of the proposal?
annual conference. ganization declined to do so, dicts there will be low turn- The downtown Los Ange- lations regarding salaried The National Retail
It’s the latest wave of noting in a July 28 statement out. les hotels where workers workers? Federation, which repre-
rolling strikes by Southern on its website that it would Keith Grossman, an at- have walked out are: Currently, only salaried sents an industry expected
California hotel housekeep- cost $2.8 million to cancel. torney with Hirschfeld Krae- workers who are paid up to to be heavily affected, issued
ers, front desk workers, The association’s leader- mer who represents a coali- 8 Sheraton Grand Los $684 per week, or $35,568 a statement of concern.
cooks and other employees ship cited negative effects to tion of 44 hotels involved in Angeles, Financial District annually, qualify for over- David French, senior vice
that began nearly two the local economy and mem- talks with Unite Here Local 8 Biltmore Los Angeles, time pay. Those rules have president of government
months ago. Union mem- bers of the group who are 11, said the union’s call for a Financial District been in effect since Jan. 1, relations, said the proposed
bers are striking at 13 hotels from marginalized commu- convention boycott will hurt 8 Courtyard Los Angeles 2020. Generally, employees increase “is significantly
in this round of walkouts. nities, calling its predic- the city and small busi- L.A. Live, South Park of enterprises that gross higher than the rate of infla-
The union representing ament a “no-win situation.” nesses that depend on con- 8 E-Central, South Park $500,000 or more are cov- tion. Further, the attempt to
striking hotel workers, Unite “After careful consider- ventions. 8 Ritz-Carlton Los Angeles, ered by the Fair Labor tie the hands of future ad-
Here Local 11, last week ation, we feel that in light of “It defies logic that the South Park Standards Act, which cov- ministrations through
called for a boycott of some the interests of our member- union would ignore our offer 8 Residence Inn Los Angeles ers overtime pay. That automatic increases ex-
60 hotels in Los Angeles and ship — especially underrep- to negotiate but would in- L.A. Live, South Park means all but the smallest of ceeds the Department’s
Orange counties that resented scholars, scholars stead focus on pursuing its 8 Hotel Indigo, South Park businesses must adhere to authority.”
haven’t agreed to new labor from the Global South, and political goals directly hurt- 8 JW Marriott, South Park the rules.
contracts, urging that all non-tenured scholars — we ing our employees’ current 8 Hotel Figueroa, South What happens next?
conventions held in the Los must maintain the Meeting and future earnings and our Park Why is the administration A rule-making process
Angeles area should “stay in Los Angeles,” the state- local communities by trying 8 InterContinental Los An- updating the rules now? starts and interested
away from strike-ready ho- ment said. to drive business away,” geles Downtown, Metro The Labor Department parties have 60 days to
tels.” The union lists the ho- Some political scientists Grossman said in a Monday Center notes that since the last comment on the proposal
tels without contracts on its were outraged, arguing that statement. 8 DoubleTree by Hilton, Lit- increase went into effect once it is published in the
website and asks that people the statement was Grossman said the last tle Tokyo there have been consistent Federal Register. The last
“not patronize” them. disingenuous and aimed to negotiation session was held 8 Downtown LA Proper increases in wages, meaning time changes were pro-
Union officials slammed distract from anti-worker July 18 and “ended with the Hotel, South Park fewer salaried workers posed in 2019, they went into
leaders of the political scien- sentiment. union refusing to engage” 8 Fairmont Miramar, Santa qualify for overtime even effect Jan. 1 the following
ce organization, which After facing backlash despite the coalition pre- Monica if they are doing the same year.

Employees protest Google’s pact with Israel’s military


lishment and others with an contract, issuing a directive
At the company’s all-encompassing cloud so- that she move to São Paulo,
lution.” Brazil, within 17 business
annual cloud event, Google has largely re- days or lose her job. Google
workers call for end to fused to release details of the told The Times that it inves-
contract, the specific capa- tigated the incident and
a $1.2-billion deal. bilities Israel will receive, or found no evidence of retalia-
how they will be used. In July tion.
2022, the Intercept reported When Koren resigned
By Suhauna Hussain that training documents for from Google in August 2022
Israeli government person- she published a memo ex-
A protest erupted Tues- nel indicate Google is pro- plaining reasons for her de-
day at a Google Cloud con- viding software that the parture, writing that
ference in San Francisco, as company claims can recog- “Google systematically si-
employees critical of the nize people, gauge emo- lences Palestinian, Jewish,
company’s contract with Is- tional states from facial ex- Arab and Muslim voices
rael’s military sought to pressions and track objects concerned about Google’s
ratchet up pressure at the in video footage. complicity in violations of
company’s annual showcase Google Cloud spokes- Palestinian human rights.”
of its latest products and person Atle Erlingsson told Koren said Google’s apa-
technology. Wired in September 2022 thy makes her and others
Hundreds of protesters that the company proudly believe more vigorous pro-
gathered as attendees of the supports Israel’s govern- test actions are justified.
Google Cloud Next confer- ment and said critics had “This is a concrete disrup-
ence flowed out of the misrepresented Project tion that is sending a clear
Moscone Center in down- Nimbus. “Our work is not di- message to Google: We
town San Francisco for a rected at highly sensitive or won’t allow for business as
scheduled 5 p.m. happy classified military work- usual, so long as you contin-
hour, having wrapped up loads,” he told Wired. Er- ue to profit off of a nefarious
speaker sessions and work- Arab Resource and Organizing Center lingsson, however, acknowl- contract that expands Isra-
shops for the day. GOOGLE workers and local activists protest Tuesday at the annual Google Cloud edged that the contract will eli apartheid.”
Some 30 protesters, in- Next conference in San Francisco, calling for an end to Project Nimbus. provide Israel’s military ac- Mohammad Khatami, a
cluding former Google em- cess to Google technology. YouTube software engineer
ployees and local communi- A group of workers has Google has no scruples if ficial intelligence tools used Former Google worker based in New York, partici-
ty activists, chained them- opposed Project Nimbus they’re going to work with to refine drone strikes. Work- Ariel Koren, who has long pated in a small protest of
selves together in a line on since it launched in 2021, the Israeli government,” ers have alleged that the been publicly critical of Proj- Project Nimbus at a July
Howard Street, which runs concerned that Google’s said Joshua Marxen, a company has cracked down ect Nimbus, said “it adds in- Amazon Web Services con-
through the convention cen- technology could help the Is- Google Cloud software engi- on information-sharing, si- sult to injury for Palestinian ference in Manhattan.
ter, between two large glass raeli Defense Forces surveil neer who helped to organize loed controversial projects activists and Palestinians Khatami said major lay-
buildings, and overhead on a and harm Palestinians. the protest. “Google has giv- and enforced a workplace generally” that Google offs at Google announced in
nearby pedestrian foot- In April, Google parent en us no reason to trust culture that increasingly Cloud’s profitability mile- January pushed him to get
bridge. Protesters unfurled a Alphabet reported that its them.” punishes them for speaking stone coincides with the more involved in the Alpha-
large banner reading 15-year-old cloud business The Tuesday protest rep- out. 75th anniversary of the bet Workers Union, which
“Google Project Nimbus had reached profitability in resents continuing tension Google did not immedi- Nakba — which refers to the provides resources to
fuels Israeli apartheid.” the first quarter, followed by between Google’s workforce ately respond to a request mass displacement and dis- Khatami and other union
More than a dozen cur- a second quarter of profit and its senior management for comment about the possession of Palestinians members in an anti-military
rent Google workers posi- from April through June. over how the company’s Tuesday protest and work- following creation of the working group — though the
tioned themselves nearby, Workers said Project technology is used. ers’ concerns over Project state of Israel in 1948. union has not taken a formal
passing out fliers explaining Nimbus is the kind of lucra- In recent years Google Nimbus. In March 2022, The stance on Project Nimbus.
their objections to Project tive contract that neglects workers have objected to The Israeli Finance Min- Times reported allegations “Greed and corporate
Nimbus, a $1.2-billion con- ethical guardrails that out- military contracts, challeng- istry announced its contract by Koren — at the time a interests were being put
tract that Google and Ama- spoken members of Google’s ing Google’s work with U.S. with Google and Amazon in product marketing manager ahead of workers and I think
zon Web Services entered workforce have demanded Customs and Border Pro- April 2021 as a project “in- at Google for Education — the layoffs just illustrated
into with the Israeli govern- in recent years. tection and its role in a de- tended to provide the gov- that Google had retaliated that for me very clearly,”
ment and military. “I am very worried that fense program building arti- ernment, the defense estab- against her for criticizing the Khatami said.
L AT I M E S . C O M S T H U R S DAY , AU G U S T 31, 2 0 23 A9

Some prefer human touch over self-service kiosks


[Checkout, from A1] “I treasure it,” said Hech-
prefer self-checkouts, the ler, who last month cele-
number dropped to 46% for brated her 50th anniversary
baby boomers. The survey of working for the company.
didn’t include a breakdown Although she often feels
of the Silent Generation, exhausted, Hechler can’t
Myers’ age group. imagine her life without
Having connections such seeing her customers. She
as the one Hechler and would miss the small jolt
Myers share — warm, low- she feels while delivering her
stakes relationships often signature farewell picked up
called “weak ties” — is a from her grandfather —
critical tool for maintaining “Toodle-oo!” — and watch-
emotional well-being later ing customers’ faces light
in life as social circles up.
shrink, said Toni Antonucci, Hechler said she would
a professor of psychology at miss the small moments of
the University of Michigan. connection — the customer
“It’s somebody who who gave her a container of
makes you feel important in pickled beets to add to her
their world,” she said. salad and the man in his 80s
“Somebody who makes you who cried at the register as
feel human.” he told her that, months
after he lost his wife, his dog
had died too. She wrapped
b her arms around him and
said a silent prayer.
Today self-checkouts are “People need people,”
ubiquitous, making up she said. “I just can’t imag-
nearly 40% of lanes at U.S. Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times ine the cold world without
grocery chains, according to MARLISS MYERS, a longtime shopper at an Albertsons in Arcadia, gave cashier Sharon Hechler a checkers.”
an estimate from retail copy of her husband’s eulogy. “I treasure it,” said Hechler, who has worked for the company for 50 years. On a recent Friday, My-
consultant Catalina Mar- ers traced her typical route
keting. cashiers nationwide is ex- ers, often giving them nick- girlfriend, he eventually told them, especially to tally up through the store, starting
In 1987, soon after a pected to fall by 10% from names. her, finally someone to cook her vegetables, overwhelms at the meat counter, where
Kroger near Atlanta de- 2021 to 2031 — a loss of There is “Pinky” (for the for again. her. Besides, she said, she the butcher recognized her.
buted a prototype of the roughly 335,000 jobs. (Be- color she dyes her hair), who Sometimes people bring loves to visit with Aurora “Salmon?” he asked.
so-called automated check- tween 2011 and 2021, the avoids the self-checkouts her containers of their favor- Hernandez, a cashier who She nodded, asking for 1
out machine, The Times number remained largely because she’s partly blind, ite dishes and, years ago, a endearingly calls her “Ma- pound cut into two pieces,
covered a retail trade con- unchanged at 3.3 million.) and “Miss Crenshaw” (for customer crocheted her a dre” and asks about her then picked out a birthday
vention where proponents Although most conven- her passion for tidying her blue blanket that she still week as she rings up the card for her eldest daughter.
proclaimed it as “a revolu- ience and grocery stores still neighborhood), who sleeps with every night. Carr items Guevara needs to While snaking her way
tionary product” expected rely on a combination of straightens the stack of loves to tease customers she make her Sunday batch of through the aisles, she
to “sweep all of retail.” self-checkouts and human- newspapers in the store. knows will appreciate it, menudo. traded eye contact and a
“A fully automated gro- operated aisles, there has One customer calls Carr such as Darryl Jones — she On days that she’s feeling smile with each fellow cus-
cery store,” it read, “may not been an increased push in “Snack Police” for checking calls him “D” — who she particularly discouraged or tomer who met her gaze, but
be too far behind.” recent years toward more the sodium levels on labels jokes needs the fire depart- worried, Guevara said, her some never looked up from
Since then, airlines, automation, including some after learning the customer ment on standby after the husband sometimes sug- their phones.
fast-food restaurants, thea- cashier-less models such as was struggling to manage time he badly burned pork gests a solution. As she added staples to
ters and many grocery Amazon Go, whose stores her diabetes. chops. One time he forgot to “Go visit Aurora,” he tells the cart — cottage cheese,
chains have installed do-it- use cameras to see what During her 35 years buy ice and had to come her. “She’ll cheer you up.” coffee, a few items for a
yourself kiosks in hopes of items customers remove working for Albertsons, back, so now she reminds Sunday potluck with her
cutting costs and wait from shelves, then auto- Carr has spent five at this him each visit. daughters and their families
times. The often fussy matically charge them as store, and in snippets week “Those little things really b — she spotted several things
machines are so firmly in they leave. after week, she learns the make it important to have a that reminded her of Bob.
the zeitgeist today that But one supermarket stories of her customers’ human,” said Jones, 72, who For Myers and Hechler, She picked up a package
they’ve inspired memes, chain in the Netherlands lives. Other times, she said he makes a point to the connection dates to 2014. of his favorite chocolate
viral tweets and a satire called Jumbo has taken a pieces the stories together avoid self-checkouts. “A After Myers’ longtime macadamia cookies and, in
news article headlined, different approach, creating from the items splayed on computer is cold. The cour- market went out of the frozen section, she stuck
“Unexpected Item in Bag- intentionally slow-moving the conveyor belt. tesy is taken away.” business, she decided to try her forehead up against the
ging Area Finally Tips Man lanes at several stores for There was the customer Another customer, Sade the Albertsons a short drive fogged glass, smiling when
Over The Edge.” older shoppers, or anyone in his late 70s who for years Avery, swings by the store from her home and hap- she spotted the SeaPak
The push toward auto- who wants more time to packed his cart with ingre- most days after finishing pened to go through Hech- brand of shrimp scampi.
mation — a key point in chat with cashiers. The goal, dients to make his wife’s her shift as a school bus ler’s aisle. She mentioned “Bob loved these,” she
several labor disputes this company executives said, favorite dishes, including driver to pick up items for both her search for a new whispered.
summer — worries many was to help tackle what they short ribs, oxtails and mac her go-to dinners: ground store and that, on Fridays, After grabbing a few
cashiers and the unions that saw as a growing problem: and cheese. Then one day, turkey tacos on Tuesdays, she and her husband, Bob, more items, she headed
represent them; in 2019, an loneliness. he started picking up only hamburgers Wednesdays, had a tradition of eating toward Hechler’s aisle.
AFL-CIO leader in Oregon TV dinners and a bowl of fried fish Fridays. steaks together. “How has your week
took the first step toward pre-cut fruit. His wife had Unless she’s in a big rush Hechler summoned a been, my dear?” Hechler
advancing a ballot measure b died. or has only a single item, the manager and, a few mo- asked.
to prohibit grocery stores in “You have to start eating 37-year-old skips the self- ments later, he returned “Terrible,” Myers said,
the state from operating From her check stand at again,” Carr told him. checkout and waits in Carr’s with two free T-bones to explaining that, although
more than two self-checkout a different Albertsons, this “I know,” he said. “I just line, eager for a few minutes welcome the couple as she was mostly kidding,
machines. one across the street from a don’t have the appetite.” to catch up with the cashier customers. Myers has re- she’d been having a hard
According to a projection senior living community in Several months after her she has known since she was turned almost every Friday time nailing down an ap-
from the U.S. Bureau of South L.A., Christy Carr death, as the fog began to a young girl. When her chil- ever since. After 2015, when pointment time with an
Labor Statistics, the num- spends her shifts catching lift, ingredients slowly re- dren, ages 9 and 12, come they retired, Bob started alarm company.
ber of people employed as up with longtime custom- turned to the belt. He had a shopping with her, Avery joining her, tracing the “Then we’re two peas in a
said, they immediately aisles together. pod,” Hechler said. “If it’s
beeline toward Carr’s aisle. After meeting as teen- not one thing, it’s another.”
Each time she spots them, a agers at El Monte High Hechler spotted the
MARKET ROUNDUP smile stretches across her School, the couple went on birthday card and remem-
face and she engulfs both of to have three daughters and bered that, like Myers’

Stocks continue to reclaim August losses them in hugs.


“They adore her.”
Yet another customer,
built a company together
that power-washed parking
lots. Later came grandchil-
daughter, her customer’s
birthday was in August.
“How old will you be?”
Betty Kane — “Miss Betty” dren and great-grandchil- “83.”
associated press
— walks to the grocery dren, and they often lay “We’re always grateful for
Major stock indexes store, and Carr sometimes awake at night, Myers said, birthdays.”
Stocks ended modestly Daily Daily % YTD % gives her a ride home when marveling aloud over how “That’s the truth.”
higher Wednesday, extend- Index Close change change change the shopping trip aligns blessed they had been. Myers pulled out a check,
ing Wall Street’s recent win- Dow industrials 34,890.24 +37.57 +0.11 +5.26 with Carr’s lunch break. But by the spring of 2021, which she had filled out
ning streak to its fourth day S&P 500 4,514.87 +17.24 +0.38 +17.59 Other times, Carr calls her a slowed down by his declin- ahead of time, leaving only a
in a row and chipping away Nasdaq composite 14,019.31 +75.55 +0.54 +33.94 cab. Seeing the glimmer of ing health, Bob stopped blank for the amount, which
more of the market’s losses recognition in the cashiers’ leaving the house as often, came to $92.65. Hechler
S&P 400 2,644.79 +6.19 +0.23 +8.82
this month. eyes when she arrives al- and Myers started grocery laughed, telling Myers that,
After a choppy day of Russell 2000 1,903.21 +7.67 +0.40 +8.06 ways touches her, Kane shopping alone. A few days some Fridays, she was the
trading, the Standard & EuroStoxx 50 4,317.83 -8.64 -0.20 +13.86 said. before Christmas, not long only customer who paid
Poor’s 500 closed 0.4% Nikkei (Japan) 32,333.46 +106.49 +0.33 +23.91 “They remember me after he fell in the driveway with a check.
higher. The benchmark in- Hang Seng (Hong Kong) 18,482.86 -1.17 -0.01 -6.56 here.” one evening, he died in the The two women em-
dex remains down 1.6% for Associated Press That same sense of be- hospital. On a trip to the braced, and as Myers
August, with one trading longing draws Maria store soon after, Myers walked off, Hechler called
day left in the month. The from about 4.15% just before at 4.89% late Tuesday. Guadalupe Guevara to the slipped Hechler a copy of out.
Dow Jones industrial aver- the latest GDP report. It On Wednesday, the S&P Food 4 Less near her home the eulogy. “Toodle-oo, my dear!”
age edged up 0.1%, and the stood at 4.12% late Tuesday. 500 rose 17.24 points to in Boyle Heights twice a
Nasdaq composite added The yield on the two-year 4,514.87, the Dow advanced week.
0.5%. Treasury, which tracks ex- 37.57 points, or 0.1%, to The store put in self-
Technology stocks led pectations for the Fed, fell to 34,890.24, and the Nasdaq checkouts recently, but the
the market’s gains. Apple 4.88% from 4.90% before the gained 75.55 points to close 71-year-old can’t read well
rose 1.9% and Palo Alto Net- latest GDP release. It stood at 14,019.31. and said the idea of using
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the losing end with a 6.6%
slump after cutting its profit
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EDITORIAL
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n much the way that tele- which veterinary authorities worry

I health medicine has brought


medical resources to people
who won’t or can’t travel to a
doctor’s office, veterinary
telehealth brings care to pets
whose people can’t make it to a vet-
erinarian’s office.
are overly relied upon — can be
written only for a 14-day period. A
refill would require an in-office vis-
it. Also, veterinarians cannot pre-
scribe controlled substances or xy-
lazine unless they have seen the an-
imal in person.
But in California, veterinary Although veterinarians provid-
telehealth is so highly restricted ing telehealth services are not re-
that it is mostly used for follow-up quired to be connected to a prac-
care after an in-person visit or for tice in California, they are required
triage in an emergency. to be licensed in California and
A bill winding its way through must be able to provide the client
the Legislature would lift the re- with a list of nearby veterinarians
quirement that veterinarians see in case they want to see one in per-
an animal in person first before son.
they treat it through telehealth. No veterinarian would be re-
Assembly Bill 1399 offers a smart quired to offer telehealth services.
and reasonable change that could And telehealth cannot replace in-
help tens of thousands of under- office visits for numerous pro-
served pets get needed care. The cedures, including blood work. It
Assembly has already passed the would be up to the veterinarian to
bill, and the Senate should do so as Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times decide when and why to see an ani-
well. A VETERINARIAN examines a canine patient on Skid Row in downtown L.A. on Jan. 11.
mal in person. And a pet owner can
Currently, veterinarians must always choose to see a veterinarian
set up a relationship with the client in person.

Telehealth can help people


and the animal in person for a spe- The California Veterinary Medi-
cific issue or ailment before they cal Assn. is neutral on the bill and
can later treat the animal through the California Veterinary Medical
a video exam — and only for that Board supports it. Both groups

help their pets get care


specific problem. When a different said they will adopt those positions
issue comes up, the owner and ani- once they see amendments in the
mal must go to the vet in person bill to which the authors have
again before the veterinarian can agreed.
treat the animal remotely regard- But the American Veterinary
ing that problem. Medical Assn. opposes it, arguing
This new measure would allow a Virtual veterinarian visits are highly restricted in that an initial in-person visit with
veterinarian to set up the initial re- an animal is essential. The AVMA
lationship with the pet and its California. The rules should be loosened to improve access. also expressed concern that the bill
owner via video screen and see the opens the door to online direct-to-
animal in person only when either consumer veterinary services
the owner or the veterinarian re- veterinarian. Some animals simply don’t do They concluded that telemedicine more concerned with dispensing
quest it. There are all sorts of obstacles well on the trip to the veterinarian’s could be helpful for routine consul- drugs than offering care.
The bill was co-written by As- to getting an animal to a veterinari- office or in the facility once they get tations and in areas where people No veterinarian should care-
semblymembers Laura Friedman an. Access is very difficult now be- there. A study by two veterinary re- have little access to care. lessly prescribe medications,
(D-Glendale) and Josh Lowenthal cause of a shortage of veterinarians searchers at UC Davis found that And veterinarians say they can whether it’s in a clinic or an online
(D-Long Beach) and endorsed by in California and across the coun- cats exhibited signs of stress — assess animals well on video. Much visit. Those are serious concerns,
the San Diego Humane Society try. The problem is particularly heavier breathing, dilated pupils, of the information a vet gleans will and if there are problems that risk
and the American Society for the acute in rural and low-income com- “negative” ear positioning — when come from talking to the owner, the health of animals, they need to
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. munities where there are fewer vet- taken to an office for an exam, but and that can work just as well if the be addressed by state and federal
Both organizations see the expan- erinary practices, says Lori Teller, were more relaxed at home during owner is at home. regulators. We shouldn’t overly re-
sion of telehealth as a way to reach a veterinarian and president of the video exams. The researchers also The bill sets some common- strict a much-needed portal for
people who can’t find a vet nearby American Veterinary Medical said a stressed cat may hide its sense restrictions. For example, care over the fear there might be a
or have limited means to travel to a Assn. symptoms for self-preservation. prescriptions for antibiotics — few bad actors.

LETTERS
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of America’s relationship
with guns:
ly mitigated with more law
enforcement presence. Safer? It doesn’t
“Americans, it seemed,
have the same problems
However, as UCLA urban
planning professor Michael
feel that way
with firearms that we Irish Lens notes, Los Angeles Re “What $1 billion more to
have with alcohol. The remains too spread out to the LAPD gets us,” column,
problem being that we don’t have a really effective rail Aug. 25
think we have a problem.” transit system. Fixing this
Perhaps what we really by building more housing Erika D. Smith claims
need is a 12-step program near employment centers, that the contract with the
for the vast number of while correct in theory, will Los Angeles Police Depart-
Americans who have an take decades to accomplish. ment officers union ap-
uncontrollable addiction to Back in 1967, increasing proved by the L.A. City
guns. local density seemed practi- Council, which will increase
Donald Bentley cal. But as the enormous spending on the LAPD, may
La Puente increase in property values not be necessary since “for
has taken hold, we have the most part, our city is
:: witnessed the workforce already getting safer.”
population spread to Or- Sorry, but most people in
Florida Gov. Ron DeSan- ange County and the Inland Los Angeles and other
tis, he of “Florida is where Empire. major cities don’t seem to
woke goes to die” fame, says There are no easy solu- sense this. One does not feel
he finds the racist murder of tions for increasing rider- crime is on the decline going
Black people unacceptable. ship. However, in the inter- into supermarkets where
Sean Rayford Getty Images This is the same man im, Metro needs to supple- products have to be locked
THE DOLLAR GENERAL store in Jacksonville, Fla., where a white shooter who has made a political ment the rail system with up because of theft.
killed three Black people in a racist rampage on Saturday. career massaging racial convenient, frequent and With this new police
hatred among his support- dependable bus service, contract, hopefully, Los

Could the Framers foresee this? ers.


Woke people are simply
those who are awakened to
while society waits decades
for what may be a cost-
prohibitive neighborhood
Angeles will be able to retain
that strong force needed in
such a large city.
Re “There’s no place like America for gun violence,” editorial, Aug. 29 and dismayed by the social density plan to come to Janet Polak
and economic injustice still fruition. Beverly Hills
inflicted on the Black com- Gary L. Wartik
hy might the U.S. be the sole developed country that suffers a nonstop deluge

W of heartbreaking firearm murder sprees? Chalk it up to contorted readings of


the 2nd Amendment by our nation’s Supreme Court conservatives.
As The Times’ editorial laments, the high court posits that the right to own and carry
munity. What effect did
DeSantis imagine his ac-
tions would have?
Marcia Goldstein
Camarillo

::
::

I have an idea — why not


use some of the added mon-
concealed weapons cannot be infringed “by laws that are not rooted in practices that ex- Laguna Woods What we don’t need in ey designated for the LAPD
isted in the late 18th century, when the 2nd Amendment was drafted and ratified.” L.A. are land-use changes budget next year as an
Ah, yes, the glorious late 1700s, when women were deemed chattel and Blacks were and apartment buildings incentive?
enslaved. Bus transit suits going up in the middle of
single-family residential
Take $5 million or $10
million, and if the LAPD can
Those abhorrent historical practices aside, the most lethal individual firearms were
single-shot muskets, which could not fire more than one shot every 20 seconds and were L.A.’s density neighborhoods. go a year without an exces-
What we do need are sive use of force claim made
far too bulky to be concealed.
Re “L.A.’s style of ‘density’ corridors of housing all upon their ranks, then every
So why not construe the 2nd Amendment to limit possession of firearms to those no
won’t look like New York,” along the thoroughfares of member gets to split the
more lethal than muskets? Opinion, Aug. 27 Los Angeles: Venice, Wash- pot.
Greg Gilbert, Burney, Calif. ington, Pico, Olympic, Rob- This would be cheaper
As my graduate project ertson, La Cienega, Fairfax than having to pay out all
in public administration at and La Brea, where single- the claims they usually do in
I wish you would stop anti-2nd Amendment and required to keep an accurate USC in 1967, I wrote the story, mom-and-pop store- a year and good for the
using the term “gun vi- anti-gun bias, and its big- record of crimes that have mass transit plan that the front currently proliferate. morale of both the depart-
olence.” It gives the false otry against law-abiding been thwarted by armed, then-Rapid Transit District There, we need mixed- ment and the city. It might
impression that guns — gun owners and people who law-abiding citizens. The (predecessor to today’s use buildings with apart- also save a few lives in the
inanimate, mechanical wish to become gun owners. federal government should Metro) eventually adopted. ments over retail establish- process.
objects — jump up and do The state needs to stop publish the accumulated I worked directly with RTD ments. We need this devel- Roy Friedland
something by themselves or writing laws that have a statistics each year. General Manager Jack opment in our urban center, Los Angeles
are responsible for their detrimental effect on the David R. Russell Gilstrap. near public transportation,
misuse. 2nd Amendment individual Santa Monica It is disappointing that very much in the image of
Instead, use “criminal right to keep and bear arms. after spending billions to New York, where residents HOW TO WRITE TO US
violence.” Use the laws already on the :: build rail and subway lines, will be within walking dis- Please send letters to
California is an outlier books to deal with crimi- the system continues to be tance of markets, restau- letters@latimes.com. For
because of its high level of nals. In his recent autobiogra- plagued by underutilization rants and other amenities. submission guidelines, see
hoplophobia (the irrational As well as crime stat- phy, U2’s lead singer Bono and onboard crime. The Stephanie Kirschner latimes.com/letters or call
fear of weapons), its istics, each state should be makes this apt observation latter problem can be large- Agoura Hills 1-800-LA TIMES, ext. 74511.

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OP-ED

Claims of
‘computer
L
ast year on World
Food Day, President
Biden reaffirmed his
commitment to a world
where “no child has to
crime’ can
go to bed hungry, no parent has to
worry about how to feed their
family, and no one has to face food
insecurity.” In that same speech,
gag media
Biden highlighted how the United
States had that year alone com- Lawmakers should rein in
mitted more than $9 billion in life-
saving humanitarian assistance dangerously broad laws to
to vulnerable communities prevent violations like the
around the world.
Sadly, Biden’s pledge is not raid on a Kansas newspaper.
reaching the Armenians living in
Nagorno-Karabakh, who have By Bruce D. Brown
been locked in a conflict over their and Gabe Rottman
homeland with Azerbaijan since

T
the fall of the Soviet Union. his month, police officers
In this latest chapter, since in Marion, Kan., crashed
last December the government of into the newsroom of the
Azerbaijan, under the leadership Marion County Record, a
of its petro-dictator Ilham Aliyev, weekly newspaper, and the
has implemented an illegal block- home of its publisher to seize comput-
ade of the only road linking more Hayk Manukyan Associated Press ers, cellphones and documents. After
than 120,000 Armenians, includ- A CONVOY of trucks loaded with humanitarian aid waits on the road from Azerbaijan to the several days of public outcry, the
ing 30,000 children, in Nagorno- disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, where Armenians are running low on food. county attorney ordered the material
Karabakh to the outside world. It returned.
is one of the world’s most over- Newsroom searches are rare today
looked and underreported hu-
manitarian crises taking place to-
day.
By limiting access to food,
When will Biden do more because a 1980 federal law makes them
almost always illegal. But the outcry
goes back to colonial days, when
British-loyalist redcoats raided revo-
medicine, gas, electricity and
other critical supplies to be deliv-
ered by the Lachin Corridor, Az-
erbaijan is on its way to making
to help starving Armenians? lutionary American pamphleteers.
Such searches were seen as the ulti-
mate attack on the free press. In the in-
famous 1971 search of the Stanford
living conditions so unbearable Daily, for example, Palo Alto police
that Armenians are forced to
leave the region.
Azerbaijan has been blockading crucial supplies since December were seeking photographs to tie Viet-
nam War protesters to a violent clash
Earlier this month, a 40-year- on campus. After the Supreme Court
old resident of Stepanakert, the By Stephan Pechdimaldji refused to offer protection from such
capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, raids, Congress passed the 1980 sta-
died of starvation, becoming the tute, making newsroom searches far
region’s first reported victim of those efforts have so far failed. help end the blockade. While Freedom Support Act that bans less of a threat.
chronic malnutrition and protein The lack of leadership from France and other countries used U.S. aid to the Azerbaijani gov- Instead, the Marion case highlights
deficiency. The lack of food has the White House has led other ac- the opportunity to highlight the ernment — restrictions that he, a separate, systemic threat to press
also contributed to the number of tors on the world stage to fill that principles of international law like presidents before him, has freedom: vague and sweeping comput-
early-stage miscarriages, which void. This month, Luis Moreno and humanitarianism as reasons waived each year since becoming er crime laws, which exist in all 50
reportedly have nearly tripled Ocampo, former chief prosecutor to lift the blockade, other delega- president. And he can direct states. These laws can be readily used
this summer. of the International Criminal tions — such as Great Britain, Samantha Power, the adminis- to intimidate reporters and suppress
Using food as a weapon has be- Court, released an explosive re- which has significant oil invest- trator of the United States reporting without raiding their offices.
come a popular tool for autocrats port stating that when assessing ments in the country — held back Agency for International Devel- The Marion raid appears to be the
to disrupt the lives of innocent the Azerbaijani blockade of on condemning Azerbaijan. opment, to allocate more re- first time public officials have search-
people while trying to force con- Nagorno-Karabakh, “there is a And despite the evidence on sources and money toward help- ed a newspaper under the claim of en-
cessions that benefit their inter- reasonable basis to believe that a the ground, Azerbaijan’s U.N. rep- ing Armenians in Nagorno- forcing a computer crime law. The
ests. Russia’s Vladimir Putin has genocide is being committed.” resentative claimed that Armeni- Karabakh. search warrant in that case listed vio-
effectively held the global food And, the report states, “Without ans in Nagorno-Karabakh were The U.S. enabling of Azerbai- lations of statutes covering identity
supply hostage by attacking immediate dramatic change, this happy and well-fed by sharing jan’s authoritarianism is now theft and “unlawful acts concerning
Ukraine’s ports and crippling group of Armenians will be de- printouts of Instagram posts that costing lives and giving Azerbai- computers.”
grain exports via the Black Sea, stroyed in a few weeks.” allegedly showed Armenians get- jan cover to do what it wants with The state computer crime statute
as together the two countries ex- Having been victims of geno- ting married and celebrating impunity. Time is running out for applies when someone breaks into a
port 30% of the world’s wheat, cide in the 20th century, Armeni- birthdays. the Armenian people living in computer network with malware or
60% of the world’s sunflower oil ans know all too well the horrors For Biden, as a president who Nagorno-Karabakh. If Biden uses another person’s information to
and 20% of the world’s corn. of such crimes against humanity took office claiming that human truly believes that no child should steal money from their bank account.
Azerbaijan is turning to a simi- and feel their voices are once rights would be central to his for- go to sleep hungry, then he’ll need But these laws are so vague that they
lar playbook in trying to force its again being ignored and sacri- eign policy, this tragedy threatens to act with far greater urgency to can be deployed to penalize reporters
will on the Armenian people by at- ficed at the altar of realpolitik. to stain his legacy. break Azerbaijan’s blockade. for using computers to find informa-
tempting to break their spirit and That type of international So, what can he do? For start- tion online as part of routine journal-
resolve through food. Biden has gamesmanship was evident at ers, he can begin by unequivocally Stephan Pechdimaldji is a ism.
steadfastly held Russia account- the United Nations earlier this calling for an immediate end to communications strategist living In Missouri, for instance, a reporter
able for its egregious behavior, month when the Security Council the blockade and apply pressure in the San Francisco Bay Area. for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch discov-
and the State Department has held an emergency meeting to on Azerbaijan through sanctions, He is a first-generation ered a serious flaw in a state website
been working with European discuss the worsening humani- as Rep. Adam B. Schiff Armenian American and that put the security of thousands of
Union officials to attempt to re- tarian situation after Armenia (D-Burbank) has called for. He grandson of survivors of the Social Security numbers at risk. He
open the Lachin Corridor. But urged the global community to can enforce Section 907 of the Armenian genocide. alerted the state agency so it could fix
the issue before he published the story.
Instead of thanking him, the Mis-
souri governor called for a criminal in-
vestigation of the reporter under state

One overlooked way to fight opioid deaths computer crime laws. That case ended
with a thorough rebuke of the governor
by the local prosecutor, who declined
to press charges. An exhaustive state
cause it is thought to be unimpor- report found no evidence of any inten-
Invest in recreational hubs tant. The U.S. Department of Ag- tional criminal act. The prosecutor
riculture’s rural development said the law was so vague that it crimi-
like libraries, which give agency, whose mission includes nalized using “a computer to look up
communities something to bringing “prosperity and oppor- someone’s information.”
tunity to rural areas,” is very lim- Similarly, in 2019, the city of Fuller-
do other than drugs. ited in its ability to invest in com- ton sued a local blog and two
munity resources that are labeled contributors under federal and state
By Kathryn J. Edin, “recreational” in nature, such as computer crime laws for reviewing in-
H. Luke Shaefer movie theaters, swimming pools, formation stored on a city Dropbox
and Timothy J. Nelson bowling alleys and arcades. Yet page, which was available to anyone
no community can stay healthy who knew where to look. Following ex-

A
cross the country, without these places — where tended litigation, the city agreed to
communities are people meet, form bonds and cre- drop the case and “retracted any and
struggling to respond ate civic support systems. all assertions” that the bloggers had
to the opioid crisis, The nation’s public libraries, acted illegally.
some with broader which serve as community hubs The news media is not alone in rais-
access to medical strategies and in most cities, receive minuscule ing an alarm about this trend. In the
more treatment programs. Yet federal funding, and despite a re- first U.S. Supreme Court case defining
the national overdose death rate Tony Dejak Associated Press cent budget increase, those funds the scope of the federal Computer
continues to rise, with opioid WHEN TOWNS lose barbershops and other social gathering are “not enough to maintain in- Fraud and Abuse Act, the court cited
deaths in 2022 remaining at an all- places, they lose safety nets in the battle against addiction. demand library services and pay this risk in narrowing the law’s applica-
time high. There are, of course, library workers, who carry out tion. Criminalizing the use of a com-
many causes of addiction, and Earlier research testing the even be able to pull people out of those services,” according to the puter to access information online,
community approaches must be “nothing to do here but drugs” addiction. American troops sta- American Library Association. when there is not some kind of “gate”
multifaceted. But what if we thesis found that a low density of tioned in Vietnam used drugs in Public libraries and other so- restricting access (like a password),
could intervene earlier on the nonprofits and civic organiza- massive quantities. Why? As called recreational institutions could hinder modern-day journalism,
path to addiction? tions within a community is in- Anne Case and Nobel laureate are as vital to the health of rural the court noted. (The Reporters Com-
Clay County in eastern Ken- deed strongly tied to overdose Angus Deaton argue in their book communities as other forms of in- mittee for Freedom of the Press filed a
tucky is a place that might offer death rates. “Deaths of Despair and the Fu- frastructure, such as roads and friend-of-the-court brief in that case.)
an intriguing answer. At its peak, For our own investigation, we ture of Capitalism,” it was “be- bridges. The notorious raid in Marion will
in 2006, the county recorded 2.58 drew data from a census of U.S. cause they were bored out of their Changing the mandate of gov- remind magistrates and police that
opioid prescriptions for every businesses to measure changes in minds” and the drugs were ex- ernment agencies to include in- newsroom searches are almost never
man, woman and child. Even now social infrastructure venues in ev- traordinarily cheap. When these vestments in social infrastruc- allowed, and the Marion County
that rate is still 1.38. When crack- ery county over time. We then ex- soldiers returned home and re- ture is a tall order, but it should be Record may have a legal path to sue
downs made the pills less avail- amined whether there was a rela- entered a well-structured life, pursued. In the meantime, pri- city officials for damages from the raid.
able, methamphetamine and il- tionship between changes in so- drug use plummeted, often es- vate foundations have an oppor- With more newsgathering now tak-
licit fentanyl followed. cial infrastructure and changes in sentially vanishing even for some tunity to fill this critical gap by ing place online, the endlessly elastic
Why this scourge? When sur- the overdose death rates, all else who had very serious addictions. partnering with government nature of computer fraud laws is a spe-
veyed, ordinary citizens and local held equal. We found that shifts in When we recently asked Deaton agencies such as the Biden ad- cial problem for the press. The tempta-
leaders in Clay County almost al- social infrastructure rival those of what he thought of the thesis that ministration’s Rural Partners tion for public officials to employ these
ways say the same thing: There is other, more well-accepted econo- people get into using drugs be- Network. laws against reporters — especially
“nothing to do here but drugs.” mic factors, such as wages and cause there is nothing else to do, Doing so could help address those uncovering news they would pre-
People mourn the loss of the local unemployment rates. he said “this can sound non-seri- an important factor that fuels the fer hidden — will be difficult to resist.
movie theater, the roller rink, the There is compelling support ous, but I think it is profound, opioid catastrophe and build But lawmakers can address that
beauty and barber shops and the for this idea from other types of something like the reason.” faith with the millions living in ru- temptation in two ways. One, they
bowling alley. research too — for instance with The $1.2-trillion 2021 American ral communities who feel all but should add explicit protections for
These places — labeled “social laboratory rats. Rescue Plan and Infrastructure forgotten. newsgathering in computer crime
infrastructure” by the sociologist A solitary, caged rat with ac- Act provided a huge source of laws. And two, they can enact protec-
Eric Klinenberg — are where cess to drugs is very likely to get money for investment in dis- Kathryn J. Edin is a professor of tions from searches like the 1980 fed-
community members gather to addicted, overdose and even die, tressed communities and rural sociology and public affairs at eral law into their state codes. Califor-
form social bonds. When these drug abuse researchers have areas. Yet that money is often re- Princeton University. H. Luke nia is one of the few that has such a
bonds are strong, they create a found. Experiments that dig stricted to projects that aim at Shaefer is a professor of public provision, and others can and should
safety net that can catch people deeper, however, find that if the economic revitalization, such as policy at the University of follow suit.
when they fall. As institutions like cages are enriched with “some- rebuilding the local main street or Michigan. Timothy J. Nelson is
these disappear in Central Ap- thing to do” — fun things to ex- building roads, bridges and rural the director of undergraduate Bruce D. Brown is the executive
palachia — first after the collapse plore and other rats to provide hospitals. But these investments studies in sociology at Princeton director of the Reporters Committee
of its company towns but more re- companionship — the rats will can mean little to a community’s University. They are the for Freedom of the Press. Gabe
cently because of population loss mostly ignore the drugs. Strik- most vulnerable. co-authors of “The Injustice of Rottman directs the Reporters
and other factors — that net has ingly, none overdose. Social infrastructure is often Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Committee’s Technology and Press
been torn to shreds. Having something to do may excluded from investments be- Poverty in America.” Freedom Project.
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Bill seeks to restrict solitary confinement


[Solitary, from A1]
The legislation aims to
make state prisons and
county jails more humane by
restricting isolated confine-
ment to 15 consecutive days,
or 45 total days in a six-
month span. Even during
that time, lockups would be
required to let people out for
at least four hours a day for
recreation and rehabilita-
tive programming, includ-
ing counseling and treat-
ment services.
But even in California,
where lawmakers and voters
have embraced many prog-
ressive changes to the crimi-
nal justice system, scaling
back the use of solitary con-
finement has proven diffi-
cult. Some elected officials,
including the governor, sug-
gest it could lead to in-
creased violence behind
bars.
Last year, Gov. Gavin
Newsom vetoed a similar
bill, arguing that while the
issue was “ripe for reform,”
the proposal was “overly
broad” in a way that could
“risk the safety of both the
staff and incarcerated popu-
lation within these facili-
ties.” Instead, he directed
his state prison agency to re-
write rules to restrict segre-
gated confinement to “lim-
ited situations,” which are
currently being drafted.
But his veto message was Photographs by Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times

silent on county jails, which SACRAMENTO County Sheriff Jim Cooper says 60% of inmates have mental illnesses, making the jail a “de facto psychiatric hospital.”
Newsom doesn’t control and
where advocates say there their cells.
are some of the worst Some inmates — such as
conditions due to over- the elderly or those with con-
crowding and understaffing. troversial charges — would
More decentralized than be at a greater risk of vi-
prisons, jails are typically olence if they couldn’t be
run by elected sheriffs in segregated, Bianco said.
counties that vary from Others, such as those with a
large and urban to remote history of attacking or killing
and rural. Depending on lo- their cellmates, couldn’t be
cal politics and funding, how sufficiently separated from
a sheriff runs jails in one more vulnerable people.
county could be radically dif- “There is absolutely no
ferent from the next one one with common sense or
over. any knowledge of how a jail
Despite significant sup- or prison operates who
port in both the state Senate would think this is a good
and Assembly, the bill still idea,” he said and invited
faces an uphill battle. Cor- lawmakers to tour the facili-
rections officials have qui- ties.
etly lobbied against the mea- And in San Francisco,
sure, and lawmakers have where the county jails are
been warned that the re- also facing legal troubles
quirements could force the over lockup conditions,
state to spend hundreds of there’s hardly a day that
millions of dollars to pay for Capt. James Quanico isn’t
renovations, increase staff several deputies short of
and defend against lawsuits. what it takes to efficiently
But if passed and signed run the jail.
into law, Holden’s bill would The county’s San Bruno
bring California’s correc- facility holds about 630 peo-
tions facilities in alignment ple, and when a reporter vis-
with United Nations guide- ited earlier this month, one
lines on the use of isolation, man exercising in the indoor
something prison research- yard said he had not been
ers and reform advocates AN INMATE talks to his lawyer at the Main Jail in downtown Sacramento. Years of research show that pro- outside in two years.
say is particularly needed in longed isolation can exacerbate mental illness and lead to hallucinations, psychosis and suicidal thoughts. In recent months,
local lockups where most in- Quanico said, he’s moved
carcerated people are wait-
ing for trial and have not
shooting that left six people
dead outside a Sacramento
sometimes violent popula-
tion.
Towers Correctional Facility
in Los Angeles have stuck ‘I felt a little dozens of people out of ad-
ministrative separation,
been convicted of a crime. nightclub. During his years in the with him. His cell was cov- bringing the number still
“Frankly, it’s an unrecog- So many people in the Legislature, Cooper rou- ered in dried feces, which he bit less than a there down to roughly 90. He
nized scandal that so many Sacramento jail have mental tinely disagreed with fellow ultimately decided to leave also created a new housing
people are suffering so sig-
nificantly in these environ-
illness — about 60% — that
the facility has become a “de
Democrats over criminal
justice reform policies, in-
in place instead of risking
disease exposure by touch-
human being pod of around 20 previous
administrative separation
ments,” said Craig Haney, a
UC Santa Cruz psychology
facto psychiatric hospital,”
said Sheriff Jim Cooper.
cluding the segregated con-
finement bill, which he did
ing it.
For the 58 days he was in-
the whole inmates who can now be in a
group, which helps them get
professor who has studied
the long-term effects of soli-
“There’s no place for
them to go. It’s just
not support last year. He
said his former colleagues
carcerated on a series of
charges including simple
time I was in out of their cells more often.
The proposed legislation
tary confinement. backwards,” Cooper said.
“County jails should not be
are “misguided” in how
they’re trying to solve the
battery and several other
misdemeanors, he said he
there. It was being considered by Califor-
nia lawmakers, which is sim-
:: psychiatric facilities.”
Under a 2020 federal con-
problem.
“Mr. Holden wants a
typically spent 24 hours each
day in a cell. A handful of
subhuman ilar to recent changes in New
York, would eliminate the
Sheriffs who run the jails
see a physically impossible,
sent decree, people incarcer-
ated in Sacramento Coun-
cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-
all approach,” he said. “It
times the guards offered him
a chance to get out for “rec-
conditions.’ use of isolation for vulnera-
ble populations, including
dangerous and costly task ty’s Main Jail are supposed doesn’t work.” reation” — but “recreation” — J OHN, those with serious mental
ahead if AB 280 passes. They to be allowed to spend at simply entailed being chai- who spent most of the 58 days
and physical disabilities;
use confinement to separate least 17 hours out of their :: ned to a table in an indoor he was incarcerated
pregnant and postpartum
inmates who they say are vi- cells each week, with limited common area, so it “wasn’t in a solitary cell
people; and anyone younger
olent, gang-affiliated or ac- exceptions. But that still The jail conditions have worth” being out, he said. than 26 or older than 59. It
cused of high-profile crimes. doesn’t happen. been a decades-long “I felt a little bit less than would also require regular
In some jails, even gen- “Dozens of people spend problem in Los Angeles a human being the whole ture, arguing that the pro- mental health checks, strin-
eral population inmates almost every hour of the day County where, according to time I was in there,” he said. posed restrictions on segre- gent documentation of when
spend so much time locked locked in small, dark cells. department officials, as of “It was subhuman condi- gated confinement would segregation is used and in-
in their cells that they would People go weeks or even mid-August 830 people were tions — and then there’s the hamper the jail’s ability to creased out-of-cell time for
fall under the bill’s broad months without any access in administrative toll it takes on your mind.” manage inmates with “se- recreation, meals, program-
definition of segregated con- to fresh air,” a 2022 report co- segregation — some isolated Unlike some people living vere and volatile” mental ming and treatment.
finement. Many jails simply written by the advocacy or- for disciplinary reasons, and in extreme isolation, John health problems. Years of research show
aren’t designed with enough ganization Prison Law Of- others for their own protec- was not in solitary because “Segregated confine- that prolonged isolation can
space to safely give everyone fice found. “Even when they tion or for broader safety of bad behavior or the nature ment must always be a exacerbate mental illness
more time outside their cell, are permitted to go to out- and security concerns. of his crime: He was isolated readily accessible option not and lead to hallucinations,
sheriffs argue, or enough door recreation, they are There is also a much because he admitted to staff only for these inmates but psychosis and suicidal
staff to watch them. confined to another grim larger population of people that he was suicidal, he told also for others who have a thoughts.
“It’s not as simple as this concrete space, with no living in de facto isolation, The Times. Now the 40-year- higher risk of encountering “Isolation itself is what
legislation makes it out to grass, no exercise equip- including hundreds of se- old is free and in sober living, retaliatory violence based does the damage,” Haney
be,” said California State ment, and dark tarps that verely mentally ill people where he said he’s been off on their alleged crimes, gang said. “It almost feels like
Sheriffs’ Assn. President block any view of the outside who spend most of their drugs for several months. affiliation, or other factors,” [jails are] designed to make
and Tulare County Sheriff world.” time locked alone in their “If you’re spending time he wrote in a letter to law- mental health problems
Mike Boudreaux. “More and Cooper, a Democrat who cells. Under a settlement alone at home you have a makers. worse rather than better.”
more oversight is being im- was elected sheriff last year agreement with the U.S. De- television or something to Supporters of the pro-
plemented into something after serving eight years as partment of Justice that’s harness loneliness or de- :: posed law contend that
that seems to be carrying a an assemblyman, said he is been in place since 2015, the pression or deep sadness,” sheriffs and jail officials who
political narrative versus trying to improve condi- county agreed to give se- John said. “But when you’re One county over, in Riv- oppose it are doing too little
real solutions.” tions. verely mentally ill people 20 in solitary you don’t have erside, Sheriff Chad Bianco to find reasonable and safe
Blocks away from the He wants to reconfigure hours of out-of-cell time per that. You don’t have the lux- had similar concerns. De- alternatives to isolation.
state Capitol where lawmak- the jail’s three yards to dou- week — 10 hours of free time ury of grasping onto some- spite his jail’s relatively re- “You can’t just put people
ers are debating solitary ble the recreation space for and 10 hours of program- thing for sanity. Maybe you served use of isolation, Bi- into a box and not have a
confinement sits Sacra- more than 1,700 inmates. ming. But the county has ne- work out. And you sleep. anco questioned whether plan,” said Hamid Yazdan
mento County’s Main Jail, a Over the last year, Cooper ver fully complied with that That’s all there is.” further reductions would be Panah, advocacy director for
dilapidated building in the has lobbied county supervi- requirement. The Sheriff ’s Depart- safe and said the number of Immigrant Defense Advo-
center of downtown with sors to build a new jail facil- In some areas of the jail, ment said it couldn’t identify cells in each pod would make cates.
dingy cells and sanitation is- ity that could address out- the conditions, both for the situation John described it “physically impossible” to Newsom hasn’t indicated
sues that in recent years has standing requirements in those in isolated confine- without more specific infor- let people out of their cells whether he would sign this
seen an uptick in in-custody the consent decree and fulfill ment and for those in gen- mation, but that it takes all for the requisite four hours year’s legislation, but re-
deaths. many of the legislation’s eral population, are allegations seriously. per day. cently said he is still working
During a recent tour of goals. They approved a more remarkably poor. Despite The Los Angeles County Riverside County’s five with the Legislature and the
the jail, a Times reporter modest plan to update parts regular visits from court-ap- jails — seven facilities that jails hold a total of about state Department of Correc-
heard people yelling and of the jail and build a mental pointed monitors, current together comprise the larg- 4,000 inmates, with fewer tions and Rehabilitation to
talking to themselves while health annex, which will take and former inmates regu- est jail system in the country than 100 in segregated con- “land on an agreement” for
in isolation, their voices am- years to complete. larly report being housed in — house nearly 13,000 peo- finement, officials said. segregated confinement in
plified in the steel and con- Cooper worries that the filthy cells and say they’re ple. Roughly half the popula- Those in segregation are fre- prisons.
crete of their housing pod. proposed law would add im- made to sleep on floors using tion is being held pretrial, quently housed in two-man Time is running out for
One unit reeked of stale air practical new requirements. only trash bags for warmth. and 42% have mental health cells, and some are allowed negotiations. The bill is
and sweat. He said jails weren’t built for For John, who still has needs. out together in small groups. scheduled for a critical com-
Peeking out from his long-term housing and said pending charges and asked Los Angeles County When a reporter visited a mittee vote on Sept. 1, which
cell’s glass window was Dan- that deputies are doing what that his full name be with- Sheriff Robert Luna op- segregated housing unit in could decide its fate. The last
drae Martin, charged with they can to maintain safety held, the few months he poses the changes being de- August, several men were day for lawmakers to pass
murder in last year’s mass with an unpredictable and spent in isolation at Twin bated in the state Legisla- calmly mingling outside of bills this year is Sept. 14.
B

CALIFORNIA T H U R S D AY , A U G U S T 3 1 , 2 0 2 3 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L I F O R N I A

State prisons
are reporting
citizens to ICE,
ACLU says
cacy group says California
Corrections staffers Department of Corrections
and Rehabilitation staff rou-
routinely assume that tinely assume people in their
people are deportable, custody are deportable im-
migrants — even when their
public records show. own records indicate they
are U.S. citizens or immi-
By Andrea Castillo grants who should not be de-
ported — and report those
WASHINGTON — On individuals to U.S. Immigra-
Aug. 18, 2022, a records de- tion and Customs Enforce-
partment employee at the ment while denying them re-
California Correctional Cen- habilitation opportunities.
ter emailed federal immigra- The records stem from a
tion authorities a list of peo- public records request filed
ple they believed could be last year by the ACLU affili-
subject to deportation. The ate, which sought communi-
list noted that most of those cations between the Califor-

Help at a named were born outside


the U.S. or had an unknown
birthplace. But 12 people
nia Department of Correc-
tions and Rehabilitation, or
CDCR, and ICE. The ACLU
tough time were listed as having been
born in this country.
and other advocacy groups
said they analyzed about
That email was obtained 2,500 unique records from
Peter Philips, who is by the American Civil Liber- August and September
training to be a grief ties Union’s Northern Cali- 2022, during which the de-
fornia affiliate and shared partment transferred more
counselor at Saddleback
with The Times. The advo- [See ICE, B2]
Church in Lake Forest,
keeps flowers watered
at a growing memorial
to the victims of the Aug.
23 mass shooting at
Cook’s Corner, a road-
house in Trabuco Can-
Too much Hilary
yon in Orange County.
He also makes time to
talk to community
members stopping by to
hype? Probably
pay their respects after
the gunman, a retired
Ventura police sergeant,
not, experts say
killed three people and grew more clear, likely to be-
wounded six others. By Grace Toohey come the first storm of that
Photographs by Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times strength to hit the region in
As Hurricane Hilary bar- decades.
reled toward Southern Cali- And although the system
fornia this month, the storm turned out to be historic for
made international news as Southern California —

L.A. may Cop has ‘qualified immunity’ forecasters warned of the


possibility of life-threat-
ening and catastrophic
dumping record summer
rainfall and hitting tropical
storm wind speeds recorded

sue Texas in fatal shooting, court rules flooding from heavy rains,
especially in the mountains
and deserts.
Officials issued the re-
only twice in the last century
— weather officials say the
situation was not unheard-
of for the region. While some

over 9th Circuit Court


highlighted the powerful
court’s conservative-liberal
24 Hour Fitness in Holly-
wood sparked protests in
gion’s first-ever tropical
storm watch — later up-
graded to a warning — for a
areas experienced flooding,
damage was limited and
there were no reports of

migrant reverses itself in an


L.A. case after Bush
divide, particularly on mat-
ters of police accountability,
and how important deci-
L.A.
The ruling had also been
considered a win for advo-
broad swath of the South-
land as the cyclone’s path
deaths associated with the
[See Warnings, B5]

busing appointee joins panel.


By Kevin Rector
sions can hinge on a single
vote.
The ruling occurred after
a judge appointed by Presi-
cates of police reform na-
tionally, who have long de-
nounced qualified immunity
as a barrier to police ac-
dent Obama retired and was countability and lauded the
By Julia Wick Reversing a decision replaced on the panel by a decision for challenging the
from December, a panel of judge appointed by Presi- doctrine’s sweep.
The Los Angeles City federal appellate court dent George W. Bush, which The new ruling instead
Council voted unanimously judges ruled Wednesday shifted the ideological bal- hands a win to Agdeppa and
Wednesday to look into that a Los Angeles police of- ance of the panel. The panel the city of L.A. — though it
whether the city can sue the ficer who fatally shot a man voted in May to rescind its may not stand, either. With
state of Texas and Texas in a gym shower in 2018 is earlier ruling and reconsider two split panels in a row rul-
Gov. Greg Abbott for send- protected from litigation by the case. ing in opposite ways, the
ing a busload of migrants to the controversial judicial The new ruling undoes a case could be taken up by a
Los Angeles on June 14, and doctrine of “qualified immu- December victory for the 11-judge “en banc” panel of
to investigate whether Ab- nity.” family of 30-year-old Albert the 9th Circuit or appealed
bott’s actions violated any The 2-1 ruling by the Dorsey, whose killing by to the conservative U.S. Genaro Molina Los Angeles Times
criminal laws. three-judge panel of the U.S. LAPD Officer Edward Supreme Court, which has HILLARY TUCKER and her dog Oakley navigate a
“These motions are 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Agdeppa after a struggle at a [See Immunity, B5] flooded street in Sherman Oaks after the storm.
about investigating whether
Gov. Greg Abbott commit-
ted kidnapping, human traf-
ficking or any other crimes
when he sent vulnerable
families on a 23-hour bus
ride with little or no food or
water,” Councilmember
Hugo Soto-Martínez said
Street food vendors have long been targets
shortly before the 13-0 vote.
The June 14 bus was the Recent attacks underscore how vulnerable these workers are, to criminals and to lawmakers
first sent to Los Angeles by
Texas. Ten more have ar- GUSTAVO ARELLANO follow health regulations and wer-
rived since, with the most re- en’t registered to do business in the
cent pulling into Union Sta- Andrew the tamale city.
tion during the council’s man didn’t stand a Sounds familiar, right? Except
Wednesday meeting. chance. this paper reported on Andrew the
The proposal directs City He was at his tamale man’s bad fortune 130 years
Atty. Hydee Feldstein Soto’s usual spot, near Main ago.
office to investigate and be- and College streets, Nearly a decade later, in 1901,
gin proceedings on potential at 1 a.m. when two another Times dispatch marveled
civil legal action that could men approached. at L.A.’s street food scene:
be taken against Texas, Ab- One pressed a gun to “Strangers coming to Los Ange-
bott, or “any other entity re- his chest; the other picked through les remark at the presence of so
lating to planning and ac- his pockets. They made off with his many outdoor restaurants, and
tions of June 14, 2023.” It also earnings for the night: $2.25. marvel at the system which per-
asks Feldstein Soto’s office The robbery was part of a crime mits men … to set up places of
to investigate and report on wave against street food vendors in business in the public streets …
whether “human trafficking, Los Angeles, breathlessly reported competing with businessmen who
kidnapping or any other on by the media. Police and prose- pay high rents for rooms in which to
crime was committed” on or cutors announced they would go serve the public with food.”
before the day the day the after scofflaws like Andrew’s assail- Since the start of the pandemic,
first bus was sent. ants. Vendors set up security de- but especially since the California
“The L.A. City Council Gary Coronado Los Angeles Times tails. Meanwhile, politicians con- Legislature passed laws last year
members are complete hyp- ANTONIA ARIZPE, left, Yeroslava Guerrero and Cristina Ra- tinued a push to outlaw tamaleros that decriminalized the selling and
[See Migrants, B2] mirez, right, make tortillas in 2020 at Tacos a Cabron in East L.A. and their ilk, claiming they didn’t [See Arellano, B4]

SPORTS ON THE BACK: Predicting college football slate a personal prognostication. B10
B2 T H U R S DAY , AU G U S T 31, 2 0 23 L AT I M E S . C O M

State reports U.S. citizens to ICE Suspect


[ICE, from B1]
than 200 people from its fa-
in fatal
crash
cilities to immigration cus-
tody.
The groups detailed the
results in a report published

has long
Tuesday that they say de-
scribes the practices em-
ployed by the department in
cooperation with ICE and

record
provides examples of alleged
actions by department staff
that are discriminatory, in-
cluding against immigrants.
“In their zeal to collude
with ICE, CDCR is not only
targeting people who have Man was on probation
served their time and are set
to return home for detention in a murder case at
and deportation but is also time of collision that
sweeping up U.S. citizens
and Green Card holders, re- killed 3 in Uber car.
lying on racist assumptions
and ignoring their own re- By Summer Lin
cords,” the report states.
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s of- The man accused of
fice referred questions from killing three people — in-
The Times to the correc- cluding two sisters — when
tions department. he crashed into their Uber in
CDCR spokesperson South Los Angeles was out
Terri Hardy said the depart- of jail on probation in con-
ment is working to limit nection with a murder case,
communications with ICE according to the Los Ange-
to only when someone en- les Police Department.
ters prison and when their Los Angeles resident
release date is approaching. Gregory Black, 31, faces
Hardy said the department Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times three charges of gross vehic-
inquires with ICE for an offi- IMMIGRATION and Customs Enforcement agents make an arrest in 2022 in Los Angeles. State prison ular manslaughter, and if
cial determination if staff staffers have reported some people in their custody to ICE despite records showing they were born in the U.S. convicted could face up to 25
can’t determine an individu- years in prison to life for
al’s place of birth or if infor- rectional Facility indicated each charge, LAPD Det.
mation indicates that the in one email that they would Ryan Moreno said at a
person could be an immi- wait for a response from ICE Wednesday morning news
grant. before signing off on a pris- conference in Los Angeles.
ICE spokesman Richard oner’s parole. Black, a “well-known gang
Beam said the agency re- In another instance, a member” in the area, was
quests that California law case records technician at out on five-year probation,
enforcement notify ICE as Chuckwalla Valley State police said.
early as possible of immi- Prison said a prisoner had At about 5:20 a.m. Sat-
grants who are subject to de- declined to speak with ICE. urday, Black was allegedly
portation so that ICE can Even so, the technician traveling north on Vermont
assume custody when they asked an ICE agent, “Do you Avenue in a white Mercedes-
are released. still want to set an interview Benz when he ran a red light
He said those requests, for him?” That appears to be at Century Boulevard and
called immigration detain- in conflict with California T-boned a black Honda op-
ers, conserve government law stating that such inter- erating as an Uber and car-
resources and increase pub- views are voluntary. rying four passengers, ac-
lic safety by allowing arrests Ny Nourn, co-director of cording to Moreno. Black
to be made in a secure set- Asian Prisoner Support was traveling “at an ex-
ting instead of finding peo- Committee, remembers be- tremely high rate of speed,”
ple for deportation within ing disqualified from a fire- Moreno said.
their community. fighting job and a cable wire The force of the crash
The report follows a harness manufacturing job spun the Honda around five
lawsuit filed by the ACLU af- because of her ICE hold. times before it landed
filiate and former prisoners During her annual prison against a curb, Moreno said.
that alleged similar issues to reviews, officials would tell The three passengers sit-
those described in the re- her she was doing well — she ting in the back of the Uber
cords. John Moore Getty Images said she received no write- were pronounced dead at
In one example described DETAINEES at a privately run federal facility in Adelanto, Calif., in 2013. ups or violations — but re- the scene.
in the suit, a woman born minded her of the hold. They were identified as
in California to Cambodian days to spare. they were U.S. citizens. In wrote, “He was not; he was Nourn, a green card holder sisters Veronica Amezola,
immigrants was referred to If ICE believes that per- one email, a case record born in Mexico.” born in Thailand to Cambo- 23, and Kimberly Izquierdo,
ICE because state prison son is subject to deporta- technician at Avenal State “May I ask what leads you dian refugees, was incarcer- 27, and their friend, Juvelyn
officials wrongly perceived tion, the CDCR issues an Prison referred a man to ICE to believe he was born in ated for 16 years for her role Arroyo, 23.
her to be a Mexican immi- “actual” hold to show ICE’s whose records indicated he Mexico?” the ICE agent in a murder committed by The front seat passenger,
grant. intent to arrest the person was born in California. The asked in response. her former partner, who she Jesus Lopez, had injuries to
Records from the report upon their release, accord- technician joked in an email “His Probation Officer’s said abused her, before be- his left leg, chest and arms.
appear to show some pris- ing to the department’s op- to ICE agents inquiring Report, as well as the infor- ing pardoned by Newsom. The Uber driver, Michelle
ons have an “ICE Desk” with erations manual. about his legal status, mation collected by the After being released from Lee, had a fractured neck
staff designated to facilitate ICE has detained and “Should we just put US citi- counselors when first re- the Central California Wom- and ribs and massive head
referrals of incarcerated even deported U.S. citizens. zen on a piece of paper fold it ceived in prison, all state he en’s Facility in 2017, Nourn trauma. They were both
people to federal author- Last year, Asian Americans up and put it in a hat, and was born in Mexico,” the su- spent six months fighting hospitalized and are recov-
ities. Advancing Justice — Asian then write on another piece pervisor replied. “I was deportation. ering from their injuries.
According to the report, if Law Caucus and the ACLU of paper Mexican, fold it up tipped off while reviewing “There’s many immi- Black was also hospital-
a CDCR official perceives affiliate settled a lawsuit and also throw that in the his parole audit … that he grants like me who have ized with a fractured left an-
someone to be foreign born, with ICE over the unlawful hat and pick one.” doesn’t speak English.” been transferred over to kle and other injuries, ac-
that triggers a “potential” detention of a U.S. citizen, In response to a question Most people on lists sent ICE,” she said. “CDCR is not cording to Moreno. Black
hold at intake — an internal Brian Bukle, who had been about the incident, Hardy by the CDCR to ICE whose about rehabilitation.” has a criminal history, in-
designation established in referred to the agency by the said, “The email communi- birthplace is listed as the She and other advocates cluding 11 felony charges and
the department’s opera- CDCR. Bukle repeatedly cation between a former U.S. had non-Anglo-Saxon are calling for California leg- three convictions. He also
tions manual. Once some- told ICE agents that he was a CDCR employee at Avenal names, according to the re- islators to advance the has four misdemeanor
one is marked with a poten- U.S. citizen while detained State Prison and ICE is un- port. HOME Act, which would charges and one conviction.
tial hold, they are barred for 36 days at Mesa Verde acceptable, and not in line ICE regularly sent back block transfers to ICE de- Before the crash, Black
from lower-security custody ICE Processing Center in with expectations for how forms indicating that the tention of incarcerated peo- was allegedly driving at
placements, certain jobs Bakersfield before an immi- our staff communicate and person the CDCR had re- ple who meet the require- about 100 mph on Vermont
and reentry programming. gration attorney intervened work with other law enforce- ferred could not be de- ments for release under cer- Avenue and ran a red light at
Hardy said the CDCR is and secured his release. ment agencies. ported, Singh said. tain existing laws. Lawmak- Imperial Highway about 20
working on regulations that Sana Singh of the ACLU “We are working to en- CDCR employees ask ers rejected a predecessor of seconds before he hit the
would allow incarcerated affiliate said the group has sure our staff is properly ICE if it would like to pick up that bill last year. Uber. Moreno said the colli-
people with ICE holds to be been reviewing records since trained and informed when a prisoner even without Assemblymember Wen- sion site “looked like a bomb
placed in less-restrictive February and expects to re- dealing with these types of prompting from federal au- dy Carrillo (D-Los Angeles), went off.”
housing based on their be- ceive thousands more pages cases,” Hardy said. The thorities, the records show, who sponsored the bill, said “It’s obvious when you
havior and program partici- of records in the coming CDCR did not respond to and have repeatedly fol- the documents obtained by see these videos that it’s ve-
pation. months. other questions from The lowed up when agents did the ACLU show clear bias hicular homicide all the
CDCR staff regularly put “What’s reflected in these Times. not respond. Sometimes, that requires the Legisla- way,” Moreno said. “You got
together “ICE packets” con- records is CDCR engaging in In another email, sent by state officials held inmates ture to demand accountabil- an individual driving at
taining background infor- formalized discrimination,” a correctional case records beyond their release dates to ity. speeds upwards of 100 mph
mation and criminal records she said. “We felt it was supervisor at San Quentin verify if ICE wanted to arrest “In actively collaborating in 35 mph streets, blowing
of people they believe could worth sharing now even be- State Prison to an ICE de- them, according to the re- with ICE and with their own red lights and ultimately
be transferred to ICE cus- fore we get the full universe portation officer 11 days be- port. discriminatory language basically playing roulette
tody, according to the re- of records.” fore a prisoner was sched- Hardy said the CDCR and actions, CDCR has be- and hitting a car, T-boning a
port. Advocates said ICE Documents obtained by uled for release, the supervi- does not, and cannot by law, trayed the public’s trust and car and killing people.”
often doesn’t begin investi- the ACLU affiliate showed sor said the inmate’s records hold incarcerated people their own mission to facili- GoFundMe pages have
gating until a person’s earli- that CDCR staff referred indicated he was born in Cal- past their release dates. tate the successful reentry of been set up to cover funeral
est possible release date people to ICE despite the ifornia. A case records technician individuals in their care,” costs for Amezola and
nears, sometimes with only state’s own records showing But, the supervisor at Richard J. Donovan Cor- she said. Izquierdo and for Arroyo.

L.A. looking into suing Texas over busing of migrants


[Migrants, from B1] “Governor Abbott should first bus, though council
ocrites. In June, they unani- be ashamed of himself for members spoke of the other
mously voted to become a playing politics with the lives buses in their comments.
sanctuary city, welcoming of vulnerable migrant fam- During the council meet-
migrants to the city,” Abbott ilies. ... I am deeply offended ing, Soto-Martínez excoriat-
spokesperson Andrew Ma- by his inhumane actions and ed Abbott for sending a bus
haleris said Wednesday in an am eager to investigate this of migrants to the city earlier
apparent reference to the further,” Feldstein Soto said this month while Los Ange-
council’s June 9 vote to in a statement Wednesday les was under an unprece-
toughen policies around the evening. dented tropical storm warn-
use of city resources for fed- The council also unani- ing and officials were urging
eral immigration enforce- mously approved a separate residents not to travel. May-
ment. (That so-called “sanc- resolution calling on L.A. or Karen Bass also slammed
tuary city” ordinance would County Dist. Atty. George Abbott after that bus ar-
essentially codify existing Gascón, state Atty. Gen. rived, calling the move “evil.”
policies but still has to be Rob Bonta and U.S. Atty. Councilmembers Kevin
drafted by the city attorney’s Gen. Merrick Garland to de León, Heather Hutt and
office and return to the similarly investigate wheth- Imelda Padilla also spoke in
council for a final vote.) er crimes were committed. support of the proposals.
Mahaleris asserted that Both the proposal and Padilla, the newest coun-
migrants had willingly cho- the resolution were origi- cil member, directed her
sen to go to L.A. on buses nally introduced June 16 by comments to the service or-
stocked with food and water, Soto-Martínez and fellow ganizations that have
saying they “signed a volun- Councilmembers Eunisses helped welcome the mi-
tary consent waiver avail- Hernandez, Monica Rodri- grants, asking them to reach
able in multiple languages guez and Nithya Raman. out if they needed help cop- Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times
upon boarding that they The text of both documents ing with the number of new MIGRANTS from Texas leave a bus at St. Anthony’s Croatian Catholic Church on
agreed on the destination.” directly addresses only the arrivals. July 13 in Los Angeles. Eleven such buses have arrived in the city since June.
L AT I M E S . C O M T H U R S DAY , AU G U S T 31, 2 0 23 B3

CITY & STATE

Bomb
threat
empties
Oakland
school
Message with ‘racial
undertones’ sent to
head of campus that
drew right-wing scorn.
By Andrew J. Campa

An Oakland public ele-


mentary school was evacu-
ated Tuesday morning after
a bomb threat with “racial
undertones” was emailed to
the principal.
Just days earlier, the
school had drawn scorn
from a right-wing social me-
dia account.
Anthony Chabot Ele-
mentary School, a campus
with a little more than 500
students in kindergarten
through fifth grade, was
evacuated by Oakland po-
lice around 8:30 a.m., shortly
Allen J. Schaben Los Angeles Times after the department was
made aware of a threat.
CASTING CALL School had not yet
started, which meant there
A COUPLE beat the heat in the shade, fishing and relaxing at Rancho Santa Margarita Lake in Orange County on Tuesday.
were roughly 30 students
along with faculty and staff
on campus, according to
Oakland police Capt. Lisa
Ausmus.

LAUSD told to pay damages over death “The students have been
safely reunited with their
parents,” Ausmus said at a
news conference.
Ausmus said school em-
ter their children, and grader, Taylor said, and she month, Taylor’s attorney, hours, and said Brand had ployees were evacuated after
A jury awards Dayvon was in Brand’s allowed him to take Dayvon Steve Vartazarian, alleged passed numerous back- the threat “to a safe area,”
Downey apartment when he to movies and on play dates that Brand had a checkered ground checks. where they waited until they
$30 million to mother was fatally beaten. with other children. The two employment history and “No LAUSD employee could be cleared to return to
whose son was killed “My son did not deserve grew so close that she made that his client would have had any reason to believe campus. The campus was
to die at all. He was really him the boy’s godfather. never trusted him without that Martin Brand was a cleared around noon, ac-
by after-school coach. happy, joyful, helpful, re- But an investigation de- the district’s after-school danger to students until the cording to police.
spectful,” Kenya Taylor said termined that Brand se- program. He also presented day he was arrested for the There were 50 total peo-
By Richard Winton at a news conference Tues- verely beat Dayvon on Dec. evidence that L.A. Unified’s murder of Dayvon Taylor,” ple evacuated, according to
day. 26, 2019, while the boy was human resources depart- the attorneys said in court Oakland police spokes-
A jury has awarded The L.A. County Superi- was staying with him. He ment was never involved in papers, noting that they had person Rosalia Lopez.
$30 million in damages to a or Court jury in Van Nuys died at St. Mary Medical hiring Brand, and that the no reports of abusive or vi- The Alameda County
mother whose 6-year-old found that the district was Center in Long Beach that staff responsible for it were olent behavior by him. Sheriff ’s K-9 bomb-sniffing
son was murdered in 2019 by responsible for 90% of the day. not trained to filter out can- Whether the district will team was at the school earli-
a man who had worked for negligence that led to the The boy had been repeat- didates unsuited to being seek to overturn the verdict er in the day searching for
an after-school program op- death, with the remaining edly punched, and the blunt with children. or appeal the award has yet explosives, according to
erated by the Los Angeles 10% the fault of Kenya Tay- force trauma led to his Vartazarian showed ju- to be determined. Ausmus. No information on
Unified School District. lor. death, the investigation rors that Brand had no “While this tragedy hap- what might have been found
In a verdict on Aug. 10, the Brand worked at Nor- found. After Brand was ar- training or experience with pened off campus and dur- was provided.
jury said the district was mandie Avenue Elementary rested and charged with children, and that a supervi- ing a holiday break, the safe- The Alameda County
negligent in hiring, retaining School and had befriended murder, Taylor sued the sor who knew Brand offered ty and well-being of all stu- Sheriff ’s Office did not im-
and supervising Tyler the Taylor family. Dayvon, school district. babysitting services did not dents remains Los Angeles mediately respond to ques-
D’Shaun Martin Brand, an nicknamed “Day Day,” at- Brand, 26, pleaded no check his references. Unified’s top priority,” the tions.
after-school coach who tended the district’s Beyond contest to second-degree L.A. Unified attorneys ar- district said in a statement. Ausmus did not elabo-
killed Dayvon Taylor the day the Bell program. murder in May 2022. He was gued that the district should “Regarding the jury verdict, rate on what the email sent
after Christmas in 2019. The Brand seemed beloved sentenced to 15 years to life not be responsible for a slay- this is a legal matter. Los An- to the school’s principal
district had allowed Brand by children at the school, in prison. ing that occurred on private geles Unified intends to con- said, only that there were
to solicit parents to look af- where Dayvon was a first- During a civil trial this property outside school sider all available options.” “some racial undertones.”
She added that the FBI was
investigating as well.
Additional off-campus
sites were named as targets.

Could Mejia have done more to save nominee? Ausmus said there were
bomb threats aimed at “resi-
dences,” adding that the
homes were not those of stu-
dents or parents.
Mejia with their concerns? “Council members are at- mistake by failing to shep- for union officials who work Lopez said there were
The city controller’s Or should Mejia have tempting to excuse typical herd York through the coun- to influence city decisions. three total locations tar-
reached out to them, build- back-room dealing behavior cil’s approval process. Mims did not respond to geted.
choice for a seat on ing support for his nominee? by accusing our office of fail- “She made the mistake of requests for comment. Blu- Libs of TikTok, defined
ethics panel was shot Since York’s nomination ing to follow procedure. But trusting that Mejia was do- menfield said he offered by the Anti-Defamation
was shot down, City Council we didn’t do anything ing what he needed to do,” he York supportive comments League as “a popular anti-
down unanimously. members have defended wrong. The City Council did. said. at his fireworks event but did LGBTQ+ twitter account,”
their vote, citing her past A majority of council mem- Meat-and-potatoes net- not make an “ironclad com- posted on Monday about the
By David Zahniser work as a campaign fund- bers clearly ceded their role working — picking up the mitment” to vote for her. school’s “Playdate Social”
raiser and her advocacy on to special interests focused phone, for example — is not Supporters of York view held the previous Saturday.
If anyone on the Los An- the city’s lobbying rules, par- on limiting transparency unusual for veteran L.A. the focus on Mejia as misdi- The event was advertised
geles City Council should ticularly as they relate to la- and accountability,” she politicians. When Mayor rection, saying blame should as open to “Black, Brown
have been a reliable ally for bor unions. They also con- said. Karen Bass has a commis- be placed squarely with the and API families,” according
City Controller Kenneth tend that Mejia’s team Chang said her office of- sion appointment, she typi- council, particularly Kreko- to a flier. That notice drew
Mejia, it was Councilmem- showed little, if any, interest fered Krekorian a chance to cally alerts the council presi- rian, who heads the rules the ire of the account’s han-
ber Eunisses Hernandez. in speaking to council mem- speak with York in a June 30 dent and each member of committee, which serves as dlers, who posted that the
Hernandez and Mejia oc- bers or corralling votes. email. That email, written by the relevant council commit- the clearinghouse for ethics social was “race segregated”
cupy the leftmost end of the “The nomination was a Mejia staffer, was ad- tee, offering them an oppor- nominees. Krekorian waived and was not for “the white
political spectrum at City unanimously disapproved dressed to City Clerk Holly tunity to meet with the no- York’s nomination out of his kids.”
Hall, sharing similar views by members who have a wide Wolcott, with a copy sent to minee, according to a Bass committee, choosing not to The account also posted
on homelessness, police range of viewpoints, and the Krekorian’s general office in- aide. Councilmember Katy have a separate hearing on a comment from an alleged
spending and other topics. controller simply made no box. Yaroslavsky, for example, her appointment before it “brown” parent that read,
Both took office last year af- effort to address any mem- York, for her part, said met this year with two of reached the council floor. “I’m genuinely upset about
ter vanquishing seasoned ber’s questions or con- Mejia’s office was support- Bass’ appointees to the De- Asked about that deci- what ultimately boils down
elected officials. cerns,” Council President ive, staying in contact partment of Water and sion, Krekorian spokes- to a ‘no whites allowed’ play-
But when Mejia was look- Paul Krekorian said in a throughout the appoint- Power board. person Hugh Esten said date. How is this produc-
ing to put Jamie York, presi- statement. ment process. She said Former Ethics Commis- there was “not enough time” tive?”
dent of the Reseda Neigh- Councilmember Mar- she informed Mejia’s team sioner Shedrick Davis, an to consider the nomination The post garnered more
borhood Council, on the queece Harris-Dawson, of- that she had spoken with appointee of former City in committee before the full than 1.3 million views as of
city’s Ethics Commission, he fered a similar take, saying Councilmember Bob Blu- Controller Ron Galperin, council vote. Tuesday afternoon. Libs of
didn’t call up Hernandez for through an aide that Mejia’s menfield, her representa- said he didn’t experience Rob Quan, an organizer TikTok has a history of am-
help in the days leading up to team did not contact his of- tive, about her appointment that kind of process when he with Unrig LA, which plifying and framing social
the crucial Aug. 18 vote on fice to discuss his pick. while he was working a went before the council in backed York’s nomination, media posts by LGBTQ+
her appointment. “Most people that I vote booth at a Fourth of July fire- 2018. “I pretty much remem- said Krekorian had a re- creators, particularly for
Hernandez has since for, I can do so with confi- works event in Woodland ber congratulations and a sponsibility to hold a public right-wing scorn.
voiced regret over her vote to dence, because I know them. Hills. vote being taken,” he said. hearing on York, which A Reddit post about the
reject York, saying she had I know their record, I know “I asked Bob if I could Council members did re- would have allowed her to re- event entitled “Black,
her hands full that day with what they’re about,” Harris- count on his vote and he said ceive extensive feedback on spond publicly to her critics. Brown, Asian Playdate…”
another major issue. At the Dawson said. “That wasn’t yes,” she said. York from neighborhood “If there are problems, vet created on Sunday was de-
same time, she told The the case with this.” York said she also in- councils, which enthusiasti- them in your committee,” he leted, though a comment
Times it would be good if Mejia declined a request formed Mejia she had sup- cally endorsed her and her told Krekorian last week. thread with a few hundred
Mejia provided more infor- from The Times to discuss port from Councilmember work on strengthening lob- Hernandez said she responses remained.
mation the next time he sub- York’s nomination on Fri- Tim McOsker, after receiv- bying laws. Some also heard would vote for York if given As of Tuesday, Chabot
mits an ethics nominee. “We day. In emails, a Mejia aide ing that news from Doug Ep- from Charley Mims, who is another chance. But with Elementary’s website was
didn’t have anybody reach said the office followed the perhart, president of the listed as an executive board the deadline for such a vote not functioning.
out to us,” she said. proper protocol by sending a Coastal San Pedro Neigh- member with Service Em- past, it will be up to Mejia to Oakland Mayor Sheng
“I think it’s important to letter about York to the city borhood Council. Epper- ployees International Union decide whether to renomi- Tao tweeted she was “out-
over-communicate in these clerk, which was uploaded to hart, in an interview, said Local 721, which recently nate her or find a new ap- raged that our children, edu-
spaces, especially if it’s a pri- the public council file. McOsker agreed to vote for staged a one-day strike. pointee. cators and neighbors have
ority of yours,” she said. Diana Chang, a Mejia York during a conversation Mims emailed council been targeted by malicious
The uproar over the spokesperson, said York de- at a public safety fair. members a statement is- A version of this article threats. My office is in con-
council’s unanimous rejec- served a full public hearing. Epperhart, a York sup- sued by the Reseda Neigh- originally appeared in L.A. tact with Oakland Unified
tion of York has triggered an Instead, she said, the nomi- porter, called the council’s borhood Council, which on the Record, The Times’ School District and Oakland
array of questions. Among nation was “blocked by a vote “petty and vindictive.” York read aloud earlier this local politics newsletter. To Police as we seek answers.
them: Did council members corrupt, last minute, back- At the same time, he says year, arguing against the subscribe, visit We are monitoring the situa-
fall short by failing to go to room deal.” Mejia’s team made a rookie weakening of lobbying rules latimes.com/newsletters. tion closely.”
B4 T H U R S DAY , AU G U S T 31, 2 0 23 L AT I M E S . C O M

Cities should focus on protecting street vendors


[Arellano, from B1] a recent spate of taco truck pear drink with glee.
production of street food, stickups to my colleagues Old-fashioned capi-
the trade has exploded. Daniel Miller, Ruben Vives talism is why municipalities
Taco trucks have turned and Richard Winton as an need to give up their war
into taco tents that take up “emerging crime trend.” against street food. It’s a
sidewalks and driveways. The most brazen instance waste of taxpayer money as
Diners sit on sidewalks and was on Aug. 16, when the well as the time of public
feast on dishes as simple as same robbers targeted six employees who have better
gelatin in plastic cups and street vendors across Echo things to do than toss
as complex as goat barba- Park, Hollywood and down- freshly grilled corn-on-the-
coa baked for hours in a town L.A. in the span of two cob into a garbage bag.
backyard pit. I’ve seen hours. Spend all those resources
stands with the same hand- I’ve compiled dozens of on the one problem that has
written signs advertising newspaper clippings on never been solved: vendors
“coco frio” (cold coconut), street food vendors in Los remaining as vulnerable to
along with the same rain- Angeles from the late 19th crime as Andrew the tamale
bow-colored umbrellas, and early 20th centuries, man.
from the Coachella Valley to when Americans were dis- In turn-of-the-century
a dirt turnout off Malibu covering Mexican cuisine Los Angeles, they were
Canyon Road in the Santa and L.A. was already one of white, Black and Mexican
Monica Mountains. the best cities to find it. I men. Today, they’re mostly
City governments from retold some of those long- Mexican and Central
Santa Ana to Santa Monica ago anecdotes in my 2012 American men, women and
to San Diego and even Los book, “Taco USA: How teenagers. They have always
Angeles have tripped over Mexican Food Conquered been the working poor,
themselves to severely limit America,” which main- scraping by in jobs that are
where taco men, fruit ladies, tained that there’s really the envy of no one. Aren’t
pupusa makers, hot- nothing new under the Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times those the hustlers that
dogueros and others can Mexican food sun in this SUPPORTERS of street vendors rally in March before a hearing on Los Angeles’ cities should want to pro-
operate, and to seize the country — that everything is no-vending zones. Disputing the pros and cons of street food is an L.A. tradition. tect and uplift?
equipment of sellers with no cyclical, based on templates I’m not going to pretend
permits. Irate individuals as set in place as the cheese entrepreneurial,” “gang- Only one thing governs dle-class, mostly Latino that all street vendors are
have overturned carts and on a cold quesadilla. like” and “another attempt street food: the free market. Orange County neighbor- faultless. Law enforcement
spat on grills, going viral on Disputing the pros and to get into our neighbor- And believe me, it’s more hood. There were whispers should enforce statutes
social media. cons of street food is a long- hoods,” claiming they ruthless than any code of there-goes-the-barrio, against littering, wage theft,
At the same time, crimi- er tradition in Los Angeles “cheated” restaurant own- enforcement officer could but I told folks that the extortion and other behav-
nals have increasingly tar- than Hollywood, jacarandas ers “out of business.” Why I ever dream to be. vendor wouldn’t last: his iors that actually harm
geted the vendors to the and USC football — but far scoffed when Anaheim L.A.’s tamale men of yore fruit was forgettable. Sure communities. Selling food
point that Los Angeles more annoying than all of spokesperson Mike Lyster largely disappeared when enough, the frutero was on the street is not that.
Police Department Deputy them combined. The only told The Times last year restaurants — once almost gone within weeks and One of my other archival
Chief Kris Pitcher described thing that changes is the that anyone who buys street exclusively a hoity-toity never returned. clippings is from the March
food offered, the technology tacos or tamales “could be affair — became affordable, On the other hand, a 25, 1894, edition of the Los
to cook it and how it’s pro- unknowingly contributing and Angelenos moved on to family has set up a table on a Angeles Herald. It tells the
moted. The pitched battles to human trafficking and other Cal-Mex dishes like nearby residential street for story of a tamale man har-
Honor LA’s leaders. happening right now, that exploitation” but didn’t tacos and chile verde. Lunch years. All they do is sell assed by another tamale
fans and foes alike describe offer proof of either. trucks slinging sandwiches aguas frescas: horchata, man, and notes how “the
as unprecedented … aren’t. The Gilded Age called, took their place in the 1950s, pineapple, mashed straw- public smile[d] a sardonic
That’s why I scroll past Kathy and Mike: They want followed by taco trucks in berries in chilled evapo- smile and wax[ed] humor-
the umpteenth TikTok their blowhard bureaucrats the 1970s to today’s free for rated and condensed milk. ous” any time another mis-
video of chicharrones fried back. all. All along, stalls have The flavors are crisp and fortune fell on street food
in the back of someone’s Even the complaints lived and died by the quality refreshing, with chunks of vendors.
L.A. Works is proud to announce pickup truck. Why I rolled from brick-and-mortar of their food. fruit bobbing in each glass But the unsigned editori-
the LA Civic Leadership and Impact
my eyes earlier this year restaurant owners that it’s A few months ago, a fruit jug. On a hot summer day, I al urged compassion, since
Awards, honoring the people and
organizations that use service to make when Orange Councilmem- unfair for street vendors to vendor with one of those buy something from them the “griefs” of tamale men
a tangible diference. ber Kathy Tavoularis operate without paying rainbow-colored umbrellas at least once a month and “may be as genuine as those
blasted unlicensed food rent, utilities and taxes are hawked his stuff in front of a have seen cops chug down of him who sits upon a
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[Immunity, from B1] knocked to the ground be- negligence in the matter — policy when he shot Dorsey. use of deadly force “violated dicial service and was re-
upheld immunity for officers fore the shooting. They cap- that don’t hinge on the indi- The commission said the of- clearly established law” be- placed in the case by Circuit
in other cases. tured sound but no video of vidual officer’s immunity, ficers should have de-esca- cause there were “signifi- Judge Consuelo Callahan,
Qualified immunity pro- the officers Tasering Dorsey and which he may focus on lated the situation and cant discrepancies” between the Bush appointee.
tects officers from personal multiple times before pursuing instead. called for backup. the officers’ versions of In May, the court gave
liability in civil litigation Agdeppa shot him. Dunn noted it has al- After Dorsey’s family events and other evidence in notice that the reconsti-
when their actions on the job Agdeppa and his partner ready been five years since sued, a lower court agreed the record. There also was tuted panel had decided to
don’t violate “clearly estab- accused Dorsey of attacking Dorsey was killed. He said he with the family that quali- no evidence, she wrote, that withdraw its December
lished law.” The court them, and Agdeppa said he wants to prioritize the fied immunity did not pro- Agdeppa had warned opinion in favor of reconsid-
Wednesday found that was in fear for his partner’s wishes of his client, who he tect Agdeppa from personal Dorsey that he was going to ering the case itself.
Agdeppa’s actions fit that life when he shot Dorsey. said has been frustrated by liability in the matter. That use deadly force before do- This time, Bress wrote
criterion, based on the cir- Their account has been dis- the 9th Circuit’s handling of decision was appealed to the ing so, despite the 4th the opinion of the court,
cumstances of the alterca- puted, in part on the the case. 9th Circuit. Amendment requiring such joined by Callahan, finding
tion with Dorsey. grounds that the officers did “She just thinks games In December, a three- warnings. that Agdeppa’s use of deadly
Dorsey was naked in the not have visible physical in- are being played, and I don’t judge 9th Circuit panel com- “It is not our place to step force “did not violate clearly
gym locker room when juries. have a logical way of talking posed of two Obama ap- into the jury’s shoes and we established law,” and that he
Agdeppa and another offi- Brian Dunn, an attorney her out of that notion,” Dunn pointees and one Trump ap- do not know what happened was therefore entitled to
cer arrived. Gym employees for Dorsey’s mother, said. “My first concern is get- pointee issued a 2-1 ruling in the crucial interval before qualified immunity.
had accused Dorsey of tres- Paulette Smith, said he was ting this case to court on her upholding the lower court’s Agdeppa shot Dorsey,” Bress wrote that regard-
passing and causing a dis- frustrated with the latest remaining claims.” decision. Christen wrote. less of discrepancies about
turbance. ruling, which had left a “sour Kevin Gilbert, an attor- Judge Morgan Christen, The panel’s third mem- the exact nature of the inci-
The officers asked taste” in his mouth. Smith ney for Agdeppa, did not re- an Obama appointee, wrote ber, Circuit Judge Daniel dent, Dorsey had clearly at-
Dorsey to leave, and he ig- brought the family’s lawsuit. spond to a request for com- the court’s majority opinion Bress, dissented, arguing tacked the officers. He also
nored them, dancing to mu- “What it shows is it ment Wednesday. LAPD at the time. She was joined that the “split-second deci- wrote that the facts of the
sic as he moved about the doesn’t matter the merits of Chief Michel Moore said the by Judge Gary Feinerman, a sion” by Agdeppa presented case did not necessarily re-
men’s locker room. Eventu- your case; it matters who is Police Department would federal court judge from Illi- “a classic case for qualified quire that Agdeppa issue a
ally, the officers attempted sitting on the panel,” he said. “continue to monitor the nois and a fellow Obama ap- immunity.” warning of deadly force,
to handcuff Dorsey, who was Dunn said he hadn’t de- court’s actions.” pointee who had been as- After the ruling was is- again because of the rapidly
bigger than the officers, cided whether to ask for an In 2019, the Los Angeles signed to the panel. sued but before a decision evolving nature of the situa-
without success. en banc review or to other- Police Commission — a civil- Christen wrote that the was made on a request that tion.
The encounter was partly wise appeal. There are re- ian body that reviews police lower court was correct in the case be reheard by a Christen dissented, reit-
captured by the officers’ maining claims in the case — shootings — ruled that finding that a jury should larger 9th Circuit panel, erating her arguments from
body cameras, which were including around the city’s Agdeppa violated LAPD consider whether Agdeppa’s Feinerman resigned from ju- the December opinion.

‘Planning for and practicing for’ a scenario like Hilary


[Warnings, from B1] “These systems, they
storm in California, though tend to wind down slowly as
there was one reported they move north because
drowning in Mexico. they’ve lost their energy, but
“We had been actively because this one was moving
planning for and practicing so quick it was able to just
for a scenario such as Hila- hang on that momentum
ry,” said Jamie Rhome, dep- just long enough to carry it
uty director of the National into Southern California,”
Hurricane Center. “Scientif- Rhome said.
ically, it wasn’t beyond the That speed helped min-
realm of understanding or imize the destruction of the
that atypical. It’s rare, it rainfall, officials said, be-
doesn’t happen all the time, cause it didn’t linger too long
but it certainly has hap- over one area — as did the
pened enough times in the timing of the storm.
past that we knew it could “We didn’t have commut-
happen again.” er traffic that we might nor-
He called Hilary’s path mally see,” said Shane Re-
and strength “unusual, but ichardt, spokesman for the
not unprecedented.” Riverside County Emer-
The last tropical storm to gency Management Depart-
move across California was ment. “It also helped that
Nora in 1997, which tracked the brunt of the storm hap-
over the state’s southeast- pened in the evening and
ern border with Arizona be- overnight hours. So all those
fore weakening into a tropi- factors together combined
cal depression, according to to help make that a little bit
the National Hurricane Cen- easier.”
ter. It brought heavy rains While some have won-
and minor flooding across dered whether the storm
much of Southern California was overhyped, weather ex-
— even damaging waves on perts have pointed to the in-
the Orange County coast — creased awareness and
but the most significant likely appropriate alarms —
flood damage hit farmers in especially given the destruc-
the Imperial Valley, accord- tion that did occur in many
ing to The Times’ archives. Wally Skalij Los Angeles Times parts of southeastern Cali-
The other tropical storm A PEDESTRIAN avoids flooding from Tropical Storm Hilary in Ensenada, Mexico, this month. A National fornia.
that hit the region in recent Hurricane Center official called the storm’s path and strength “unusual, but not unprecedented.” “Ideally if people take
history — which traveled di- precautions and mitigation
rectly over the Los Angeles ture inland. landfall over California, is done ahead of time, you
Basin, as Hilary did — was A number of tropical de- Rhome said, certain would have fewer impacts
an unnamed system that pressions or other cyclone weather conditions must and less bad things would
made landfall around San remnants have blown over align to pull them north — as happen — which is a good
Pedro in 1939, dumping more and near Southern Califor- happened with the high thing,” Iñiguez said. “The
than 5 inches of rain on L.A. nia in recent decades, leav- pressure system over the system worked.”
in 24 hours and leaving doz- ing behind paths of wreck- central U.S., which had a
ens dead, according to a Na- age, including Kathleen in strong southerly flow that Times staff writers Rachel
tional Weather Service 1976, which caused multiple helped spin Hilary north, Uranga and Rong-Gong Lin
document. The storm be- deaths and damage across and fast. II contributed to this report.
came known as “El Cordon- the Imperial Valley; and Nor-
azo,” or “The Lash of St. man in 1978, which tossed
Francis,” records show. In around ships in harbors and
the aftermath of that storm, killed four on Mt. Whitney,
federal officials created their
first forecast office in South-
ern California, noting that
residents had been “general-
ly unprepared” for the tropi- Francine Orr Los Angeles Times
according to a National
Weather Service document.
Gonsalves noted that de-
spite Hilary’s heavy precipi-
tation, most areas did not
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even Palm Springs — leaving
Myrna B. Bird NORIKO. NUMATA
Mount Sinai Mem Parks Age 85, passed away
between Hilary and the East coasts — could better tremes at UC San Diego’s highs still unsurpassed from on August 20, 2023.
other two tropical storms alert and prepare Califor- Scripps Institution of 1977, when remnants of Do- H. Hills 800-600-0076
Predeceased by her beloved
that most recently hit nians, who are overwhelm- Oceanography. “Storms reen blew through, or even mountsinaiparks.org husband, Kenny Kenichi
Southern California: The ingly inexperienced at deal- that are hundreds of miles 1984 records, when there Numata and siblings, Takashi
National Weather Service ing with tropical storms. away can have a big impact.” wasn’t a specific tropical Narikiyo, Hiroko Kinoshita
had recently bolstered its “We had been actively That’s not to say this storm but probably just a Elissa Czuker and Yoichi Tsuruda all from
operations and alert sys- working in this area to pre- storm didn’t do damage. In- strong plume of tropical The American Society Japan; she is survived by her
tems for this exact situation. pare for and enhance our terior pockets of Southern moisture that made its way for Yad Vashem mourns the children, Richard Takeshi
Hilary becoming the first messaging and our products California saw the heaviest north. untimely passing of Board (Maria) Numata, David Kenji
West Coast storm to get an to be as prepared as we could rainfall, prompting danger- Areas that did set new Member Elissa Czuker, be- (Tammi) Numata, and Yumi
official tropical storm warn- be when something like this ous slides and flooding in the monthly records after Hilary loved wife of Board Member (Daren) Arai of Las Vegas, NV;
ing — which officials have unfolds,” Rhome said. He mountains and deserts of include Newport Beach, Edward Czuker, daughter of grandchildren, Stephanie
credited for increasing said it’s too early to deter- San Bernardino and Riv- which reached 2.55 inches, Denis Wallach, and daughter- (Justin) Igawa and Lynzie
awareness and minimizing mine with certainty the suc- erside counties — with many well past the August 1977 in-law of Board Member (fiancé Jordan Hamamoto)
Susanne Czuker. Elissa, Numata, Richard Jr. Numata,
harm — didn’t necessarily cess of the system’s first acti- communities still digging record of 1.82 inches; Vic-
together with Edward, have and Cameron and Caden Arai;
mean Hilary was a stronger, vation, but initially he out days later. Although torville in San Bernardino siblings, Kazuma Tsuruda,
been steadfast supporters
wetter or more dangerous thought it went well, noting there haven’t yet been any County at 2.63 inches, more of Holocaust remembrance Fusae Kajita and Masanori
system. The storm just hap- that forecasts, especially for official deaths attributed to than an inch over its prior and education, in addition Tsuruda all from Japan; and
pened to come right after lo- rainfall, were accurate. the storm in the Golden record of 1.43 inches in 1977; to playing leadership roles in many relatives here and in
cal forecast offices gained “The ‘stay at home, stay State, at least one woman re- and Camarillo’s airport at Jewish communal life across Japan.
the capability to issue such a informed and stay safe’ mes- mains missing from a San 2.59 inches, more than dou- the US and Israel. We send
warning. saging played a major role in Bernardino mountain town ble its record from 1977. Au- Funeral services will be
our heartfelt condolences to held on Sunday, September
“Just in time,” said Philip reducing exposure to poten- inundated by flash floods gust monthly records were Edward, Denis and Susanne, 10, 1:30 p.m. at Orange
Gonsalves, a National tial dangers,” Los Angeles and debris flows. also shattered in downtown in addition to children County Buddhist Church 909
Weather Service meteorolo- Fire Capt. Erik Scott said. But for much of the San L.A., Long Beach and at Sarah, Elana, Abraham, S. Dale Ave. in Anaheim.
gist in San Diego. “It re- “We were fortunate because Diego and Los Angeles met- UCLA, National Weather Mimi, Ephraim, Isaac, Rivka,
quired training of personnel, first responders and Ange- ro areas, the catastrophic Service data show. Yossi and Chavi. May the www.fukuimortuary.com
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In Memoriam
National Hurricane Center.” pected.” precipitation, power out- didn’t touch Southern Cali- Mark Moskowitz, Co-Chairs,
Stanley H. Stone, Executive
In July, the National
Weather Service offices in
And the conditions that
came with Hilary were not
ages and localized flooding.
Forecasters said Hilary’s
fornia wind records.
The most unusual part of
Director. Victoria Ashleigh
San Diego and Oxnard, entirely extraordinary for rainfall across the region Hurricane-turned-Tropical Meza
which provide forecasts for
the majority of Southern
Southern California. Fore-
casters said the region has
“obliterated” daily historical
records, and in some cases
Storm Hilary was its path,
forecasters said, which
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Today in Southern California Today in North America


Heat wanes: An increasing onshore flow and a deepening trough moving into Northern California will bring Idalia moves away: The last of the rain from Idalia will come to an end in
relief from the recent heat today into the weekend. The marine layer will deepen at the coast and spread far- the coastal Carolinas. A few thunderstorms will build across Florida,
ther inland each of the next several nights and mornings. Monsoon moisture could be far enough west to allow while wet weather moves across the Northwest. Heat will intensify in the
isolated thunderstorms to develop in the deserts Friday and Saturday. middle of the country.


5-day forecasts Pressure: L Low H High Warm Front Cold Front Jet Stream Trough
High/low temperatures are average forecasts for entire zone.
Temps –0 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100+ Rain T-storm Snow Ice
L.A. Basin Valleys Beaches Mountains Deserts
Today 87/66 90/64 75/65 79/52 110/82
Mostly sunny Sunny and not as hot Mostly sunny A stray t-shower Mostly sunny; warm Winnipeg
Seattle 84/58 Montreal
Friday Some sun 82/65 Partly sunny 83/61 Some sun 75/63 Mostly sunny 69/47 Mostly sunny 101/77 67/56 71/52
Saturday Clearing 81/63 Afternoon sun 78/62 Mostly cloudy 74/63 Mostly sunny 67/48 Mostly sunny 100/78 Billings Toronto
84/57 Minneapolis
Sunday Clearing 78/62 Clearing 79/57 Turning sunny 72/61 Sunny; cool 70/41 Sunny 98/73 83/63 72/54
Monday Sunny 80/64 Sunny 84/62 Sunny 73/63 Sunny; cool 70/42 Sunny 100/80 Detroit New York
Chicago 73/55 76/60
Air quality Good Moderate Unhealthful for: Sensitive people All Not Available San Francisco 77/59
Denver Washington
South Coast Air Quality Management District forecasts air quality 74/63
SANTA VENTURA CO. Santa Clarita 95/64 Kansas City 81/62
BARBARA CO. 93/60 Hesperia 83/59
Santa Paula Los Angeles
Santa Ojai 85/59 LOS ANGELES CO. 97/67 87/66
Barbara 88/58 Simi Valley
Chatsworth SAN BERNARDINO CO. Atlanta
76/63 90/62 Burbank Monrovia
Ventura Camarillo 90/64 88/71
90/65 91/65 IDALIA
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UCLA 96/75 99/73
Oxnard
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86/62 Whittier Miami
89/63 Chino 94/64 Monterrey 93/80
Santa Monica Hills 97/65 Riverside RIVERSIDE CO. 101/71
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POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO 78/67 Santa Ana
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81/68
10 knots. Wind waves 1-2 feet. Mixed Beach Newport Irvine 96/63 Springs High 114 in Needles, Calif. Low 32 in Truckee, Calif.
swell west 2-3 feet at 10 seconds 81/68 83/66 110/82
and south 1-3 feet at 11 seconds. Beach
Mission Viejo
76/67 Temecula Wednesday Today Wednesday Today
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currents is moderate at Ventura and 92/61
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San Diego county beaches and low 76/66 Clemente Albuquerque 93 66 -- 96 68 Su Tampa 87 78 1.73 89 79 Ts
at all other beaches.
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Oceanside Aspen 83 49 -- 83 51 Pc Tulsa 91 65 -- 89 65 Su
Atlanta 85 73 .24 88 71 Su Washington, D.C. 86 75 .01 81 62 Su
County Height Period Direction Temp Sun and moon 82/64 Austin 101 66 -- 102 71 Su Wichita 93 64 -- 92 63 Su
Santa Barbara 1-3’ 10 sec W 63 Baltimore 89 74 .13 82 59 Su
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Ventura 2-4’ 11 sec SW 63 Escondido Ramona Boise 77 57 -- 88 60 Pc World
Los Angeles 1-3’ 11 sec SW 65 Los Angeles Co. Orange Co. Ventura Co. 90/63 93/60 Boston 82 67 .83 74 57 Su Acapulco 89 79 .10 88 76 Ts
Orange 1-3’ 11 sec S 66 Sun 6:26a/7:21p 6:25a/7:19p 6:30a/7:25p Bufalo 67 60 .06 72 51 Su Amsterdam 64 55 .95 66 55 Sh
Moon 8:08p/7:00a 8:06p/6:58a 8:12p/7:04a Poway
San Diego 2-4’ 11 sec SW 69 Burlington, Vt. 81 70 .07 70 51 Su Athens 93 77 -- 89 72 Su
82/64 Charleston, S.C. 84 76 2.50 85 64 R Bangkok 93 83 .08 93 79 Ts
Charlotte 80 72 .39 84 59 Pc Barcelona 77 66 .48 79 69 Su
Tides San Diego Chicago 71 57 -- 77 59 Su Berlin 68 55 -- 64 50 Pc
L.A. Outer Harbor, in feet. 77/66 Cincinnati 75 63 -- 79 56 Su Cabo San Lucas 90 76 .22 88 77 Ts
Sept. 6 Sept. 14 Sept. 22 Sept. 29
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10:12p 6.6 Hi 4:03p 0.9 Lo Columbia, S.C. 79 74 1.87 87 62 Pc Dubai 108 90 -- 103 89 Su
Fri. 11:02a 5.6 Hi 4:47a -0.6 Lo
Almanac Columbus 73 62 -- 78 54 Su Dublin 63 50 .04 63 54 Sh
Wednesday Downtown readings Dallas/Ft.Worth 98 77 -- 98 74 Su Havana 90 79 .01 91 74 Ts
10:59p 6.0 Hi 4:53p 0.7 Lo Denver 97 58 -- 95 64 Su Ho Chi Minh City 88 75 .31 90 78 Ts
Temperature Los Angeles Fullerton Ventura Precipitation Los Angeles Fullerton Ventura Detroit 69 58 .02 73 55 Su Hong Kong 90 78 .01 90 80 Hz
UV index High/low 94/67 92/67 84/62 24-hour total (as of 5 p.m.) 0.00 0.00 0.00 El Paso 95 73 -- 99 73 Su Istanbul 86 73 -- 90 73 Hz
Minutes to burn for sensitive people Normal high/low 85/65 87/66 76/58 Season total (since Oct. 1) 31.02 23.55 28.59 Eugene 82 55 -- 67 59 R Jerusalem 87 67 -- 90 68 Su
High/low a year ago 84/64 94/66 72/58 Last season (Oct. 1 to date) 12.17 6.56 11.35 Fort Myers 91 80 .34 89 79 Ts Johannesburg 70 41 -- 73 47 Su
Las Vegas, 25 Phoenix, 25
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Los Angeles, 25 San Francisco, 25 Record low/date 49/1901 57/2010 50/1970 Humidity (high/low) 78/25 93/33 96/48 Honolulu 90 77 Tr 87 75 Pc Lima 72 65 -- 72 64 Pc
Houston 101 72 -- 100 75 Su London 68 52 -- 63 59 Sh
California cities Indianapolis 75 60 -- 77 56 Su Madrid 84 59 -- 91 62 Cy
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Avalon/Catalina 92 79 -- 79 62 71 61 L.A. Int’l. Airport 83 67 -- 76 66 76 65 San Francisco 91 61 -- 74 63 72 62 Louisville 82 67 -- 81 59 Su Mumbai 88 81 .02 88 80 Sh
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Burbank 96 69 -- 90 65 81 63 Mission Viejo 91 63 -- 85 65 80 63 Santa Barbara 84 60 -- 76 63 77 66 Minneapolis 80 61 -- 83 63 Hz Seoul 83 71 .07 83 65 Cy
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BACK HOME
J
ordin Canada had only one offer going
into WNBA free agency before last sea-
son: a training camp spot with the
Sparks. It came out of nowhere, she
said. And though it promised no long-
AND HAVING mentality of being aggressive and not being
afraid of the moments,” she said. “And not
shying away from, like I said, big moments
and just playing like myself.”
She has been a playmaker and a rock dur-
term guarantees, it was a dream come true
for the lifelong Sparks and Lakers fan.
The L.A. native knew it was time to come
home after playing four years in Seattle as
Sue Bird’s backup.
FUN AGAIN ing the Sparks’ injury-filled season, starting
33 games and averaging 32.5 minutes. Spe-
cifically, she has stepped up for veteran
guard Layshia Clarendon, who has returned
from injury but missed her 15th game Tues-
“I just thought that was a sign from God day while in “health and safety protocols.”
telling me that I have to bet on myself,” Cana-
da said before Tuesday’s 76-75 loss to the Chi- Canada, an L.A. native and ex-UCLA star, has “That’s just kind of the role that I have on
his team,” Canada said after the game. “I
cago Sky. “At that point in my career, being in have a lot to carry, I have a lot on my plate,
Seattle for four years, I had to think to myself rediscovered her love of the game with Sparks and I accept the challenge day in and day
did I want to be a backup or did I want to out.”
come in and I want to better myself and show A quick-footed and quiet presence, Cana-
everybody what I’m capable of?” By Annika Johnson da mostly lets her actions speak for them-
Though she won two WNBA titles on a selves. But, she knew that being the Sparks’
“fully stacked” team in Seattle, Canada said starting point guard meant she’d have to be
of her time there: “At one point, it kind of be- more of a vocal leader.
came like a job, like I was just showing up.” Besides signing plays, directing team-
Canada, 28, has rediscovered her love of mates and calmly dribbling the ball after a
basketball in L.A and is having a career-best Sparks rebound while thinking of the next
season that has made her a prime candidate move, Canada now keeps the team centered
for the WNBA’s most improved player alongside seasoned veterans Nneka Ogwu-
award. After averaging 9.2 points, 5.5 assists mike, Clarendon and Jasmine Thomas. In
and 2.3 rebounds a game last season, she is team huddles Canada will say, “Let’s calm
averaging 13.5 points, six assists and 3.2 re- down, just try to get a good shot, let’s be fo-
bounds this year. cused, and we’re good.”
She also is tied for the league lead with 2.2 Watching Canada develop confidence as
steals per game, compared with 1.4 last year. a leader is “just fun to see,” Miller said. He be-
With her 74th steal of the season Tuesday lieves she’s the front-runner for most im-
night, she broke the Sparks’ franchise record proved player, not just because she leads the
set by four-time All-Star Alana Beard in 2017. league in steals or is in the top five in assists.
But Canada’s not keeping score. “Oh,” It’s more because of how she has grown as a
she said with a small smile after the game. “I prominent voice on the team. Canada attrib-
didn’t know that.” utes some of that to having the trust of her
Her improvement from beyond the three- teammates.
point line is “somewhat unprecedented in “I don’t think there’s anyone else close,”
this league,” Sparks coach Curt Miller said Close said about Canada’s chances at being
Tuesday. She’s shooting 35.4% from three named most improved, adding that she
this season, more than double her percent- watches as much WNBA as she possibly can.
age last year(14%). “The way that she’s commanded the team,
The 2022 offseason was a game-changer the impact performances, but also the way
for Canada, who chose to play domestically that she steadied that ship through all their
for Athletes Unlimited rather than overseas. injuries.”
She compared it to the simplicity of playing The Sparks (15-20) were forced to use 12
pickup or club basketball as a kid. “Just go- different starting lineups because of those
ing out there and just not having to think injuries in the first half of the season. But af-
about Xs and O’s …” she said. ter a 7-13 start, the Sparks are now a half-
“It was just getting back to that joy that I game ahead of the Sky for the final playoff
had when I was a kid and falling in love with spot with five games remaining.
the game again.” She added that it helped Canada, who sports a tattoo saying
her play “like herself ” again: freely and not “Family Over Everything” on the side of her
overthinking or doubting her abilities. right forearm, has shared no downside to
Her former coach at UCLA, Cori Close, playing in her hometown.
took notice of Canada’s new spark and Although one of Canada’s trademarks is
texted her, “I see the joy back in your eyes,” keeping cool and competitive under pres-
earlier this season. sure, Close thinks playing in L.A. may in-
“That’s how I feel,” Canada said about crease the stakes.
Close and lifelong friends reaching out. “I feel “She’s got a lot of people that are really
like I’m playing with a lot of joy. I’m loving the rooting for her, tied to her; it’s easy to slip
game again and I’m glad that other people into feeling responsible to those people. But
can see that as well.” on the other hand, she’s unconditionally
Canada, a quiet and lead-by-example loved,” Close said.
player, also spent time watching her old “And on the other hand, she gets a chance
UCLA film in search of her fearless and fiery to build women’s basketball and girls’
alter ego. Adam Pantozzi NBAE/Getty Images basketball in the town that raised her. ... So I
“I felt like that’s what I’m playing like now, SPARKS point guard Jordin Canada drives to the basket against the Dallas think, yes, it is a pressure. But it truly is a
just getting back to that confidence and that Wings in June. Canada is tied for the league lead in steals with 2.2 per game. privilege as well.”
L AT I M E S . C O M T H U R S DAY , AU G U S T 31, 2 0 23 B7

Berhalter’s back with U.S. and Reyna is not


roster. It’s a really good mix “For everyone involved,
Men’s soccer coach of experienced guys that it’s been a lot for the last six
have been around for the last months. And we just want to The roster
returns with roster of four years and some new do it in the best possible way
World Cup veterans players.” to put him in position to help Goalkeepers
Twelve of the 24 players the team in a way that we Drake Callender (Inter
and notable omission. called up — among them for- know he can. Miami), Ethan Horvath
wards Christian Pulisic and “Unfortunately, he was (Nottingham Forest), Matt
By Kevin Baxter Tim Weah, goalkeeper Matt ruled out for this camp. But I Turner (Nottingham
Turner and defenders Tim look forward to continuing Forest)
The reconciliation be- Ream and Sergiño Dest — to monitor his progress at Defenders
tween coach Gregg were on the World Cup team, Dortmund, and hopefully, to Sergiño Dest (PSV
Berhalter and star play- while a dozen others have getting them back into camp Eindhoven), Kristoffer
maker Gio Reyna will have played in 11 or fewer games in October.” Lund (Palermo), Mark
to wait. Berhalter began his for the U.S. Among those is The roster Berhalter McKenzie (Genk), Kevin
second stint as coach of the Danish American defender called up is on average Paredes (Wolfsburg), Tim
U.S. soccer team Wednesday Kristoffer Lund, who played younger than 24 years of age Ream (Fulham), Chris
by calling up a 24-man roster for Denmark in official com- and includes 16 players from Richards (Crystal Palace),
for September friendlies petition at the youth inter- the team that won the Na- Antonee Robinson
with Uzbekistan and Oman, national level but recently tions League title. The play- (Fulham), Miles Robinson
but it did not include Reyna, applied to FIFA for a one- Ebrahim Noroozi Associated Press ers come from clubs in eight (Atlanta United), Joe
who is sidelined because of a time change of association GIO REYNA was not happy at the World Cup, and it countries, with four playing Scally (Borussia
calf injury. to represent the U.S. at the led to a temporary exit by coach Gregg Berhalter. domestically in MLS. Monchengladbach)
Also missing because of senior level. The U.S. will meet Uz- Midfielders
injury or fitness concerns Players will begin report- Qatar. Following the tourna- Mexico and Canada. At the bekistan on Sept. 9 in St. Johnny Cardoso
are midfielder Tyler Adams, ing to training camp in St. ment, Reyna’s parents, an- time of his reappointment, Louis then play Oman three (Internacional), Ben
captain of last fall’s World Louis on Sunday, with the gry over their son’s lack of Berhalter said he had work days later at Allianz Field in Cremaschi (Inter Miami),
Cup team; defenders Walker first practice scheduled for playing time, informed U.S. to do to repair his relation- St. Paul, Minn. Luca de la Torre (Celta
Zimmerman and Cameron Monday. Soccer of a three-decade-old ship with Reyna, but in a re- The games are the first Vigo), Weston McKennie
Carter-Vickers; goalkeepers Adams has been out domestic assault incident cent interview with Vanity for the U.S. since it lost to (Juventus), Yunus Musah
Sean Johnson and Zack since March because of a involving Berhalter and the Fair, he said he has yet to Panama on penalty kicks in (AC Milan), Malik Tillman
Steffen; and forward Josh hamstring injury and Reyna woman who would become speak with the 20-year-old the semifinals of the CON- (PSV Eindhoven)
Sargent. only recently returned to his wife, leading to a months- and has consulted media- CACAF Gold Cup in July. Forwards
“Watching the team from training with his German long investigation that tion experts for advice on That game ended in a draw Brenden Aaronson (Union
the outside in these last six club after recovering from a threatened to derail the how to move forward. after 120 minutes, leaving Berlin), Folarin Balogun
months, it’s been very clear calf injury sustained in the coach’s future with the team. “Those are conversations the U.S. unbeaten in its last (Arsenal), Cade Cowell
that there’s a strong identity Nations League final in After Berhalter was that I look forward to hav- 11 games under interim (San José Earthquakes),
both on and off the field. One June. Last fall, Reyna was cleared of any wrongdoing, ing. It’s just understanding coaches Anthony Hudson Ricardo Pepi (PSV
of the exciting things is that nearly sent home from the he was rehired in June and sensitivities around it,” said and B.J. Callaghan. Eindhoven), Christian
we continue to build on this World Cup after he pouted in will coach the U.S. through Berhalter, who apparently Callaghan will remain Pulisic (AC Milan), Tim
strong foundation,” Berhal- reaction to Berhalter’s plan the 2026 World Cup, which wants to have the first meet- with the team as an assist- Weah (Juventus)
ter said. “I’m excited by the to use him off the bench in will be played in the U.S., ing in person. ant, Berhalter said.

THE DAY IN SPORTS PRO CALENDAR

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DODGERS
Novak Djokovic and Iga
Swiatek rolled to straight- at Oakland at Oakland at Oakland BALTIMORE
sets victories to move into 6:30 1 1 6:30
the third round at the U.S. BSW BSW BSW BSW
Open on Wednesday in 85- ANGELS
degree weather on the tour-
nament’s hottest day so far.
“That’s why we train sev- SEASON OPENER: SEPT. 10 AT SEATTLE, 1:25, CH. 11
eral hours a day in humid,
hot conditions,” the second- RAMS
seeded Djokovic said after a
6-4, 6-1, 6-1 victory over Bern-
abe Zapata Miralles. SEASON OPENER: SEPT. 10 VS. MIAMI, 1:25, CH. 2
Swiatek, the top-seeded
defending champion, had CHARGERS
only slightly more trouble in
her 6-3, 6-4 victory over HOUSTON
Daria Saville. 7:30
In the biggest upset of the Apple TV
day, Stefanos Tsitsipas fell GALAXY
to 128th-ranked Swiss quali-
fier Dominic Stricker 7-5, 6-7 MIAMI
(2), 6-7 (5) 7-6 (6), 6-3. John Minchillo Associated Press 7
Coco Gauff cruised into NOVAK DJOKOVIC returns a shot to Bernabe Zapata Miralles during Apple TV
the third round with a 6-3, Djokovic’s 6-4, 6-1, 6-1 victory in the second round of the U.S. Open in New York. LAFC
6-2 victory over 16-year-old
Mirra Andreeva. Dominic Poppinga’s father, who said the world record for largest Austen Pleasants, receivers Kansas City
Thiem, the 2020 U.S. Open Julius would have wanted attendance at a women’s Terrell Bynum and Keelan 5
champion, retired soon after the team to play. sporting event with 92,003 Doss, linebacker Andrew Paramount+
dropping a first-set tie- — Eric Sondheimer filling Memorial Stadium for Farmer, cornerback Matt ANGEL CITY
breaker to American Ben the Cornhuskers’ volleyball Hankins and tight end
Shelton. Another American, Eric Lewis, a veteran match against Omaha. Hunter Kampmoyer. SEATTLE WASH.
Taylor Townsend, ad- NBA referee who was vilified 7 4:30
vanced but two others, by some Lakers players and The Rams signed 15 play- Cincinnati quarterback SpecSN SpecSN
Christopher Eubanks and fans after an infamous ers to the practice squad: Joe Burrow was back at SPARKS
Danielle Collins, did not. no-call in Boston last sea- quarterback Brett Rypien, practice more than a month Shade denotes home game.
son, is retiring amid a league offensive linemen AJ Arcuri, after he was sidelined be-
investigation into his social Logan Bruss, Grant Miller cause of a strained calf mus-
ETC. media activity. Lewis was ac- and Mike McAllister, defen- cle. ... Carolina waived quar- TODAY ON THE AIR
cused of using a Twitter sive lineman Marquise terback Matt Corral, its
Westlake High burner account to defend Copeland, running back third-round pick last year, TIME EVENT ON THE AIR
himself and other officials Royce Freeman, defensive without him taking a regu-
player dies against criticism. NBA pol- back Tanner Ingle, receivers lar-season snap.
AUTO RACING
4:15 a.m. (Fri.) Formula One, Italian Grand Prix, practice TV: ESPN2
icy prohibits referees from Tyler Johnson, Austin
BASEBALL
Julius Poppinga, a 17- publicly commenting on offi- Trammell and Xavier Boston Red Sox out-
year-old junior defensive ciating without permission. Smith, tight end Nikola fielder Jarren Duran had 10 a.m. New York Yankees at Detroit TV: MLB
end at Westlake High, died — Chuck Schilken Kalinic, linebackers Troy surgery on a tendon in his 7 p.m. Atlanta at Dodgers TV: SNLA R: 570,
Wednesday, principal Jason Reeder and Keir Thomas II, left big toe and is expected to 1020
Branham said in an email. Pia Sundhage was fired and defensive back Camer- miss the rest of the season. BASKETBALL
Poppinga had been hos- as coach of the Brazilian on McCutcheon. ... The 4 p.m. WNBA, Phoenix at Connecticut TV: Amazon Prime
pitalized after having trou- women’s soccer team in the Chargers claimed lineback- Former Kings and Ducks Video
ble breathing, a source not wake of a disappointing per- er Tanner Muse off waivers, winger Carl Hagelin is retir- COLLEGE FOOTBALL
authorized to speak about formance at the Women’s waived fullback Zander ing from the NHL at age 35, 4 p.m. Elon at Wake Forest TV: ACC
the player’s health told The World Cup. Brazil failed to Horvath and signed 12 play- citing an eye injury that has
4 p.m. Kent State at Central Florida TV: FS1
Times. He had not played or reach the knockout stage for ers to their practice squad: kept him out of game action
practiced since making an the first time since 1995. quarterback Max Duggan, for nearly a year and a half. 4 p.m. Rhode Island at Georgia State TV: ESPN+
appearance in Westlake’s Sundhage, 63, previously led linebacker Brevin Allen, de- 4 p.m. St. Francis (Pa.) at Western Michigan TV: ESPN+
season opener on Aug. 18. the United States women to fensive linemen Jerrod Former U.S. Open cham- 4:30 p.m. N.C. State at Connecticut TV: CBSSN
The team will play Thou- two Olympic titles. Clark, Christian Covington pion Gary Woodland said he 5 p.m. Florida at Utah TV: ESPN
sand Oaks on Friday. Coach and CJ Okoye, offensive will have surgery to remove a 5 p.m. Nebraska at Minnesota TV: 11
Mark Serve said he spoke to Nebraska laid claim to linemen Zack Bailey and lesion found on his brain. 5 p.m. South Dakota at Missouri TV: SEC
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5 p.m. North Carolina A&T at Alabama Birmingham TV: ESPN+
7 p.m. Southern Utah at Arizona State TV: Pac-12

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10 p.m. Women, USC at Hawaii TV: ESPN+


19th homer.
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A three-run ninth “It was crazy,” Drury
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said. “It felt like every time
inning prevents a we scored they came back GOLF
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Bryce Harper put the Phila- Carlos Estévez struck out
delphia Phillies ahead in two in a perfect ninth for his 3 a.m. (Fri.) NRL, South Sydney vs. Sydney TV: FS2
the eighth inning with his 29th save in 31 chances. SOCCER
300th home run, but Bran- Ohtani was one for four with 8:45 a.m. Women’s French Cup, third place, Atletico Madrid TV: CBSSN
don Drury capped a three- an RBI and five for 13 with vs. Liverpool
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on Wednesday that pre- run homer against Phillies closer Craig Kimbrel. Angels (64-70). Levski Sofia
vented a three-game sweep. Philadelphia (74-59), 11:45 a.m. Women’s French Cup, final, Paris Saint-Germain TV: CBSSN
In a game with four lead Pinch-hitter Mike Mous- hit streak at the start of his which leads the National vs. AC Milan
changes, the Angels led 7-6 takas struck out leading off career. Luis Rengifo hit a League wild-card race, 5:30 p.m. Copa Libertadores, Olimpia vs. Fluminense TV: beIN
before Harper’s two-run ho- the ninth but reached on a sacrifice fly to tie the score. trailed 5-3 before Trea Turn-
TENNIS
mer in the eighth against wild pitch by Phillies closer After Shohei Ohtani er’s three-run homer in the
Matt Moore (4-1). Harper Craig Kimbrel (7-5). Nolan struck out, Drury lofted a sixth against Reynaldo 9 a.m. U.S. Open, second round TV: ESPN, ESPND,
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and Moore were 1-2 among Schanuel’s single put run- fastball on the outside cor- López. Renfroe put the An-
Baseball America’s top ners at the corners, giving ner to the opposite field and gels ahead 7-6 with a two-run 3 p.m. U.S. Open, second round TV: ESPN2,
prospects in 2012. him a team-record 10-game over the wall in right for his single in the eighth. ESPN+
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CO L L E G E F O O T B A L L P I C K S ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE


After missing two straight playoffs because of a broken
offense, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney finally went out-

PREDICTING WINNERS FOR side the program and brought in Garrett Riley, Lincoln’s
younger brother who helped Texas Christian to the na-
tional title game, as his offensive coordinator. Riley is sure

EVERY POWER-FIVE MATCHUP


to have more autonomy calling plays under Swinney than
he did under Sonny Dykes, a creative play caller himself,
and he’ll get to enjoy a talented young quarterback in
Cade Klubnik. But for the first time in ages, the Tigers
have a legitimate challenger in the ACC with Mike
Norvell’s ascendant Florida State Seminoles. Florida
State’s offense should be more explosive than Clemson’s.
Championship: Florida State over Clemson

PROJECTED STANDINGS
W L W L
Clemson 7 1 Virginia Tech 4 4
Florida State 7 1 Duke 3 5
North Carolina 6 2 Georgia Tech 3 5
Pittsburgh 6 2 Syracuse 3 5
Miami 5 3 Boston College 2 6
Louisville 4 4 Virginia 1 7
North Carolina St. 4 4 Wake Forest 1 7

TEAM PREDICTIONS
Boston College 6-6 North Carolina 9-3
Northern Illinois W South Carolina L
Holy Cross W Appalachian State W
Florida State L Minnesota W
at Louisville L at Pittsburgh W
Virginia W Syracuse W
at Army W Miami L
at Georgia Tech L Virginia W
Connecticut W at Georgia Tech W
at Syracuse L Campbell W
Virginia Tech W Duke W
at Pittsburgh L at Clemson L
Miami L at N.C. State W

Clemson 10-2 North Carolina State 7-5


at Duke W at Connecticut W
Charleston Southern W Notre Dame L
Florida Atlantic W VMI W
Florida State W at Virginia W
at Syracuse L Louisville W
Wake Forest W Marshall W
Myung J. Chun Los Angeles Times at Miami W at Duke L
ZACHARIAH BRANCH celebrates his 96-yard kickoff return for a touchdown in USC’s season opener. at N.C. State W Clemson L
Notre Dame W Miami W
PAC-12 CONFERENCE PROJECTED STANDINGS Georgia Tech W at Wake Forest W
W L North Carolina W at Virginia Tech L
This was supposed to be the USC and UCLA hate tour, but now that they’re joined by six
USC 9 0 at South Carolina L North Carolina L
others in leaving the Pac-12, it’s actually kind of sad. But the Trojans and Bruins started
Oregon State 7 2
it — will one of them finish it as champions? I’ve already predicted that USC will make its Duke 6-6 Pittsburgh 9-3
Washington 7 2
first playoff appearance in Lincoln Riley’s second season, and I’ll stand by that prediction Clemson L Wofford W
Utah 6 3
even after seeing the defense struggle to get off the field against San José State. The Oregon 6 3 Lafayette W Cincinnati W
Trojans are going to drop one somewhere, and we think it will come in their first true test Arizona 5 4 Northwestern W at West Virginia W
of the season in South Bend. It just feels as though something wacky will happen, but UCLA 5 4 at Connecticut W North Carolina L
that should sharpen USC’s mettle for a very difficult stretch run. The Trojans will beat Washington State 4 5 Notre Dame L at Virginia Tech W
Utah and Washington at the Coliseum and win a wild one in Eugene. Oregon State’s California 3 6 N.C. State W Louisville W
schedule sets up well, and we couldn’t ignore the possibility of a “Pac-4” team making a Arizona State 1 8 at Florida State L at Wake Forest W
Colorado 1 8 at Louisville L at Notre Dame L
run at the crown. Caleb Williams will hold off the national darling Beavers.
Stanford 0 9 Wake Forest W Florida State L
Championship: USC over Oregon State at North Carolina L Syracuse W
at Virginia W Boston College W
TEAM PREDICTIONS Pittsburgh L at Duke W
Arizona 7-5 Colorado 2-10 Stanford 2-10 Utah 9-3
Northern Arizona W at Texas Christian L at Hawaii W Florida W Florida State 11-1 Syracuse 7-5
at Mississippi State L Nebraska L at USC L at Baylor W Louisiana State W Colgate W
Texas El Paso W Colorado State W Sacramento State W Weber State W Southern Mississippi W Western Michigan W
at Stanford W at Oregon L Arizona L UCLA W at Boston College W at Purdue W
Washington L USC L Oregon L at Oregon State L at Clemson L Army W
at USC L at Arizona State L at Colorado L California W Virginia Tech W Clemson W
at Washington State W Stanford W UCLA L at USC L Syracuse W at North Carolina L
Oregon State L at UCLA L Washington L Oregon W Duke W at Florida State L
UCLA W Oregon State L at Washington State L Arizona State W at Wake Forest W at Virginia Tech L
at Colorado W Arizona L at Oregon State L at Washington L at Pittsburgh W Boston College W
Utah L at Washington State L California L at Arizona W Miami W Pittsburgh L
at Arizona State W at Utah L Notre Dame L Colorado W North Alabama W at Georgia Tech L
at Florida W Wake Forest W
Arizona State 2-10 Oregon 8-4 UCLA 8-4 Washington 10-2
Southern Utah W Portland State W Coastal Carolina W Boise State W Georgia Tech 5-7 Virginia 2-10
Oklahoma State L at Texas Tech L at San Diego State W Tulsa W Louisville W Tennessee L
Fresno State L Hawaii W N.C. Central W at Michigan State W S.C. State W James Madison L
USC L Colorado W at Utah L California W at Mississippi L at Maryland L
at California L at Stanford W Washington State W at Arizona W at Wake Forest L N.C. State L
Colorado W at Washington L at Oregon State L Oregon W Bowling Green W at Boston College L
at Washington L Washington State W at Stanford W Arizona State W at Miami L William & Mary W
Washington State L at Utah L Colorado W at Stanford W Boston College W at North Carolina L
at Utah L California W at Arizona L at USC L North Carolina L at Miami L
at UCLA L USC L Arizona State W Utah W at Virginia L Georgia Tech W
Oregon L at Arizona State W at USC L at Oregon State L at Clemson L at Louisville L
Arizona L Oregon State W California W Washington State W Syracuse W Duke L
Georgia L Virginia Tech L
California 5-7 Oregon State 10-2 USC 11-1 Washington State 7-5
at North Texas W at San José State W San José State W at Colorado State W Louisville 6-6 Virginia Tech 8-4
Auburn L UC Davis W Nevada W Wisconsin W at Georgia Tech L Old Dominion W
Idaho W San Diego State W Stanford W Northern Colorado W Murray State W Purdue W
at Washington L at Washington State L at Arizona State W Oregon State W Indiana W at Rutgers W
Arizona State W Utah W at Colorado W at UCLA L Boston College W at Marshall W
Oregon State L at California W Arizona W Arizona L at N.C. State L Pittsburgh L
at Utah L UCLA W at Notre Dame L at Oregon L Notre Dame L at Florida State L
USC L at Arizona W Utah W at Arizona State W at Pittsburgh L Wake Forest W
at Oregon L at Colorado W at California W Stanford W Duke W Syracuse W
Washington State W Stanford W Washington W at California L Virginia Tech W at Louisville L
at Stanford W Washington W at Oregon W Colorado W Virginia W at Boston College L
at UCLA L at Oregon L UCLA W at Washington L at Miami L N.C. State W
Kentucky L at Virginia W

Miami 8-4 Wake Forest 4-8


COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF Miami (Ohio) W Elon W
Texas A&M L Vanderbilt W
As one-loss Power Five champions, Florida State, Michi-
gan and USC are in the playoff. The Southeastern Confer- Bethune Cookman W at Old Dominion W
ence will be represented, and it will come down to Georgia, at Temple W Georgia Tech W
11-1, and Louisiana State, 11-2. Here, the Bulldogs’ soft Georgia Tech W at Clemson L
schedule will come back to bite them. Their best win would at North Carolina W at Virginia Tech L
be, what, South Carolina? Mississippi? Florida? LSU will Clemson L Pittsburgh L
get the benefit of the doubt with losses to the playoff ’s No. 1
Virginia W Florida State L
seed, Florida State, and Alabama on the road.
In the Sugar Bowl, Florida State and LSU will square off at N.C. State L at Duke L
in a rematch that will be their third game in the last two at Florida State L N.C. State L
seasons. The Seminoles have won the first two, and LSU Louisville W at Notre Dame L
will get its revenge in the one that matters most, playing in at Boston College W at Syracuse L
New Orleans’ Superdome and advancing to the national
championship game.
In the Rose Bowl, Michigan and USC will play one that
will please all the purists — until they remember that it’s INDEPENDENT Notre Dame 10-2
really just a Big Ten preview for years to come. The Wolver- The Fighting Irish have the Navy W
ines will be playing with a chip on their shoulder for all big games on their sched- Tennessee State W
those past Michigan teams that fell at the hands of the ule to make a playoff push at N.C. State W
Trojans and win their first playoff semifinal after losing — Ohio State and USC at Central Michigan W
their last two. Michigan simply has a much more balanced home and Clemson on the
team than USC, which still is trying to figure out the whole Ohio State L
road — but do they have
defense thing. at Duke W
the playmakers around
In the championship game in Houston, the Wolverines veteran transfer quarter- at Louisville W
will break through and win their first national champi- back Sam Hartman? The USC W
onship in more than 25 years. early returns are positive Pittsburgh W
Believe me when I say it is hard to write those words. after Saturday’s blowout at Clemson L
But, frankly, how often do you get to pick your alma mater Paul Sancya Associated Press
win against Navy.
to win a national championship and it actually is realistic? BLAKE CORUM and Michigan will beat USC in the Wake Forest W
My assumption is I will never do it again. Rose Bowl and go on to win the national title. at Stanford W
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Brett Davis Associated Press Eric Gay Associated Press Rick Scuteri Associated Press
CARSON BECK won't lead Georgia to a repeat. STEVE SARKISIAN will take Texas to the top. JIM HARBAUGH will roll — until Ohio State.

SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE BIG 12 CONFERENCE BIG TEN CONFERENCE


I can’t stop thinking about it: No. 1 Georgia at one-loss This is the long-awaited last rodeo for Texas and Okla- Finally, we’re back to my Michigan conundrum. Here’s
Tennessee on Nov. 18 for the SEC East crown. Are the homa in the Big 12, and the schools won’t expect an ami- where I’ve settled: The Wolverines will start 11-0 and will
Vols ready to put down Kirby Smart’s budding dynasty? cable parting. Heck, just last week, commissioner Brett be ranked No. 1 in the nation entering “The Game” with
Here’s the yes argument: Georgia’s schedule is a cake- Yormark was making a visit to Texas Tech and encour- Ohio State. Michigan is the more complete team this
walk, and Smart will be able to protect young quarter- aged the Red Raiders to take care of the Longhorns on year, but the pressure will be otherworldly, and the Wol-
back Carson Beck. I’m not sure we will know much about Thanksgiving weekend. Texas has to toughen up and verines traditionally don’t perform their best in that
Beck 10 games in. I just can’t see Georgia making it embrace the hate. We like Texas, but not enough to pick scenario. Jim Harbaugh will coach not to lose and clam
through unscathed. In the West, Alabama will lose twice it to win at Alabama. Nick Saban may have resuscitated up just enough to let Ohio State’s amazing skill talent
in the season’s first half while it finds itself offensively. Steve Sarkisian’s career, but that will be the end of his pull the upset. But Michigan, at 8-1, still wins the Big Ten
Louisiana State will lose in Tuscaloosa but win the West. humanitarian spirit. The Longhorns will need to win all due to the Buckeyes losing twice. The Wolverines have a
Tennessee will come up just short yet again in the SEC their Big 12 games to make the playoff, and they’ll slip up new lease on life and put down the Badgers, who far
title game against the Tigers. once somewhere — our bet is at Texas Christian. surpass expectations in Luke Fickell’s first season.
Championship: LSU over Tennessee Championship: Texas over Texas Tech Championship: Michigan over Wisconsin

PROJECTED STANDINGS PROJECTED STANDINGS PROJECTED STANDINGS


WEST W L EAST W L W L W L WEST W L EAST W L
Louisiana State 7 1 Georgia 7 1 Texas 8 1 Baylor 4 5 Wisconsin 7 2 Michigan 8 1
Alabama 6 2 Tennessee 7 1 Kansas State 7 2 Central Florida 4 5 Iowa 6 3 Ohio State 7 2
Texas A&M 6 2 South Carolina 4 4 Texas Tech 7 2 West Virginia 3 6 Illinois 5 4 Penn State 7 2
Mississippi 5 3 Kentucky 3 5 Texas Christian 7 2 Brigham Young 3 6 Purdue 5 4 Maryland 6 3
Arkansas 3 5 Florida 3 5 Oklahoma 6 3 Houston 3 6 Nebraska 3 6 Michigan State 5 4
Mississippi State 1 7 Vanderbilt 2 6 Kansas 5 4 Iowa State 1 8 Minnesota 2 7 Indiana 1 8
Auburn 1 7 Missouri 1 7 Oklahoma State 4 5 Cincinnati 1 8 Northwestern 0 9 Rutgers 1 8

TEAM PREDICTIONS TEAM PREDICTIONS TEAM PREDICTIONS


Alabama 10-2 Florida 5-7 Baylor 6-6 Oklahoma 9-3 Illinois 7-5 Indiana 3-9
Middle Tennessee St. W at Utah L Texas State W Arkansas State W Toledo W Ohio State L
Texas W McNeese W Utah L Southern Methodist W at Kansas L Indiana State W
at South Florida W Tennessee L Long Island W at Tulsa W Penn State L Louisville L
Mississippi L Charlotte W Texas L at Cincinnati W Florida Atlantic W Akron W
at Mississippi State W at Kentucky L at Central Florida L Iowa State W at Purdue L at Maryland L
at Texas A&M L Vanderbilt W Texas Tech L Texas L Nebraska W at Michigan L
Arkansas W at South Carolina L at Cincinnati W Central Florida W at Maryland L Rutgers W
Tennessee W Georgia L Iowa State W at Kansas L Wisconsin W Penn State L
Louisiana State W Arkansas W Houston W at Oklahoma State W at Minnesota W Wisconsin L
at Kentucky W at Louisiana State L at Kansas State L West Virginia W Indiana W at Illinois L
Chattanooga W at Missouri W at Texas Christian L at Brigham Young W at Iowa L Michigan State L
at Auburn W Florida State L West Virginia W Texas Christian L Northwestern W at Purdue L

Arkansas 7-5 Georgia 11-1 Brigham Young 5-7 Oklahoma State 7-5 Iowa 9-3 Maryland 9-3
Western Carolina W Tennessee-Martin W Sam Houston State W Central Arkansas W Utah State W Towson W
Kent State W Ball State W Southern Utah W at Arizona State W at Iowa State W Charlotte W
Brigham Young W South Carolina W at Arkansas L South Alabama W Western Michigan W Virginia W
at Louisiana State L UAB W at Kansas L at Iowa State W at Penn State L at Michigan State L
Texas A&M L at Auburn W Cincinnati W Kansas State L Michigan State W Indiana W
at Mississippi L Kentucky W at Texas Christian L Kansas W Purdue W at Ohio State L
at Alabama L at Vanderbilt W Texas Tech W at West Virginia L at Wisconsin L Illinois W
Mississippi State W Florida W at Texas L Cincinnati W Minnesota W at Northwestern W
at Florida L Missouri W at West Virginia L Oklahoma L Northwestern W Penn State W
Auburn W Mississippi W Iowa State W at Central Florida L Rutgers W at Nebraska W
Florida International W at Tennessee L Oklahoma L at Houston L Illinois W Michigan L
Missouri W at Georgia Tech W at Oklahoma State L Brigham Young W at Nebraska L at Rutgers W

Auburn 5-7 Kentucky 7-5 Cincinnati 3-9 Texas 10-2 Minnesota 4-8 Michigan 11-1
Massachusetts W Ball State W Eastern Kentucky W Rice W Nebraska W East Carolina W
at California W Eastern Kentucky W at Pittsburgh L at Alabama L Eastern Michigan W Nevada Las Vegas W
Samford W Akron W Miami (Ohio) W Wyoming W at North Carolina L Bowling Green W
at Texas A&M L at Vanderbilt W Oklahoma L at Baylor W at Northwestern W Rutgers W
Georgia L Florida W at Brigham Young L Kansas W Louisiana W at Nebraska W
at Louisiana State L at Georgia L Iowa State L Oklahoma W Michigan L at Minnesota W
Mississippi L Missouri W Baylor L at Houston W at Iowa L Indiana W
Mississippi State W Tennessee L at Oklahoma State L Brigham Young W Michigan State L at Michigan State W
at Vanderbilt L at Mississippi State L Central Florida W Kansas State W Illinois L Purdue W
at Arkansas L Alabama L at Houston L at Texas Christian L at Purdue L at Penn State W
New Mexico State W at South Carolina L at West Virginia L at Iowa State W at Ohio State L at Maryland W
Alabama L at Louisville W Kansas L Texas Tech W Wisconsin L Ohio State L

Louisiana State 10-2 Missouri 4-8 Houston 5-7 Texas Christian 10-2 Nebraska 6-6 Michigan State 7-5
Florida State L South Dakota W Texas San Antonio L Colorado W at Minnesota L Central Michigan W
Grambling W Middle Tennessee St. W at Rice W Nicholls State W at Colorado W Richmond W
at Mississippi State W Kansas State L Texas Christian L at Houston W Northern Illinois W Washington L
Arkansas W Memphis W Sam Houston State W Southern Methodist W Louisiana Tech W Maryland W
at Mississippi W at Vanderbilt L at Texas Tech L West Virginia W Michigan L at Iowa L
at Missouri W Louisiana State L West Virginia W at Iowa State W at Illinois L at Rutgers W
Auburn W at Kentucky L Texas L Brigham Young W Northwestern W Michigan L
Army W South Carolina W at Kansas State L at Kansas State L Purdue W at Minnesota W
at Alabama L at Georgia L at Baylor L at Texas Tech L at Michigan State L Nebraska W
Florida W Tennessee L Cincinnati W Texas W Maryland L at Ohio State L
Georgia State W Florida L Oklahoma State W Baylor W at Wisconsin L at Indiana W
Texas A&M W at Arkansas L at Central Florida L at Oklahoma W Iowa W Penn State L

Mississippi State 5-7 South Carolina 8-4 Iowa State 3-9 Texas Tech 10-2 Northwestern 2-10 Ohio State 10-2
SE Louisiana W North Carolina W Northern Iowa W at Wyoming W at Rutgers L at Indiana W
Arizona W Furman W Iowa L Oregon W Texas El Paso W Youngstown State W
Louisiana State L at Georgia L at Ohio W Tarleton State W at Duke L Western Kentucky W
at South Carolina L Mississippi State W Oklahoma State L at West Virginia W Minnesota L at Notre Dame W
Alabama L at Tennessee L at Oklahoma L Houston W Penn State L Maryland W
Western Michigan W Florida W Texas Christian L at Baylor W Howard W at Purdue W
at Arkansas L at Missouri L at Cincinnati W Kansas State W at Nebraska L Penn State L
at Auburn L at Texas A&M L at Baylor L at Brigham Young L Maryland L at Wisconsin L
Kentucky W Jacksonville State W Kansas L Texas Christian W Iowa L at Rutgers W
at Texas A&M L Vanderbilt W at Brigham Young L at Kansas W at Wisconsin L Michigan State W
Southern Miss W Kentucky W Texas L Central Florida W Purdue L Minnesota W
Mississippi L Clemson W at Kansas State L at Texas L at Illinois L at Michigan W

Mississippi 9-3 Tennessee 11-1 Kansas 8-4 Central Florida 6-6 Purdue 7-5 Penn State 10-2
Mercer W Virginia W Missouri State W Kent State W Fresno State W West Virginia W
at Tulane W Austin Peay W Illinois W at Boise State L at Virginia Tech L Delaware W
Georgia Tech W at Florida W at Nevada W Villanova W Syracuse W at Illinois W
at Alabama W Texas San Antonio W Brigham Young W at Kansas State L Wisconsin W Iowa W
Louisiana State L South Carolina W at Texas L Baylor W Illinois W at Northwestern W
Arkansas W Texas A&M W Central Florida W at Kansas L at Iowa L Massachusetts W
at Auburn W at Alabama L at Oklahoma State L at Oklahoma L Ohio State L at Ohio State W
Vanderbilt W at Kentucky W Oklahoma W West Virginia W at Nebraska L Indiana W
Texas A&M L Connecticut W at Iowa State W at Cincinnati L at Michigan L at Maryland L
at Georgia L at Missouri W Texas Tech L Oklahoma State W Minnesota W Michigan L
Louisiana Monroe W Georgia W Kansas State L at Texas Tech L at Northwestern W Rutgers W
at Mississippi State W Vanderbilt W at Cincinnati W Houston W Indiana W at Michigan State W

Texas A&M 10-2 Vanderbilt 5-7 Kansas State 10-2 West Virginia 4-8 Wisconsin 9-3 Rutgers 3-9
New Mexico W Hawaii W SE Missouri W at Penn State L Buffalo W Northwestern W
at Miami W Alabama A&M W Troy W Duquesne W at Washington State L Temple W
Louisiana Monroe W at Wake Forest L at Missouri W Pittsburgh L Georgia Southern W Virginia Tech L
Auburn W at Nevada Las Vegas W Central Florida W Texas Tech L at Purdue L at Michigan L
Arkansas W Kentucky L at Oklahoma State W at Texas Christian L Rutgers W Wagner W
Alabama W Missouri W at Texas Tech L at Houston L Iowa W at Wisconsin L
at Tennessee L at Florida L Texas Christian W Oklahoma State W at Illinois L Michigan State L
South Carolina W Georgia L Houston W at Central Florida L Ohio State W at Indiana L
at Mississippi W at Mississippi L at Texas L Brigham Young W at Indiana W Ohio State L
Mississippi State W Auburn W Baylor W at Oklahoma L Northwestern W at Iowa L
Abilene Christian W at South Carolina L at Kansas W Cincinnati W Nebraska W at Penn State L
at Louisiana State L at Tennessee L Iowa State W at Baylor L at Minnesota W Maryland L
B10

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Photo illustration by Tim Hubbard photographs by Associated Press

TOP COLLEGE quarterbacks, clockwise from bottom left: LSU’s Jayden Daniels, USC’s Caleb Williams, Michigan’s J.J. McCarthy and Florida State’s Jordan Travis.

HAIL TO THE VICTORS?


HISTORY SAYS BE WARY
Michigan could be title-worthy, but Georgia, USC and others will have a say
BY J. BRADY MCCOLLOUGH >>> As a senior in high school in the spring of 2000, I decided to attend Michigan. Earlier
that fall, my mom had surprised me with tickets to see a quarterback named Tom Brady lead the Wolverines against
Notre Dame in Ann Arbor. Michigan won with a late fourth-quarter drive, and I was officially enamored. ¶ With the
Wolverines coming off the 1997 national championship, I thought I was signed up for a lifetime of rooting — this was
before I decided to become a sportswriter! — for a true title contender. ¶ For the most part, 18-year-old me has been
very wrong. Expectations have not been kind to Michigan the last two-plus decades — you may recall the Wolverines
were ranked No. 5 when they lost to Appalachian State — and I know from experience that when Michigan is supposed to
do something great, that makes it less likely it will accomplish that something. ¶ Which brings me to my point: my
annual picks of every “Power Five” game now have to be made during a year in which the Wolverines are ranked No. 2 in
the preseason polls, certainly the highest position since I’ve followed the program closely. Michigan is coming off two
straight emphatic wins over Ohio State and returns its starting quarterback, dominant tailback tandem and key
cornerstone leaders up and down the depth chart. I know Michigan is going to be very good, but I also know too much
about how wrong it can go when it’s supposed to be right. ¶ My friend Sam and I do these picks each year for fun, and
I’ve never been in this spot before with my alma mater. Do I take the plunge or rain on the parade? Read on to see what we
do with Michigan, plus: Can Georgia three-peat? Will Caleb Williams lead USC to its first playoff appearance? How
will UCLA fare in Chip Kelly’s first season without Dorian Thompson-Robinson? [See Brady’s picks on B8 and B9]
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CALENDAR T H U R S D AY , A U G U S T 3 1 , 2 0 2 3 :: L A T I M E S . C O M / C A L E N D A R

TEL LU R ID E F I LM FE S TI VAL
Veteran
news
exec
to lead
CNN
Thompson will try to
accelerate the cable
network’s move into
streaming video.
By Stephen Battaglio

Mark Thompson, a veter-


an news executive who held
top jobs at the BBC and the
New York Times, will be the
new head of CNN with a
mandate to accelerate the
cable news channel’s march
into the digital media future.
The Warner Bros. Discov-
ery unit announced Wednes-
day that Thompson will be
chairman and chief execu-
tive of CNN and report to
WBD Chief Executive David
Zaslav. He will join the com-
pany Oct. 9.
CNN has been run by
news executives Amy En-
telis, Virginia Moseley and
Eric Sherling and Chief Op-
erating Officer David Leavy
since the June 7 firing of
Chairman Chris Licht. They
will continue in their roles
and report to Thompson.
Thompson’s hiring is a
signal that WBD is looking
to transform CNN, which is
largely dependent on cable
subscriptions for its reve-
nue, into a digital-first news
operation just as he did at
the New York Times, where
he was chief executive from
2012 to 2020.
“His strategic vision,
track record in transforma-
tional leadership and sheer
passion for news make him a
formidable force for CNN
and journalism at this piv-
[See Thompson, E2]
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Not starry but golden


The event turns 50 and celebrates with great directors but likely not actors Ben Gabbe Getty Images
MARK THOMPSON is
GLENN WHIPP lineup that blends future best picture overs,” which reunites him with “Side- the new head at CNN.
Oscar winners (“Argo,” “Moonlight” and ways” star Paul Giamatti), Emerald Fen-
Telluride Film Festival “The Shape of Water”) with the best of nell (the dark comedy “Saltburn,” her
director Julie Huntsinger international and independent cinema, follow-up to “Promising Young Woman”)
was sitting in her office a few Huntsinger boasts — with gratitude — and Steve McQueen (“Occupied City,” a His realm: L.A.
weeks ago thinking that this that she didn’t lose a single film. four-and-a-half-hour documentary about cultural venues
year’s program was going to “As I said to a couple of filmmakers, we Amsterdam that focuses on the city’s Architect Norman
be a repeat of the pandemic just keep making lemonade,” Huntsinger German occupation during World War II). Pfeiffer contributed to
year, thanks to the ongoing told me over the phone earlier this week. World premieres include “Rustin,” a Griffith Observatory
actors’ and writers’ strikes. This year’s festival, which begins biopic of gay civil rights activist Bayard and LACMA, among
But talking about the lineup for the Thursday, includes new movies from Rustin starring Colman Domingo, the other institutions. E3
50th edition of the festival, beloved by Oscar-winning filmmakers Alexander sports drama “Nyad” with Annette Be- Comics ................... E4-5
movie lovers for its meticulously curated Payne (the wry, Christmas-set “The Hold- ning portraying the [See Telluride, E6] Puzzles ...................... E4

Trump has joined the THEATER REVIEW

most unwanted list The secret lives of teenage girls


toward fleeting. That
His laughable mug changed last Friday. ‘Our Dear Dead Drug
Release of the Fulton
shot is reminiscent County Sheriff ’s Office Lord’ at Kirk Douglas
of Andy Warhol’s mugshot of the disgraced is a squirm-inducing
45th president of the United
disastrous 1964 mural. States, indicted for an at- yet riveting drama.
tempt to overturn the Geor-
CHRISTOPHER KNIGHT CHARLES McNULTY
gia results of the 2020 elec-
ART CRITIC THEATER CRITIC
tion, instantly catapulted to
iconic status. By virtue of 13
Sometimes, a routine po- felony charges for racket- It’s not easy to make a
lice-booking photograph of eering and conspiracy, this hardened theater critic
a criminal suspect gets picture will last. squirm in his seat, but I
pushed to the popular cul- The harshly lighted pho- wasn’t sure I had the tough-
ture foreground on the crest tograph of Donald John ness to withstand the open-
of an accused offense — Jane Trump was snapped by an ing scene of “Our Dear Dead
Fonda with a raised-fist unidentified county official. Drug Lord,” Alexis Scheer’s
power salute mocking an ar- The mug shot shows the sus- critically touted play about
rest for a falsified drug pect’s head lowered as if to the savage secret lives of
charge, for example, or obscure a jowly double-chin, teenage girls.
Charles Manson with a very eyes narrowed into a glare, Don’t let the jovial tree
real swastika carved into his lips firmly pursed and yellow house setting fool you. The
forehead. Once the heated pompadour swirled into a play, which opened Sunday
news cycle moves on, the cotton-candy crown. Miss- at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
photograph sinks back into ing a paired profile shot, in an electric Center Theatre
relative obscurity, pulled out which is common to the po- Group production (a col-
now and then for related up- lice-photograph genre, it laboration with IAMA Thea-
dates. bumps into second place vir- Craig Schwartz Photography tre Company), tested my
Mug shots get filed, but tually any of his other innu- SET IN A MIAMI tree house, Alexis Scheer’s “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord” stars nerves in a way that few
their resonance bends [See Mug shot, E6] Coral Peña, left, Lilian Rebelo, Ashley Brooke and Samantha Wynette Miller. [See ‘Drug Lord,’ E3]
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New
meant, and it was super
emotional. I think I, among
many others that participa-
ted, are still processing what

lead at a big thing that was.

Blackhorse, your episodes


tend to involve fun buddy

CNN stuff on the surface, but as


we see in Episode 6, there is
another layer to it. What are
the things that have stuck
[Thompson, from E1] with you while working on
otal time,” Zaslav said in a your episodes this season?
statement. Lowe: I think returning to
CNN, one of the most rec- this crew that I love all based
ognized global brands for in Oklahoma, and all the
news, has hit rough terrain in Indigenous people from all
recent years, plagued by fall- different states coming
ing ratings, a changing me- together and putting their
dia landscape where young- heart and soul into this
er viewers have abandoned show. Just putting so much
cable TV, and a more parti- care and effort into it, look-
san divide among news ing forward to every episode
source viewership. The net- and all these different cre-
work’s Nielsen ratings badly ative challenges. They’re all
trail conservative outlet Fox really close friends and col-
News and MSNBC, which laborators I’ve gone on to
caters to more liberal view- work with on other films.
ers. In terms of the episodes,
CNN, which has nearly there’s always things I really
4,000 employees, has also get a kick out of, either work-
faced turmoil in the execu- ing with the actors or finding
tive suite. Jeff Zucker, who some new technique to apply
led CNN through its most Photographs by Shane Brown FX to whatever story it is I’m
profitable years, was ousted CHEESE (Lane Factor, front) with Brownie (Gary Farmer, left), Big (Zahn McClarnon), Bucky (Wes Studi). telling. Like, I mostly get the
in February 2022 after the psychedelic episodes, but
company learned that he because of that I also get the

Incredible time on
failed to disclose a romantic larger issue that is a huge emotional breaks. Like Big
relationship with his long- collective trauma. having his emotional mo-
time aide Allison Gollust, ment figuring out where his
who also served as chief mar- You’ve worked on what I trauma came from with his
keting officer. think of as “uncle epi- grandmother [and] with

‘Reservation Dogs’
After CNN became part sodes,” where the focus is Deer Lady [in Episode 208],
of Warner Bros. Discovery, on some of the elders like then ending up in some sort
Licht, a former news and Uncle Brownie. What was it of weird action movie se-
late-night talk show pro- like for you to explore their quence at the end with fish-
ducer, was named chairman backstories in Episode 5? head f—. Now [in Episode
in April 2022. But his stew- Lowe: It was great, espe- 306], these elderly men are
ardship lasted about a year, cially when I saw that it was a opening up to Cheese and
as ratings continued to de- Two directors relish full-on ’70s episode and trying to get him to come
cline while he was forced by inspired by “Dazed and back to community but it
its new corporate parent to experience on series Confused” and all those completely flips to where he
cut staffing. and how it’s bolstered other films. I just immedi- makes them reveal their
Licht failed to connect ately took to the material. demons and they end up
with the staff and was unable Native representation. And being able to explore all having this huge breakdown.
to put together a prime-time the established characters, It’s nice to see characters
program lineup that could By Tracy Brown who are elders in the present switch, I don’t want to say
reverse a ratings decline. He time, and actually see them positions of power, but posi-
was also under pressure to This story includes spoilers in high school during their tions of emotional tender-
put more Republican politi- for “Reservation Dogs” different boarding school ness with each other. These
cians on CNN, as Zaslav Season 3, including Episode experience in the ’70s where, men are trying to educate
maintained the network had 6, now available on Hulu. you know, it was a bit more Cheese about the impor-
moved too far to the political free and open with not as tance of family and commu-
left. The third and final sea- much oppression — a lot nity and letting go of certain
But the attempt to court son of FX’s “Reservation more LSD and sex. It was things, and it flips to all these
more conservative viewers Dogs” has been taking some cool to see that Native expe- men just completely bawling
led to a chaotic town hall bold swings. THE SERIES focused on the horrors of Indian rience going from what in the woods. It’s beautiful to
with former President After a second season boarding schools in “Deer Lady” episode this season. Danis’ episode had shown, to see adults, to a certain de-
Trump, which alienated that saw Bear (D’Pharaoh the ’70s. It’s still kids ripped gree, put in their place by the
CNN viewers for weeks after- Woon-A-Tai), Elora Danan intimacy to it. Like, the kids more off-center. He knows away from their parents, but younger generation. And it’s
ward. (Devery Jacobs), Willie Jack have been out in the danger- everyone’s strengths and in terms of experience, it’s very much a Native thing of
The London-born (Paulina Alexis) and Cheese ous world, so we bring them what they can do best. completely different. laughter and crying and
Thompson now enters a sce- (Lane Factor) set off on a ca- into a sort of safer space Goulet: It’s amazing The nice thing about the horror, you just keep smiling
nario that is similar to the thartic cross-country road where we could just sit with because we’ve all known show is it provides all these and living this nightmare of
one he faced at the New York trip in honor of their late them as they catch up with each other since the early to different interpretations of life to make it a good thing.
Times a decade ago. friend, the coming-of-age se- themselves and reflect on mid-2000s. We’ve all watched the Native experience. And
CNN is a highly influen- ries, created by Sterlin Harjo what’s just happened and so much of each other’s to have all of that there and We can’t talk about “Reser-
tial news organization still and Taika Waititi, has taken also tee up certain things for work. It really feels like you’re also be able to see where all vation Dogs” without dis-
largely tethered to a business time to explore the backsto- the season. And the actors kind of returning to this of the trauma and all of this cussing what the show has
model that is eroding as ries of characters outside its we’ve come to all know and family and then just being love grew from with these done for Native representa-
viewers shift away from pay core teen protagonists. love over the past few sea- empowered creatively. four characters [Brownie, tion not just onscreen but
TV subscriptions and spend As the Rez Dogs continue sons, the first day I shot with Sterlin really trusts what Bucky, Irene and Mabel], it also, as you’ve both men-
more time with streaming vi- to figure out who they want everyone, I was just like, people are going to do. I was cool to explore and set tioned, behind the camera.
deo. to be, early episodes in Sea- “Man, these guys have it think the beautiful thing up their characters for who What do you want to take
When Thompson joined son 3 like “Deer Lady” and dialed in.” It’s amazing, about the show is that it isn’t they were and who they’re from your experience on
the Times, he faced a similar “House Made of Bongs” have because so many of them afraid to take risks and to go going to become. this show as you pursue
challenge — a strong journal- revealed how a vigilante spir- were fairly fresh to acting, off into different places. I your own next projects?
ism organization that was it and community elders be- with the exception of Dev- think that speaks to Sterlin’s It was fun to see the elders Lowe: Residual checks, if
seeing its audience decline came who they are. ery. But to see them have leadership. I also think he is being their own version of the negotiations get done.
as consumers shifted away Directors Danis Goulet really found their stride as a great matchmaker, be- the Rez Dogs. Goulet: It’s funny that
from printed newspapers and Blackhorse Lowe, who actors, it’s such an amazing cause he really thinks about Lowe: They were young you say that, Blackhorse,
and more toward online combined have directed four process to come together what scripts are going to go s— a— doing drugs in the because those of us who have
sources for news. of the first six episodes of and work with them again. to what director. And then, woods. That parallel is there. been around for more than a
Thompson oversaw an in- Season 3, have relished the once that choice is made, The human factor is one minute know what it’s like to
vestment into audio prod- creative freedom and col- Blackhorse, you’ve been he’s like, “Here you go, it’s lovely thing that Sterlin slog the way in independent
ucts such as “The Daily” pod- laborative creative commu- with the show since Season yours. What can I do to always shows. All people are film. To watch Sterlin for so
cast, newsletters and confer- nity on “Reservation Dogs.” 1. What was working on that help?” human and all people are f— many years just make a
ences. He used digital ver- “I heard a lot of horror first season like before It’s really an incredible up and full of love. And show- bunch of features that all get
sions of crosswords, games stories about what it’s like to anybody even knew a show experience. I haven’t worked ing Maximus, the character into Sundance, but then it’s
and recipes to increase the work on television, especially like “Reservation Dogs” in a lot of other TV, but from played by Graham Greene [still] so hard to finance that
number of paying online con- if you’ve come up in inde- was possible? the stories I’ve heard, this is [in Episode 2], how he came next thing and you never do
sumers. As a result, the New pendent film,” said Goulet, a Lowe: When Sterlin was a real exception and not the to this place in the story get a bigger budget. To fi-
York Times has lapped its Cree-Métis filmmaker who shooting the pilot, he told rule. where he’s sent to [psych nally get that opportunity to
major print competitors in previously directed the Sea- me if it gets picked up, I wards] and getting all this see what’s possible when
the race for paid digital sub- son 2 episode “Mabel.” “But would come on, and Danis, Blackhorse mentioned electro-shock therapy. What resources are given to Na-
scribers with nearly 10 mil- coming onto ‘Reservation as well and other directors, Deer Lady earlier, but was the beginning of that? tive-led storytelling is so
lion. Dogs’ was the opposite of to do the rest of the show. It Danis, what did you think Where and how did that incredible. You as well have
Whether Thompson can that experience. It was like was a very pleasant feeling when you to got the script story start? It was really fun worked in independent film
achieve the same kind of being embraced by this in- to come onto an actual set exploring her backstory in to explore that character for so long. It’s like, yeah
turnaround at CNN will be a credibly supportive commu- where people knew what we Episode 3? The history and and that budding darkness. man, you do deserve a resid-
major question in the media nity in Oklahoma of everyone were doing, and everyone legacy of Indian boarding ual paycheck. We have paid
industry. that is so passionate about was extremely enthusiastic schools is something not all What are the moments you some dues. And not just the
CNN has tremendous telling these stories.” to be there. I think in that American audiences are take away from on set? regular dues that folks all
reach online through its web- “The great thing about first season, we were kind of aware of. How did you want What was memorable for over the place have paid.
site and apps, which are free shooting in Oklahoma, it’s finding our footing with the to approach it? you about working on these Lowe: The big thing is the
and dependent on advertis- just so community-based, characters, the visual gram- Goulet: God, I read the episodes this season? relationships with the crew.
ing. The cable network is and the heart and soul of the mar and what Sterlin script, and it’s so brilliant. It Lowe: Tick checks. That’s Working with Tazbah [Rose
what attracts paying cus- story is all there,” added wanted. The writing was so was written by Sterlin, and what I remember. Chavez] and working with
tomers through their sub- Lowe, a Navajo filmmaker solid, everything was there. he’s done this incredible job Goulet: Blackhorse has Migizi [Pensoneau]. Work-
scriptions to pay TV serv- who has worked on the show It was just a matter of plug- of talking about this huge, touched on it but there’s so ing with the people at FX
ices, which are declining since its first season. “I think ging in the characters and historical experience that much humanity in the show. and the amazing cast and
about 8% each year. out of all my television expe- tuning into the right wave- Indigenous people all share, I think because of the poli- crew. There’s so many friend-
CNN launched a direct- riences, this is the one I’m length and making every- which is how we’ve all been tics of representation, ships and moments that
to-consumer streaming most spoiled on because thing happen. Everything impacted by the [Indian] there’s this pressure to por- we’ve shared on set from
service in March 2022 called Sterlin gives us the most cre- there within my first couple boarding school system. All tray Indigenous people in a lightning strikes to all these
CNN+. Nine days after CNN ative control to get the job of episodes, with Uncle of us Indigenous folks know certain way. To be able to different places we’d go to
became part of Warner Bros. done. Having his support, Brownie (Gary Farmer) and this history. It’s very familiar. just be flawed humans, with shoot and other adventures.
Discovery, the new owners along with everyone in FX, the other one with Deer When I read it, immedi- all of the complexity of all of Everything from Deer
shut it down due to cost con- it’s a very good place to be.” Lady (Kaniehtiio Horn), ately, I felt — and this is our relationships onscreen is Lady to boarding schools to
cerns. On a recent video call, went across very beautifully. something I’ve already so amazing, and I think the just the very mundane
CNN is launching a new Goulet and Lowe discussed We had no problems. So that thought about as a film- show just really centers on things of daily life, all these
streaming service next their episodes, experiences first season, it was blessed. maker — but this is a horror love at the core of it. things are very spiritual and
month — called CNN Max — on the show and how “Reser- show. What was really ex- Obviously, for Episode 3, have a lot of heft to them. We
that will be included as part vation Dogs” has changed The common understand- perienced in real life is a it got heavy at times because really have to be very con-
of WBD’s Max streaming how TV can be made. This ing is that TV is a writer’s horror show. And when I you can’t touch on some- scious of these things and
platform. It will offer a mix of conversation has been ed- medium. As filmmakers, talked to the boarding thing that big without hav- the people we’re leading
live news presented by CNN ited for length and clarity. how do you navigate being school consultant that was ing to go to a place of quiet them through and the sto-
anchors and simulcasts of true to yourselves as artists on the episode, Denise [Laji- and really honoring what ries we’re leading them
several of the cable network’s Danis, you directed that but also fit it into the modiere], about how much happened and also trying to through and how we take
programs including “The first episode that got the showrunner’s vision? should we show and how do hold the space that the care of them. I’m very grate-
Lead With Jake Tapper” and kids back to Oklahoma. Lowe: Sterlin really you know when it’s too much actors are trying to work in ful that Sterlin, the commu-
“Anderson Cooper 360.” What was it like to get that catered everyone’s story to — all those questions that when they’re trying to por- nity, they’re able to provide
Thompson has experi- script? What was exciting what their strengths are. come up when you’re going tray really difficult things. spiritual support for that.
ence as a TV news producer for you about that story? Like, Danis, I don’t know to depict something like this There was a young man, That’s the one big thing
during his more than 30-year Goulet: [It] really felt like that you deal with a lot of — she said, “Whatever you Adam, who had intended to I’ll really take away from this,
run at the BBC, where he a road movie. Coming off stuff with funerals, but the put onscreen won’t be as bad cut his long hair. Hair has a is seeing my culture and the
worked on current affairs Season 2, where it kind of sensitivity and care and the as what it really was.” I think lot of meaning in a lot of our thing I love to do in life com-
programs including “News- feels like there’s a natural emotions you got out of there’s something about cultures and that was the pletely meshed together in a
night,” “Nationwide” “The closure of something — everyone and how powerful holding the truth of it hon- first thing that got cut off beautiful way.
Nine O’Clock News” and there was a goal, they were that episode [“Mabel”] was. estly, but also, when you put when kids arrived at board- Goulet: That’s amazing.
“Panorama.” trying to get to California, Danis was just tailor-made it in this fantastical story ing school. He, with the See, you pretend to be just
But he has largely op- and the kids finally do — to bring out those emotions. and make it about the origin support of his family, made about the stoner comedies,
erated on the business side then the natural question And Sterlin’s like, “Well, with story of a character that we the decision to cut his hair Blackhorse, but we all know
since the mid-1990s, serving that bubbles up is “What’s stoner and horror stuff, already know and love and onscreen. That scene, when better. And it’s so true what
as controller and then direc- next?” It’s a really nice, fresh that’s perfect for Black- who’s portrayed so bril- we went to shoot it, you you’re saying. The show isn’t
tor-general of the BBC be- place to start. What’s great horse.” He would always liantly by Kaniehtiio Horn, it could hear a pin drop in the just changing what ends up
fore joining the New York about the bus as a space to throw me the genre stuff, or just becomes this Trojan room, it was so quiet. It was onscreen, it changes the way
Times. work in is that there’s an something that was a bit horse way of getting into this like everybody knew what it things are done.
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NORMAN PFEIFFER , 1940 – 2023 School considered to design


the Grand Avenue building,”
explained Toby Mayman, an
honorary life director of the

Architect expanded civic treasures


Colburn School, “Norman
was the only one who sent a
team to the school’s existing
site [a former furniture ware-
house on Figueroa Street] to
get a real sense of the school’s
real mission and its program-
He added to Griffith matic needs and hopes for
the future.”
Observatory, LACMA “The challenge was to de-
and Central Library, sign a high-quality concert
hall at a scale that would al-
and designed Colburn. low young children to feel
comfortable in the audience
By Shane Reiner-Roth and on stage,” said Jean
Gath, the managing princi-
Norman Pfeiffer, an archi- pal of Pfeiffer, a Perkins East-
tect with a more than half- man Studio (as Pfeiffer Part-
century-long devotion to ners is now known), who
projects in the L.A. public worked on the project. The
realm, died Aug. 23 at his brick and zinc exterior facing
home in Pacific Palisades. He Grand Avenue belies a spa-
was 82. cious yet intimate concert
“Norman is perhaps the hall, around which orbit reci-
architect with the greatest tal halls and dance studios. A
impact on Los Angeles’s cul- few years later, Pfeiffer de-
tural sector,” said his wife, Pa- signed an adjacent student
tricia Zohn, in reference to his housing tower and adjoined
contributions to venues in- the two facilities with a court-
cluding Griffith Observatory, yard and dining commons en-
Los Angeles Central Library, visioned as an open-air cam-
and the Los Angeles County pus amid skyscrapers.
Museum of Art, among oth- Following the dissolution
ers. “Yet he was also the an- of HHPA in 2004, Pfeiffer be-
tithesis of a starchitect: mod- came one of the go-to design-
est, self-effacing and with a fo- ers for education spaces —
cus squarely on the project.” particularly in California,
Through his firms Hardy with clients including Stan-
Holzman Pfeiffer and Pfeiffer Photo from Pfeiffer, a Perkins Eastman Studio ford, USC, Cal State Long
Partners, he approached Beach, Caltech and UCLA. At
architecture as a relational UC Santa Barbara, Marc
practice. Born in 1940 in Seat- Fisher, the former vice chan-
tle, Pfeiffer was inspired as a cellor for administrative serv-
young man by his grand- ices, said, “Norman and his
father, a master woodworker, team brought new life to the
and the fact that his parents’ center of campus by trans-
homes were both hand-built forming the tired university
by family members. Brim- library through brilliant addi-
ming with energy, Pfeiffer di- tion, reduction and reno-
vided his time between his vation. On opening day, the
two lifelong passions, archi- students flooded the building
tecture and baseball, and proclaimed it their own.”
throughout early adulthood. Pfeiffer’s newfound inde-
While obtaining a bachelor of pendence from HHPA also al-
architecture degree at the lowed him to take on more
University of Washington, he Image from Pfeiffer, a Perkins Eastman Studio Tim Griffith historic preservation proj-
played shortstop and second STRUCTURING CULTURE ects, most notably the reno-
base for the school’s team as Norman Pfeiffer, seen juggling, worked on major additions to LACMA in 1986, above left, and maintained vation and expansion of the
well as a traveling team Griffith Observatory’s iconic look while adding a large exhibition space below it in the 2000s. Griffith Observatory, com-
known as the Cheney Studs. pleted in 2006. Incorporating
“He used to carry his drawing several new facilities while
board on the team bus to put people first. When it was mistakably 1980s glass brick 1993, became one of Pfeiffer’s “His masterful renovation of maintaining the building’s
keep up with his architecture selected for a national AIA facade served as a towering proudest accomplishments. the Central Library revital- iconic outward presence —
assignments,” Zohn re- Honor Award in 1976, the jury buffer between Wilshire Boul- His enthusiasm for working ized downtown L.A.,” said essentially a magic trick — re-
counts. applauded the clear organi- evard and the Times Mirror with the historic structure is longtime family friends Julie quired the painstaking re-
Shortly after graduating zation of its many facilities, Central Court at LACMA’s detailed in “The Library and Roger Corman. “It shows creation of the sprawling
from Columbia University “which relieves the tedium of center, where “slender green Book,” Susan Orlean’s best- that Norman understood Los front lawn to its original spec-
with a master of architecture clinical work and the anxiety glazed piers soar four stories selling account outlining the Angeles as a city with both a ifications to install a 40,000-
degree in 1965, Pfeiffer joined of patients,” as well as its vi- to a ceiling of saw-toothed, fire in 1986 that nearly rich history and a future full of square-foot exhibition space
architects Hugh Hardy and brantly hued mechanical and factory-style translucent sky- brought the library to ashes. light and amusement.” beneath its sea of green.
Malcolm Holzman to estab- structural systems designed lights,” as William Wilson de- “Pfeiffer’s design centered on Betty Teoman, the former “As an architect, Norman
lish Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer to further elucidate the build- scribed for The Times in 1986. an eight-story atrium,” wrote director of Los Angeles Cen- was able to think beyond the
Associates (HHPA) in New ing’s many components. Though Wilson and other Orlean. “Even though the ad- tral Library, remembers edges of a building to con-
York. Through directing the Through this and other critics believed the addition dition was massive, it Pfeiffer’s demeanor as he first sider what a building can do
design and construction of works, HHPA received the successfully wove the campus wouldn’t challenge the height presented his proposal. “In for a community,” Gath said.
several cultural, civic and 1978 AIA New York Chapter’s together following two dec- of the original building, be- public meetings where peo- “As a leader, his legacy is one
commercial projects for the Medal of Honor, and Pfeiffer ades of incoherence, it met cause four of its stories were ple were often passionate and of collaboration. The six new
firm, Pfeiffer fostered his pas- was elected to the AIA Col- the ax in 2020 to make way for belowground.... The experi- emotional about their posi- partners of the firm he
sion for human-scaled archi- lege of Fellows in 1981, the Peter Zumthor’s controver- ence of passing through both tions, Norman was the island started work well together,
tecture in an increasingly au- youngest member ever given sial, forthcoming David Gef- buildings would be like walk- of calm,” Teoman said. “His thanks to his role as a mentor
tomobile-scaled nation. the honor at the time. fen Galleries. “The denoue- ing through an eccentric steady hand on the public unafraid to step aside to let
The Columbus Occupa- In 1986, Pfeiffer moved to ment of the LACMA building playhouse and then tumbling and behind-the-scenes de- the next generation lead.”
tional Health Center, com- Los Angeles and opened a was hotly contested at the over a waterfall.” sign process was key to the In addition to Zohn,
pleted in 1973 in Columbus, second HHPA office to over- time,” Zohn recalls, “but Nor- In far more subtle detail, project’s success.” Pfeiffer is survived by two
Ind. — a city bearing architec- see the completion of the man — typically — did not en- Pfeiffer designed custom car- Pfeiffer applied this same children from his first mar-
tural gems from the likes of Robert O. Anderson Build- gage with it.” pets and related upholstery level of deference to his de- riage, Alexander and Medby
Eero Saarinen, Robert Ven- ing, the street-facing addition The renovation and ex- throughout that borrow from sign for the Colburn School, Pfeiffer, two children from his
turi and I.M. Pei — became to the original Los Angeles pansion of Bertram Good- patterns and images visible in completed in 1998 in down- marriage with Zohn, Nicho-
one of Pfeiffer’s first major County Museum of Art hue’s 1926 Los Angeles Cen- the intricate ceiling design of town Los Angeles. “Of all the las and Patrick Pfeiffer, as
projects that unambiguously (LACMA) campus. Its un- tral Library, completed in Goodhue’s dazzling rotunda. architects the Colburn well as four grandchildren.

Friends have vanished. shock, she reveals a hard-to-

Provocative drama of teen girls Traumatic events have left


them in a state of unfinished
grieving.
Vibrantly directed by
believe secret. (Sex is at the
root of most of the play’s mys-
teries.)
The violence that begins
[‘Drug Lord,’ from E1] namics of adolescent girls. Lindsay Allbaugh, “Our Dear “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord”
plays have in recent memory. Plays such as Clare Barron’s Dead Drug Lord” is a true en- that almost sent me running
The four young people “Dance Nation” and Sarah semble piece. The play’s out of the theater reaches a
who meet regularly in this DeLappe’s “The Wolves” overlapping conversation is a level of horror that had me
abandoned aerie are mem- have been opening our symphony of interruptions clutching my head in shock
bers of a dangerous club. Pri- understanding of the wild in- and resonant non sequiturs, at one point. Scheer isn’t
vate school students in Mi- terior landscapes of young adroitly conducted. messing around. The play
ami, they’ve dedicated the women crossing the thresh- The company of actors at does something even more
school’s dead leaders club to old into sexual maturity the Douglas doesn’t disap- unexpected than introduce
a darker purpose: worship- under the shadow of puni- point in creating portraits two new characters and
ing the ghost of Colombian shing societal strictures and that resist generalizations. switch into Spanish at the
narco-terrorist Pablo the threat of male abuse. These characters are individ- end. It approaches Antonin
Escobar. (They originally Like Jocelyn Bioh’s uals first and foremost. As Artaud’s theater of cruelty.
tried the same premise with “School Girls; Or, the African soon as you think they’re fall- Like Artaud, Scheer
Adolf Hitler but didn’t like it Mean Girls Play,” “Our Dear ing into types, they surprise doesn’t believe that the thea-
when they got labeled a hate Dead Drug Lord” is acutely you with their unpredictabil- ter can touch us if it stays
group for wearing swastikas mindful of the hierarchy of its ity. within polite, respectable
to school.) adolescent world. Alliance Rebelo’s Pipe is aggres- limits. The leap into blood
The horror of the opening shifts and mutinies occur, Craig Schwartz Photography sively privileged, but her so- and madness is an attempt
scene involves a stray cat but leadership is hard to fake THE GIRLS use a Ouija board to try to contact the cial brutality has cracks of to break out of the strait-
concealed in a box. The girls and Pipe is a born boss. spirit of drug lord Pablo Escobar in Scheer’s play. empathy. And she has a soft jacket of realism into some-
are intending to sacrifice the Ownership comes natu- spot for outsiders with thing less controllable and fa-
animal as part of a ritual to rally to her. She rules the tree birth amuses her. gumption, because down miliar. To this end, the crack
initiate Kit (Coral Peña), a house (designed by At 15, Zoom, whose family deep she recognizes that this design team activates Cou-
new club member, who has to François-Pierre Couture as a ‘Our Dear is Jewish and lives next door is what it’s going to take for ture’s tree house with other-
prove her murderous mettle. not implausible fantasy hide- to Pipe’s, is the youngest of her to lead an authentic life. worldly lighting (Azra King-
Squeeze (Samantha away) like a McMansion. Her
Dead Drug the group. Excitable and ea- Peña’s Kit exerts an un- Abadi) and propulsive sound
Wynette Miller), who’s highly family, affluent and conser- Lord’ ger to please, she has a cha- canny hold on Pipe. Her (Veronika Vorel) that trans-
allergic to cats, wants the of- vative, is of Cuban back- meleon-like ability to blend strength, born out of circum- form the stage action into a
fending creature eliminated ground. She’s entitled, and Where: Kirk Douglas in with the cultural influ- stances Pipe has never had to surreal hallucination.
as quickly as possible. But proud of it. Theatre, 9820 Washington ences around her. face, leaves the others in awe. I’m still working out the
Pipe (Lilian Rebelo), the Kit, raised by her Colom- Blvd., Culver City. Perhaps the brightest of She’s the only one who has to ending, which mixes empow-
club’s president, demands bian mother, assumed she the girls, Squeeze, of Puerto take an after-school job, but erment with violent trans-
When: 8 p.m. Tuesdays-
that the ceremony be scru- was speaking to Pipe’s Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Rican and Haitian back- she never lets any of the clue- gression. The opening-night
pulously observed. Zoom mother when she called at Saturdays, 1 and 6:30 p.m. ground, discusses the fine less comments of her new audience might have been
(Ashley Brooke), though her house. But it turns out Sundays. Ends Sept. 17. points of Santería practice friends crimp her dignity. cheering as though defiant
usually game for anything, she was talking with the fam- with Pipe, who wants the Miller’s Squeeze is in liberation was the main mes-
Tickets: Start at $30
can’t help worrying that ily’s cleaning lady — one ex- club rituals to open a portal some ways the most surpris- sage, but the play’s politics
killing the animal will make ample of Pipe’s luxurious life- Contact: (213) 628-2772 or to the supernatural. A Ouija ing of the girls. Sharp as a should be unsettling. There’s
centertheatregroup.org
them seem like style that Kit is unaccus- board is part of the magic tack, and with a social con- no sugarcoating the de-
“psychopaths.” tomed to. Pipe and Kit’s dif- Running time: 1 hour, they use to make contact science beyond her years, she ranged deeds that unfold.
I can’t morally justify why ferences draw them together. 30 minutes with the spirit of Escobar. seems destined to be head of Good drama doesn’t shy
this depiction of animal They have more in common What are these young state one day. Yet spend away from ambiguity, even as
slaughter affected me more than meets the eye. put aside the fact that he’s women after? The illicit ap- enough time in her dazzling it draws us emotionally
than, say, the portrayal of hu- The year is 2008, Barack basically a socialist?” she peal of a drug lord’s lawless- presence and you’ll note the closer to characters who dis-
man tragedy onstage. But I Obama is running for presi- asks, to the dismay of her ness resonates strongly with heartbroken child inside of rupt our sense of right and
found myself in an agonizing dent, and Pipe’s family has a friends. their desire to break out of her. Miller’s performance, wrong. “Our Dear Dead Drug
place in the early going — John McCain sign on the Scheer incorporates Mi- systems that treat them like which includes a cathartic Lord” is open to contradic-
which is exactly where lawn. Pipe claims to be an in- ami’s distinctive multicultur- subjects instead of queens. dance sequence she choreo- tory interpretations. One in-
Scheer wanted me to be. dependent, like her parents, alism into the drama. The But rescue from disempow- graphed to give expression to terpretation might even illu-
“Our Dear Dead Drug but she’s unable to censor girls suspect that Kit’s father erment is only one motiva- the tragedy that befell her minate how a sizable portion
Lord,” which premiered in her Republican views. might be Escobar because of tion. family, contains multitudes. of the nation is beholden to a
New York in 2019 in a co-pro- “So what, I’m supposed to her Colombian background. Haunting the girls are Brooke’s Zoom is the wild rule-flouting politician who
duction between WP Theater vote for the Black guy just be- Kit doesn’t know much losses too painful to process. card. She may seem the most is now marketing his mug
and Second Stage Theater, is cause he’s Black and trendy, about her father, who died Death has been no stranger innocent and impression- shot to pay his mounting le-
part of a wave of provocative and his face is on all the shirts just after she was born, and to them. There are missing able of the group, but she has gal bills while he runs for
dramas about the group dy- at Urban Outfitters, and just the mythologizing of her pieces in their families. a spine. And to everyone’s president.
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SUDOKU BRIDGE
set up and cash the fifth carder. If partner bids 3NT
By Frank Stewart club; he tried the ace and an- next, bid 6NT.
other diamond, hoping for a
“That amazing moment break. No luck; down one. North dealer
when you hear a song you An experienced declarer N-S vulnerable
haven’t heard in years, yet might see the winning play.
NORTH
you remember every word.” After South draws trumps, ♠A73
— graffiti. he plays a low club from both ♥65
Bridge involves drawing hands. He wins the diamond ♦642
on your experience. A good return, takes the top clubs ♣AK542
declarer may survey dummy and ruffs a club. Then dum- WEST EAST
♠J84 ♠ Q 10 9 6 5
and say, “I’ve seen this situa- my’s fifth club is good for the ♥9742 ♥83
tion before.” 12th trick. The ace of spades ♦ J 10 9 8 ♦K7
Today’s North opened is an entry. ♣ 10 8 ♣QJ97
and rebid clubs with a light You hold: ♠ K 2 ♥ A K Q J SOUTH
hand, and South launched 10 ♦ A Q 5 3 ♣ 6 3. You open ♠K2
into Blackwood. When one heart, your partner re- ♥ A K Q J 10
North showed two aces, sponds two clubs, you bid ♦AQ53
South might have bid seven two diamonds and he tries ♣63
hearts, a good spot if North two spades. What do you NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST
had held longer clubs. say? 1♣ Pass 2♥ Pass
At six hearts, South won Answer: Partner’s two 3♣ Pass 4 NT Pass
5♥ Pass 5 NT Pass
the first diamond with the spades forces to game, so 6♦ Pass 6♥ All Pass
queen, drew trumps, took you surely have a slam, may-
the A-K of clubs and ruffed a be a grand. Bid three hearts, Opening lead — ♦ J
club. When West discarded, suggesting a good hand and
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top left corner of the cage using the mathematical operation indicated. A number can be ASK AMY
repeated within a cage as long as it is not in the same row or column.

He’s gramping our style


Dear Amy: My longtime his life, you can either join Please don’t recommend
male friend and I have been him in this pursuit or find a counseling. I have tried it in
together for over 15 years. He new golfing partner. the past and it does not help.
lives just a few miles away. Some grandparents I want to be happy for her,
He is a great, easygoing completely suppress their but I can’t, and this is break-
man whom I do love dearly, other identities in favor of ing my heart.
and I know he loves me too. their role as a grandparent, Can’t Get Past Hurt
Here is the caveat: We and while this can be great
both have grandkids from for the grandkids and their Dear Can’t Get Past: I
our previous marriages. folks — this new avocation wonder if a counselor has
I feel as most grandmoth- will swamp other relation- ever told you that it is not
ers do that my grandkids are ships. necessary for you to be
8/31/23 the loves of my life. He is making choices that happy (genuinely or other-
He feels the same about serve his interests and pas- wise) for a pregnant woman.
his grandchildren. sions, and you have the right All you need to do is to ac-
When it comes to sitting to do the same. cept it as a fact of this wom-
HOROSCOPE with the little ones, however, You are already engaging an’s life, along with accept-
he is over the top. He baby- in pursuing other compan- ing the feelings this brings
dreds of dollars. The experi- not fitting are both inevi- sits several days during the ion-relationships, and the up in you.
By Holiday Mathis ence will be well worth the table conditions in the life of week, and stays overnight way not to feel guilty about One way to cope with
cost. one as uniquely talented as when his kids take a trip. this is to tell this man the challenging emotions is to
Aries (March 21-April 19): Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): you. As time goes by, I find my- truth. recognize them when they
You’ll dream of reaching a You’ll conserve and brighten Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. self alone more and more. arise, to accept the reasons
fine result and you’ll keep your energy when you focus 18): Shake up the routine, if Lately, I’ve started notic- Dear Amy: I am a grown behind them, and to allow
moving toward it until you’re on what’s working and leave only to make you aware that ing other men — I think woman, in my 60s, very hap- yourself to feel them, under-
sure you’ve taken the en- the judgments to a judge. there’s more to life than you more out of the need for pily married. standing that they will sub-
deavor to greatness. Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 23): typically see every day. companionship than any- I have been infertile my side.
Taurus (April 20-May With your bright eyes and Pisces (Feb. 19-March thing else. entire life (that in itself is a It would help if you ex-
20): Love makes you leave busy mind, you’ll quickly 20): You may not realize And yes I have dated a long story), and I have never plained your history to your
your home and love is your catch on to what this scene what a constant source of few other men and have been handled the situation of my friend. You can tell her that
home. Considering how love needs. Give it your best shot. stress a thing really is until intimate with two men. infertility well at all. pregnancy brings up compli-
shapes you, you’re right to be You can’t lose! you’re away from it. I do feel some guilt, but My husband has a grown cated emotions for you.
choosy about who you let Scorpio (Oct. 24-Nov. 21): Today’s birthday (Aug. not enough to cease looking. son from his first marriage. If you find you are rumi-
into your heart. Try not to assign extra 31): A habit of envisioning What can I do? I recently struck up a nating excessively (it
Gemini (May 21-June 21): weight and meaning to your oasis several times a Lonely in the friendship with a lovely sounds as if you are), then
Think of all you want to do, things. It means what you day every day will turn into a Sunshine State younger woman. We have talking it through with a
then choose one small part think it means, so you may superpower. You’ll clear the many things in common, de- counselor really would be in
to act on. Let time work for as well adopt the light expla- obstacles one by one to get Dear Lonely: Your friend spite the difference in age. order, even if you believe it
you. nations that keep the action there. More highlights: You has taken on a new family. She is married and has a hasn’t helped in the past.
Cancer (June 22-July 22): moving along. overcome a fear. Actions tak- His interests have shifted. young child. Recently has
Wherever you go, bring gifts. Sagittarius (Nov. 22- en out of inspiration, love or Because his new interest in- started talking about having Email questions to Amy
They don’t have to be gifts Dec. 21): Approach work service also turn out to be lu- volves actual physical care- a second. If she does, I will be Dickinson at askamy@
that cost money; your smile, with humility. The cosmic crative. Libra and Gemini taking for the little loves in unable to be happy for her. amydickinson.com.
laughter and attention are omens warn against arro- adore you. Your lucky num-
among the best presents. gance or self-congratu- bers: 8, 10, 5, 14 and 2.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22): Ad- lations. FAMILY CIRCUS By Bil Keane DENNIS THE MENACE By Hank Ketcham
ventures don’t come cheap Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. Mathis writes her column
by any measure of exchange. 19): One minute you’re on for Creators Syndicate Inc.
They will cost courage and your own; the next you’re The horoscope should be
probably some ego and hun- one of the gang. Fitting and read for entertainment.

CROSSWORD
Edited By Patti Varol and Joyce Nichols Lewis
By Jeff Stillman © 2023 Tribune Content Agency
ACROSS
1 First word of a
Shakespeare title
5 Chorus member
9 Autumn bloom
14 Wobble
15 Bellyache
16 Volleyball shot
17 Spot for a TV dinner
19 Realty listings
20 Young fella
21 Large amount
23 Audition FREE RANGE By Bill Whitehead MARMADUKE By Brad & Paul Anderson
24 Unqualified
26 Yellowish pink
28 “YOLO” philosophy
32 Slower than Mach 1
35 Susan Swain’s network
37 Spanish “that”
38 Horse barn sound
41 __-mo
42 Scope of influence
45 Low-alcohol beverage
48 Brownie-making
ingredient
51 Ship with staterooms
52 Oscar-winning role for
Ariana DeBose and Rita
Moreno 10 Part of a politician’s 53 Engine booster, for
55 C __ Charlie media campaign short
57 Dollars for quarters 11 Like photographs of an 54 Supplemented
60 Piano exercise eclipse, say 55 Bushels
62 Photographer Dorothea 12 __ out a win 56 Onetime Volvo rival
64 Hollywood honors since 13 Musical interval 58 Cathedral part
1995, and what the 18 Versatile blood donor 59 Neutrogena dandruff
circled letters are? 22 Quote from Homer shampoo
66 Caulking fiber 25 Cookie containers 61 90° from norte BLISS By Harry Bliss SPEED BUMP By Dave Coverly
67 Nights before special 27 __ center 63 “Mamma Mia” quartet
days 29 Cab alternative 65 Communication sys. at
68 “Yeah, right” 30 Low-cost prefix Gallaudet
69 Medicine amts. 31 Handsome Dan’s Ivy ANSWER TO
70 Poker player’s giveaway 32 “Wide Sargasso __”: PREVIOUS PUZZLE
71 Plant stem joint Jean Rhys novel
33 “Oorah!” org.
DOWN 34 Migratory songbirds
1 Creative pursuits 36 Negative conjunction
2 The king of France? 39 Button with left-
3 “The Right Kind of pointing arrows: Abbr.
Wrong” singer Rimes 40 Unveiling shout
4 Craft 43 Becoming treacherous,
5 Reddit sesh for fans as a winter road
6 Deft tennis shots 44 Weigh station unit
7 Soft mineral 46 Extend
8 Staged without 47 Great place?
a break 49 __ Lingus
9 Cigarette end 50 Adjusted beforehand 8/31/23
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LA CUCARACHA By Lalo Alcaraz PICKLES By Brian Crane

CRABGRASS By Tauhid Bondia BABY BLUES By Jerry Scott & Rick Kirkman

CANDORVILLE By Darrin Bell CRANKSHAFT By Tom Batiuk & Chuck Ayers

LOOSE PARTS By Dave Blazek


JUMP START By Robb Armstrong

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE By Stephan Pastis


MACANUDO By Liniers

LIO By Mark Tatulli BLONDIE By Dean Young & John Marshall

ZITS By Jerry Scott & Jim Borgman BETWEEN FRIENDS By Sandra Bell-Lundy

TUNDRA By Chad Carpenter BIZARRO By Wayno and Piraro

SIX CHIX By Mary Lawton DRABBLE By Kevin Fagan

FRAZZ By Jef Mallett MUTTS By Patrick McDonnell

NON SEQUITUR By Wiley PEANUTS By Charles M. Schulz


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head-on and profile views of cation of official sanction for


scowling Thomas Francis the the work’s homoerotic
(Duke) Connelly, NYPD overtones. A swish artist
bank robbery suspect was trumpeting “13 Most
#202742. It hangs upstairs at Wanted Men,” complete
the Broad museum, dis- with clear undertones of en-
played along with Marilyn thusiasm for illicit rough
Monroe, Jackie Kennedy trade.
and a nifty diagram for a If that political meaning
ruptured hernia truss. The was hardly obscure, another
World’s Fair portraits live on has remained largely over-
not because of the particular looked. Also in spring 1964,
people pictured, but be- Congress was in a pitched
cause of the artist’s stature. battle over passage of the
The mural was Warhol’s Civil Rights Act.
only public art project, and it In support, the local New
was a fiasco. York branch of the Matta-
Architect Philip Johnson, chine Society, a pioneering
who designed the fair’s New gay civil rights organization
York State Pavilion, gave founded in L.A. by Harry
him the $6,000 commission Hay in 1950, compiled a com-
for a big painting on a 20- prehensive list of state pen-
square-foot Masonite panel alties for sodomy. Sex be-
that would hang on the tween men was illegal every-
building’s façade. The mug where but Illinois. New York
shot idea came from artist imposed 90 days in jail for a
Wynn Chamberlain, whose first offense. Neighboring
cop boyfriend often brought Connecticut, manifesting its
NYPD fliers home. separatist Puritan history,
Warhol had also seen the posted the nation’s most se-
Marcel Duchamp retrospec- vere punishment, inflicting
The Broad, Los Angeles / © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York tive at the Pasadena Art Mu- 30 years in prison. Pennsyl-
ANDY WARHOL’S “Most Wanted Men No. 6,” a.k.a. bank robbery suspect Thomas Francis (Duke) Connelly. seum a few months earlier. vania, Warhol’s birth state,
The impish Dada artist’s de- added a $5,000 fine to a man-
sign of a wanted poster fea- dated 10-year sentence.

He scowls, internet howls


turing his own fabricated Implemented or not,
mug shot as a show promo- those malicious state penal-
tion lent avant-garde pedi- ties existed to suppress the
gree. freedom of its targets
When the mural was in- through fear. Warhol wasn’t
stalled in April, fair officials merely a successful Madison
[Mug shot, from E1] wood’s so-called “Stanley blanched. Crime touted as a Avenue adman and an
merable portraits, presi- Kubrick stare,” offered by cultural highlight for a huge emerging fine artist; as an
dential and otherwise. deranged and violent char- tourism event? Within 48 active homosexual, he was
The pose was surely acters in the vaunted direc- hours, it was censored by also a criminal. He had that
staged at least as carefully as tor’s filmography — like Mal- Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, in common with the most
the fake Time magazine cov- colm McDowell in “A Clock- painted over with silver wanted men he chose to ele-
ers that he once produced to work Orange” and Jack paint. Rockefeller, a Modern vate.
con the gullible. Imagine Nicholson in “The Shining.” art collector then angling for And Trump? His visibly
him preening in front of a However, not only is the a presidential run, also may stage-managed photograph
mirror in the days leading up thought that this cruel and have figured that alienating is pure political theater. Le-
to his scheduled arrest, try- petty coward is some sort of Italian and Irish American gal defense for the Georgia
ing out various grimaces, unstoppable supervillain communities by showcasing racketeering and conspiracy
the better to determine too absurd to take seriously, members’ criminality was charges is a steep climb
which might best convey it is also belied by the pile-up not a winning political idea. (we’ve all heard the wildly in-
“never surrender!” to his of arrests for 91 criminal And Warhol’s mural was criminating tapes), so poli-
supporters. charges (so far) in multiple most certainly political, tics is pretty much all he’s
That declaration is what jurisdictions, plus his May 9 which is what his mug shots got. For his first on-camera
he quickly posted to 87 mil- conviction for civil liability in share with Trump’s. moment in a perilous case,
lion followers on X (formerly what the judge described as Artistically, the unlucky he assumed the pose of a vic-
Twitter) when the photo was the rape of E. Jean Carroll. number 13 played on the fa- timized tough guy to rally his
released. What’s more, the ridicu- miliar trope of the avant- aggrieved base.
The fact that his actual lous mug shot made me garde artist as cultural out- As they say of difficult
surrender to police custody laugh, not cringe. For me, a law, while using crude mug criminal trials, when you
prompted publication of a better analogy than Kubrick Fulton County Sheriff ’s Office via Associated Press shots gave imaginative can’t pound the facts and
never-surrender visual is a lies elsewhere. DONALD TRUMP’S “never surrender!” mug shot, sheen to one of the lowest can’t pound the law, pound
splendid irony — albeit one Before last Friday, the taken after he surrendered to authorities in Atlanta. forms of photography. In the table instead. In his pre-
apparently lost on the cult, most enduring mug shots in 1964, camerawork was barely posterous mug shot, Trump
given the $7.1 million his modern American culture competition in the longevity it’s the projection of their considered an art form, ne- pounds away, looking just as
campaign says it raised were Andy Warhol’s “13 Most sweepstakes. own alleged criminality. ver mind a medium with fiercely enraged as he pos-
within 48 hours. Wanted Men,” born as a More important, some- “13 Most Wanted Men” credibility equal to painting. sibly can. Warhol, a master
Never surrender — un- monumental mural for thing resonates between was later elaborated into a (Part of Warhol’s genius was rather than an apprentice of
less you are doing exactly crowds at the 1964 New York Warhol and Trump’s mug set of paintings on canvas. to use silkscreens to dress up celebrity, would surely
that? World’s Fair. For incongru- shots. More than just the “No. 6,” a two-panel work in common snapshots in paint- understand. But I do won-
Social media soon lit up ous mug shot photography, coincidental number of 13 black silkscreen ink on sil- ing-drag.) But a sharp politi- der: Does Trump know it’s
with comparisons to Holly- Warhol now has some real wanted men and 13 felonies, very gray ground, shows cal punch came in the impli- camp?

both of his films are remark-

Telluride will able. I love them.”


Huntsinger also ex-
pressed enthusiasm — and
if you know her, you know

honor directors the passion for filmmakers


almost vibrates from her
core — for Rohrwacher.
“She kind of doesn’t seem
real,” Huntsinger says.
[Telluride, from E1] Cannes. Rohrwacher’s “La “She’s the earthiest ...
controversial long-distance Chimera” also premiered at smart, gentle, beautiful.”
swimmer Diana Nyad and Cannes, an exquisite drama And Lanthimos? “I just
“All of Us Strangers,” the starring Josh O’Connor. don’t see how he ever
latest from British film- The all-director tribute doesn’t create something
maker Andrew Haigh (“45 lineup reflects one reality of that’s mind-blowing.”
Years”) in which a middle- the strikes that Telluride She reserves a special
age man comes out to his could not escape. Typically, spot for Finnish filmmaker
parents — who just happen the festival mixes in high- Aki Kaurismäki’s “Fallen
to be ghosts. profile honors to actors — Leaves,” a bittersweet,
The festival will present last year saw a Cate reflective tale laced with
tributes to filmmakers Blanchett celebration for deadpan humor.
Yorgos Lanthimos, Wim her performance in “Tár.” “Even when you think of
Wenders and Alice This year, Bening had been the title and what a fallen
Rohrwacher, all of whom in the mix for her turn in leaf is and how we’re all
have movies at Telluride. “Nyad” until the SAG- approaching fallen leaf- Photo from Cannes Film Festival

Lanthimos’ latest, the AFTRA strike scuttled hood — that even a fallen AKI KAURISMÄKI’S “Fallen Leaves” stars Jussi Vatanen and Alma Pöysti.
surrealistic “Poor Things,” such thoughts. leaf is beautiful,” Festival director Julie Huntsinger sees beauty in “approaching fallen leaf-hood.”
stars Emma Stone, an “It’s fun for the audience Huntsinger says. “You can
Oscar nominee from his last to have glimmering stars lose a little bit of color and ducer and programmer
movie, “The Favourite.” and their tributes, but vividness and still be a Tom Luddy, Stella and Bill
Wenders has two films at given what’s going on, it felt vibrant creature.” Pence, and film historian
the festival, a documentary, good to go a little old- Huntsinger’s wistful James Card. Luddy had
“Anselm,” about German school,” Huntsinger says, thoughts lead into the been working through
artist Anselm Kiefer, and adding that she was sur- dedication of this year’s Parkinson’s the last six
the beguiling drama “Per- prised that the festival had festival to the group of years, a disease that took
fect Days,” which earned never feted Wenders. “You friends who founded the his life in February. (Bill
strong reviews when it know, not a bad year to event a half-century ago: Pence died in December.)
screened earlier this year at rectify that. And I think prominent archivist, pro- Huntsinger, who has
been Telluride’s director
since 2007, met Luddy at
Francis Ford Coppola’s
company American Zo-
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