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Ben Christopher CalMatters En los días posteriores al incendio de Los Ángeles en enero pasado, legisladores estatales y líderes cívicos prometieron impulsar la reconstrucción de las zonas afectadas. Para California, donde la tramitación de permisos y la construcción de viviendas son notoriamente lentas y costosas, la magnitud de la...
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Ben Christopher CalMatters In the days immediately after last January’s Los Angeles firestorm, state lawmakers and civic leaders promised to turbocharge the rebuilding effort. For California, where the permitting and construction of homes is infamously slow and costly, the scale of destruction stood as a singular challenge. A year...
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Alastair Bland CalMatters Los incendios forestales del condado de Los Ángeles provocaron que el presidente electo Donald Trump despotricara por estos siniestros y que culpara al gobernador Gavin Newsom por privar de agua al sur de California. Trump repitió hoy una afirmación que ha hecho en el pasado, de que los esfuerzos...
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Alastair Bland CalMatters The Los Angeles County wildfires triggered a rant from President-elect Donald Trump, who blamed Gov. Gavin Newsom for depriving Southern California of water. Trump today repeated a claim he has made in the past, that state efforts “to protect an essentially worthless fish called a smelt” have caused pain...
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The death of 111 people from the Maui wildfires cannot, must not be in vain. Questions abound and satisfactory answers are necessary. Why were the warning sirens not activated or not activated? Why didn’t the main power company turn off the power to prevent additional ignitions? Why did President...