Betty Isom was fast asleep when the fire started. Her grandson woke her up in the early hours of Jan. 1, 2018, alerting her to the blaze, later determined to be an electrical fire.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today extended a moratorium on evictions through Oct. 31.
The board also set the county’s moratorium as the minimum standard for cities countywide, something Supervisor Kathryn Barger had previously pushed back against.
Eligible Los Angeles County voters interested in having a say on how voting districts are mapped — which can determine how much power various voting blocs have in deciding who runs the county — can still apply to join the 2020 Citizens Redistricting Commission.
Several Black-owned newspapers in California have received grants to help them weather the economic downturn the COVID-19 pandemic has caused. Facebook announced May 7, that it is awarding nearly $10.3 million to 144 local newsrooms through the company’s COVID-19 Local News Relief Fund Grant Program.