“I had been living in the Santa Cruz Mountains for 15 years after leaving L.A. after 60 years. But multiple evacuations , the fire risk, the constant power outages and road closures, terrible to zero access to the internet, lousy landline service, etc. got to be more than I could handle. At 75, I no longer had the pioneer spirit.
The move itself was exhausting, as I did much of the packing and moving myself. I now live in a quiet, semirural town. My daughter, grandson and son-in-law come up from S.F. almost every weekend. The only thing missing is easy access to my friends in Santa Cruz and the weekly jam sessions, poetry groups, the coffee shop and organic market, and the abundant wildlife and starry nights. So there has been a trade-off .
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that’s put her left-aisle colleagues in a bind, given their slim control of the Senate. The 89-year-old senator was diagnosed with shingles in February and has asked for a replacement to temporarily take over her committee assignments.A growing number of California cities are cracking down on homeless camps, enacting ordinances that limit where unhoused residents can set up tents — or banning them altogether.
At the state level, liberal lawmakers have been reluctant to follow suit, wary of appearing to criminalize homelessness.
'Climate change was also a factor for some' Well, LAT's. You presented the reasons from 12 parties, and not a single one of them mentioned [man-made] climate change. Did you just make this up to fit your partisan radical agenda? Might just be a lie. Sad.