All right, Hi good morning, everybody and welcome to the October 8th, 2019 Board of Supervisors meeting. I’m going to call the meeting to order and ask the clerk to call the roll Clerk Good morning Supervisor Leopold John Here Friend Here: Clerk Caput Supervisor, McPherson Bruce Here Clerk And Chair Coonerty Hi here.…
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As climate change makes the role of inmate firefighters in California increasingly crucial, Americans are beginning to ask whether the type of low-level offenders who qualify for the program even deserve to be locked up. Demetrius Barr pressed his face to the window of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s van as it turned left off…
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When we call someone toxic, we usually mean that their behavior is dramatic and manipulative. In this woman’s case, however, the description is actually literal. On February 19, 1994, paramedics rushed Gloria Ramirez, who would later be known as “the toxic lady,” to the emergency room of Riverside General Hospital in Riverside, California. She had…
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