Los Angeles, Ca
L.A. County offers free feminine hygiene products, diapers in pilot program
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Los Angeles County will provide free female hygiene merchandise and diapers at choose services below a brand new pilot program, the Board of Supervisors introduced Tuesday.
This system will present female hygiene merchandise, diapers and different private care gadgets at choose county venues equivalent to parks, libraries and museums.
It can additionally embody the “identification of funding and a County division to manage a one-year pilot program, with a future plan for growth if decided profitable (by way of evaluation of information collected),” a information launch from movement co-author Supervisor Hilda Solis’s workplace reads.
The movement directs the county’s Chief Government Workplace — partnering with the Division of Parks & Recreation, Division of Public Social Providers and libraries, cultural venues and museums — to report again in 60 days on the outcomes of the pilot program.
“Simply as we offer rest room paper and cleaning soap in public restrooms, we also needs to present female hygiene merchandise and diapers, so that ladies’s fundamental well being wants, and the wants of their infants, might be met in our county restrooms,” Supervisor Sheila Kuehl, co-author of the movement, mentioned.
Interval poverty, outlined as insufficient entry to menstrual hygiene instruments and schooling, has a disparate impression and creates an extra monetary burden for many who menstruate, the movement states. This features a lack of entry to sanitary merchandise, washing services and waste merchandise.
“Lately, there was an overdue recognition that hygiene merchandise are expensive, and that value is disproportionately felt by girls,” a information launch from Supervisor Hilda Solis’s workplace reads.
With growing costs such, California lifted the gross sales tax for kids’s diapers and female hygiene merchandise for the following two years.
“LA County ought to use this chance to handle this structural inequity by offering free female hygiene merchandise and diapers at sure services the place mother and father and kids frequent,” Strong added.
The movement additionally directs the county’s Chief Government Workplace to assist federal and state laws decreasing the price of female merchandise and diapers, offering extra federal and state funding to cowl the price of offering these free merchandise to low-income residents, and/ or that will enable authorities advantages to cowl the price of female hygiene merchandise and diapers.
In a 2021 nationwide survey of menstruating teenagers, 1 in 4 reported struggling to afford interval merchandise — up from 1 in 5 in 2019, the movement says. An extra 4 in 5 both missed or knew somebody who missed class time as a result of they didn’t have entry to interval merchandise.
The common girl spends $13.25 per 30 days on interval merchandise, the movement says, citing current research.
The necessity for diapers can create comparable hardships, authors of the movement mentioned. Diaper producers cited the rise within the worth of uncooked supplies, delivery prices and the necessity to offset inflation as causes for worth will increase. Even earlier than the current spherical of inflation, low-income households have been spending roughly $1,000 a 12 months on diapers, or round 14% of their after-tax revenue, in keeping with the movement.
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Los Angeles, Ca
Homes threatened as ‘Sierra Fire’ in San Bernardino County erupts
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Crews with the San Bernardino County Fire Department are on the scene of a wind-driven brushfire in Fontana that has grown to an estimated 350 acres and is threatening structures, authorities confirmed to KTLA.
The two-alarm blaze, dubbed the “Sierra Fire,” was first reported around 3:30 p.m. in the area of 11660 Sierra Avenue behind Martin Tudor Splash Park, fire officials said.
Amid warm temperatures and westerly winds blowing between 10-15 miles per hour, the vegetation fire, which was burning in what crews called “light fuel,” moved in a southeasterly direction with “moderate side slop expansion to [the] east,” and quickly grew to some 40 acres.
By 4:30 p.m., fire officials said crews and equipment were in place to protect the threatened structures.
Just two hours later, the brushfire had grown to some 350 acres with 15% containment.
“Additional ground resources and aircraft requested,” fire officials said on X, formerly Twitter.
So far, it does not appear that any mandatory evacuation orders have been issued.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
This is a developing story. Check back for additional updates.
Los Angeles, Ca
Gov. Newsom signs ‘more fiscally responsible’ California budget
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Governor Gavin Newsom signed California’s 2024 budget on Saturday, which cut spending in an effort to close the state’s $47 billion deficit.
About $16 billion in spending cuts were made in the 2024 plan with a goal of making the upcoming budget “more fiscally responsible,” according to the agreement’s fact sheet.
“This is a responsible budget that prepares for the future while investing in foundational programs that benefit millions of Californians every day,” Newsom said. “Thanks to careful stewardship of the budget over the past few years, we’re able to meet this moment while protecting our progress on housing, homelessness, education, health care and other priorities that matter deeply to Californians. I thank the Legislature for their partnership in delivering this sound and balanced plan.”
According to the Governor’s office, the agreement avoids deep program cuts while maintaining the budget for education and Medi-Cal expansion.
The $298 billion spending agreement was passed by the State Legislature on Wednesday in a series of bills, that Newsom signed on Saturday. The spending includes several items on the agenda of state Democrats, like support services for the unhoused and for immigrants lacking permanent legal status.
Part of the budget includes taking from the state’s reserve “rainy day fund” over the next two fiscal years, including $5.1 billion in 2024-25 and $7.1 billion in 2025-26.
Los Angeles, Ca
Family devastated after young Southern California father dies from fentanyl
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Loved ones are remembering a young Southern California father who died from fentanyl as the suspect who sold him the drugs was sentenced to prison.
On November 11, 2022, Ian Pangburn, 26, purchased fentanyl from Javier Carlos Cruz, 23, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Pangurn ingested a fentanyl pill and died the next day. A toxicologist determined that fentanyl poisoning had caused his death.
Pangburn’s mother, Jennifer Ochoa, said her son had previously struggled with drug use but was working to turn his life around when he died.
“He was a happy person at times and he struggled,” Ochoa said. “I won’t downplay it. There’s a stigma about drug users that they take a drug and it’s their fault and they deserve to die, but it’s not [true]. He didn’t want to die. He didn’t ask to die. Unfortunately, he made a choice and the consequences of his choice ended up being death.”
Pangburn, who leaves behind a 4-year-old daughter, had graduated from Alta Loma High School where he played football and was attending classes at Mt. San Antonio College as he worked on improving his future.
He had been messaging Cruz, the man who sold him the deadly narcotics, for a while before he took that fatal dose.
Cruz was arrested on December 27, 2022. While searching his home, Ontario Police discovered nearly 1,500 counterfeit oxycodone pills containing fentanyl, along with three semiautomatic handguns.
Ochoa is speaking out following her son’s death, warning others about the extreme dangers of fentanyl and drug trafficking.
According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, two milligrams of fentanyl is considered a potentially fatal dose and lab testing indicates that seven out of 10 pills seized from suspects contain a lethal dose.
“Fentanyl, even one pill, it just depends on the potency because they don’t have any way to regulate it because it’s illegal so one pill could have enough fentanyl in it to kill a dozen people,” said Byron Pangburn, the victim’s father. “And that’s one pill. So it varies because there’s no quality control on something that’s made illegally or by cartels.”
Pangburn’s sister, Cecilia Ochoa, said she knows firsthand how painful the consequences of drug use can be.
“A lesson I learned from this is just how precious life truly is,” she said. “Because we all only have one life, when a moment is gone, you can’t get it back. It’s gone forever.”
Ashley Nusser, Pangborn’s partner and mother of his daughter, is devastated and trying to help the young child understand her father’s death.
“She knows her dad was taken by a very bad man,” Nusser said. “She knows he’s buried in the ground, but we have said that he will always be in your heart.”
On June 28, 2024, Cruz entered a plea deal and was sentenced to 14 years in federal prison and three years of supervised release for the distribution of fentanyl. Cruz also admitted that his products resulted in the death of Pangburn, officials said.
Pangburn, who is an Ontario resident, is survived by his daughter, siblings, parents and friends.
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