It is deeply ingrained among our most enduring clichés: “There’s no place like home.” “Home is where the heart is.” “A man’s home is his castle.” So, what happens when a family is evicted from their home? “It’s catastrophic,” said Matthew Desmond, a sociology professor at Princeton University. These days, […]
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The state and federal governments’ new eviction policies, explained
Happy Wednesday! I’m Rebecca Plevin, immigration reporter for The Desert Sun in Palm Springs. But first, an American Airlines pilot on Sunday night called the control tower at Los Angeles International Airport to warn that his plane had just flown past someone in midair, wearing a jet pack. It sounds […]
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How Kamala Harris got the call, and will the Legislature extend eviction limits?
Firefighters battle the Lake Hughes fire in Angeles National Forest on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, north of Santa Clarita, Calif. Plus: School looks different depending on which county you’re in. Voting at Dodger Stadium? And crowds are flooding into parks. Greetings from Palm Springs, where we’re about to be engulfed […]