Category Archives: Los Angeles

Is LA Doomed? (1-15-25)

Posted on January 15, 2025 by Luke Ford

01:00 NR: Mayor Karen Bass Partied While Her City Burned, https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/mayor-karen-bass-partied-while-her-city-burned/04:00 LAT: L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-14/firefighters-lafd-response-lack-of-staff-engines-pacific-palisades-fire11:00 L.A. Mayor Karen Bass is Bad in a Crisis. Here’s … Continue reading →

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LAT: L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn’t

Posted on January 14, 2025 by Luke Ford

Kudos to the Los Angeles Times for this important story: As the Los Angeles Fire Department faced extraordinary warnings of life-threatening winds, top commanders decided not to assign for emergency deployment roughly 1,000 available firefighters and dozens of water-carrying engines … Continue reading →

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The Dog Who Didn’t Bark – Nobody Argues California Has Great Governance (1-14-25)

Posted on January 14, 2025 by Luke Ford

01:00 NR: Why Did California Cut Fire Prevention Spending While Keeping a Rainy-Day Fund?, https://www.nationalreview.com/the-morning-jolt/why-did-california-cut-fire-prevention-spending-while-keeping-a-rainy-day-fund/12:15 The FBI is terrible at background checks, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtgtSNMGBt014:50 Jonathan Haidt is wrong about morality | Prof Kurt Gray, https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/jonathan-haidt-is-wrong-about-morality19:00 Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War … Continue reading →

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Who By Fire? (1-13-25)

Posted on January 13, 2025 by Luke Ford

01:00 Judaism’s Haunting Prayer/Unetaneh Tokef, https://www.sefaria.org/sheets/255977?lang=bi08:00 New York: Los Angeles shouldn’t rebuild the same way, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/los-angeles-shouldnt-rebuild-the-same-way-after-wildfires.html11:00 Bloomberg: These Homes Withstood the LA Fires. Architects Explain WhyIn Pacific Palisades and Malibu, some houses with fire-resistant designs remained standing amid neighborhoods of … Continue reading →

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Decoding LA’s Fires (1-12-25)

Posted on January 12, 2025 by Luke Ford

05:00 WSJ: Fighting Fires—and the Rumor Mill—as L.A. Burns09:00 Politics Fueled LA’s Fires, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15855510:00 California voters destroyed private home insurance, https://apple.news/AeXdYZP1qSfeNes1AGLzSAg11:00 Fire experts describe how we can reduce these urban blazes, https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-11/fire-experts-asses-los-angeles-blazes-amid-changing-times12:00 Disputes kill people, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzHFz5Jj7a021:00 Your Home Can Survive … Continue reading →

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