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Dorany Pineda

Dorany Pineda

Reporter & Staff Writer at Los Angeles Times

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Why three L.A. City Council members recused on rent hikes - Los Angeles Times

Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. I’m Dorany Pineda, a new reporter on the beat giving you the latest news and developments. I previously wrote about water, the environment and climate change, and before that was The Times’ books reporter. Email me with tips, scoops and your favorite places to hike, climb and cycle! The high cost of rent has become a pressing issue for the city’s political leaders, who are scrambling to find ways to keep their constituen…
about 2 years ago
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Highland fire in Riverside County is 100% contained - Los Angeles T...

After burning 2,487 acres, destroying 13 structures and damaging three more, the Highland fire was 100% contained on Sunday evening, according to Riverside County fire officials. The fire ignited Oct. 30 in grass and brush in the Aguanga area and quickly expanded, driven by Santa Ana winds. More than 1,100 firefighters attacked the fire from the air and the ground. By Tuesday, around 4,000 people had been ordered to evacuate, and the South Coast Air Quality Management District issued a smoke adv…
about 2 years ago
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Redlining and income inequality influence L.A.'s bird biodiversity ...

On a recent afternoon in L.A.’s Boyle Heights neighborhood, Christian Benitez and Eric M. Wood stood outside a corner liquor store searching for birds. The researchers spotted a house sparrow and pulled binoculars to their eyes. “They’re all over the shrubbery in Boyle Heights,” said Wood, an associate professor of ecology at Cal State Los Angeles. Among the most ubiquitous and abundant songbirds in the world, house sparrows are urban creatures that thrive where people do. They’re resilient, ada…
about 2 years ago
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SoCal cities desperately need more shade. Is it time to finally dit...

As an urban runner, V. Kelly Turner is always looking for some shade. She doesn’t want to overheat. Most weekday mornings, her usual route takes her down the shadiest stretch of Los Feliz Boulevard, where lush deodar cedars flank the sidewalks. One of her longer routes takes her through Hollywood on her way to Sunset Boulevard. “That stretch is hard,” said the associate professor of urban planning and geography at UCLA. “There’s not a lot of shade. Just palms. I’ve actually changed my route to a…
about 2 years ago
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Inside California's struggle to provide safe drinking water for all...

Good morning. It’s Wednesday, Sept. 27. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. Safe drinking water remains elusive in some California communitiesA challenge to L.A.’s emergency declaration on homelessnessThe best places to hear Latinx poets in L.A.And here’s today’s e-newspaper I’m Dorany Pineda, a reporter writing about climate change and the environment. More than a decade ago, California became the first state in the nation to legislatively recognize that all Californians have a righ…
about 2 years ago
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California's struggle for clean water is getting harder - Los Angel...

In the Mojave Desert community of North Edwards, 5-year-old Adam Ezelle knows never to drink water from the tap, which contains dangerous levels of arsenic. In the tiny farming and oil refining community of Fuller Acres, where a potent carcinogen has tainted groundwater wells, Maria Martinez and her family say they feel neglected by a state that has pledged clean water for all of its residents. And in a dusty corner of Bakersfield, preschool through eighth-grade students at Lakeside School line…
about 2 years ago
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Global warming could cause leaf photosynthesis to fail - Los Angele...

Teeming with life and stretching across multiple continents, tropical forests are often called the “lungs of the planet” because of their ability to suck up climate-warming carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen — a process known as photosynthesis. But even as these critical ecosystems work with Earth’s oceans to help scrub CO2 from the atmosphere and give us air to breathe, tropical forests have long faced growing threats from fires, poaching and deforestation. Now, new research suggests that humanit…
over 2 years ago
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Tras una serie de violentas tormentas, los trabajadores agrícolas d...

Tras una serie de violentas tormentas, los trabajadores agrícolas de California deben hacer frente a viviendas inundadas, condiciones de trabajo peligrosas y pérdida de salarios.
almost 3 years ago
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Meet the Writers: Jean Chen Ho and the San Gabriel Valley Food Club...

The San Gabriel Valley Food Club — a group of some 30 poets, writers and academics — ditched their pandemic Zoom hangouts for an evening potluck.
over 3 years ago
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Roberto Bolaño inspired him to write. Now Alejandro Zambra is the n...

In ‘Chilean Poet,’ Zambra expands his scope in a tender, clever, hilarious novel of poets and step-parenthood. It’s also an ode to his estranged homeland.
almost 4 years ago
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Colette LaBouff appointed as Black Mountain Institute executive dir...

Effective June 1, Colette LaBouff will lead the Black Mountain Institute after a search following the fraught departure of Joshua Wolf Shenk last March.
almost 4 years ago