Saturday’s numbers brought the county’s totals to 1,221,605 cases and 23,274 fatalities since the pandemic began.

“Since 2008, the L.A. County Fire Department has seen a fifty percent increase in emergency medical incidents,” said Supervisor Hahn, “but at the same time, we’ve only been able to increase our department’s paramedics squad by five percent.”

Black people are more likely than White people to experience homelessness in the United States. Homelessness is a by-product of racism in America.

The Orange County average price dropped for 27 consecutive days, rose one-tenth of a cent Nov. 21, then resumed declining the following day.

Los Angeles County’s water management system is over 100 years old. When it rains, the system is unable to capture significant amounts of stormwater before it heads untreated to the ocean and other waterways. It is estimated that every year over 100 billion gallons of water in Los Angeles County are lost in this way. This loss of usable water has a significant impact on a water-scarce area such as Los Angeles County.

“Watts Serenity Park brought my community together” says neighborhood activist Ronald Antwon aka “Kartoon.” “For over 50 years (that area) was a blight, a horrible sight”