If you are not driving, 186 mph isn’t a spectacular land speed. The horizon creeps along, subjectively, no quicker than it does at 65 mph. Absent the jerky, erratic motion often associated with rail travel, the train seems almost not to be moving at all. Source: California’s Rail Pokes Along as Others Race Ahead – […]
Month: February 2025
Why Antilabor L.A. Embraced the Striking Janitors
Los Angeles, harsh company town with an antilabor reputation and a strike-busting, organization-killing old guard, opened its heart to a well-organized walkout of some of its lowest-paid workers seeking better pay. Motorists endured congestion and waved their fists, not in rage but in solidarity with thousands of marching, striking janitors in their shirts of bright […]
Why We Have More Bad-Air Days
It was grim reading for the breathing. Eleven California counties are among the nation’s 25 dirtiest for ozone pollution, according to the latest survey of the American Lung Assn. Just a few years ago, bad air was a local problem here–in Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino counties… […]