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James Packard

Los Angeles, United States
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Occasional binge tweeter. Ex-Journo. Colorado-raised ✈️ geek, Actor 🎥, Amateur Wine Snob 🍷. Averse to staying put.
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Aerialist behind P!NK performances seeks to inspire purpose amid chaos Original

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By James Packard
| Scripps News
You might say Dreya Weber didn't really see the world until she saw it upside down. In the jungle gym behind her Los Angeles home, she hangs upside down, her feet locked in thick braids of aerial silks. She's stretching after a demonstration of the aerial artform that's sustained a banner career. "I never could have imagined this path, ever. Ever," she said. The lineage of Weber's work is adorned with international superstar after international superstar.
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Homeless service providers face huge debt, threatening to undermine their work Original

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By James Packard
| Scripps News
Gerald Hall's apartment sits in the Los Angeles neighborhood notorious for its homeless encampments: Skid Row. "There used to be more people actually over there," he said, gesturing to a bare patch of sidewalk between rows of tents and makeshift shelters across the street from his apartment complex. He's like many others there, skeptical about whether state and local leaders will ever find a real solution to a problem that's plagued the city for generations.
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Homeless service providers face huge debt, threatening to undermine their work

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By James Packard
| KBZK-TV (Bozeman, MT) Verified
Gerald Hall's apartment sits in the Los Angeles neighborhood notorious for its homeless encampments: Skid Row. "There used to be more people actually over there," he said, gesturing to a bare patch of sidewalk between rows of tents and makeshift shelters across the street from his apartment complex. He's like many others there, skeptical about whether state and local leaders will ever find a real solution to a problem that's plagued the city for generations.
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Tax credits could revive hamstrung Hollywood business Original

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By James Packard
| Scripps News
California Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a more than $400 million expansion of the state's film and TV tax credit program, a move that could jump-start a stalling industry in the state. "You would think everyone would want to film here, be here, do their productions here, post-production here, but it's very expensive," Paul Dergarabedian, an entertainment industry analyst, said, reflecting on the state of the industry that once made southern California.
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