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Commentary: "Help Wanted/Leave Now!" How U.S. immigration policy remains maddeningly consistently inconsistent Original
A 1954 photograph of undocumented Mexican workers (identified as "wetbacks" in a handwritten notation on the negative) awaiting deportation by U.S. authorities to Mexico. (Los Angeles Times / UCLA Archives) More The reporter may have misheard the comment, or maybe the person being quoted actually said it, or something odd happened in the editing process. Whatever: This is what appeared in the Feb.
Commentary: 'Help Wanted/Leave Now!' How U.S. immigration policy remains maddeningly consistently inconsistent
A 1954 photograph of undocumented Mexican workers (identified as "wetbacks" in a handwritten notation on the negative) awaiting deportation by U.S. authorities to Mexico.(Los Angeles Times / UCLA Archives) For the record:4:45 p.m. Sept. 9, 2026: A previous version of the story misspelled the name of the curator of a new exhibit at the California Museum in Sacramento. His name is Sean Manwaring.
We killed off California's grizzly bears over a century ago. Can we resurrect them? Original
You really do see him everywhere. He's there on your California driver's license, on every state flag and on your UC Berkeley merch. You find him on the official state seal, and if you get nabbed speeding on the freeway, there he is, embroidered on the CHP officer's uniform patch. If California ever printed its own money, he would be on it. He's the California grizzly bear, and you see him pretty much everywhere, except alive and thriving in California.
Commentary: Highway bandits, Charles Lindbergh and the 700 curves; The story of the Ridge Route over Tejon Pass
Trick question. It's not a number. The 5 I mean is Interstate 5, the massive road that muscles up and over the 4,160-foot Tejon Pass, connecting two parts of California so distinct from each other — Southern and Central California — that to this day there's a lot of yakking about splitting the state up there, like a magician's woman-in-a-box trick, severing us not with a crosscut saw but with a line on a map. How, before the 5 was completed in 1970, did they do it?
Commentary: Highway bandits, Charles Lindbergh and the 700 curves; the story of the Ridge Route over Tejon Pass
What comes before 5? Trick question. It's not a number. The 5 I mean is Interstate 5, the massive road that muscles up and over the 4,160-foot Tejon Pass, connecting two parts of California so distinct from each other — Southern and Central California — that to this day there's a lot of yakking about splitting the state up there, like a magician's woman-in-a-box trick, severing us not with a crosscut saw but with a line on a map. How, before the 5 was completed in 1970, did they do it?
Commentary: Industrial accidents in poor neighborhoods are so L.A. And it's nothing new Original
It's been feeling practically biblical around here lately — and it's not the feeling of holiness. Those odors coming from the warehouse fire in Boyle Heights aren't the odors of sanctity. They're the stench of smoke and soot and chlorine, and of burning, rotting, rat-besieged food. They're from melting insulation foam and whatever it is that gets airborne when fire assails solar panels. How many malodorously toxic episodes does that make toward the seven plagues in the Old Testament? That depends.
Commentary: 250 years? California was already going strong when the 13 colonies got their act together Original
Don't get all cocky, you 13 original colonies. Yes, yes, 250 years, congratulations, enjoy the cake. But here on the West Coast, a whole continent away from your powdered periwigs and your Philly bell-ringing, 1776 was a banner year, too. Unbeknownst to you — and truth be told, unbeknownst to the people here — the future of these United States, the modern nation, was being shaped in California, too. Granted, it was only a seed, hardly even a seedling.
A fake mountain and real magic transform Paris' oldest bridge
PARIS - There's a present-day answer to the question posed in verse by the French medieval poet and street brawler François Villon: "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" They're right here, in high summer, on Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, where an enormous art installation, a trompe l'oeil inflatable snow-clad mountain range, has arisen over the River Seine.
A fake mountain and real magic transform Paris' oldest bridge
PARIS - There's a present-day answer to the question that was posed in verse by the French medieval poet and street brawler François Villon: "Where are the snows of yesteryear?"
A fake mountain and real magic transform Paris' oldest bridge
PARIS - There's a present-day answer to the question that was posed in verse by the French medieval poet and street brawler François Villon: "Where are the snows of yesteryear?"
A fake mountain and real magic transform Paris' oldest bridge
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A fake mountain and real magic transform Paris' oldest bridge
PARIS - There's a present-day answer to the question that was posed in verse by the French medieval poet and street brawler François Villon: "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" They're right here, in high summer, on Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, where an enormous art installation, a trompe l'oeil inflatable snow-clad mountain range, has arisen over the river Seine.
A fake mountain and real magic transform Paris' oldest bridge
There's a present-day answer to the question that was posed in verse by the French medieval poet and street brawler François Villon: "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" They're right here, in high summer, on Paris' oldest bridge, the Pont Neuf, where an enormous art installation, a trompe l'oeil inflatable snow-clad mountain range, has arisen over the river Seine.
A fake mountain and real magic transform Paris' oldest bridge
Nearly 15 years ago, I went on a solo trip to Peru, hiking through the Andes to Machu Picchu. Much to my surprise, many of the other travelers…
A fake mountain and real magic transform Paris' oldest bridge
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Commentary: L.A.'s Olympics mascot — please, not for the birds
Entertainer Bob Hope escorts an eagle named Sam, the official 1984 Olympic mascot, down stairs of 1st Street entrance of Los Angeles City Hall. (Steve Fontanini / Los Angeles Times) Love ya, Jackie and Shadow, but no more bald eagles as Olympic mascots, period.
Commentary: At ease — permanently. The SoCal military academies that thrived and then folded their tents Original
All right, at ease. And listen up. Until lately, the all-volunteer U.S. Army had been having recruiting problems, and one way it chose to combat them was to raise the enlistment age last month, from 35 to 42. It also is now willing to overlook one conviction — just one, mind you — for possessing marijuana. And the Iran war has given the military’s ranks a burst of new recruits. Back near the cusp of the new “American Century,” the 20th, the nation had no problem muscling up its military.
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