You can kill the Assemblyman’s rail yards bill, but his heart will go on … talking air quality

It was 10 a.m. Tuesday morning and eighteen hours earlier, Assembly Bill 2332–fledgling 55th District Assemblyman Warren Furutani’s (D-Long Beach) try at banning construction of new or expanded railyards within a quarter-mile of schools–had rather quietly burned to [...]

How my father became an environmentalist without really trying

PHOTO by OLENA KUCHERENKO
A few things my father pioneered:
• Driving a Saab. This was the ’60s, mind you, when cars were still made of steel and driving a foreign car—your Toyota, your Datsun, your VW—meant jokes about war atrocities and Japanese beer cans. The idea of driving [...]