Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Many of the Vagabond Inn’s employees refused to return to work when the Ventura hotel reopened in mid-April to house the homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unsure of the risks, many stayed home.Victoria Galindo Lopez, a 48-year-old Mexican immigrant, was one of the few who stepped up and returned to her housekeeping job.“I was needed,” she said in Spanish. “And I needed to work. I was happy to help the community.”Galindo earns $13.15 an hour cleaning the hotel under the state’s which houses vulnerable homeless residents who don’t...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement Many of the Vagabond Inn’s employees refused to return to work when the Ventura hotel reopened in mid-April to house the homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic. Unsure of the risks, many stayed home.Victoria Galindo Lopez, a 48-year-old Mexican immigrant, was one of the few who stepped up and returned to her housekeeping job.“I was needed,” she said in Spanish. “And I needed to work. I was happy to help the community.”Galindo earns $13.15 an hour cleaning the hotel under the state’s which houses vulnerable homeless residents who don’t...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement California’s stay-at-home order reduced vehicle collisions on roadways by a little more than half, saving taxpayers an estimated $1 billion since the order went into effect, according to a that estimated the impact of the order on traffic.“The savings was about $40 million a day ... That’s about $15 billion over a one-year period, which is almost the size of the state portion of California’s transportation budget for a year,” said Fraser Shilling, co-director of the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis.The survey used...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement California’s stay-at-home order reduced vehicle collisions on roadways by a little more than half, saving taxpayers an estimated $1 billion since the order went into effect, according to a that estimated the impact of the order on traffic.“The savings was about $40 million a day ... That’s about $15 billion over a one-year period, which is almost the size of the state portion of California’s transportation budget for a year,” said Fraser Shilling, co-director of the Road Ecology Center at UC Davis.The survey used...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The 17-year-old Guatemalan boy in a California detention center for migrant children has been held for more than 400 days. He’s one of the longest-held of the roughly 1,800 minors in the U.S. immigration detention system — the largest in the world, and one now .For the record:Under a decades-old legal settlement, the government is required to hold migrant children in “safe and sanitary” conditions and make “prompt and continuous” efforts to release them and reunify families. Two federal judges in recent weeks have ruled that the...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The 17-year-old Guatemalan boy in a California detention center for migrant children has been held for more than 400 days. He’s one of the longest-held of the roughly 1,800 minors in the U.S. immigration detention system — the largest in the world, and one now .For the record:Under a decades-old legal settlement, the government is required to hold migrant children in “safe and sanitary” conditions and make “prompt and continuous” efforts to release them and reunify families. Two federal judges in recent weeks have ruled that the...WW…