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Sharon McNary
On-call host
What I cover
These days, you're most likely to hear more on air filling in for one of the LAist hosts. Before that, I covered infrastructure, which I define as all the different things we build together to make life better, for LAist for many years.
My background
A lifelong resident of Southern California, I'm military veteran, a former Peace Corps Volunteer and an endurance athlete. My favorite places to be are on the starting line of the L.A. Marathon and riding my bike up Glendora Mountain Road. I also swim, knit, cook, sew, and weave.
Best way to reach me
Email me at smcnary@laist.com.
Stories by Sharon McNary
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Long Beach is experimenting with participatory budgeting. Beginning March 21, any resident of North Long Beach can vote on how to spend $250,000 of city money.
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The Unidad coalition of social justice groups negotiated with a developer to reserve 15 percent of apartments in a new highrise in South L.A. for low-income renters.
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A new equipment sharing agreement has freed up shipping container trailers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
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L.A.'s water utility wants the City Council to create a new agency that could borrow up to $400 million and pass the cost to individual water customers
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Bus lines between Pasadena and Alhambra would cost more than earlier estimates; and a tunnel would cost billions. Other options: speeding street traffic, light rail.
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The L.A. County Coroner has identified the man known as "Charley S. Robinet" as Charly Leundeu Keunang. His partner in a 2000 bank robbery talks about Keunang, who died in an officer involved shooting.
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A pilot program lifts a longstanding ban on local hiring preferences for federally-funded transportation construction. The change comes amid a building boom in L.A.
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The city was paving more miles of streets, but it lacked the equipment and staff to paint lane lines. A city committee recommends a $2.8 million interim fix.
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Los Angeles hasn't had a citywide residential sidewalk repair program since 2009. It only fixes sidewalks outside city-owned buildings - and even those are behind.
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Oxnard has nearly $2 million in hand to design a bridge that would lift Rice Avenue over risky railroad tracks, but it lacks the $35 million needed to build it.
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Crews could be in the area for hours fixing the mess — past pipe repairs in the Hollywood Hills took LADWP workers an average of 21.5 hours to repair.
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If refiners can't ship enough of a dirty petroleum byproduct out of the troubled ports of L.A. and Long Beach, they might have to cut back fuel production.
