Sharon McNary
Infrastructure Reporter (she/her)
I cover infrastructure, which I define as all the different things we build together to make life better. So we’re talking the power grid, our systems for managing rainfall, sewage and drinking water, air quality, roads, ports and more. Part of that is reporting on how well and equitably they serve my fellow Angelenos.
I’ve worked my entire career in SoCal journalism, in TV, wire service, newspapers, radio and online, and I welcome your questions about how L.A. works.
I’m a native Angeleno, a 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.
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Early in the day, it looked like consumer’s power demand might outstrip supply, but by mid-morning, the projected supply appeared to be sufficient to avoid rolling outages. -
By mid-morning, state energy grid managers had found enough power to avoid running short, projections said.
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Californians will be using nearly as much power at peak times over the next few days as they did in mid-August, when utilities imposed rolling outages to lower demand on the system.
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This weekend will be just as hot - and Californians will use nearly as much power - as in August when state energy managers used rolling outages to reduce power demand. But outages may be avoided this time.
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A sleek new cable-stayed bridge has risen over the Port of Long Beach to replace the 52-year-old Gerald Desmond Bridge. The new one opens to the public this fall.
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Natural gas had been leaking since the spring from a compressor at a power plant in the Valley, but it wasn’t until scientists from JPL notified the agency that repairs were begun.
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It's colorful, it's flexible, it's a $1.5 billion new bridge that will speed you across the water from Long Beach to Terminal Island.
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Sunday’s pipe rupture was on a different water line from the one that broke open in 2014, which cost UCLA $15 million in damage to hundreds of cars and Pauley Pavilion.
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The county spent $1 million promoting Measure H, a sales tax for homeless services. But state law says governments may not spend taxpayer funds to advocate for a tax increase.
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It’s the equipment running too long and too hot that caused outages in Los Angeles, not the rolling blackouts used in other areas to reduce power demand.
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