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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Only a few family members at the graveside, postponement of memorial gatherings - how funerals are changing in the time of Covid-19. -
Many cemeteries close except to small groups attending burials, memorial gatherings move online, and hands-on rituals cease.
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With a refrigerator full of food to wait out the coronavirus, it's not a great time for a power outage. Los Angeles County is pressing SCE to halt some power grid upgrades.
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California state and local governments have been coordinating with the funeral industry for years to handle deaths from a pandemic. But the plan has never been stress-tested.
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State and local officials jointly plan with the funeral industry for hundreds or even thousands of pandemic casualties, but we've never seen anything remotely that bad.
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County clerk offices are closed - which means marriage licenses are not being issued, to the disappointment of many couples.
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Southern California Edison has canceled many planned power outages to spare families who are home during the Coronavirus outbreak.
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Wanna get married? Hope you got a marriage license before most government offices closed to the public.
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Companies that cook in the midst of disasters could be of use now.
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"I think they got their panties in a bunch," one senior said.
Stories by Sharon McNary
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