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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Yes, we voted to tax even the rain that falls on our homes, but there are a few ways you can reduce your tax bill when it comes later this year. -
One local non-profit is now able to rescue more fruits and vegetables from the garbage heap with a solution as simple as four trucks, drivers and a massive walk-in cooler at a warehouse in Bell.
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Way too much food goes bad before it reaches the people who need it. The Produce Pit Stop is on a mission to change that.
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The city attorney's office acknowledged that raids carried out Monday by the FBI were connected to the overcharging of thousands of ratepayers when a new billing system rolled out through late 2016.
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Los Angeles city invested millions to accelerate the app's development and plans to make it more widely available to other jurisdictions.
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LADWP customers can subscribe to get power outage messages for up to three different neighborhoods on their account at www.ladwp.com.
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Or send an email, in your choice of English or Spanish, when there's an outage in your part of L.A. That's a change from the past, where you had to call LADWP or look up an outage map for info on power outages.
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Hydrofluoric acid can create a deadly ground-hugging cloud that could kill thousands in its path, which is why some refinery neighbors want it banned from use, but an AQMD board proposes better safety measures instead.
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The same kind of regular trash service provided to homes would be extended to homeless sites, in an effort to improve the public health of the most crowded encampments.
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My mission is to reveal the often-surprising and important systems that make life possible in and around L.A.
Stories by Sharon McNary
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