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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The July 29, 2014 pipe break at Sunset Blvd. flooded the campus, ruining the just-renovated basketball courts and destroying hundreds of cars in underground lots. -
The community will have about four months to review and debate the higher new rates before the Department of Water and Power board votes.
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The agency says it needs to raise an additional $270 million a year from its business and home customers to update the power grid and water system.
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The Mexico-to-Canada trail got major screen time in the film "Wild" but a segment in the San Gorgonio Wilderness area burned and is off limits indefinitely
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Stymied by the city's unwillingness to undertake sidewalk repairs, Councilman Bernard Parks has used his office's discretionary funds to speed repairs.
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The Lake Fire is hurting a tourism industry already dinged by a snowless winter. Reservations have been cancelled, and attendance is low at Big Bear establishments.
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Superivsor Hilda Solis says a massive environmental report on extending the 710 Freeway north has too little information on health risks for East L.A. residents
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New digital signage that could be hung on LAX parking structures, terminals and bridges can't go up until design guidelines are in place
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Digital and flat signs taking up an area of more than four football fields laid end-to-end could be put up at LAX under a proposed sign district
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It's just as you suspected as you hit a pothole. The city's road repair policy is intended to keep good roads from going bad, but the bad ones are goners for now
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