Six months after January’s fires, how are recovery efforts faring?
The most destructive fires in L.A. County history erupted six months ago today, killing at least 30 people and destroying more than 16,000 structures, mostly homes, and reshaping the region in ways large and small. Instead of January's landscape of chimneys and staircases rising from rubble, today empty dirt lots extend block after block in Altadena and the Pacific Palisades. A handful of people who survived the Eaton and Palisades fires have broken ground on rebuilds. Many remain displaced. Still others decided to move on, restart their lives elsewhere. For most, the emotional pain remains all too present. Today on AirTalk, we look at how recovery efforts are faring with LAist climate and environment reporter Erin Stone. We also want to hear from you: if you were impacted by the January fires, how have you been coping? Do you feel like your life is getting back to some semblance of normal? Or maybe you are still trying to figure out what recovery even looks like. Share your thoughts with us by calling 866-893-5722 or you can email us at atcomments@laist.com.
What does the future of the LA Zoo look like as the city’s contract with GLAZA ends?
The city of Los Angeles and the nonprofit in charge of the LA Zoo’s operations and funding, the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association, have ended their decades-long contract. The city and the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association, or GLAZA, have had disputes in the past over raising and spending money. The LA Zoo is in need of renovations and repairs, but with its main operator and financial backer gone, it is unclear how the city plans to proceed. Today on AirTalk, we look at the ongoing dispute between the city of LA and GLAZA and what the contract termination means for the future of the LA Zoo. Joining us are Noah Goldberg, reporter for the LA Times, Hydee Feldstein Soto, L.A. City Attorney, and Devin Donohue, partner at the firm Loeb&Loeb and counsel for GLAZA.
Young men series: how are they thinking about politics?
Early exit polls of the 2024 election showed a massive rightward shift among Generation Z compared to the 2020 election. Later, higher-quality data showed a less pronounced, but still notable shift, and that Gen Z men in particular were much further to the right than their women counterparts. There has long been a gender ideology gap that has grown and shrunk over time, and it’s unclear if young men’s current lean to the right will last. So what’s behind this shift, and how do young men think about politics? Joining Larry today as part of our weeklong look at the state of young men is Niobe Way, professor of applied psychology at New York University and author of the book Rebels with a Cause: Reimagining Boys, Ourselves, and Our Culture, Jacob Grumbach, associate professor of Public Policy at UC Berkeley, and Rachel Janfaza, freelance journalist covering youth political culture and the founder of The Up and Up, a newsletter focused on Gen Z’s political zeitgeist.
