The LA Report

Here's your morning news: Boy killed near Boyle Heights elementary school; Students and staff at area schools uneasy after shooting threats; U.S. Surgeon General says youth are facing a mental health crisis; First Omicron case discovered in Long Beach; Community college students now eligible for free public transit.

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What's happening today: LA District Attorney George Gascon marks one year in office and sweeping changes, including not prosecuting misdemeanor charges. The pandemic's toll on the mental health of teens and young children has lead to anxiety, depression and sometimes suicide. For the first time, boundaries for LA County Supervisors and City Council are being redrawn. 

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Here's your morning news: Third Omicron case discovered in L.A.; Time's up for unvaccinated city workers; Keeping Omicron out of nursing homes; Devin Nunes departing from California politics to work for Donald Trump.

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What's happening today: LA County Public Health to order skilled nursing facilities to test staff and residents once a week for Covid-19, visitors must show clean PCR or Antigen tests. LA County confirms second case of the Omicron Covid-19 variant. Congress helped many kids get more fruits and veggies in the pandemic, that benefit runs out soon. The City of LA wants to buy back homes slated for 710 freeway demolition, now that extension won't be built.

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Here's your morning news: LAFD loses bid to stop enforcement of vaccine mandate; Omicron variant now in one third of U.S. states; Nighttime road work on the 10; Lineup set for Rose Bowl game; Helping Orange County's seniors with loneliness; 

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What's happening today: Homes that were previously condemned to make way for the 710 freeway may be rehabilitated as affordable housing; L.A. City Council approves agreement with LA2028 Olympics group; Water shortages announced; AQMD issues violations over odors at Dominguez Channel; COVID wards filled with nearly exclusively unvaccinated patients.

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Here's your morning news: LAX begins offering rapid COVID tests to international travelers; Omicron emergence unsurprising, say experts; LAFD awaits ruling on vaccine mandate; Santa Monica seeks improvement suggestions; LeBron James back on court after COVID absence.

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In this Sunday edition: 

Los Angeles has hosted the Olympics twice: first in 1932 and then again in 1984. Organizers considered both events successes. Traffic all but disappeared, the city didn’t go into debt (in fact, it had a surplus of nearly $200 million afterwards), not to mention the money for youth sports and decorative murals around the city. But as the 2028 Games inch closer, many are asking how the city and its most vulnerable populations will be impacted, and what the ripple effects are for the city’s biggest issues like transportation, the homelessness crisis, and affordable housing.

This week, we looked back at the 1984 Games, what worked and what didn’t, and what lessons we can learn for 2028 with Zev Yaroslavsky, director of the Los Angeles Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and an authority on the modern history of Los Angeles.

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