Saturday, November 12, 2022

From the OC Registrar of Voters: today's snap pies

What would be the opposite of a "photo finish"?

 

In the Times this morning


🔺 ‘I can’t keep fighting the system’: DACA recipients are leaving the U.S., disheartened by years of instability
-- Since 2012, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals has protected more than 800,000 immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation, allowing them to work, drive and travel legally. But the program never offered a pathway to citizenship. Andrea Castillo in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 11/12/22 

🔺 This California town ran its Chinese residents out. Now the story is finally being told -- In an 1885 expulsion, the city of Eureka, Calif., put its Chinese residents on two ships and kept them out for seven decades. Now, the Eureka Chinatown Project tells the story. Hailey Branson-Potts in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 11/12/22 

🔺 Nearly 48,000 UC graduate students poised to shut down many classes, labs and research with strike -- Nearly 48,000 University of California academic workers — the backbone of the vaunted higher education system who research, mentor and teach — are poised to strike Monday in a labor action that could shut down some classes and lab work just weeks before final exams. Teresa Watanabe in the Los Angeles Times$ -- 11/12/22

Source: Rough and Tumble

Roy's obituary in LA Times and Register: "we were lucky to have you while we did"

  This ran in the Sunday December 24, 2023 edition of the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register : July 14, 1955 - November 20, 2...