moimn.com

Cities across the U.S. have seen residents abandon rail and bus services despite investments, with the notable exception of Seattle. SAN DIEGO —  Elected officials are preparing to ask San Diegans to approve not one but two tax increases to fund billions of dollars in bus and rail investments, including a San Diego Grand Central Station…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Tuesday, Oct. 22 and I’m writing from Los Angeles. Newsletter Get our Essential California newsletter California is in a moment of long overdue reckoning with the state’s original sin — the blood-soaked treatment of the people who inhabited this land long before any white settlers…

This photo by writer Jean Kentle accompanied her article in Oct. 20, 1935, Los Angeles Times: An all-year-round hobby that contributes an inestimable amount of happiness to children is Mrs. Guy Stewart McCabe’s — that of creating, collecting, dressing and distributing hundreds of dolls to underprivileged children. A director of the Ruth Protective Home, Mrs.…

View this post on Instagram We have turned part of our basement into a ball pit and I have never been happier. A post shared by Rachel Bloom (@racheldoesstuff) on Dec 16, 2017 at 6:19pm PST Renovation work at the front of the house was “rushed and improperly phased, without providing sufficient time for the…

Mary McNamara’s column [“Lies, Spies and NBC,” Oct. 14] was as usual both interesting and factual, plus it provided information I was totally unaware of. I had no knowledge of Ronan Farrow. Since I was not particularly interested in disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, I did not read much about him, his activities or revelations…

SERIES NCIS The team investigates a Marine corporal (guest star Camryn Grimes) who may have killed her neighbor while under a hypnotherapist’s treatment for insomnia. Meanwhile, Gibbs (Mark Harmon) makes a connection with his new neighbors after one of their kids accidentally sends a baseball crashing through his window. Laura San Giacomo, Jack Fisher and…

“Give me,” Pablo Neruda beseeched the gods of metaphor in a 1961 poem, “the secret wine kept in each syllable” — the help to conjure images of our oceans receding into myth. Thirty-five years later, Argentine-born American composer Osvaldo Golijov turned “Oceana” into a wine-drunk cantata. On Sunday night, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, conducted…

There’s a rule of thumb when it comes to buying travel insurance: “Buy the least expensive policy that fits your needs,” says Jenna Hummer of online retailer Squaremouth. It’s not like wine, where the higher the price, the better the bottle. How do you know if you are paying too much? Experts say travelers should…

The Los Angeles Zoo welcomed a newborn Masai giraffe, a subspecies native to Kenya and Tanzania that was recently deemed to be one of the most endangered animals in the wild. The new calf is on display now at the zoo with the herd of four females and one male. The unnamed baby giraffe born…

Las Vegas taxicabs will be required to charge flat-rate fares between McCarran International Airport and resorts on the Strip, starting Jan. 1. The fares are calculated by the ride (not the number of passengers) and aren’t subject to surge pricing. The Nevada Taxicab Authority, the agency that regulates taxis in Las Vegas and the surrounding…