Saturday, October 17

Economy

Damage from a week’s worth of high surf and El Niño-related storms brought many warnings from officials. Beaches were closed. Homes were evacuated and red-tagged. But one alert was targeted to a specific audience: owners of electric vehicles that were submerged by the flooding. “If you notice smoke, hissing, popping or unusual heat, move away…

Southern California’s specter of ruinous wildfire is back. The first Santa Ana winds of the season are expected to bring 20- to 40-mph winds, and gusts potentially exceeding 60 mph to valleys and coastal mountain ranges through Friday afternoon. Scientists have projected that by 2100, human greenhouse gas pollution will cut back the number of…

As a teenager, LeRoy Chatfield took an oath with the Congregation of Christian Brothers to live a life of poverty. For the next 16 years, he hardly owned any material possessions and worked for free as a high school teacher in San Francisco and throughout some of the poorest areas in the San Joaquin Valley.…

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