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SoCal (Web) Surfing: Stories in the News
A selection of recent local stories of interest to parents and families in the Los Angeles area. And goodness, has it been an exhausting, overwhelming, heart-wrenching and nerve-wracking news week.
Sales of potassium iodide pills jump as radiation fears increase in Southern California, despite ongoing monitoring and L.A. County public health chief Dr. Jonathan Fielding’s insistence on “minimal risk of harmful exposure to radiation in the United States.” But this drug carries many risks and side effects. [L.A. Times]
Concern and relief among Los Angeles area residents for friends relatives in Japan, and local communities organize to support relief work. [L.A. Japanese Daily News, Santa Monica Daily Press]
A run down of the many Los Angeles-based TV and print journalists reporting in the field from Japan. [Franklin Avenue]
Public School Choice Program and control of 13 LAUSD campuses was put to major LAUSD trustee board vote this week. [Madeline Brand Show/KPCC]
Camino Nuevo Charter was selected to operate the planned new middle school in Echo Park. [Echo Park Patch]
Steve Lopez’s recent columns about Los Angeles’ education battles — budgetary, administrative, union, and otherwise. [LAT]
The Envisioning Silver Lake Design Competition is currently underway and calling for submissions due Monday, April 11. A coalition that includes City Council President Eric Garcetti, the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council, and other local groups is sponsoring the project. [Sunset Junction Streetscape Design Competition website]
A sneak peek into the Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. in Beverly Hills that opens this Friday. [Grub Street L.A.]
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