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Hey everybody, it's Kyle Rizzo, the host of Marketplace.
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I'm going to be live on stage at the Arotani Theater on Sunday, March 29th, unpacking the
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headlines of this economy.
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I hope to see you there.
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And it drives me bananas.
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That FM signal cannot interrupt your listen when you're streaming through the L.A.S.
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Hi, I'm Julia Pascon.
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Report, evening edition.
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Leaders layout different visions for the city's homelessness agency.
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Senator Alex Padilla responds to the firing of Homeland Security Secretary Christy
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And a rare source of affordable housing in the palisades was lost in the fire and is now
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It's Thursday, March 5, I'm Julia Paskin, and this is the L.A. Report Evening Edition
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As the L.A. City Council weighs polling funding from the Regional Homeless Services Agency,
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two top elected officials are laying out conflicting visions.
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Mayor Karen Bass and County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath each issued statements yesterday.
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After the City Council discussed polling $300 million in annual funding from the Homeless
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Disagency, known as LASA.
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Bass is urging the council not to pull the funds too quickly without a plan.
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She pointed to an upcoming city office meant to strengthen oversight.
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Horvath says the current system is not working, and that's why the county's polling ITS funding
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Horvath says she's ready to work with the City Council, which could decide in the coming
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Nick Urda, L.A.S. News.
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President Donald Trump has fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Nome in a social media
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He said Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullin of Oklahoma will replace her.
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He needs to be confirmed by the Senate to take the role permanently.
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California Senator Alex Padilla, who called on Nome to resign at a Senate hearing this
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week, says this was long past due.
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Starting off of the deadliest year, the highest number of people dying in ice custody in
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2025, and we're on pace this year for even more, it couldn't come quick enough.
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Padilla was forcibly removed from a Department of Homeland Security news conference in LAS last
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year, coming up in a moment and update on mysterious attacks lately on wild donkeys
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in Riverside County.
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Welcome back to the LAS report, evening edition, I'm Julia Paskin.
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A dozen wild donkeys or bros have been mysteriously attacked in Richie Canyon in Riverside County
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in the last three months.
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Madison Amand, with our California newsroom partner KVCR, reports local donkey advocates
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Herds of wild donkeys have roamed the canyons between Riverside and San Bernardino County
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for more than a century.
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Recently, some have been found with deep gashes in their hind legs.
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Others have had their ears and tails ripped off.
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Leslie McDowell works at the SoCal equine hospital, which has treated the burrows.
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She says burrows have been attacked in the past, but this is unusual.
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These are very violent, whatever it is that's attacking them is really doing a number on
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McDowell says two dead donkeys were sent to a state lab to try to figure out what caused
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That's KVCR's Madison Amand.
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A Pacific Palisades mobile home park could be permanently lost now that the owners have
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quietly put the burned property up for sale.
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David Wagner has more.
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Before last year's fire, the beachfront Palisades Bowl was a rare source of affordable housing
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in the neighborhood.
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Residents want to return and rebuild, but LAS obtained a confidential sales document
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pitching the park as a blank canvas for redevelopment.
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A lot of our residents are already traumatized and still grieving.
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John Brown is president of a group of displaced residents.
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But the park owners communicating with us, we don't really know what's going on.
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Owners did not respond to LAS requests for comment.
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Local politicians say they're fighting to get residents back to their former homes.
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David Wagner, LAS News.
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LAS Metro and the Department of Transportation broke ground today on a protected lane to
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connect a three mile gap of bikeway in the San Fernando Valley.
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When the Chandler path extension is finished, it will result in a 21 mile continuous protected
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bicycle lane from Chatsworth to Burbank.
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LAS and the Moth are joining forces for a new live show and you have two chances to see
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Come see the globally beloved storytelling institution live on stage in downtown LA at the Orphium
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Theater and in Orange County at the Irvine Barclay Theater.
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The Moth main stage shows are on Wednesday, April 15th in LA and Thursday, April 16th in Orange
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That's two chances to experience the Moth Live.
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Get tickets now at LAS.com slash events.