Hailey Branson-Potts
Reporter at Los Angeles Times
California reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Oklahoman. Mildly amusing.
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3 days ago |
latimes.com | Hailey Branson-Potts
When a massive fire ignited in January at one of the world’s largest lithium-ion battery storage facilities, the neighbors demanded answers. They wanted to know what started the fire that smoldered for days, spewing toxic gas into the air and prompting evacuation warnings for 1,500 people. Nearly five months later and with the fire’s cause still unknown, Pacific Gas & Electric began reopening an adjacent battery site on Sunday, despite objections from local officials.
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4 days ago |
latimes.com | Hailey Branson-Potts
I was driving home from a reporting trip to Santa Cruz County on Friday when I spotted the plain green and white highway sign, just off Highway 1. It had an arrow pointing north alongside the word FREEDOM. Jackpot! I slowed my aging Jeep, to the annoyance of the pickup driver behind me, just enough to take a not-great cellphone photo out my window before making my way home to the South Bay.
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1 week ago |
latimes.com | Hailey Branson-Potts
The intense scrutiny of teenage transgender athletes in California intensified this week as the U.S. Justice Department announced it was investigating the state for allowing them to participate in girls’ sports and President Trump threatened to cut federal funding over the issue.
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1 week ago |
latimes.com | Hailey Branson-Potts
BUTTONWILLOW, Calif. — Honestly, I stopped for the dateline. In newspaper and wire service parlance, a dateline is the name of a place, typically written in capital letters and followed by an em dash, at the beginning of an article. It signifies a journalist’s physical location while reporting or writing a story. As a state reporter who often writes about rural communities, I pride myself on getting obscure datelines from far-flung towns and census-designated places here in the Golden State.
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1 week ago |
miamiherald.com | Hailey Branson-Potts
The letter from Yosemite Postmaster Fred C. Alexander, dated June 29, 1926, was meant to set the record straight regarding a shipment of 50 pounds of frankfurters from San Francisco. The sausages were to have passed through the newly built Yosemite National Park post office before being delivered to a beloved Yosemite Valley restaurateur. Alas, the hot dogs didn't fare so well.
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RT @hbecerraLATimes: A post office will return to a rural Northern California town that fought for it for two years - Los Angeles Times htt…
My latest for @latimes: For the rural denizens of Bolinas, CA, the reopening of a post office after two years is a major victory—especially given Trump’s musings about privatizing USPS, which lost $9.5 billion in 2024 and is cutting thousands of jobs https://t.co/bWjCiqaL6K
Trump declares high-speed internet program ‘racist’ and ‘unconstitutional.’ The Digital Equity Act was written to help many different groups, including veterans, older people and disabled and rural communities, including in red states. https://t.co/xwTNAgLudC
