Mel Melcon

1 week ago | sanluisobispo.com | Mel Melcon

LOS ANGELES, CA-OCTOBER 27, 2017: Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputies stand at attention during the inspection portion of their graduation ceremony at the Biscailuz Training Center of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept. in East Los Angeles on October 27, 2017.

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Mel Melcon

The troubled, $20 billion U.S. residential solar market's future rests on whether Senate Republicans will challenge their brethren in the House of Representatives and change provisions of the massive tax and spending bill that executives and analysts say would devastate the industry. The bill passed by the House this week would strip away tax credits for companies that lease rooftop solar systems as well as homeowners who buy them outright.

2 weeks ago | sanluisobispo.com | Mel Melcon

HERMOSA BEACH, CA-NOVEMBER 10, 2023, 2023:People ride their e-bikes on the Strand in Hermosa Beach. In Hermosa Beach, it’s against city code to use electric power on the Strand, but many e-bike riders do so anyway. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) Mel Melcon TNS A surge of applicants vying for a chance to be chosen for a voucher worth up to $2,000 for the California E-Bike Incentive Program triggered an error in the program's website, blocking everyone from applying.

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Kehl Tonga of Cal-Quake Construction works to reinforce a steel frame during a retrofit of a Hollywood apartment building. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times/TNS) Mel Melcon TNS LOS ANGELES - The Trump administration has canceled $33 million worth of federal funds meant to help pay for earthquake retrofits in California - sparking "grave concern" and a call to reconsider from one of the state's highest elected officials. In a letter dated Wednesday, Sen.

2 weeks ago | miamiherald.com | Mel Melcon

Where an empty sidewalk once was, a barbershop has emerged. The line grows four deep, the patrons whiling away the time with a dice game on the pavement. Not far away, a woman sells plastic cups of cut mango with lime and Tajín, and around the corner a 2Pac-serenaded barbecue is getting underway. A block over, in Little Havana, a bata drum performance draws a crowd. This is Skid Row, Los Angeles, one of the largest and most maligned unhoused communities in a nation full of them.