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Mel Melcon

Los Angeles

Staff Photographer at Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times photographer. Always on the lookout for feature photos and quirky people with a good story to tell.

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  • 1 week ago | sanluisobispo.com | Mel Melcon

    LOS ANGELES, CA-APRIL 28, 2022: A gardener uses a leaf blower while cleaning a driveway as sprinklers water the front lawn of a home on Sunset Blvd. near Carmelina Ave. in Los Angeles.

  • 1 month 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 month 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.

  • 1 month 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.

  • 1 month ago | bellinghamherald.com | Mel Melcon |Rong-Gong Lin II

    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.

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Mel Melcon
Mel Melcon @MelMelconPhoto
2 Oct 22

‘We are in the presence of a saint’: A homeless man’s mission to feed L.A.'s cats and birds https://t.co/L7pL4bKqPr

Mel Melcon
Mel Melcon @MelMelconPhoto
22 Aug 22

How a homeless woman and her ‘emotional support duck’ survive on the streets of L.A. https://t.co/mv9Ah6gVtr

Mel Melcon
Mel Melcon @MelMelconPhoto
25 Jun 21

Pasadena’s only gay bar is back with no cover, karaoke and drag https://t.co/n4TcmFzEbK