
Ryan Fonseca
Writer at Essential California Newsletter
Writer at Los Angeles Times
@LATimes reporter, writing the Essential California newsletter • teaching journalism @csunorthridge • working on my tre flips • [email protected]
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1 week ago |
latimes.com | Ryan Fonseca
Kate and Ben Mosetick’s order of custom-made e-bikes, with models shown here, faces steep tariffs because most of the components originated from China. Good morning. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. • They wanted to import custom e-bikes for little people. Then Trump announced “retaliatory” tariffs. • Life after California’s death row: What happens when condemned inmates get a second chance. • The best places to eat and drink this month, according to our food writers.
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1 week ago |
latimes.com | Ryan Fonseca
Good morning. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. • A new study of the Cascadia subduction zone looks at a worst-case quake scenario. • L.A. County approves a $4-billion sex abuse settlement, the largest in U.S. history. • 15 of the best places to shop for rugs in L.A., according to interior designers.
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2 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Ryan Fonseca
Good morning. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. • 55,000 L.A. County workers have stopped working. Here’s what to expect. • 32 of the best weekend brunch spots in L.A.Los Angeles County’s government boasts more than 100,000 workers — and more than half of them stopped working this week. Roughly 55,000 county employees are called by their local Service Employees International Union, SEIU 721. The mass work stoppage began at 7 p.m. Monday and is slated to run through 7 p.m. Wednesday.
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2 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Ryan Fonseca
Good morning. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. • MAGA Republicans march into Beverly Hills looking for new allies. • President Trump’s first 100 days in his second term have been a blitz of executive orders, job and spending cuts, and global tariffs, in pursuit of expanded presidential power. • If you’re a breakfast burrito fan, there’s no better pocket of Los Angeles to reside in than Pasadena, writes food columnist Jenn Harris.
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2 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Ryan Fonseca
Exterior of the State Bar of California’s headquarters in downtown Los Angeles. Good morning. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. • Take a rare glimpse inside the mountain tunnel that carries water to Southern California. • How Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto ‘elevated his game to another level’ in his second year.
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