Yusra Farzan
General Assignment Reporter at LAist
Reporter at KPCC-FM (Pasadena, CA)
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3 weeks ago |
laist.com | Yusra Farzan
Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. As a young boy, Andrew Do recalled the surprise of seeing spaghetti replace pho noodles on his dinner plate after his family fled to the U.S. after the fall of Saigon. It’s a story Do has told many times — how his family first moved to an Arkansas refugee camp.
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3 weeks ago |
laist.com | Yusra Farzan
Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. After disgraced former Orange County Supervisor Andrew Do pleaded guilty in court last year, he disappeared from public view. That is, until recent court filings revealed he has been volunteering with the Los Angeles Maritime Institute — teaching sailing to disadvantaged kids.
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4 weeks ago |
laist.com | Yusra Farzan
Only 7% of LAist readers currently donate to fund our journalism. Help raise that number, so our nonprofit newsroom stays strong in the face of federal cuts. Donate now. Irvine’s ambitious project to use gondolas to criss cross Great Park has faced criticism after LAist revealed that contracts worth $700,000 were signed outside of public view. Now, officials are pulling the curtain back and embarking on what might be described as a transparency tour.
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4 weeks ago |
laist.com | Yusra Farzan
Irvine leaders this week rejected yet another plan for a veterans cemetery at the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro. On Tuesday evening, the City Council chambers was packed with residents, veterans and others who wore coordinated shirts to signify which side they were on. A wave of sky blue shirts emphatically declared their support for a veterans cemetery in the Great Park area of the city. But they were up against a wall of orange shirts unwavering in its opposition.
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1 month ago |
laist.com | Yusra Farzan
When an ambitious gondola-transit system was unveiled in Irvine last month, it promised to have residents reaching for the skies and breezily bypassing traffic as it whisked them up and over the 1,300-acre Great Park below. Even better, city officials said: the company would donate services and equipment worth up to $10 million in the first year.
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