Essential California Week in Review: Conservatives are leaving

[2e8a1c89-a306-4ba9-8ecd-4b91adb267e9.jpg] Essential California [Send to friend](mailto:?subject=Essential California Week in Review: Conservatives are leaving&body= | [Open in browser]( Presented by* [Beverly Hills MD]( Good morning, and welcome to the [Essential California newsletter](. It is Saturday, Nov. 9. Here’s a look at the top stories of the last week: TOP STORIES California conservatives head out. Republicans are nearly three times as likely as their Democratic counterparts to have [seriously considered moving away from California]( one poll found. Said one conservative who’s moving to Texas: “We’re getting with people who believe in the same political agenda that we do: America first, Americans first, law and order.” Fed up with Forest Service cuts. Angered by the [agency’s growing backlog]( of maintenance projects leading to poor conditions in popular recreation areas, Mammoth Lakes and other towns are plotting a takeover. Bean signs off. After nearly 30 years as one-half of drive time’s “The Kevin & Bean Show” on modern-rock station KROQ-FM, Gene “Bean” Baxter [hung up his headphones Thursday](. The lunch battlefield. Los Angeles is in the midst of a development boom, one that operates in Bel-Air at imperial scale. La Chaparrita’s Munch Truck makes 15 stops in four hours, selling hundreds of meals to men [who build homes the size of strip malls](. More Kaiser Permanente strikes. Ongoing labor battles have undermined Kaiser Permanente’s once-golden reputation as a model of cost-effective care that caters to satisfied patients. Now the health giant [faces another strike Monday](. How to hack LAX-it. Tired of being trapped in the chaos driven by new changes to LAX’s ride-hailing policy? Here are [tips for navigating the confusing system](. Come back, abalone. Once upon a time, the California coast had the greatest number of abalone species in the world. It may yet again, [if this project works](. Board-and-care crisis. Thanks to an inadequate state funding system and California’s red-hot real estate market, board-and-care homes — housing some of the most vulnerable people in the region — [are disappearing](. Now L.A. County [may intervene](. Cheering for the robots. The arrival of robots at the ports of L.A. and Long Beach is exposing a stark economic divide [between those inside and outside the dockworkers’ union](. The reality of rebuilding. One year after the Camp fire destroyed almost the entire town of Paradise, there are signs of a rebirth. But for the town’s residents, recovery is bumpy [as safety, money and emotions collide](. Advertisement by Beverly Hills MD* [Doing This Every Morning Can Snap Back Sagging Skin (No Creams Needed)]( If you’re over 40 and frustrated with aging, wrinkly skin, get this. Dr. John Layke and Dr. Payman Danielpour put together a presentation revealing a two-minute home method to restore youthful skin. And as of me writing this, it’s touched the lives of over four million people. Click below to discover this youth-restoring breakthrough for yourself: ==> [Watch their presentation here.]( You’ll never see wrinkly skin the same way… * This advertiser has no control over editorial decisions or content. End of advertisement. This week’s most popular stories in Essential California 1. A San Francisco archive has added hundreds of amazing photos. See the best ones here. [SFGate]( 2. An LAUSD student asked us about the “gross” yellowish water at her school. We investigated. [LAist]( 3. How did “Blade Runner” stick as the vision of L.A.’s future? [Curbed LA]( 4. These are the candidates celebrities are supporting in 2020. [Los Angeles Times]( 5. It was an adventure into California’s Lost Coast. Now, two friends from San Francisco are missing. [San Francisco Chronicle]( ICYMI, here are this week’s great reads Stealing Amazon packages in the age of Nextdoor: A longform investigation into the “porch pirate of Potrero Hill” enters a vortex of smart-cam clips, Nextdoor rants and cellphone surveillance that tugs at the complexities of race and class relations in a liberal, gentrifying city. [The Atlantic]( The rise and stall of the boba generation: How bubble tea became a complicated symbol of Asian American identity. [Eater]( “Cult of the Literary Sad Woman”: Essayist Leslie Jamison on the afflicted-woman trope. [New York Times]( Please let us know what we can do to make this newsletter more useful to you. Send comments, complaints, ideas and unrelated book recommendations to [Julia Wick](mailto:julia.wick@latimes.com). Follow her on Twitter [@Sherlyholmes](. (And a giant thanks to the legendary [Diya Chacko]( for all her help on the Saturday edition.) 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