Edward Howard, who brought movies, bathrooms and a sense of dignity to skid row, dies at 63
Edward Howard saw hygiene as a civil rights issue and a matter of treating homeless people with dignity.
Edward Howard saw hygiene as a civil rights issue and a matter of treating homeless people with dignity.
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Coronavirus cases in California have topped 5,000 as ICU hospital beds fill with patients, and officials tried to enforce social distancing measures.
Amid the coronavirus outbreak, Gov. Gavin Newsom said the U.S. government sent L.A. County broken ventilators, so a Silicon Valley company is fixing them.
In the Bay Area, one public health officer has been infected with COVID-19. Others are feuding, and one issued an emotional public warning that peers have criticized.
As the pandemic took off, an emergency room doctor and Army pal planned to quickly produce a cheap ventilator. But their altruism ran into a cold hard reality - capitalism.
With gyms, public parks, restaurants and other places closed, homeless people are having a hard time finding places to clean up maintain basic hygiene.
Seth Davis and his seizure alert dog Poppy led a difficult existence to begin with. Then they got stranded at LAX when his wallet was stolen during a layover on Christmas Eve. They've been living there ever since. Then the coronavirus hit.
The winter of 2019-20 was one of the warmest on record in the lower 48 states
Nora Escalante, 58, is originally from Cabañas, El Salvador. In the mid-1980s, while machine guns and rifles thundered, she immigrated to the United States.
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The state is also working to fix 170 ventilators that arrived "not working" from the federal government, Gov. Newsom said.
Reality show star Kim Kardashian West, who has embraced prison reform as a pet cause, praised Newsom's action on twitter.
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