Episode Details

Alissa, Mike, and LA Taco’s Memo Torres break down three months of ICE raids and explain why a Labor Day lull doesn’t mean the feds are letting up. LA County passes a law that says your landlord must keep your apartment below 82 degrees, and LA City may follow suit. California sets up its own CDC amid a major COVID spike. And yet another major setback for Frank McCourt’s gondola — will this project ever get off the ground?

Memo’s Daily Memo has become a must-watch to keep up with LA’s ongoing siege. Read it at LA Taco or watch it on LA Taco’s Instagram or Memo’s Instagram

LA Taco’s reporting on the ICE raids has been featured on MSNBC, NPR, KQED, Huff Post, and the Washington Post

And be sure to check out stories and photography by LA Taco’s staff investigative reporter Lexis-Olivier Ray

As Trump threatens to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, a federal judge rules that deploying the National Guard to LA was illegal. The deployment also cost taxpayers $120 million

“Take your orange aprons somewhere else”: Councilmember Ysabel Jurado tries to block Home Depot from opening a new store in Eagle Rock Plaza

ACLU argues that Border Patrol is breaking an existing Central Valley temporary restraining order with a series of Sacramento raids (also at Home Depot)

LAist: “As heat-related deaths rise, LA County will soon require that landlords keep apartments cool”

Now the city is also considering its own maximum indoor temperature ordinance. Watch Councilmembers Eunisses Hernandez, Adrin Nazarian, and Bob Blumenfeld present their plan at a press conference

Alissa recommends Sam Bloch’s new book, Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource, to learn about the dangers of extreme heat; watch her conversation with Sam

LA Times: “COVID wave washes over Californi