Mayor Rex Richardson is using emergency reserves for temporary fixes after Tropical Storm Rachel, a reactive strategy that risks public services to protect multimillion-dollar oceanfront properties.
By Maya Ellison ·
Long Beach ordered evacuations on the Peninsula after storm swells flooded homes, exposing a municipal government that relies on sandbags rather than repairing its broken breakwater.
By Daniel Okafor ·
Tropical Storm Rachel has pushed salt water into the streets of Newport Beach, exposing a municipal strategy of temporary fixes that cannot survive a warming Pacific.
By Imani Sutton ·