The commission is holding a continuation of a hearing that started at its Oct. 20 meeting where it was scheduled to pick up to three maps to be considered as potential final maps.
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The 30 awards for the Long Beach Post are on-par with the largest newsrooms in California in the digital contest, including 31 awards for Los Angeles Times, 23 awards for the Sacramento Bee and 15 awards for the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Post newsroom earned a total of eight first-place awards and one open-division award for best digital news photo of any publication in California for Visuals Editor Thomas Cordova.
For the first time ever, the Post also placed in the general excellence category, with judges noting the Post’s “tough-minded accountability reporting” with “informed commentary.”
Journalists Kelly Puente, Sebastian Echeverry, Valerie Osier and Alena Mashke placed first in health reporting on the pandemic for their coverage of the socioeconomic disparities of COVID-19. “The Long Beach Post provides an important public service, going behind the daily COVID-19 case counts to help readers understand the ‘why’ behind the demographic tre
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Even in a comparatively middle-class coastal neighborhood in economically ravaged Guatemala, Hernandez felt like he had no prospects. He also had no father or mother his dad having left before he was born and his mother traveling to the U.S. when he was 6 to try to find a job and send money back to her family.
Now the maras, local gangs, were breathing down Hernandez’s neck. They wanted to rope him into arms dealing and drug smuggling. He repeatedly refused.
“I told myself, if I do this, I won’t be able to live the life I want to,” Hernandez said in Spanish. “I won’t ever see my mom again.”
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