A New Federal Court Case Could Bring Outdoor Dining Back to California
The legal team that (briefly) overturned LA County’s ban on outdoor dining this month is back, and now they’re going after California Gov. Newsom
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As expected, the fight over outdoor dining in Southern California is heating up. Fresh off a tentative win in Los Angeles County Superior Court, attorney and restaurant owner Mark Geragos is now taking his fight directly to the federal court system, filing a new lawsuit against California Gov. Gavin Newsom that would overturn the current outdoor dining ban. And this time, he’s got help.
Concert tickets for big-production shows, like U2 s The Joshua Tree Tour 2017, have become exorbitant. But why? Daniel Knighton/Getty Images
If the last concert you attended cost the same as a short vacation, consider yourself part of the global phenomenon of rising ticket prices. With the average concert ticket price for 2018 ringing in at $96.31, (a 14.1 percent increase over 2017 s prices), live music fees have far surpassed inflation rates and probably the growth in your salary, too.
But why the skyrocketing prices? And is there any end in sight for fans of live music? The quick and dirty answers are 1: supply and demand, and 2: no. After all, fans are stilling buying the tickets, even at exorbitant prices. And because artists and promoters are charging as much as their fans are willing to pay, the price of attending concerts doesn t seem to be going down any time soon. So what is influencing prices? Well, it s multiple factors, from the cost to put on the show to
The vaccine rollout offers the greatest hope for relief.
“We have been hit by these pandemics in the past, and they almost wiped us out, like smallpox,” said Dr. Mary Owen, president of the Assn. of American Indian Physicians and a member of the Tlingit Tribe in Alaska. “We can’t afford not to partake in these vaccines.”
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But distrust of the federal government especially on issues related to health and medicine dates back to colonization.
Carlita Bergen, center, holds a shovel as Navajo Nation police officer Carolyn Tallsalt smooths dirt over COVID-19 victim Arnold Billy’s grave in Tuba City, Ariz.
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