Greenleaf in USC Village closes
Good morning. It’s Tuesday, and I hope you had a restful long weekend. Onto the five USC, Los Angeles, and California stories you need to know for today.
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Greenleaf, a healthy mainstay of the USC Village, is closing. The vegetarian-friendly chain operated in the Village for eight years and will apparently be missed, according to comments on Annenberg Media’s Instagram post. Now seems like an opportune time for Senator Raising Cane’s to deliver on his campaign promise.
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Undocumented students at USC are calling for a permanent, physical resource center on campus. The university offers a range of legal and immigration aid for such students, but it’s currently scattered across different schools and affinity groups. A centralized space would let students “actually thrive,” one advocate said.
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A smattering of small fires broke out across Southern California this weekend as forecasters warned that yet another round of dangerous winds will bring extreme danger today. Crews continued to battle the Eaton and Palisades fires, which are now 87% and 63% contained, respectively.
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City officials didn’t issue evacuation orders for western Altadena until nearly eight hours after the Eaton fire broke out. That may have been a mistake. All 17 of the confirmed deaths in that fire occurred in the western portion of the town, which was ultimately decimated by the flames.
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Silicon Valley tycoons were front and center at Donald Trump’s inauguration. Many, like Mark Zuckerberg, spent the better part of the last decade attacking Trump. Now, the world’s most powerful men are currying favor with the president. They “stand for little more than the accrual of wealth and power,” wrote The Atlantic’s Damon Beres.