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State Farm to offer renewals to policyholders affected by L.A. County fires
State Farm said Wednesday that it will offer renewals to residential policyholders affected by the Los Angeles County fires that it had previously planned to drop. The decision applies to policies held by homeowners, owners of rental dwellings and residential community associations, which include condominium associations. The figure includes roughly 70%, or 1,100, of the...
Brehm: Climate change didn’t cause the Los Angeles wildfires. Government incompetence did.
It has been troubling to see aggressive members of the climate lobby, not apt to let any natural disaster go to waste by failing to label it a direct effect of rising global temperatures, quick to declare the Los Angeles fires purely a symptom of America’s love for fossil fuel. Drive an electric car, they...
A long road to rebuilding — and fights over government funding — await L.A. fire victims
The scenes of destruction in Los Angeles have brought a sense of déjà vu for Steve Crowder. Six years ago, similar images of fires ravaging his community of Paradise, California, were plastered across televisions and social media. “It is Paradise revisited,” said Crowder, the mayor of Paradise. “Sitting here watching the news, these fires in...