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be planted in the shape of a heart in honor of his late wife, Bennetta Betbadal, at Pikes Peak Park in Norco. Bennetta was Get the latest news delivered daily! killed in the Dec. 2, 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino. The garden, to be named “Bennetta’s Heart Healing Grove Memorial,” SUBSCRIBE will feature a jacaranda tree in her honor, as well as 13 redbud trees to represent the other 13 victims. (Stan Lim, The Press- Enterprise/SCNG) Follow Us

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Bennetta’s Heart Healing

Grove Memorial is set to take Joshua Tree root in Norco’s Pikes Peak couple accused of keeping their 3 children in a box plead not guilty Arlen Verdehyou, of Park. SCNG Norco, takes photos at the site of a garden that will be planted in Brian Petree, deputy city the shape of a heart manager and director of parks, in honor of his late wife, Bennetta recreation and community Betbadal, at Pikes Peak Park in Norco. services, said the Norco City Bennetta was killed in the Dec. 2, 2015 Council recently approved the terrorist attack in San project. And he said holes for Bernardino.
(Stan Lim, The the trees were dug earlier this More videos: Press- Enterprise/SCNG) month.

As it grows, it will be impossible to miss the vibrant colors and symbolic shapes.

“It’s a heart within a heart,” said Eleanor Torres, co-executive director for the nonprofit, Upland- based Incredible Edible Community Garden Foundation.

The outer heart is going to contain 14 trees representing the 14 victims of the San Bernardino massacre, according to a city staff report. A

jacaranda tree, beloved for its splashy springtime lavender flowers, will become “Bennetta’s tree,” the report stated.

“That was the tree she loved,” Torres said.

It’s fitting that it’s a flowering tree, Verdehyou said, because in so many treasured family photos she is posing with a flower.

Arlen Verdehyou, left, and his son Colin, console Shemiran Betbadal, mother of Bennetta Betbadal at the end of a memorial service in her honor on Monday, Dec. 14, 2015 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Rancho Cucamonga. Betbadal was one of the 14 victims of the Dec. 2 San Bernardino massacre. Arlen is the husband of Bennetta and Colin is their son. On Saturday, March 10,
a healing garden is to be planted in her honor in Norco. (File photo by Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

As for the 13 other trees, they will be eastern redbuds, the staff report said.

The plan calls for 20 trees in all, including a half dozen inside the outer heart to represent Betbadal’s husband; her daughter, Jolene, 17; her sons Colin, 14, and Ethan, 13; and her mother and father.

“In the middle heart,” Torres said, “there is going to be a trellis with a bougainvillea, which is one of her favorite plants.”

Betbadal would have loved it, her husband said.

“She had always loved nature,” he said.

For her surviving family, it is all a bit overwhelming.

The nonprofit group and Norco officials are “amazing, amazing, amazing people,” Verdehyou said. “They are doing this out of their own heart. They are helping us to heal from this tragedy.”

Arlen Verdehyou, of Norco, stands at the site of a garden that will be planted in the shape of a heart in honor of his late wife, Bennetta Betbadal, at Pikes Peak Park in Norco. Bennetta was killed in the Dec. 2, 2015, terrorist attack in San Bernardino. The garden, to be named “Bennetta’s Heart Healing Grove Memorial,” will feature a jacaranda tree in Bennetta’s honor.
(Stan Lim, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG)

Torres said the nonprofit group will cover the roughly $60,000 installation cost, plus the expense of maintaining the garden — and replacing any dead trees — for the first three years.

The project is one of several the group has tackled since the 2015 tragedy. Torres said the group intends to plant 14 groves in all, one for each San Bernardino victim.

According to the staff report, there are five

completed projects: Mike Wetzel Grove in Mackay Park, Lake Arrowhead; Hal Bowman Grove in San Antonio Park, Upland; Nick Thalasinos Grove in a park at M Street and Mount Vernon Avenue, Colton; Daniel Kaufman Grove at Fergusson Park, Rialto; and Yvette Velasco Grove at San Sevaine Park, Fontana.

“We like to have these groves close to the family because it is very meaningful to them,” Torres said.

BENNETTA’S HEART HEALING GROVE MEMORIAL

What: Planting ceremony

When: 10 a.m. Saturday, March 10

Where: Pikes Peak Park, 97 Sixth St., Norco

Who: Open to the public

Schedule: 10 a.m., guests arrive; 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., ceremony; 11:30 a.m., planting

Information: Eleanor Torres, 909-499-9733

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Gallo, who announced his candidacy for mayor in July, called his decision to exit the race “one of the most difficult decisions I have had to make,” adding: “I love this city and will continue to advocate for the initiatives I believe will help propel our city forward.”

He is throwing his support behind Mayor Carey Davis.

“Mike Gallo is a dedicated community leader who works tirelessly to improve education and our quality of life in San Bernardino,” Davis said in a statement. “I am honored to have his endorsement, and I look forward to working closely with Mike as we continue to make San Bernardino a better place to live, work and visit.”

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State job counters found an extra 6,867 folks at work in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, according to annual revisions of workplace data. MOST POPULAR

In January, it was reported Inland Empire bosses 1 WWII medic who barely survived 2 German had added 43,983 workers last year, or 3.1 percent POW camps receives hero’s burial growth. That followed 2016’s hiring of 47,625 Temecula Valley girls soccer wins shootout with 2 Cypress workers last year, or 3.5 percent growth. 3 $8 million alleged health care fraud scheme Now, we have revisions to 2016 and 2017 uncovered in Riverside County employment statistics for Riverside and San Victim ID’d in Riverside slaying case; defendant 4 posts bond on $1 million bail Bernardino counties, which indicate last year saw 49,667 new workers or 3.5 percent growth. That Brothers fatally shot outside Moreno Valley Jack 5 in the Box followed 2016’s revised hiring total of 48,808 or Corona chamber leader scolds city critics, tells 3.6 percent growth. 6 them ‘to come outside’

These changes aren’t a new twist. The widely Despite amputation, ex-Temecula Linfield 7 quarterback hopes to play again watched monthly job counts that are released Why Home Depot is paying nearly $28 million in roughly three weeks after the end of a month are 8 civil settlement involving LA, Orange and compiled from polling of employers. Riverside counties

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In the four local counties covered by the Southern California News Group, the so-called “re- Joshua Tree benchmarking” added 19,633 workers from couple accused of keeping their 3 children in a box plead not guilty previously reported levels. Now we know SoCal SCNG averaged 132,100 new jobs last year, 1.8 percent growth, after creating 192,633 jobs — 2.7 percent growth — in 2016.

Orange County’s employment picture was far

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better than previously reported by state job counters.

More videos: Back in January, the year-end jobs report showed Orange County bosses adding an average 12,375 workers in 12 months, or 0.8 percent growth. That was quite a cooling from 2016’s hiring spree of 35,325 workers — 2.3 percent growth.

Annual revisions found an extra 24,383 folks at work in Orange County. That means in 2017, Orange County bosses added 32,250 jobs, 2 percent growth. And the job counters upped Orange County employment for 2016 to 39,833, or 2.6 percent.

Revised state jobs figures show Los Angeles County bosses with 11,617 fewer workers.

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Originally, it was reported that L.A. added 56,858 jobs or 1.3 percent growth for 2017 after adding 108,933 jobs or 2.5 percent growth in 2016. But the recount found just 50,183 new jobs in L.A. last year, 1.1 percent growth. In 2016, 103,992 jobs were created — 2.4 percent growth.

Still, L.A. has 490,550 more jobs since 2011, a 2 percent annualized hiring pace.

All the statistical gyrations aside, the local job market is still very much in hiring mode, albeit at a slower pace than seen in recent years. Whether that’s due to the much-discussed shortage of properly skilled workers, or skittishness of bosses to add even more employees, remains to be seen.

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with a Barstow Unif ed School District teacher early Thursday morning.

Alecia Garcia, 29, of Barstow, was arrested after the incident, which occurred at Cameron Elementary School early Thursday morning. Police said Garcia punched a teacher who allegedly scratched her son, a seventh-grade student at the school.

BUSD Superintendent Jeff Malan conf rmed an incident took place at the school involving a staff member, but declined to comment further, citing personnel and student confd entiality.

“It was an unfortunate incident that transpired early this morning at Cameron Elementary involving a staff member that jeopardized the staff member’s safety,” Malan said Thursday afternoon.

Alecia’s aunt, Rosalena Garcia, claims her niece was arrested during a confrontation with her son’s teacher after the boy, who has special needs, came home with “a knot on his head and a little gash.”

“Alecia had questions for the school because he came home like that and no one had notif ed her or called her to tell her about it,” Rosalena Garcia said.

In a Thursday statement, Barstow Police Department off cials said Alecia Garcia came to the Police Department at 6:19 a.m. Thursday to report that her son’s elementary school teacher scratched him during an incident that took place in late February. She provided a photo of the injury to off cers, who launched an investigation.

Rosalena Garcia said the teacher in question confessed to Alecia that she had to “grab” the boy at some point, and the injury was caused when the boy hit the side of a walkie-talkie.

“That made Alecia feel like the teacher was lying or trying to cover it up,” Rosalena Garcia said. “Her son is completely non- verbal and cannot talk at all, so anything and everything about him needs to be communicated as clear as possible to his mother.”

Rosalena Garcia said the school told her niece they would look into the matter, but reportedly found the claims against the teacher to be unfounded.

“That’s the most frustrating part — nothing happens at all,” Rosalena Garcia said. “So, that led to [Thursday] when Alecia went to the school, confronted the teacher and beat her up.”

Police said dispatch received a call at 8:14 a.m. Thursday from an employee at Cameron Elementary reporting that a parent was physically assaulting a teacher on campus. Witnesses were able to pin the parent down as off cers responded.

After interviewing several witnesses, off cers learned Garcia had brought her son to the school and approached the teacher, who was at the front of school waiting to escort students off the bus.

“Garcia approached the teacher and asked her why she was still teaching at the school,” police said. “Garcia then suddenly grabbed the teacher by her hair and began punching her multiple times in the head and face area.”

Several witnesses observed the assault and quickly pulled Garcia off the teacher and detained her until the off cers arrived, where she was taken into custody without incident.

Police said the teacher sustained moderate injuries to her nose, head, and lower body. Barstow Fire Protection District personnel arrived and treated the victim for her injuries. Paramedics then transported the victim to Barstow Community Hospital for further treatment.

Garcia was arrested on suspicion of battery against a school employee and taken to

the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s Barstow Jail, police said.

Malan referred any questions regarding the investigation into Garcia’s son’s injury to the Barstow Police Department, who said the investigation is ongoing. Further details weren’t available.

Anyone with information about this investigation may contact Off cer Ragle of the Barstow Police Department at 760-256-2211. Persons wishing to remain anonymous can contact the We-Tip Hotline at 1-800-782-7463 or online at www.wetip.com.

Paola Baker may be reached at 760-955-5332 or [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter at @DP_PaolaBaker.

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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tax-law-affordable-housing-20180309-story.html[3/9/2018 7:43:05 AM] Affordable housing projects are threatened as tax cuts undermine a source of funding On 1st Street in Santa Ana — not far from where authorities recently cleared a tent encampment along the Santa Ana River near Angel Stadium — developer Caleb Roope wants to build nearly 1,000 apartments that will be affordable for low-income seniors and families.

But, despite a renewed push from the state to tackle its affordable housing crisis, Roope, chief executive of Pacific Cos., isn't sure he can break ground on the two subsidized projects.

The problem? The federal government.

The $1.5-trillion tax cut President Trump signed into law last year slashed corporate tax rates and gave businesses more money to spend how they choose. 

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But in doing so, it indirectly cut the value of a crucial tax credit developers rely on to offer homes at rents that lower-income Americans can afford. As a result, developers such as Roope are receiving less money when they sell those credits, opening up gaping budget holes that are delaying, even killing, their projects.

"We had one fall through in Albuquerque, N.M. It was 216 units," Roope said. "We also had another 184-unit project in Phoenix that suffered a similar fate."

Roope hasn't yet lost a project in California. But in a state where land and construction costs are already high, the reduced value of the federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit is a blow. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tax-law-affordable-housing-20180309-story.html[3/9/2018 7:43:05 AM] Affordable housing projects are threatened as tax cuts undermine a source of funding Nearly 135,000 people are estimated to be homeless in California. Many of them lay their heads at night inside tents on the streets of San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego.

Even many of those who do have a home struggle. In 2016, 29% of renters, or 1.7 million households, spent more than half their gross income on housing costs, according to the latest analysis from Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies.

That percentage is the highest in the country — largely the result, economists say, of decades in which developers built too few market-rate homes relative to job and population growth.

Affordable housing advocates also point to the 2011 elimination of California's redevelopment agencies — which contributed $1 billion annually to subsidized projects — as a major contributor to homelessness and the larger affordability crisis.

The state has taken some steps recently to make housing more affordable. Last year lawmakers eased some development restrictions and moved to fund more subsidized units through fees and an upcoming $4-billion bond measure on November's ballot.

In the last two years, Los Angeles County and city voters also agreed to raise their taxes to provide services and build homes for those now on the streets.

But subsidized projects usually need a variety of government funding sources. The federal tax credit is one crucial piece.

Developers dodged a bullet when the final version of the bill left intact a special bond required for many tax credit projects that had been proposed for elimination. But the new law still made the credits less valuable.

Here's how it works: Government agencies award the credits to developers, which then sell them to big banks and other investors in exchange for an equity share in their projects. The investors pay not only for the direct credit but also for the right to deduct depreciation and certain expenses as owners.

But with a lower federal tax rate, those owners now can't write off as much and thus they aren't willing to pay developers as much in order to keep rents low.

A reduction in credit value is a big hit because nearly all below-market rental properties use the program, which pays for about 20% to 70% of development costs, said Peter Lawrence, a director at Novogradac & Co., a national accounting and consulting firm. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tax-law-affordable-housing-20180309-story.html[3/9/2018 7:43:05 AM] Affordable housing projects are threatened as tax cuts undermine a source of funding

To make up the difference, developers must scale back their projects, find savings elsewhere or ask for more funds from other government sources, likely reducing the number of units the new local investments can create.

In all, Novogradac estimates 235,000 fewer affordable homes will be built nationwide over the next 10 years because of the new tax law. Matt Schwartz of the California Housing Partnership pegged the loss for California at as many as 75,000 units.

"There is no way you are going to get any serious dent in the affordable rental housing challenges in the state without the low- income housing tax credit," Lawrence said.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tax-law-affordable-housing-20180309-story.html[3/9/2018 7:43:05 AM] Affordable housing projects are threatened as tax cuts undermine a source of funding

A rendering of Pacific Cos.' proposed Santa Ana housing development for low-income families (Architects Orange)

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For many affordable housing developers, budget shortfalls started right after the 2016 election. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tax-law-affordable-housing-20180309-story.html[3/9/2018 7:43:05 AM] Affordable housing projects are threatened as tax cuts undermine a source of funding

That's when investors started paying less. They assumed soon-to-be-President Trump would sign into law corporate tax cuts approved by a Republican Congress.

Mark Stivers, executive director of the California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, said the average price for a tax credit in 2017 dropped 11% from a year earlier.

Compared with 2016, nearly 11,000 fewer low-income units were financed through the federal credit last year, according to a California Housing Partnership analysis of state data.

Experts such as Stivers predict values will drop again this year, because for much of 2017 investors expected a 25% corporate tax rate, rather than the 21% level that became law.

"California and L.A. have come together to say we want to do something about this," said Alan Greenlee, executive director of the Southern California Assn. of Non-Profit Housing. "Just as that happens, the federal government comes and pulls the rug out from under us."

The tax credit program has typically enjoyed bipartisan support. And two senators, Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), introduced a bill last March that would expand the federal program, with the hope of boosting housing production beyond any deficit created from tax cuts.

Cantwell, in an interview, acknowledged it's been an "uphill battle" to get the bill passed so far. In part that's because it's a challenge to convince more of her colleagues that housing affordability is a national crisis "we can do something about."

"We have to step up," she said.

Cantwell's office said she and Hatch were working to attach the expansion to any bill moving through the Senate.

Lawrence, of the affordable housing consulting group, said it is "quite possible" that such a bill would be a government- funding bill Congress must pass before March 23 to avoid another shutdown.

In the meantime, Roope of Pacific Cos. and his development partner AMG and Associates are trying to figure out where they can find the funds to fill a $15-million budget gap for their senior and family developments along 1st Street.

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According to Apple Valley Unif ed School District Administrative Secretary of Risk Management Kilee Caudell, the report came in at approximately 7:50 a.m. of a man with a gun near Phoenix Academy, 20700 Thunderbird Road.

AVUSD police and San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department deputies contacted the man and “it was determined the suspect had a BB gun,” district off cials said.

“The school was placed on a brief lockdown,” Caudell said. “Once it was deemed that everything was safe and law enforcement had cleared the situation, the lockdown was lifted.”

No injuries were reported and no further information on the suspect was immediately available.

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Goodson, 34, did not know Evans, who was a drifter and had entered the house through an unlocked door, according to Jodi Miller, a Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman.

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During the investigation in 2000, Evans was identified as a person of interest and spoke to detectives. But by the end of that year, the investigation was exhausted and remained unsolved.

Last year, the case was reinvestigated by the Sheriff’s Department Cold Case Team, which included detectives, investigators and prosecutors. Evans was interviewed May 31 in Everett, Washington and by the end of the interview was under arrest on suspicion of killing Goodson.

Evans was booked into the Snohomish County Jail on suspicion of murder and was held in lieu of $1,000,000 bail. He was later extradited to San Bernardino County and is being held at West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga. The trial started Feb. 5.

The county’s Cold Case Team is comprised of detective Ed DeLaTorre, detective Adam Salsberry, investigator Gerrit Tesselaar, district attorney investigator Steve Shumway and deputy district attorneys Lisa Crane and Denise Yoakum.

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Ray Macias was last seen in the 900 block of Fairway Drive in Colton, but it wasn’t clear where or exactly when he was found just that he was back with his family.

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Riverside County’s recoveries included $500,000 to the district attorney’s office, as a civil penalty. The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office recovered $450,900 in that category, and the Orange County District Attorney’s office, $5,000.

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False stories travel way faster than the truth Starting Friday, the Trump Administration is opening more than a March 8, 2018 million acres of desert lands in Southern California to possible new mining claims. The lands had formerly been set aside for conservation, and the move comes as the economy of the rural POPULAR NOW ON KPCC West is becoming less dependent on extracting natural resources Why Trump's steel tariffs could and more on tourism. have an outsize impact on California March 8, 2018 Most of the federal lands affected are in San Bernardino and Riverside counties, and some directly border Joshua Tree National Park, an increasingly important economic driver for surrounding communities. California stopped being a middle class paradise — and lost a million residents on the way “It’s crazy the timing,” said Breanne Dusastre, director of marketing at the 29 March 8, 2018 Palms Inn, just outside the park. “We in these little rural communities have built up these powerful economies, and yet there seems to be proposals for actions Trump administration escalates to be taken that would harm that.” California immigration feud March 7, 2018

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Like many national parks, Joshua Tree had its busiest year ever in 2017. More than 2.8 million people wandered the boulder strewn trails, taking selfies in front of Joshua Trees, cholla and other desert plants. Visitorship is more than double what it was five years ago.

And when they weren’t hiking, the National Park Service says visitors spent more than $120 million annually on lodging and food in nearby communities like Twentynine Palms and Yucca Valley. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, the number of tourism-related jobs in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties grew by 70 percent between 1998 and 2015.

Meanwhile, mining’s importance to the regional economy shrank. In that same time period, the number of mining jobs in the two counties decreased by 14 percent.

And it’s not only in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. Nationally, the Commerce Department reports the outdoor recreation industry was valued at $373 billion in 2016. Mining was nearly four times smaller: $99 billion.

These numbers make Ray Rasker, who heads the non-partisan, Montana-based research group Headwaters Economics, question the logic behind the Trump

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Administration’s decision to allow mining on once-protected public lands near a national park.

“Finding a community or a county in the West that is heavily reliant on natural resource development is a rare thing,” he said. “So why would you devise policy based on the exception to the rule and ignore where most of the economy is headed?”

The Mitsubishi Cement Corporation mines limestone to make cement in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains. The mine employs 150 people, a quarter of which live in the town of Lucerne Valley. EMILY GUERIN/KPCC

Bureau of Land Management staff say they are following the president’s executive orders to unencumber energy production on federal lands and ensure a domestic supply of critical minerals. They also aren’t expecting that many new mining claims.

In 2016, the Obama Administration banned new mining claims on 1.3 million acres of National Conservation Lands in the California desert, considered the among most pristine of all BLM lands. But Jerry Perez, the BLM State Director for California, said after subsequent analysis, there wasn't much interest in mining on the conservation lands. Just 19,500 acres are suitable for mining. So instead of banning it outright on all 1.3 million acres, BLM is going to take applications on a case-by-case basis, he said.

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Chuck Bell, head of the Lucerne Valley Economic Development Association, supports opening the land to mining claims. He said it's a matter of national security.

“We as a nation have to be able to produce our basic stuff here just in case,” he said.

In Lucerne Valley, the economy is still visibly connected to mining. Ten miles outside of town, the Mitsubishi Cement Corporation carves limestone out of a large open pit mine and heats it with aluminum and iron ore, creating fine cement powder. The mine employs 150 people, pays $1.2 million in property taxes to the county, and gives scholarships to local kids.

“That mining is critical,” Bell said. “We would be nothing without them. Absolutely nothing.”

A "Make Mining Great Again" bumper sticker is visible on a pick-up truck outside a public meeting in Joshua Tree, California, on March 1, 2018, regarding a proposal to allow more mining and solar development in the desert. EMILY GUERIN/KPCC

But there just aren’t that many places like Lucerne Valley left in rural Southern California. The Trump Administration’s decision to allow new mining claims on conservation lands could be seen as a way to turn back the clock. This sentiment is visible on bumper stickers that say “Make Mining Great Again.”

You can see them on pick-up trucks around the town of Joshua Tree, at a time when its coffee shops and yoga studios increasingly cater to tourists.

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POPULAR NOW ON KPCC President Donald Trump may be trying to save jobs in the Rust Belt with his 25 percent tariff on imported steel. But his actions could have an outsized impact in Why Trump's steel tariffs could California. have an outsize impact on California March 8, 2018 The state does have about 5,500 steel workers, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data from 2016. But UC Davis economist Katheryn Russ estimates California stopped being a middle that California has many more workers — over 100,000 — turning steel into class paradise — and lost a products like hardware and car parts. million residents on the way March 8, 2018 "Steel as an input affects the cost of production in a lot of different industries," Russ said. Trump administration escalates California immigration feud She notes that President George W. Bush implemented tariffs on certain steel March 7, 2018 products in the early 2000s, and the outcome was not good for jobs.

The effects are difficult to quantify. But Russ points to estimates that as many as 10,000 steel jobs were saved by President Bush's tariffs — while anywhere from 26,000 to 200,000 jobs were lost in steel-using industries.

And saving jobs in the steel industry has only become more difficult, Russ said, due to technological advancements that mean employers now need fewer workers to produce the same amount of steel.

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UCLA economist Edward Leamer said Trump's protectionist actions — through previously announced tariffs on imports of solar panels, washing machines and now steel and aluminum — could end up threatening more domestic jobs than they're intended to save.

"The reality is, in the areas of coal and steel, he's not going to be creating enough jobs to make a difference," said Leamer.

Los Angeles-based Hannibal Industries relies on domestic and imported steel. Executive vice president Steve Rogers says it's too soon to tell how his company would fare under Trump's tariffs, but he's concerned about rising costs and supply issues.

"There is not enough domestic steel-making capacity to fulfill steel demand in the United States," Rogers said.

Hannibal has more than 300 workers at its facility in Vernon, just outside of downtown Los Angeles. They take steel and fashion it into racks and tubes used for shelving units in warehouses. Rogers worries that tariffs could end up giving an advantage to foreign companies making the same products.

"We do compete with foreign finished goods, which we already have a hard time competing with just on a cost basis," he said.

About 25 percent of imported steel comes into the U.S. through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

Last year, a steel mill in Fontana — California Steel Industries — expressed concern about tariffs, saying Western states rely on imports. In a letter to the U.S. Department of Commerce, President and CEO Marcelo Botelho Rodrigues wrote that if tariffs were imposed, "the result could be the loss of thousands of U.S. jobs."

The nations exporting the most steel to the U.S. include Canada, Brazil and South Korea. Countries could respond to Trump's tariffs with trade restrictions of their own. A European Union official said on Friday that Europe is prepared to retaliate by slapping import duties on U.S. products, including jeans made by San Francisco-based Levi’s.

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The county animal shelter’s new $35 million home will see staff and animals spirited away from their run

Sondra Berg, spokeswoman for OC Animal Care, said the age of the group’s original home in Orange, est

1 of 7 The new $35 million OC Animal Care facility in Tustin will include housing for exotic animals, inside kennels with heated floors and air conditioning, an outside pla

“We’ve been in maintenance mode for probably the last 20 years, just putting Band-Aids on things to try

That’s all looking to flip on its head when the team moves in to its new base.

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The new campus, 1630 Victory Road, Tustin, is significantly larger than OC Animal Care’s former offices

There are now separate areas for animal drop-offs, adoptions, reception, treatment and even grieving. Ca

Until now, the group’s only option for surgery was in a converted office space, but now staff can work wit

At the old site, all of the dog kennels were kept outside. Now, every cage and kennel is in a sound-proof, a

Cats at the new shelter will stay in mid-sized “cat condos” with an upper shelf and tunnels leading to a se

There are plenty of chances for play as well. Cats can claw their troubles away by climbing on a number o

Whether visitors are dropping off a wounded animal or looking to adopt a pet, the process should be muc

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Despite the new digs, a lot will be staying the same for OC Animal Care. All the animals will start moving

The old Orange facility will completely shut down on the 19th – it is still undecided what will become of t

The shelter group will continue operating the same programs, which include kitten bottle-feeding, a trap

A big factor of the move is the chance to get a fresh start and show people what OC Animal Care can do w

“It really does provide us with so many opportunities to let people know who we really are,” she said. “W

Berg also said this is a chance to move beyond a stigma that hovered over OC Animal Care at its old hom

With space limitations now cast off, Berg said she hopes that will soon change.

“What is the best set of circumstances we can give these animals while they’re here in our care? We didn’

“Now you’re going to see us shine. You’re going to see what we’re really all about. We really are all about

OC Animal Care’s Tustin headquarters will have a grand opening for the public on March 24. No adoptio

By the numbers

10-acre property

30,000-square-foot main building

6 stand-alone kennel buildings covering an additional 16,000 square feet

$35 million cost

14 contract cities

Cities served

Anaheim

Brea

Cypress

Fountain Valley

Fullerton

Villa Park

Huntington Beach

Tustin

Lake Forest

Orange

Placentia

Yorba Linda

San Juan Capistrano

Santa Ana (Shelter Services Only)

County’s unincorporated areas

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