molly peterson

Cities along the Los Angeles River face increasing responsibility for preventing bacteria from entering the waterway after regional water regulators passed new standards at a meeting in Glendale on Friday. The rules will apply to all cities whose storm drains empty into the river or its tributaries. The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board passed the standards over the loud objections of the cities. They’re claiming that the added responsibility of eliminating bacteria from water entering the river could

Even famous people who get Emmy nominations for shows I watched (mostly on Alex Axles Cohen’s couch) for years sometimes have problems with the Department of Water and Power.

My brother Mike, who so rarely makes a cameo, was on the evening news – Fox – in the Bay Area. Apparently he read up on dam removals before he attended the public meeting in Palo Alto about the Searsville Dam, and its possible removal. The dam holds back water that trickles into the San Francisquito Creek behind the house we grew up in. As a journalist, it’s fun for me to think about why he might have been chosen.