For more than a quarter century, the Los Angeles Almanac has relied upon the work of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Weather Service for our weather data pages. We are opposed to moves by the current administration in Washington, D.C., to cripple the scientific and public service work at these government agencies by firing vital workers. In addition to a dangerous disservice to the public, these actions threaten our efforts to provide free and accurate weather/climate data for Los Angeles County.
The combined revenue of the seven largest publicly-owned companies, headquartered in Los Angeles County, is $193 billion. They employ more than 278,000 people worldwide.
Photo from the L.A. Times Photographic Collection at UCLA Library.
1968. Group portrait of seventeen U.S. Air Force women enlistees and recruiters in Los Angeles. At the time, America was embroiled in the Vietnam War. Thousands of Angelenos - men and women - ended up fighting there and more than 1,800 died in the conflict. About 11,000 women, from all over the United States, served in uniform in Vietnam, 90 percent being nurses. Eight of these ended being killed in the war - all nurses. Another 59 civilian American women were also killed there.
America's first female law enforcement helicopter pilot patrolled the sky above Los Angeles County.
