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Chase Scheinbaum

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Chase Scheinbaum is the Agenda editor. His work has been featured in Businessweek, Village Voice, Men's Journal, Nature Medicine and other publications. Formerly, he covered Los Angeles Superior Court for the Daily Journal.

He is a 2012 graduate of Columbia Journalism School, where he focused on magazine writing, investigative journalism and video storytelling. He is the winner of a 2008 Associated Press feature-writing award. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Street cuts, seen here in San Francisco, can often be identified as square or rectangular excavations made by workers to access below city streets
Too often, streets in Los Angeles are newly paved only to be sliced into so that work can be performed under them. That weakens the road's surface and the life of the street is shortened.
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A breakdown of treated human waste in Los Angeles: Where does it go and how is it used?
Derek Herrera, a Marine who is paralyzed from the chest down, uses a robotic exoskeleton to walk. | Photo: Courtesy ReWalk Robotics
For many who have lost the use of their legs, walking again can only be a dream. But for some, a futuristic new technology is beginning to change that.
Voting booth.
A roundup of the statewide and local measures and offices.
Prop P would continue funding projects like Prop A has since the '90s. Descanso Gardens, pictured here, received some of that funding.
In 1992, L.A. County voters approved a tax called Prop A to fund a wide variety of projects for parks and open spaces.
The water level in Lake Oroville, north of Sacramento, seen in 2011 and 2014, shows the severe degree of California's drought. | Photos: Courtesy Paul Hames and Kelly Grow, California Department of Water Resources
Perhaps due to the state's parched condition, legislators in Sacramento finally voted to put an overhaul of the state's water system.
Money
California is $300 billion in debt, a total it owes largely to pension and retiree health benefits.
Under Prop 45, the California Insurance Commissioner, currently Dave Jones, pictured above, would be given veto power over health insurance rate increases.
If you thought Obamacare settled thing when it comes to health insurance, think again.
Vicodin, shown here, is among the prescription drugs that would be under tighter control if Prop 46 passes.
Medical errors, sometimes due to doctors abusing drugs or alcohol are addressed in Prop 46.
Prop 47 would reclassify low-level felonies, possibly reducing California's prison overcrowding problem.
Learn more about Proposition 47.
Proposition 48 would allow one tribe to build and operate a casino 38 miles from its reservation, and allow another tribe, whose land is even farther away, to collect revenue from the casino.
Prop 48 gives voters a chance to strike down or enact a bill lawmakers passed last year.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed nine laws to clean up assisted living facilities in September.
Assisted living homes have come under fire for mistreating residents.
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