Eastside residents await solutions to Exide decades-long health disaster

By Ryan White On a hot, cloudless July morning, Jill Johnston was busy poking around the front yard of 87-year-old Bob Eula with a shockingly expensive hand-held X-ray machine whose beam detects levels of le... Read More...

Herbalife customers keep buying in Boyle Heights unaware of controversy

Editor's Note: On July 15, 2016, the Federal Trade Commission announced that Herbalife must pay $200 million to compensate consumers who believed the company's claims that they could get rich selling its diet a... Read More...

Most homes tested for Exide lead contamination will need cleanup

Almost all of the properties tested for contamination by the Exide battery recycling plant have turned up lead levels that require clean up. KPCC reports that 99 percent of properties tested by both California’... Read More...

Sex education classes are back to schools

By Ariana Palominos Boyle Heights Beat Starting this fall, students in California’s public schools will be required to take a sex education class, something that has been missing in many schools for the l... Read More...

Sunday is the last day to sign up for health insurance before a tax penalty takes effect

Sunday is the last day to avoid health coverage tax penalties. People without health insurance coverage, as mandated by the federal government, could be hit with a heavy tax penalty, EGP News reports. Those cov... Read More...

Exide plant cleanup criticized by state regulators, elected officials

The cleanup around the closed Exide plant in Vernon is going too slow, state regulators, community activists, and local elected officials said Tuesday during a hearing of the State Assembly Committee on Environ... Read More...

Five businesses in BH charged with violating environmental laws

Four out of five Boyle Heights businesses facing charges for illegally disposing of toxic chemicals are clustered in a small industrial zone near homes and restaurants, including a jewelry maker that was convic... Read More...

Thousands in Boyle Heights are still uninsured

For health insurance through Covered California that starts on January 1 2016, residents must sign up by Dec. 15, but thousands of people in Boyle Heights have yet to sign up. State officials say there are an e... Read More...

Residents accuse Governor Brown of ignoring Exide crisis

Eastside residents staged a rally at a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by California Governor Jerry Brown on Wednesday, accusing the state’s top officer of ignoring the environmental crisis caused by the forme... Read More...

Health care options improve for undocumented Californians

Not too long ago, Yolanda Corona only saw her doctor when her thyroid condition worsened. As an undocumented immigrant, the 42-year-old East Los Angeles resident did not qualify for Medi-Cal, the government-spo... Read More...

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