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California asks court to immediately stop Trump tariffs By Joe Taglieri
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Trade activity at the Port of Los Angeles was 35% less in the first week of May compared with the same time last year, according to port Executive Director Gene Seroka. | Photos courtesy of the governor's office
most to lose from President Trump’s weak and reckless policies." According to the White House, "President Trump refuses to let the United States be taken advantage of and believes that tariffs are necessary to ensure fair trade, protect American workers, and reduce the trade deficit — this is an emergency." Theadministration claims tariffs will incentivize companies to keep jobs in the U.S. A White House fact sheet noted Zekelman Industries — North America's largest independent steel pipe and tube manufacturer — has shut down its
Long Beach plant and laid off 150 workers "because of Mexico's steel dumping." At a press conference in April, Trump said, “For decades, the United States slashed our trade barriers on other countries, while those nations placed massive tariffs on our products and created outrageous nonmonetary barriers to decimate our industries. They manipulated their currencies, subsidized their exports, stole our intellectual property, imposed exorbitant VAT taxes to disadvantage our products, adopted unfair rules and technical See Tariffs Page 04
standards and created filthy pollution havens. This all happened with no response from the United States of America, but those days are over.” Bonta echoed Newsom's assertion that California is set for a large share of economic losses as a result of the tariffs, while noting the need for the court's immediate action. “Last fall, Americans at the voting booth demanded lower prices. Now, Trump’s chaotic tariff war is threatening to skyrocket the cost of living for families, lower wages, slash jobs, and
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Norton Simon Museum enhances exterior grounds as it marks 50th anniversary
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ov. Gavin Newsom and California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a request Monday for a preliminary injunction to immediately stop President Donald Trump’s tariffs. California filed a lawsuit last month seeking a court to nullify the Trump administration's aggressive trade policies. Opponents of the president's global trade agenda expect tariffs to impact trade as well as state revenues and budgets, which are currently in development as the new fiscal year's July 1 start date approaches. The tariffs challenged in California’s lawsuit are projected to cost California consumers at least $25 billion and cause the loss of more than 64,000 jobs, according to the governor's office. The high tariffs are projected to cost California households more than $40 billion. “President Trump has overstepped his authority, and now families, businesses, and our ports are literally paying the price," Newsom said in a statement. "As the largest economy in the nation, California has the
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he façade of Norton Simon Museum is known to millions of television viewers around the world as the backdrop of Pasadena’s annual Rose Parade. With the beautiful San Gabriel Mountains behind it and flowerbedecked floats traveling along Colorado Boulevard on a sunny winter morning, it is an iconic image that once enticed countless people to move to Southern California and still draws several thousand tourists to the city. As the museum celebrates its 50th anniversary, it is undergoing an exterior improvement project to make it more inviting for television viewers and people on the grandstands to come in and discover the treasures found within. During a recent tour of Norton Simon Museum, Leslie Denk, vice president of external affairs, talks about the captivating man behind the institution’s magnificent collection, the history of the museum, and the exterior improvement project.
“Norton Simon was originally from Portland, Oregon,” Denk begins. “When he was in his late teens, he and his family moved to Los Angeles. He started to think about business, and with a small loan he took over Hunt’s Food, which was called something else back then. He was really known for identifying businesses with potential but weren’t financially successful and then turning them around. Some of the businesses in his conglomerate include Avis Car Rental, Canada Dry Corporation, McCalls Publishing and, of course, Hunt’s Food where he really made a name for himself.” While Simon always knew he wanted to become a business man, his first art acquisition was happenstance. Relates Denk, “As the story goes, in the early 1950s he and his first wife were living in Larchmont Village in LA and his wife hired a decorator to revamp their home. The decorator brought in works of art that didn’t speak to him. He had his regular haircuts at the
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