Nick Gerda
@nicholasgerda
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Correspondent at NPR station @LAist 89.3 (Southern California Public Radio). Previously: @voiceofoc. Story tips: [email protected]
Southern California
Joined March 2010
Honored to be profiled by @GustavoArellano in his column. He notes this work is what results when "news organizations invest in local journalism, let reporters dig instead of writing clickbait and stand by them in the face of critics real and imagined."
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NEW: LA's homeless services chief previously told us she followed rules that "walled" her off from business involving her husband's employer. LAist later discovered records that contradict her assertion — including a $2.1 million contract she signed.
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RT @jillrep: Former Orange County Sup. Andrew Do has about 10 more days to practice law before the State Bar has ordered his license suspen…
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RT @radiowagner: Collectively, these listings appear to have sought to illegally overcharge tenants by $92.4 million / year. Likely rent g…
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RT @radiowagner: Homes in L.A. were still smoldering when Zillow rents started to spike. Volunteer rent gouging sleuths quickly started tr…
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RT @NWSLosAngeles: ⚠️POWERFUL & DAMAGING SANTA ANA WINDSTORM INCOMING!!⚠️ Take action now to prepare your home and loved ones for another…
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RT @NWSLosAngeles: Damaging #SantaAnaWinds and extreme fire weather is expected Mon through Tue, with winds peaking Mon evening through Tue…
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RT @haileybranson: “Edgar McGregor is an actual American hero…Had I not left when I did my four pets and I would have burned up.” A 24-year…
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RT @latimes: As the LAFD faced extraordinary warnings of life-threatening winds, top commanders decided not to assign for emergency deploym…
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RT @CAL_FIRE: 🚩 Critical Fire Weather Alert 🚩 Southern California is facing critical fire weather through Wednesday. Life-threatening winds…
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RT @NWSLosAngeles: Heads up! Strong, locally damaging, NE/E winds will affect West LA Co. & much of Ventura Co thru Wednesday. Critical fir…
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RT @radiowagner: I asked why the rent had risen so much. The agent said she was getting another call and hung up. The listing was later rem…
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RT @radiowagner: A furnished Bel Air home went on Zillow today for $29,500 / month. A few months ago, it was asking $15,900. I called up t…
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RT @ReadyLA: Recent @ReadyLACounty alert to evacuate was sent in ERROR. Evacuation orders have not changed. See map for actual @LACity evac…
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RT @VCscanner: #KennethFire: LA County appears to have accidentally sent an evacuation warning to the ENTIRE county.
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My incredibly kind and talented LAist colleague Josie Huang and her family have lost their home and all their possessions in the Eaton Fire — including all their necessities and their young kids’ toys. Their friends have organized a GoFundMe to help.
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RT @NWSLosAngeles: HEADS UP!!! A LIFE-THREATENING, DESTRUCTIVE, Widespread Windstorm is expected Tue afternoon-Weds morning across much of…
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RT @VoiceofOC: Stanton officials threw out an ordinance before it went into effect that would have been the strongest campaign finance law…
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Today marks 1 year since Andrew Do called for me to be fired. I had been reporting on his undisclosed family ties to unaccounted-for tax dollars he had quietly awarded. Do ultimately pleaded guilty to a scheme to steal millions of those dollars.
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RT @jillrep: Happening in a few min: closing arguments in what I'm calling the OC jailhouse snitch scandal 2.0
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