/PRNewswire/ -- Contracts covering almost 4,000 sanitation workers represented by Teamsters Local 396 across Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino,
A congenial legislator with a professorial air, he won battles through charm, not pugilism, passing laws to protect drinking water, redwood forests and clean air.
The thousands of square miles of mountain watershed around L.A. -- the San Gabriels and the San Bernardinos -- are as steep as roller coasters, and the rain funnels off them in tumults.