http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/17/us/california-today-rising-rents-jewish-delis.html 2016-10-17 14:34:12 California Today: Bagel by Bagel, Jewish Delis Disappear Monday: Rising rents spell doom for mom-and-pops in Los Angeles, Silicon Valley leaps into the political fray over Donald J. Trump, and the governor pushes prison reform. === Good morning. (Want to get California Today by email? One of Los Angeles’s landmarks quietly shuttered its doors for good on Sunday. The Jewish-style restaurant in Woodland Hills had served pastrami sandwiches and bagels piled with lox and cream cheese in the neighborhood since 1973, originally under the name Solley’s and later, Jerry’s Famous Deli. But even with a stable of longtime patrons, Jerry’s couldn’t keep up with rising rent demands, said Ami Saffron, the company’s executive vice president. “At some point, what am I going to do? Sell a sandwich for $30?” he said. “That’s not going to happen.” Los Angeles’s old-school kosher delis, much like New York City’s, have been succumbing one by one for years, a die-off attributed in part to real estate costs but also changing consumer appetites. At its height, Jerry’s Famous Deli had nearly a dozen locations, Mr. Saffron said. With the loss in Woodland Hills, which was first Aaron Allen, a restaurant consultant, said the delis are part of a wave of mom-and-pop restaurants that have departed from fast-developing urban areas across the country. Filling the void in many cases, he said, are so-called fast casual restaurants like Chipotle that have mastered high-volume sales in tight spaces. Also moving in, however, are He cited So, how has Wexler’s done? It’s so popular that last spring • • One of the valley’s more contentious figures, • An extreme shortage of affordable residences in • Two men were charged with hate crimes in connection with an • A truck plunged off a San Diego bridge and into a park, • In California’s secretive • Anthony Hernandez captures • Newspapers in • Adam Nagourney and Jennifer Medina of The Times held a video chat with Gustavo Arellano, the author of the “Ask a Mexican” column in Orange County Weekly, on the • Fortune’s magazine’s annual • The central coast’s Pismo Beach, famed for its seafood, will hold its • The • By Sunday at the latest, we’ll know whether the Dodgers made the World Series. They are tied with the Cubs One-fifth of America’s homeless We are now planning to look at homeless encampments across California, and the way government is responding to them, in rural and suburban communities in the state. Has homelessness been a problem in your community? Are there places you would suggest we should take a look at? Tells us: For five years now, California has been grappling with a federal court decision that required the state to bring down its prison population, finding that the overcrowded conditions amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. Now voters are once again being asked to approve a measure, The measure was put on the ballot by Gov. Jerry Brown, who argues that it would give prisoners more incentive to rehabilitate while in custody and offer them a second chance. The measure would allow thousands of inmates convicted of “nonviolent” felonies to apply for parole and give prison officials the ability to give those inmates more credit for time spent in rehabilitation and education programs. The opposition comes from the Republican Party and most of the district attorneys in the state. They argue that the measure will increase crime, as other early release measure have done — property crimes and violate crime rates have each increased by about 7 percent. The measure would also require judges, instead of prosecutors, to decide whether juveniles as young as 14 should be tried as adults and sent to prison. — Jennifer Medina, Los Angeles-based correspondent California Today goes live at 6 a.m. Pacific time weekdays. Tell us what you want to see: CAtoday@nytimes.com. The California Today columnist, Mike McPhate, is a third-generation Californian — born outside Sacramento and raised in San Juan Capistrano. He lives in Davis. California Today is edited by Julie Bloom, who grew up in Los Angeles and attended U.C. Berkeley.