FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Hosts First-Ever White House Summit for Sustainable and Healthy Schools

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• Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass safe after suspect breaks into official residence, police say
• UCLA transit pass programs improved accessibility and reduced emissions in 2023
• Dinner
• Social Security isn’t keeping up with inflation. That could weaken Biden’s support among some seniors
• A look at the White House state dinner for Japan's prime minister in photos

We are thrilled to announce the debut of Summit House OFF MENU Supper Club, a weekly family-style dinner event. On select Sunday evenings, Chef AJ will create a unique three-course meal inspired by great chefs and world-class restaurants from around the globe. As always, his choices will reflect the freshest seasonal ingredients and each week’s menu will be entirely unique. Waggoner, a native Angeleno with a longtime connection to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, said she was heartened by the mayor’s intense focus on homelessness given the magnitude of the problem in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass safe after suspect breaks into official residence, police say

It will also fortify a commitment to improve essential infrastructure, advance health equity and increase opportunities for communities to thrive. In a significant stride towards ensuring essential water and sanitation infrastructure throughout Indian Country, the U.S. This collaboration further supports President Biden’s Executive Order which directs federal agencies to work together to remove barriers and streamline Tribal access to resources. But the pandemic, over-building and a move by consumers toward discount and online shopping changed all that. As anchor department stores left malls, so did some name-brand chains like Ruby Tuesday, Chili’s, Applebee’s and others.

UCLA transit pass programs improved accessibility and reduced emissions in 2023

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More progressive cocktail iterations include the “Mule of the Moment” and the clarified piña punch—a riff on a tropical colada—made with plantation pineapple rum, velvet falernum coconut water, lime clarified milk and simple syrup. “The whole design idea was to pretend that Summit House had been here forever but it’s just been restored,” Baker said. The flag, Baker came to find out, was commissioned the very same year the building in which Summit House currently resides was built. So now we’re a New American restaurant with an old American flag [laughs].” Baker and his team even went as far as to craft the wainscoting from 200-year-old barn wood in order to preserve the building’s rustic integrity and give diners a sense of nostalgia.

Dinner

In fact, they’ve enlisted a staff member to helm the daily bread program and maintain the 25-year-old sourdough starter. They’re also grinding their own spelt flour sourced up the road from Castle Valley Mill in Pennsylvania. “We’re not trying to be avant-garde; we’re trying to work within a certain philosophy,” Baker explained to me over dinner. Impeccable service and high-quality cuisine are first to come to mind, but other, more modern-day elements to consider are things like design, layout, lighting and artwork.

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President Biden and Vice President Harris believe that every person should have access to clean drinking water and a healthy environment. Since Day One, the Biden-Harris Administration has worked to secure clean water for all, protect our vital freshwater resources, and ensure every community can count on water free of pollutants when they turn on the faucet. The Administration also recognizes that wetlands and other freshwater resources are critical in our fight against climate change. Throughout Earth Week, the Biden-Harris Administration will announce additional actions to build a stronger, healthier future for all. On Monday, President Biden announced the launch of ClimateCorps.gov as well as $7 billion in awards through EPA’s Solar for All program. Our nation’s lakes, rivers, streams, estuaries, and wetlands are fundamental to the health, prosperity, and resilience of our communities and are held sacred by many Tribal Nations.

Strong restaurants and entertainment options draw steady food traffic and can increase the amount of time a consumer spends in the mall, making them valuable to landlords and other mall tenants. Landlords are counting on emerging restaurant brands like Lazy Dog, Gen Korean BBQ and Postino Wine Café to draw customers back to malls. So-called “eatertainment” concepts such as Puttshack and Topgolf, which can extend the amount of time people spend in a mall, are expanding. One fast-growing chain targeted to families, Kura Revolving Sushi Bar, delivers plates to diners on conveyor belts as rolling robots serve drinks.

Yes, ingredients and technique are of the utmost importance, though the overarching mission is exceptional hospitality. Some general conclusions reference the Summit Lodge; others believe it’s the town’s positioning which rests atop the Watchung Mountains. Then there’s the founder, Jonathan Crane Bonnell, who gave the Morris and Essex Railroad line access to a route that runs through the “summit” of Short Hills. Please check back regularly for exciting changes, seasonal features and exclusive offerings. Nepal is home to eight of the tallest mountain peaks in the world and has several rivers flowing down from them, bringing huge hydropower potential. Another resident, a woman, was displaced by the fire and told officials that she would seek her own accommodations.

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Since Bass took office, Waggoner said she has noticed visible change in the unhoused population. Conference of Mayors, which gives elected officials the opportunity to learn from each other and share what’s being done in their cities. Just two days before the Luskin summit, Bass had announced a new housing initiative based on a program in Atlanta. Nepali officials are also hoping to attract more investment in the tourism sector in the Himalayan nation, where the industry is struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Authorities are investigating the cause of a house fire that claimed the life of a man Sunday in the Florence neighborhood of Los Angeles, officials announced. “Traditional mall restaurants were casual dining chains like Chili’s, TGI Fridays, and quick-service restaurants in food courts.

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Although critically important to both people and nature, our freshwater resources are at increased risk. Supreme Court’s Sackett decision last year, which dramatically reduced federal protections for wetlands in one of the largest judicial rollbacks of environmental protections in U.S. history. Despite this, Congressional Republicans are continuing a decades-long effort to undermine Clean Water Act safeguards. During a White House event on expanding access to care and other supportive services workers need to train for and stay in good-paying jobs, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Commerce Department will co-host a first-of-its-kind National Child Care Innovation Summit later this year. This historic partnership between IHS and BOR will support strategic collaboration to accelerate completion of Tribal facilities and more effectively promote awareness and access to resources available to Tribes.

Today, the building in which the restaurant is located shines a bit brighter than its storied past as the city’s first YMCA, thanks to owners, friends and Summit residents Dylan and Melissa Baker and Tyler and Sara Reeder. Bass, the featured speaker, declared homelessness a state of emergency on her first day as mayor in December 2022. She told the hundreds of people in attendance at the April 17 event at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center that her office is now turning more attention to longer-term solutions, after initially emphasizing urgency in getting unhoused people off the streets. “A positive identification of the decedent, as well as the specific cause, time and manner of his death, will be determined by the County of Los Angeles Medical Examiner,” officials added. It took 40 firefighters just 14 minutes to get to the scene, access the blaze, confine and fully extinguish flames in one room of a single-story family home, according to a department news release.

Today’s announcement includes $700 million from IHS and $320 million from BOR to accelerate the delivery of drinking water and community sanitation infrastructure projects in Indian Country. In addition, IHS and BOR are announcing the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two agencies to leverage BOR’s engineering capacity to accelerate the delivery of Tribal water projects. Over 100 inaugural members from across the country have already signed on to support freshwater restoration in their communities, including ten states, eight Tribes, and 24 local governments. The event will bring together key public- and private-sector stakeholders to discuss the vital role of child care as economic infrastructure and work towards accessible, affordable, and high-quality child care.

The amount of space dedicated to food in malls has grown from 5% in the 1990s to 15 to 20% today, according to Deloitte. Bass and her family were not harmed when a suspect gained access to Getty House, the LA mayor’s official residence on Irving Boulevard. These allocations align with recommendations from Tribal leaders, prioritizing projects that have progressed through planning phases and can seamlessly transition into the design and construction stages. The commitment to securing adequate funding for planning and design activities remains paramount.

Not only was Summit House built to be structurally sound, but the executive team behind the restaurant is equally as stacked. General Manager Justin Lord comes to the restaurant from Per Se, where he spent his time as a sommelier working alongside Thomas Keller. Behind the bar is Bobby Frascella, former Iron Shaker competitor and manager of Summit House’s wine and beverage program. And in the kitchen is Chef Aya Hasegawa, who recently took the lead from Chef Martin Kester, both of whom came from Ninety Acres. Other speakers at the event included former Los Angeles public official Zev Yaroslavsky, now an adjunct faculty member at the Luskin School, who directs the Los Angeles Initiative and the annual Quality of Life Index. In other panel sessions, summit attendees heard about studies and policy proposals in climate resilience, governance and equity in transportation.

Alongside his now business partners and neighbors, the two couples took on the tumultuous task of restoring a 120-year-old building and laying out the plans for what is now known as the new Summit House. Nepal has said the main objective is to project the country as an emerging destination for private sector investment and to highlight recent reforms in enhancing the investment climate and ensuring regulatory frameworks and support for foreign as well as domestic investment. There’s a new guard in malls,” said Chris Simms, the CEO and founder of Lazy Dog, which has around 50 ski lodge-themed restaurants around the country. Summit House also makes a conscious effort to consider dietary restrictions when creating their menu so those with food allergies or preferences of any sort can feel safe eating just about anything.

As U.S. malls race to reinvent themselves, they’re turning to sushi conveyor belts, craft-beer membership clubs and Korean barbecue to replace burgers and fries. Department of Health and Human Services, provides a comprehensive health service delivery system for approximately 2.8 million American Indians and Alaska Natives who belong to 574 federally recognized Tribes in 37 states. We'll be in touch with the latest information on how President Biden and his administration are working for the American people, as well as ways you can get involved and help our country build back better. The Summit House menu changes with the seasons, and each new dish is built around local ingredients at their peak.