Revealed: These rural California airports need critical repairs. Los Angeles stands in their way

'We have a landlord that is stonewalling us,' one former Inyo county official says of LA, which has long owned large swaths of the Owens valleyThis article is reported by AfroLA and co-published by AfroLA, Guardian US and Inyo county's the Sheet. It's the second of several stories examining the impact of Los Angeles's extensive landownership in the Owens valley. You can read the first one here.Two rural California airports that are crucial to local air ambulance services, firefighting efforts and search and rescue operations are unable to perform critical repairs, blocked by an agency 300 miles away: the city of Los Angeles. Continue reading...