Empty stadiums, travel bans, and ICE raids
"If you want to come to the U.S. games, just know that they may harass you depending where you're from and depending on what you look like"
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Empty stadiums, travel bans, and ICE raids
"If you want to come to the U.S. games, just know that they may harass you depending where you're from and depending on what you look like"
Travel advisory
Sean Duffy's feigned hand-wringing on behalf of one federal department about the inconvenience of rerouting a few buses is simply revolting as another federal department is literally kidnapping people from bus stops
Torched Talks with sports politics scholar Jules Boykoff
It's an emergency Torched Talks! Join us Monday, June 23 at noon on Zoom
The state of play
Last year, I wrote about how LA's ParkScore had dropped from 80th to 88th out of 100 U.S. cities. This year, I'm sorry to say that we sank even lower — LA is now 90th out of 100.
What if the world doesn't come?
If millions of international visitors do, in fact, come to LA, it will be at their own peril
Torched Talks with LA Commons' Karen Mack
What's planned for arts and culture in 2028? Join us at Friday, May 23 at noon on Zoom
Dying to host the Olympics
During this week's budget hearings, councilmembers repeatedly asked if improvements around Olympics venues were taking precedence over obligations to their constituents to deliver safer streets
Heading into year two
LA got burned. By the fires, yes. But also by a self-induced fiscal catastrophe
The transit-first (no, really) games
In the end, LA28 put the events where the public transportation will already be