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A colorful shade canopy over a grassy Grand Park lawn helps to shade areas not covered by trees

Made in the shade

"We're trying to change the way that we as Angelenos think about our neighborhoods, so that we actually look around and say, where can there be more shade — in the same way that many of us have thought about trees"

A green bus bench with graffiti reading "due process" on a busy LA street in the Koreatown neighborhood

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

A beautiful new blue playground with kids on swings and a mat below with bright pink flowers

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.

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