LA28

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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"

Val Kilmer as Iceman in the iconic beach volleyball scene from Top Gun spinning a volleyball on his finger

Bump, set, spike

Santa Monica mounted a sustained, publicly transparent campaign to challenge what LA28 was offering. And, in the end, that's probably what sent the organizing committee packing for other shores

Councilmember Tim McOsker speaks at an LA City Council meeting holding up a "zero" with his fingers

Significant headwinds

On Friday we saw the first serious challenge of LA28's venue plan, which had gone largely uncontested by LA city leaders. And we saw an LA city councilmember openly accuse LA28 of making backroom deals to create that venue plan

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