LA28
What LA's tourism unions just did
By the time July 2028 rolls around, the people who are ensuring the largest gathering in U.S. history is running smoothly will be making the highest minimum wage in the country
Promises, promises
LA28's Impact and Sustainability Plan is a needed and long-overdue start, but omits more than it commits
The [your brand here] Olympics
The Palantir Deep Dive Center will really give the sport a whole new meaning
The art of the deal
"LA28’s opaque finances and vague reassurances are not enough to protect the city from fiscal disaster"
The elephant in the room
Our elected officials keep trying to pretend this presidential administration isn't going to blow up our best-laid megaevent plans
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"
RIP "car-free" games
If these games are still meant to be "transit-first" — why not announce a transit partner, first?
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
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
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
LA28 wants to become a civic organization now
Just one question: why didn't LA28 think of itself as a civic organization before?