She really didn't need to do this
Over the last two years, we've watched gutless leaders go groveling to the White House with gilded gifts to appease our authoritarian overlord. And now Karen Bass is part of that club
LA28's Impact and Sustainability Plan is a needed and long-overdue start, but omits more than it commits
The Palantir Deep Dive Center will really give the sport a whole new meaning
"LA28’s opaque finances and vague reassurances are not enough to protect the city from fiscal disaster"
Our elected officials keep trying to pretend this presidential administration isn't going to blow up our best-laid megaevent plans
"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"
If these games are still meant to be "transit-first" — why not announce a transit partner, first?
If millions of international visitors do, in fact, come to LA, it will be at their own peril
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
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
Just one question: why didn't LA28 think of itself as a civic organization before?
Less than four years out, the citywide vision we're supposed to be rallying behind has yet to be revealed by LA28. And now LA's recovery has become inextricably bound to the 2028 deadline that we're all haphazardly hurtling towards without a plan