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LA mayor attended a cocktail party while the city burned. Hold her accountable. | Opinion
When the covenant between taxpayers and their leaders is broken, as it was this month in Los Angeles, public officials need to be held accountable.
LA Mayor Bass’ political future in turmoil after fire response backlash
Less than two weeks after the start of what has become one of the state’s most destructive natural disasters, Los Angeles ...
L.A. Wildfires: Firefighters Extend Containment Amid Calmer Weather; Additional Evacuation Orders Lifted; LA Mayor Appoints Rebuilding Czar – Update
As the Santa Ana winds quieted over the weekend, there was more good news regarding containment figures for both the Palisades and Eaton blazes. The former fire is 52% contained (up from 43% yesterday ...
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Los Angeles Residents Demand Resignation of Mayor Bass
Failure** has become the watchword for Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, as residents express their outrage over her lack of leadership during recent devastating wildfires. Protests erupted outside the ...
The end of Karen Bass and the rise of Rick Caruso?
At this point, it remains to be seen just how vulnerable Bass is due to her perceived failure to prepare and then respond to ...
The Los Angeles fires expose a web of governments, weak by design
The question of who is in charge is testimony to the diffusion and, at times, dysfunction that make up the core DNA of the ...
A key ‘weakness’ in L.A.’s wildfire strategy went unaddressed for years, Post probe shows
In a memo that has not been previously reported, chief told city fire commissioners that L.A. relied almost entirely on ...
The L.A. Fires Expose a Web of Governments, Weak by Design
One of the two major fires that devastated this region — the Eaton fire — is not even in the city of Los Angeles; it is in an ...
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Responsibility crisis: How California leadership failed families with LA fires
How did California leadership fail families so egregiously? They traded the time-tested value of responsibility for empty trends of “diversity, equity and inclusion." ...