For some of us the Olympics are JUST BEGINNING and I started a newsletter to track LA's games-related decisions for 2028 and beyond — you can sign up at torched.la🔥 Here are some of the stories I've reported so far and what I'll be watching for the next four years

Thousands are housed as L.A. County makes progress on Skid Row latimes.com/california/sto…

What a journey!

Can L.A. actually pull off a car-free (or even a car-lite) Olympics in 2028? And what changes in the works will stick? I spoke with ACT-LA director Laura Raymond, Alissa Walker and Metro Los Angeles' chief innovation officer for perspective. 👇 latimes.com/california/new…

'“We need to make sure [the Olympics] is benefiting Los Angeles and not the other way around,” Laura Raymond said.' Read today's great installment of the Essential California newsletter, 'How the 2028 Olympics could actually break L.A.’s car dependency' latimes.com/california/new…

Over 400,000 students in L.A. have enrolled in Metro's unlimited free ride program latimes.com/california/sto…

Never have I been prouder to have been a past (9 year) UAW member and former shop steward. The best leadership out there!

The existential threat to affordable housing. nytimes.com/2024/08/25/bus… via @NYTimes

In a televised address, President of Honduras Xiomara Castro de Zelaya warns, "the same dark, internal and external forces of 2009, with the complicity of the national and international corporate media, are reorganizing in our country to stage a new coup."

The Mansion Tax is supporting the development of social housing: permanently affordable at all income levels and run by the residents who live there. Read Paloma Esquivel in today's Los Angeles Times: latimes.com/california/sto…

Will authorities be going door to door? Trump: Yeah.

Increasing domestic gas production to historic levels is not a climate flex 😬

Incredible photo of the #BridgeFire in the mountains behind downtown Los Angeles.

Haitian families in Ohio under attack as racist claims spread    - The Haitian Times haitiantimes.com/2024/09/11/hai…

Disturbing. Humans have not done right by our oldest and most loyal friends. PSA- If you want a great dog I highly recommend adopting from Pups without Borders in Van Nuys. They are amazing people and have pups of all ages and sizes that are looking for homes. I want them all.

A key Trump White House adviser said the operation would be “greater than any national infrastructure project we've done to date” as a country. huffpost.com/entry/trump-de…