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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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Shade

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"

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Buses

A green bus bench with graffiti reading "due process" on a busy LA street in the Koreatown neighborhood

Travel advisory

Sean Duffy's feigned hand-wringing on behalf of one federal department about the inconvenience of rerouting a few buses is simply revolting as another federal department is literally kidnapping people from bus stops

A rendering of a freeway with two lanes in purple paint that read LA28, the signboard also says LA28 vehicles only

Olympic lanes

Before everyone spins Kathy Hochul's cowardice into a death knell for LA's congestion pricing dreams, it's important to know that there are lots of different ways to do road pricing

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Labor

Parks

A beautiful new blue playground with kids on swings and a mat below with bright pink flowers

The state of play

Last year, I wrote about how LA's ParkScore had dropped from 80th to 88th out of 100 U.S. cities. This year, I'm sorry to say that we sank even lower — LA is now 90th out of 100.

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Events

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Answers to your burning questions

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