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A Soaring Arts Scene in Los Angeles Confronts a Changing Landscape Its cultural institutions, buffeted by the pandemic, will have to recover without the help of Eli Broad, the transformational benefactor who died last month. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is a construction site these days, but it is hardly the only cultural organization in transition as the region tries to recover from the pandemic.Credit...Alex Welsh for The New York Times May 12, 2021 LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Cou...

Print Emperor Napoleon III directed his prefect of the department of Seine, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, to remake Paris. Between 1853 and 1870, the emperor’s bureaucrat drove iconic boulevards through warrens of medieval lanes and byways. Paris was made into our image of it: Belle Époque nostalgia. Robert Moses, equally imperiously between 1924 and 1966, punched multilane highways through New York’s Black and brown neighborhoods and into the suburban countryside. Moses helped to cement an i...

When Eli Broad died recently, Los Angeles lost a civic leader and California lost a passionate advocate for charter schools, columnist Dan Walters says.

The Learning Curve: Eli Broad’s Complicated Ed Reform Legacy Boosters of traditional public education have long sought to paint billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad as a caricature giddily selling off the public trust to line his own pockets. But the true legacy of Broad ­and most so-called “reformers” is much more complicated. Eli Broad, pictured in 2014 / Image via Shutterstock The meaning of Eli Broad, billionaire education philanthropist, crystallized on the left many years ago: Broa...

Eli Broad’s medical research legacy will ‘touch almost the whole world’ By Bryan Marquard and Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff,Updated May 7, 2021, 7:34 a.m. Email to a Friend Eli Broad and his wife, Edythe Broad, in 2015.Chris Pizzello/Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP Among scientists around the world, Eli Broad’s name will forever be tied to the role the institute he founded played in helping the region emerge from the global pandemic, and the foundation it provided for researchers...

Sonal Shah Tapped to Lead the Asian American Foundation TAAF Sonal Shah was President Obama’s first director of the White House’s Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation. The Asian American Foundation Sonal Shah, a professor and founding executive director of the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation at Georgetown University, has been named president of this new foundation. Shah was President Obama’s first director of the White House’s Office of Social Innova...

Collar Flap Incident at the Ethics Commission Details THE CITY-The Board of Supervisors gave Sheriff Alex Villanueva three minutes to speak at Tuesdays board meeting. He rambled on about how unfair the Board was being to his deputies who the board was alleging had engaged in horrible conduct toward family members of victims who had lost loved ones following encounters with the department.  I registered to provide a comment but once again the board announced it would...

Builder and Breaker Eli Broad put his stamp on Los Angeles culture—and his foot down on its public schools. A version of this article first ran in the Los Angeles Times. In Los Angeles as everyplace else, the rich, for better and worse, we shall always have with us. The obituary tributes to Eli Broad have rightly noted the singularity of his achievements, most notably, making the city an epicenter not just of creating contemporary arts, but of exhibiting them as well, and most, in a sense,...

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Thursday, May 6. I’m Shelby Grad. The warehouse and trucking industries are booming, but they are also a huge cause of air pollution. Southern California air quality officials are now set to vote on rules that for the first time would hold warehouses in the nation’s smoggiest region accountable for pollution from the diesel trucks they attract. (Los Angeles Times) A big problem: The Times’ Tony Barboza notes this is a big problem. Cars and cargo-handling equipment associated with warehous...