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A formerly homeless artist made a gift to Los Angeles. What happened next was a surprise Doug Smith © Provided by The LA Times Artist Terrance Whitten's work was commissioned to adorn a power box on Vermont Street in Los Feliz. The vinyl wrap has been torn off on all but one side, revealing a graffiti-laden box. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) The trip from his new apartment in Glassell Park to his post office box in Hollywood may have been mostly tedium. But on this day, Terrance Whitten looked forward to one glorious moment. As the Metro 780 bus climbed away from t...

In early February, the L.A. City Department of Transportation (LADOT) quietly released its 2021-2023 Strategic Plan Update. It’s a glossy document full of high-production-value photos and high-minded goals. But the plan sets frustratingly weak commitments to improving L.A.’s deadly streets. The plan is emblematic of LADOT’s decline under Mayor Eric Garcetti and LADOT General Manager Seleta Reynolds. Garcetti fancies himself a climate champion. Reynolds was recruited to LADOT as an advocate for pedestrians and safe streets. But this new Strategic Plan sets the sights set so low it might ...

Nury Martinez, Unwilling to Lead, Declares More Recess Details THE GUSS REPORT-LA City Council President Nury Martinez just did what she does best: send the nation's highest-salaried local lawmakers to another unscheduled, paid recess despite multiple ongoing deadly crises.  Who didn't see that coming?  On March 2, 2020, exactly one year ago, this column reported on colorful criticism by City Hall's tenacious gadfly set leveling Martinez for embracing only the ceremonial part of her ascent to the City Council presidency, but not the nuts and bolts of leadership:...

@ THE GUSS REPORT-Not all Los Angeles government corruption takes the form of envelopes of cash in casino bathrooms, thousands spent on dinners and bottle service and a "therapeutic massage" up in the comped suite facing the Vegas Strip. Like LA itself, there is a little something for every conniving politician. Borrowing from Peter to Pay LAPD Remember Mayor Eric Garcetti and LA City Council gleefully thumping their chests about defunding the LAPD? After all of the hullaballoo, the hundreds of millions they promised to move from law enforcement to inner-city programs mostly never materializ...

BACKYARD of Brookside home shows bridges over stream in March 2018. Brookside’s stream, El Rio del Jardin de las Flores, has had some highs and lows over the last few years, both in the amount of water moving through the streambed, and in the ongoing research to preserve the stream. Last September, Brookside resident Nancy Levine reached out to the Larchmont Chronicle with an update, letting us know that while the stream seems to have a normal flow where it “daylights,” just south of Wilshire Boulevard, that the flow was weak between 8th and 9th Streets, and dry where it flows south of...