Julia Wick

4 days ago | latimes.com | David Zahniser |Julia Wick

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass poses for a picture Saturday with Shyne Griggs, 3, at an event by the 1Pali organization at Clover Park in Santa Monica to mark 100 days since the Palisades fire. For Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, the list of problems keeps piling up. She began the year facing a barrage of criticism over the city’s handling of the Palisades fire — her initial absence, her removal of an outspoken fire chief, the unpredictable doings of her recovery czar.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Julia Wick |David Zahniser

Good morning, and welcome to L.A. on the Record — our City Hall newsletter. It’s Julia Wick and David Zahniser, giving you the latest on city and county government. As virtually every Angeleno now knows, Mayor Karen Bass was on a diplomatic trip to Ghana when the Palisades fire exploded.

1 week ago | gazettextra.com | Julia Wick

LOS ANGELES - In his last week as L.A.'s fire recovery czar, Steve Soboroff said he was shut out of high-level planning almost from the start, raising questions about why Mayor Karen Bass chose him and whether rebuilding from the Palisades fire is on track. The idiosyncratic longtime civic leader, who has a penchant for speaking his mind and little patience for stuffed-shirt protocol, was hired for a three-month term at a salary of $500,000, to be funded by nonprofits.

1 week ago | thederrick.com | Julia Wick

LOS ANGELES — In his last week as L.A.'s fire recovery czar, Steve Soboroff said he was shut out of high-level planning almost from the start, raising questions about why Mayor Karen Bass chose him and whether rebuilding from the Palisades fire is on track. The idiosyncratic longtime civic leader, who has a penchant for speaking his mind and little patience for stuffed-shirt protocol, was hired for a three-month term at a salary of $500,000, to be funded by nonprofits.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Julia Wick

In his last week as L.A.’s fire recovery czar, Steve Soboroff said he was shut out of high-level planning almost from the start, raising questions about why Mayor Karen Bass chose him and whether rebuilding from the Palisades fire is on track. The idiosyncratic longtime civic leader, who has a penchant for speaking his mind and little patience for stuffed-shirt protocol, was hired for a three-month term at a salary of $500,000, to be funded by nonprofits.