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Julia Wick
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NEW: A permit has been filed with the city to rebuild the Lineage cold storage warehouse in Boyle Heights. lamaterial.com/p/permit-lin...
Permit Filed to Rebuild Lineage’s Boyle Heights WarehouseThe application was submitted six weeks after the fire, as residents continue to endure foul odors, vermin and disruption from rotting food at the site.lamaterial.comAnother great @matt-hamilton87.bsky.social scoop!! lamaterial.com/p/gascon-da-...
The Gascón Era Is Proving CostlyL.A. County has greenlit paying nearly $14 million for retaliation claims and other suits against Gascón and his team. That sum is expected to rise as more cases are settled.lamaterial.comNEW: As Boyle Heights warehouse fire burned, then-Bass advisor Yusef Robb remained in the mayor's press office's internal WhatsApp groups even after he started doing crisis PR for Lineage. lamaterial.com/p/bass-yusef...
Bass Advisor Remained in Private Mayor's Office Chats While Doing P.R. for LineageYusef Robb remained in the mayor’s internal communications channels for a week after beginning crisis PR work for the company that manages the Boyle Heights warehouse.lamaterial.com85 million lbs of rotten food need to be disposed after the Lineage fire. Here’s our quest to figure out where the food waste from the warehouse disaster is ACTUALLY going. lamaterial.com/p/lineage-fi...
How to Get Rid of 85 Million Pounds of Rotting FoodOur quest to figure out where the food waste from the Lineage warehouse disaster is going.lamaterial.comNEW: Yusef Robb, a top advisor to Mayor Karen Bass, has been doing crisis PR for Lineage, the operator of the Boyle Heights warehouse that burned last month. lamaterial.com/p/bass-advis...
One of Mayor Bass’ Top Advisors Is Helping Lineage Do Crisis P.R.Yusef Robb, a close but informal advisor to the mayor, has been doing communications consulting work for the operator of the Boyle Heights warehouse that burned last month.lamaterial.comWhere do local civic leaders dine off the clock, change their oil and groom their pets? What local businesses do they love — and which have they gone scorched earth on? @tomokichien.bsky.social found their Yelp reviews and built an interactive map lamaterial.com/p/la-politic...
We Found L.A. Politicians’ Yelp ReviewsThen built an interactive map of the 100+ ratings.lamaterial.comA fascinating profile of CA GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton's wife Rachel Whetstone — a Silicon Valley PR superstar who hasn’t been to a campaign event. sfstandard.com/2026/07/06/r... @sfstandard.com
The hack and the flack: How Steve Hilton’s wife, Rachel Whetstone, conquered CaliforniaAs comms chief for Google, Facebook, Uber, and Netflix, she helped write Silicon Valley’s political playbook. Does she want to help her husband rule the state?sfstandard.comGrateful for all the passionate Dodgers parents who gave me their best tips & extremely detailed advice for this guide. Here’s how to pick shaded seats, avoid parking lot gridlock, find playgrounds & make the most of Dodger Stadium’s kid-friendly perks: lamaterial.com/p/dodgers-ga...
Dodger Stadium With Kids: A Parent’s Guide to Shade, Food and PlaygroundsPlanning a Dodgers game with kids? Here’s how to pick shaded seats, avoid parking gridlock, find playgrounds and make the most of Dodger Stadium’s kid-friendly perks.lamaterial.comTwo somewhat contradictory facts: 1) All fireworks, even sparklers, are outlawed within the city of Los Angeles. 2) Fireworks are a near-nightly fact of life in much of Los Angeles.
L.A. MaterialWhere do L.A.'s illegal fireworks come from? Jessica Garrison investigates how a Fourth of July season disaster last year revealed an alleged illegal fireworks hub — and a possible pipeline behind some of the city's nightly explosions. Read the full investigation: lamaterial.com/p/illegal-fi...
Poem of the day: “Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147907...
Let America Be America Again(America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed— Let it be that great strong land of love Where never kings connive nor…www.poetryfoundation.orgThe Shocking Budget Disaster Hitting One of L.A.'s Ritziest School Districts lamaterial.com/p/manhattan-... @lamaterial.bsky.social
The surprising budget disaster hitting Manhattan Beach schools“All you ever hear about is how Manhattan Beach schools have all the funding, all the money.”lamaterial.comMeet the Harvard-Westlake caucus: @matt-hamilton87.bsky.social and I took a look at the 5 (!) Wolverines on the June ballot, and how they fared in the primary. lamaterial.com/p/the-harvar...
Meet the Harvard-Westlake CaucusAlumni from the elite private school were overrepresented in L.A. political races this year.lamaterial.com