Traci Park and the Westside Politics That Made Pershing Drive Deadly
Regan Cole-Graham was seven months pregnant. She was riding her bike with her husband and their two small children near their home in Playa del Rey when a car struck her on Pershing Drive. She was rushed to the hospital. Doctors delivered her baby girl. Regan died. Her daughter survived briefly in the NICU, then […]
Horvath Calls Traci Park’s Bluff on Venice Dell
After years of obstruction, delay, and spin, Traci Park finally got called out publicly and directly over Venice Dell. And this time, it came from someone with the authority and the receipts to shut the whole routine down. In a blunt series of posts this week, LA County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath dismantled Park’s latest talking […]
Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance Calls Out Traci Park for Climate Denial After Palisades Fire
A citywide sustainability coalition has taken the extraordinary step of publicly calling out Traci Park for denying climate change in the wake of the Palisades fire, and for good reason. In a recent bulletin, the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council Sustainability Alliance reminded Angelenos that Park stood before a cheering crowd at the “They Let Us […]
Did Traci Park Try to Placate Her Donors After the Marilyn Monroe Vote?
When the Los Angeles City Council voted to designate Marilyn Monroe’s former Brentwood home as a Historic Cultural Monument, Councilmember Traci Park publicly broke with some of the most powerful land use interests on the Westside. The property owners and their attorneys at Glaser Weil Fink Howard Jordan & Shapiro LLP opposed the designation and […]