Brian Frank
I'm a journalist with a product mindset, combining data, automation, and storytelling to engage and inform the community. I help to oversee our daily and breaking news coverage while shepherding some of our larger initiatives, including the development of interactive tools that have allowed readers to explore the health of our bridges, track wildfires, and navigate elections.
I've relished the sage and chaparral scents of Southern California since I was a boy, but like so many Angelenos I only landed in L.A. as an adult. I stay for the city's rugged trails and creative energy, the inimitable color of its light, the pink donut boxes and kaleidoscopic flavors, the neighborhoods without any signs in English, the way its denizens tattoo their truths on the streets, and for all the people who tirelessly defy both labels and expectations.
In a previous life, I taught English as a second language in a tiny seaside town in Japan and oversaw a program for at-risk youth on the edge of the Alaskan bush.
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Newsom made the announcement Monday while delivering an update on the state's response to the coronavirus. -
The new order, published to the city website, takes effect at midnight tonight and extends through Dec. 20.
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"If you don't have essential travel, don't travel," the mayor said Monday, amid a doubling of the coronavirus case rate throughout the county.
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We have reached "a very dangerous point in the pandemic," according to L.A. County's public health director.
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He grew up surrounded by the status quo: myths of good guys versus bad guys, white suburban casual racism. But when a close friend who is nonwhite was beaten by police, he was forced to challenge his assumptions.
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Yes, we know records have already fallen. But fire season is technically just getting started.
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Residents of Mountain Cove were asked to evacuate, and no traffic is being allowed into the area.
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Someone called the police on Melina Abdullah's home. She live-streamed the 12 terrifying minutes that followed.
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The bureau will make citywide a program that was started in 2011 to reduce crime and improve community-police relations in housing developments in Watts and Boyle Heights.
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Test results came back positive for 12,807 Californians.
