Former schools chief Austin Beutner plans to challenge Bass, blasting her over Palisades fire

Austin Beutner said city officials showed a 'failure of leadership' on the Palisades fire, which took 12 lives and damaged ...
Yahoo

Caruso, Cardone blast Bass, Democrats as LA fires turn political

Flames from the Palisades Fire were still licking the real estate around Rick Caruso’s shopping center when the developer called into his local Fox station to lay blame on Mayor Karen Bass. “There’s ...
New York Post

LA Mayor Karen Bass handed out rich city contracts, forcing drastic cuts to fire department months before deadly wildfires: records

Los Angeles was forced to slash funding for the fire department after Mayor Karen Bass awarded gilded contracts to city workers, a review of public records shows. The trouble began early last year ...
Los Angeles Times

Karen Bass was no Nero — and now’s the time for her to prove that

A stone-faced Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass stood silently as a British reporter asked whether she had anything to tell Angelenos as the most destructive fire in the city’s history raged. She was on ...
Yahoo

Former schools chief Austin Beutner plans to challenge Bass, blasting her over Palisades fire

Austin Beutner, former LAUSD superintendent, pictured in 2021. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) Former Los Angeles Unified schools Supt. Austin Beutner is planning to announce a challenge to Mayor ...