{"id":160427,"date":"2026-02-02T16:23:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160427\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T16:23:06","slug":"bass-to-make-state-of-city-speech-on-l-a-s-prep-for-upcoming-big-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/160427\/","title":{"rendered":"Bass to Make `State of City&#8217; Speech on L.A.&#8217;s Prep for Upcoming Big Events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Karen Bass is scheduled Monday to deliver what her office calls a State of the City address \u201cas she sets the tone for the year ahead and shares how Los Angeles is preparing to take the world stage\u201d \u2014 a reference to the 2026 World Cup, 2027 Super Bowl and 2028 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State of the City will reflect this moment and serve as a unifying celebration of Los Angeles, the city that we love: its people, neighborhoods, and cultures,\u201d Bass\u2019 office said in a statement announcing the speech, which will take place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, the State of the City address comes in April, as the city\u2019s budget process begins. But Monday, Bass is expected to highlight the city\u2019s preparations as the L.A. area\u2019s big events draw nearer \u2014 starting with eight World Cup games set to be played at Inglewood\u2019s SoFi Stadium in June and July.<\/p>\n<p>Bass is also expected to give a second, more traditional State of the City address in mid-April. Los Angeles mayors typically give their State of the City address in the spring to detail their priorities, tout accomplishments and discuss the release of the city\u2019s budget for the next fiscal year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Karen Bass is scheduled Monday to deliver what her office calls a State of the City address&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[12858,1409,584,78016,48,52,51,47,50,49,21543,78017,27119,225,24738],"class_list":["post-160427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-bass","tag-city","tag-events","tag-l-a-s","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-make","tag-prep","tag-speech","tag-state","tag-upcoming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}