{"id":347966,"date":"2026-06-05T13:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/347966\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:02:07","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-los-angeles-could-learn-a-thing-or-two-from-paris-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/347966\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: Los Angeles could learn a thing or two from Paris\u2019 leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

To the editor: Watching the Los Angeles mayoral election play out, I find it remarkable that so many Angelenos were forced into a strategic calculation: How do we elect a flawed Democrat while preventing an inexperienced reality TV celebrity from leading the city into further chaos and decline (\u201cHow Mayor Karen Bass weathered a brutal campaign and won a spot in the Nov. 3 runoff,\u201d<\/a> June 4)?<\/p>\n

I recently returned from Paris, where I experienced \u201cla canicule,\u201d the intense summer heat wave. What struck me was how manageable it felt compared with Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

After 12 years under former Mayor Anne Hidalgo, a socialist, Paris has become abundantly greener, healthier and more livable. The city boasts more trees, more open space, fewer cars, improved air quality and significantly reduced air pollution<\/a>. Whether Parisians love or hate her, Hidalgo left behind a city where people can comfortably live, work and thrive.<\/p>\n

Her tenure was also marked by extraordinary challenges. She guided Paris through COVID-19, a multitude of terrorist attacks, the Notre Dame Cathedral fire and the 2024 Summer Olympics, while advancing ambitious ideas such as \u201cthe 15-minute city.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Why can\u2019t Los Angeles produce more candidates willing to think beyond conventional politics and dare to imagine a different future, a better one? Especially when the greatest challenge facing our community is the climate crisis, we need leaders with vision, courage and a commitment to building a city that is not only resilient, but also truly livable and safe.<\/p>\n

Yasmin Netervala-Iseli, Zurich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Watching the Los Angeles mayoral election play out, I find it remarkable that so many…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1409,30710,2072,142566,48,52,51,23151,2500,1838,47,50,49,24544,7171,29864,16123,142567,4610,5965],"class_list":["post-347966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-city","tag-courage","tag-editor","tag-few-car","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-leader","tag-leadership","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-more-tree","tag-nov","tag-open-space","tag-paris","tag-terrorist-attack","tag-thing","tag-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347966","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=347966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}