{"id":371439,"date":"2026-06-23T13:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/371439\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T13:05:11","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-mayor-bass-shouldnt-abdicate-blame-for-massive-state-grant-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/371439\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: Mayor Bass shouldn\u2019t abdicate blame for massive state grant loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: Karen Bass, after 3\u00bd  years as mayor, blames \u201cfailed and broken systems\u201d she inherited for failing to meet the deadlines for the covered work to be completed, thereby losing $100 million in state grants (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-06-19\/la-poised-to-lose-100-million-in-state-grants-to-fund-transportation-projects\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cL.A. poised to lose $100 million in state grants to fund transportation projects,\u201d<\/a> June 19). She claims her Capital Infrastructure Program, \u201conce fully implemented,\u201d will enable the city to avoid such failures in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Bass\u2019 failure to complete these objectives in 3\u00bd  years is unacceptable. I hope Councilmember Nithya Raman is watching.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Bliss, Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Karen Bass, after 3\u00bd years as mayor, blames \u201cfailed and broken systems\u201d she inherited for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[88694,1409,84956,2072,8425,4132,48,52,51,1838,47,50,49,63,150514,17708,150516,150515,150517,91547,72],"class_list":["post-371439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-blame","tag-city","tag-councilmember-nithya-raman","tag-editor","tag-future","tag-karen-bass","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-massive-state-grant-loss","tag-mayor-bass","tag-objective","tag-such-failure","tag-thomas-bliss","tag-transportation-project","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371439","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=371439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}