Adam G. Linder

Mayor Bass Takes Action to Provide New Relief to Palisades Fire Survivors, Accelerate Community Recovery Calls on City Council to Provide Fire-Affected Properties with Time-Limited Exemption, Announces Mayoral Executive Directive LOS ANGELES – Mayor Karen Bass announced actions to provide new relief to Palisades Fire survivors and accelerate community recovery. She called on the City Council to adopt an ordinance that would assist in the establishment of a one-time exemption to Measure ULA for Palisade homeowners and announced that once the ordinance is adopted she would issue an executive directive to direct the Office of Finance to create the rule providing this exemption. The letter follows a meeting with Rick Caruso, founder of Steadfast LA, who proposed ideas to help address this issue. The Mayor’s plan to create a time limited exemption from the Measure ULA property transfer tax will help homeowners who need to or wish to move from the fire impacted area and speed up sales of these properties and spur rebuilding and rehabilitation of the Palisades.

Mayor Karen Bass is asking LA's city council to pass an ordinance that would exempt Pacific Palisades transactions from ULA, the city's transfer tax.

Of note: "The letter follows a meeting with Rick Caruso, founder of Steadfast LA, who proposed ideas to help address this issue"

Instead of this ridiculous story quoting one person who doesn’t want a bathroom in Runyon Canyon because of “odors” (have you smelled the dog piss there?), please read my story about how we can and should have beautiful public bathrooms in ALL our parks

What are your plans for Thursday?
Data and Donuts, of course! 🍩

Join us at LACI from 8 - 10am with Jon Neill, Chief Systems Analyst at LA County who will lead an AI Context Simulator – Delivering More Accurate and Relevant Results.

Hosted by a crowd fav, @awalkerinla.bsky.social 🔥

datadonuts.la

Come join us tomorrow! 🍩☕️🚌

We’ll share a #TorchedLA morning with @awalkerinla.bsky.social as our host, and a data-driven presentation from @metrolosangeles.bsky.social about their new Bus Operator Enclosed Barriers. 📈📊

8am - 10am, LACI DTLA.

#DataFirst #Networking #DataAndDonuts #LosAngeles

Jobs with Compiler: Senior Software Engineer

I am super proud of the tiny little team we've built at Compiler. Just a handful of humans with laptops who love public transit.

Trying our best to Move Carefully and Fix Things.

Last year we only hired for one role, this will be our first hire of 2025: compiler.la/jobs/softwar...

Tomorrow is a new #DataAndDonuts!

Greg Fair, Digital Identity Chief at the California Department of Technology (CDT) will join us for a timely and important discussion on California’s Digital Identity Framework (D-ID).

🎟️: lnkd.in/gPg-aqwJ
📅: Tuesday, June 17
🕘: 8:00-10:00a
🍩☕️🗣️

Did Lyft cheat to win a $200 million LA bike share contract? LA transportation officials delayed a major contract decision amid explosive allegations surfaced about bid rigging and insider access.

More Metro bike-share coverage at @lapublicpress.bsky.social lapublicpress.org/2025/05/lyft...

The opening slide of today’s presentation showing a parking meter and the title of the presentation “Inside LA’s Data-Driven Parking Rates,” with photos of our speakers. Peter Ahlstrom, Graham Rossmore, and Nghia Trinh.

Today’s #DataAndDonuts is just 30 minutes away! We’re talking Demand-Based Parking with @ladotofficial.bsky.social.

Come get some donuts, or check in online for the live stream link. 🍩📊

www.eventbrite.com/e/data-donut...

I received quite a few messages from city employees after posting these earlier today. If you want to discuss how the evisceration of your department will affect your ability to deliver services, you can message me on Signal at awalkerinla.99 or call/text my Google Voice at 323 207 5607‬

Eric Plosky, our speaker, standing in front of the Data + Donuts logo with our host for the day, Alissa Walker

We are moments away from @awalkerinla.bsky.social taking the mic to introduce today’s speaker, Eric Plosky of #MobilityData. #Data #Networking #Transit #LosAngeles

YouTube video by Data and Donuts Public Transit Ecosystem with MobilityData

If you’re not here in person, check out our live stream!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxMH...

This is tomorrow! Data! Donuts! A lot of smart people who are working hard to make your buses and trains fast, frequent, and fabulous. Did I mention donuts?

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 32, mostly women and children Israeli strikes on Gaza killed at least 32 people, including over a dozen women and children, local health officials said Sunday, as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu headed to meet President Trump.

Israeli strikes on Gaza killed at least 32 people, including over a dozen women and children, local health officials said Sunday, as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu headed to meet President Trump.

Adam stands in Hollywood with bicyclists behind him. The street is closed to cars. He’s wearing a Dodgers cap that has changed the LA logo into text reading “Luigi mAngione,” as well as a shirt that says “Public Transit.” He’s holding a footlong Austrian sausage snack shoved in a baguette.

I had so much fun at #CicLAvia today. Also, this sausage. #Austrian #PublicTransit #Luigi #Hollywood

Torched turns 1: A week of talks and toasts April 21-25 In a time of great uncertainty, Torched will always be about people coming together for LA

Can you believe I've been doing this for a year? And what a year it's been for LA.

Join me to celebrate Torched's first birthday. I'm hosting an entire week of talks and toasts. Some will be on Zoom, some will be in person. It's a look back at what we've made together — and what's still to come

Save the Date for a #DataAndDonuts special event, celebrating the 1 year anniversary of @awalkerinla.bsky.social’s Torched newsletter!

🗓️ 4/24/25 from 8-10am

📊 Eric Plosky of #MobilityData will speak about data standards at an international scale.

📍 LACI in #DTLA

🎟️ datadonuts.la/event/data-d...

Cheers. #ShakeyGraves

My #Luigi bound from #WonderCon this weekend. #WonderCon2025 #EatTheRich

My favorite cosplay from this weekend at #Wondercon. This sexy minion was so excited to show me his tape measurer. 🙈😍 #wondercon2025

We’ll bring the donuts, if you bring the data! Jk, we got that too! 📈

Barbara Andres from the City of Santa Monica DoT is our guest speaker this morning, and we hope to see you all here.

My favorite statistic… feelings. 🙄

"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say

🍩 One week away from our next Data + Donuts! 📊

🗣️Barbara Andres with the City of Santa Monica!

🗓 March 20th 8:00-10:00am

📍 La Kretz Innovation Campus
525 S Hewitt St. Los Angeles, CA 90013

🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/data-donut...

#DataAndDonuts #Networking #GovTech @cityofsantamonica.bsky.social

Adam’s laptop, as he’s taking notes with the conference in front of him, there are two stickers on the laptop “The War on Cars,” and Alissa Walker’s Torched.la, “So LA doesn’t Get Burned.”

A sign of the event, stating the title and logo with a backdrop of the city on it.

I’m at the @uclalewiscenter.bsky.social Inter/Actions forum on Advancing Housing & Transportation Solutions for Compiler.la with @vykster.bsky.social!

Rick Caruso and I agree on exactly one thing: LA needs to underground its power lines

They are so poorly written, but I’m absolutely addicted.

LA be like, “are poor people funding our capital investment? Well, maybe they don’t deserve a place to pee.”

Hello, Blue Sky! While we'll still be posting about the same topics as X -- the incredible work our community does, the many priorities of our office, current events, and news you can use -- I am excited to see the new connections that Blue Sky will bring us.

Let's get to work, LA County!

Trump derail train It was always clear that Trump's democracy-dismantling project would be coming for the state's high-speed rail, something he openly denigrated throughout his last presidency

Read @awalkerinla.bsky.social's excellent take on this morning's USDOT announcement against CA High-Speed Rail www.torched.la/trump-derail...