Hearing from readers — about how you were surviving, or simply that you found the information in California Today useful — was a source of human connection in a period of profound isolation that kept me going. Of course, the pandemic, catastrophic fires and widespread demands for criminal justice reform didn’t exactly bond Californians in common cause. Rather, they shined a light on our foundational divides and the stubbornness of our biggest problems. What I’ve seen unite Californians, for all of our foibles and contradictions, is that we never stop trying to bridge the gap between the California Dream and our messy, earthbound reality. I’ll still be living in Los Angeles, learning and writing for The Times about the state that — in spite of everything — I love most.

Source: New York Times August 02, 2021 12:33 UTC