I’m so excited to meet you. Starting today, I will be taking over the California Today newsletter, which will continue to provide dispatches from the state in your inbox every weekday. I hope that you’ll come to think of me as your tour guide/correspondent/resident-know-it-all for keeping up with news, culture and everything else happening in this great state. Simpson trial and, more compelling to me at the time, an outdoor escalator near our apartment that seemed to defy the laws of nature. L.A. was the promised land in our family lore, the first place my father lived after immigrating from India and before moving to the Midwest.

Source: New York Times August 03, 2021 12:45 UTC