Two abandoned downtown Los Angeles skyscrapers, dubbed the “graffiti towers,” are finally getting cleaned up, but not without Mayor Karen Bass taking some heat for letting the site become the city’s towering symbol of urban decay.
Critics have cited the skyscrapers as an example of the city’s decline — joining homeless encampments, widespread littering, open illegal drug use, and a general lack of nuisance enforcement under her administration.
One news outlet was particularly brutal in its coverage of Bass, who heads America’s second largest city behind New York.
“She let criminals run riot over $1bn skyscraper development for YEARS. Now LA’s mayor has the audacity to hail the clean-up of...
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