Zev’s Blog | Zev Yaroslavsky

From wizards of leadership

Supervisor Yaroslavsky delivered commencement remarks at the USC Annenberg School for Communication on May 17. We thought we’d share them with you here: I am…
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A life-altering advocate

No one who knew Dr. Antronette K. Yancey—public health expert, UCLA professor, athlete, author, poet and general force of nature—will be surprised to hear that…
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Winning Universal raves

Universal City is one of L.A.’s most famous destinations. It is also a member of a famously complex community. Part movie studio, part theme park,…
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Vowing a fairer future

During my many years in public life, there’ve been just a handful of times when I’ve been caught off guard. This week, as the U.S….
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Expo 2’s ahead of the curve

Maps and blueprints are fine, but there’s nothing like getting out into the real world and seeing the future take shape. A few days ago,…
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Stan the Man and an L.A. boy

“I’d like to talk to Stan Musial.” I was a baseball-crazed 11-year-old when I made that pronouncement to the telephone operator at the old Hotel…
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A legacy of California gold

The obituaries told us that he’d been a fixture on local television since the early 1980s, but I could have sworn that Huell Howser had…
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Taking aim at weapons

In the aftermath of last month’s horrific Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, we once again find ourselves talking about how we must reduce gun violence…
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“Realignment” realities

For more than a year, I’ve made no secret of my concerns over the rushed and deeply flawed ways in which Sacramento saddled California’s counties…
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