Brian Frank
I'm a journalist with a product mindset, combining data, automation, and storytelling to engage and inform the community. I help to oversee our daily and breaking news coverage while shepherding some of our larger initiatives, including the development of interactive tools that have allowed readers to explore the health of our bridges, track wildfires, and navigate elections.
I've relished the sage and chaparral scents of Southern California since I was a boy, but like so many Angelenos I only landed in L.A. as an adult. I stay for the city's rugged trails and creative energy, the inimitable color of its light, the pink donut boxes and kaleidoscopic flavors, the neighborhoods without any signs in English, the way its denizens tattoo their truths on the streets, and for all the people who tirelessly defy both labels and expectations.
In a previous life, I taught English as a second language in a tiny seaside town in Japan and oversaw a program for at-risk youth on the edge of the Alaskan bush.
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Proposition 46 is an initiative statute placed on the ballot by voter petition. It is also referred to as the Troy and Alana Pack Patient Safety Act of 2014. -
A major bond aims to make California's water supplies more resilient. Carrying a hefty price tag, it divides environmentalists, farmers, and other interest groups. -
Proposition 47 is an initiative statute placed on the ballot by voter petition. It is also referred to as the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act. -
Proposition 2 is a constitutional amendment put on the ballot by the California legislature to change the rules governing the state's rainy day fund.
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Proposition 45 is an initiative statute placed on the ballot by voter petition. It is also referred to as the Insurance Rate Public Justification and Accountability Act. -
The accident comes just weeks before Murrieta Mayor Alan Long is up for reelection on the city council. -
Lawrence Bressler, 50, and Denise K. Bressler, 64, were repeatedly stabbed inside the apartment they shared with Bressler's cousin, according to police. -
Temperatures are expected to cool into the 70s Tuesday across Southern California, and a slight chance of rain will extend into Wednesday morning, according to the weather service. -
President Barack Obama on Friday signed an executive proclamation setting aside land in the San Gabriel Mountains. See a map of the designated area. -
In the wake of a horrific accident in Irvine involving teens over the weekend, we review the rules governing teen drivers in California.
