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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L.A. County's public health director warned that reopening will be gradual and that the public should be 'prepared that there will be new normals.'
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Drivers now join the ranks of those considered critical frontline workers who can get tested for free even if they have no symptoms of COVID-19.
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Reopening safely will happen slowly, and be punctuated with frequent testing and reassessments, the mayor told us.
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The coronavirus is now killing more people every day than coronary heart disease, emphysema, COPD, or flu, which are the other leading causes of death locally.
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This is the story of L.A. in a time of social distancing, in a time of economic devastation, in a time of illness. We want your help to chronicle it.
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The state had procured nearly 11,000 rooms. A partnership with Motel 6 announced today puts it over the top.
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To return to normal, we need to have these five things.
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Gun shops tried to get a pass on the city's closure of "nonessential businesses." A judge shut them down for a second time.
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Projections forecast hospitalizations in L.A. peaking Friday and deaths on Sunday.
