{"id":31246,"date":"2026-06-05T13:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/31246\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:06:07","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-los-angeles-could-learn-a-thing-or-two-from-paris-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/31246\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: Los Angeles could learn a thing or two from Paris\u2019 leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To the editor: Watching the Los Angeles mayoral election play out, I find it remarkable that so many Angelenos were forced into a strategic calculation: How do we elect a flawed Democrat while preventing an inexperienced reality TV celebrity from leading the city into further chaos and decline (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-06-04\/how-la-mayor-karen-bass-won-spot-in-nov-3-runoff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHow Mayor Karen Bass weathered a brutal campaign and won a spot in the Nov. 3 runoff,\u201d<\/a> June 4)?<\/p>\n<p>I recently returned from Paris, where I experienced \u201cla canicule,\u201d the intense summer heat wave. What struck me was how manageable it felt compared with Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>After 12 years under former Mayor Anne Hidalgo, a socialist, Paris has become abundantly greener, healthier and more livable. The city boasts more trees, more open space, fewer cars, improved air quality and <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-solutions\/2025\/04\/12\/air-pollution-paris-health-cars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">significantly reduced air pollution<\/a>. Whether Parisians love or hate her, Hidalgo left behind a city where people can comfortably live, work and thrive.<\/p>\n<p>Her tenure was also marked by extraordinary challenges. She guided Paris through COVID-19, a multitude of terrorist attacks, the Notre Dame Cathedral fire and the 2024 Summer Olympics, while advancing ambitious ideas such as <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/transformative-mobility.org\/multimedia\/the-15-minute-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u201cthe 15-minute city.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why can\u2019t Los Angeles produce more candidates willing to think beyond conventional politics and dare to imagine a different future, a better one? Especially when the greatest challenge facing our community is the climate crisis, we need leaders with vision, courage and a commitment to building a city that is not only resilient, but also truly livable and safe.<\/p>\n<p>Yasmin Netervala-Iseli, Zurich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To the editor: Watching the Los Angeles mayoral election play out, I find it remarkable that so many&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6486,22534,22530,22536,9798,17671,22532,3141,22538,22535,22537,30,22539,22531,22533],"class_list":["post-31246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-city","tag-courage","tag-editor","tag-few-car","tag-leader","tag-leadership","tag-letter","tag-los-angeles","tag-more-tree","tag-nov","tag-open-space","tag-paris","tag-terrorist-attack","tag-thing","tag-vision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}