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Alissa, Mike, and Rachel discuss proposed changes to LA city’s slur-strewn public comment process. Karen Bass found her deleted text messages sent during the fires, but what conversations are we still missing? And Metro advances an incomplete street for Vermont Avenue. LA Times: "LA City Council seeks crackdown on the N-word and C-word at meetings” In 2014 Michael Hunt was paid a $215,000 settlement after wearing a KKK hood to a city council meeting Adam Smith’s original songs have elevated public comment to an art form The LA Times asked Mayor Karen Bass for her text messages during the fire, then two months later the city said she had deleted them, then a few weeks later she found the messages after all, but the LA Times is still suing the city for unlawfully withholding the messages and other public records Coverage of Vermont Avenue’s bus rapid transit project from LAist and Streetsblog LA Metro’s letter to LA City saying it won’t include HLA improvements for Metro projects on city streets Data from Metro shows that new bike lanes increase bus ridership Alissa’s story on how the city’s first capital improvement plan will be focused on Olympics infrastructure The Dodgers are going to Trump’s White House to celebrate their world championship Produced by Sophie Bridges