Thank you, Jesus Sanchez, and farewell. Los Angeles Times.
Jesus Sanchez is a great journalist and he is one of my heroes. It is a tragedy that he is leaving the L.A. Times.
We helped spearhead the successful effort to create what is now the Los Angeles State Historic Park at the Cornfield. Mr. Sanchez covered that story in an excellent front page article above the fold on April 17, 2001. His opening sentence is classic: “On a deserted railroad yard north of Chinatown, one of Los Angeles’ most powerful and tenacious real estate developers, Ed Roski, Jr., met his match.” Wow, what a great sentence.
Later in the story Mr. Sanchez wrote: “Robert Garcia . . . organized a civil rights challenge that claimed the project was the result of discriminatory land-use policies that had long deprived minority neighborhoods of parks.” We work on these things for years at a time, and that is one of the best descriptions of what we do that I have ever seen — and he said it in one sentence.
I have Mr. Sanchez’s article framed in my office.
Mr. Sanchez is a great writer. The L.A. Times and its readers are diminished by his leaving.
Posted by: Robert Garcia | July 16, 2008 at 03:39 PM
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