KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Karen Bass Will Probably Get Her Shot at Finishing Off Los Angeles. “What’s happened in the eight years since I got out is heartbreaking. I haven’t gone back for a while for a couple of reasons. One is that a good many of the friends I had there have also left California. The other is that some of the friends who are still there have repeatedly told me that the Los Angeles I loved no longer exists at all and that I’d be saddened by what I saw. “