Mayor Eric Garcetti

Former DOT chief to potential Biden picks: Beware of agency turf wars

As President-elect Joe Biden considers his short list of choices to head up the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), picking someone who knows how to break down organizational silos could be the most important attribute of the next DOT secretary.

That would be the advice for the Biden transition team from James Burnley IV, who served as U.S. secretary of transportation from 1987 to 1989 under President Ronald Reagan.

“Needless to say, [Biden’s transition team] didn’t seek my advice,” Burnley...

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Port of LA chief: ‘We will need to reinvent ourselves’

The Port of Los Angeles loses approximately $400,000 in revenue with each canceled sailing. With 28 blanked sailings forecast for the remainder of the second quarter through June 30, that’s $11.2 million in revenue the port won’t collect.

“But the story is much greater than that,” said Port of LA Executive Director Gene Seroka of the coronavirus pandemic. “So many folks now are seeing the impacts, whether it be on quarterly earnings announcements, their decisions on personnel, what we see in the...

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