Email Author Jill Stewart

Awards

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "It's War: The Prop. 8 Ruling"

• 2010 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 26, 2009

  "Los Angeles on $300,000 a Year"

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published February 26, 2009

  "Los Angeles on $300,000 a Year"

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2008 Stories by Jill Stewart

• Thankful for the LA Times' David Zahniser

  published Dec 24, 2008

  We'd be horrible Scrooges if we ended this year without a nod to a former Weekly reporter and columnist, our friend Dave Zahniser (or Dave Z., as he's known throughout the local political and journali... More >>

• Update on Sayre Fire in Sylmar: Biggest Arson Investigation in Los Angeles historyr

  published Nov 15, 2008

  Updated at 4:53 pm and revised number of homes burned Los Angeles police and fire officials are now floating the chilling possibility that they may find bodies inside the Oakridge Park mobile home nei... More >>

• Great Los Angeles Quakefest Simulates "Big One" Disaster

  published Nov 13, 2008

  Photo by Erin Broadley. Click image for entire slideshow. If today was a training session to help government and emergency personnel understand how to react to a 7.8 Big One hitting Los Angeles, and... More >>

• Feinstein would clean Newsom's, Villaraigosa's clocks! Gawker squawks!

  published Nov 13, 2008

  A hot new Field Poll shows Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom are unpopular statewide, and lag so far behind U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein that Di-Fi would sai... More >>

• L.A. City Council Makes Solar Look Bad

  published November 13, 2008

  Solar-energy groups and small businesses are simmering over a deal cut by City Council President Eric Garcetti, City Council... More >>

• Arnold Schwarzenegger calls for massive tax increases

  published Nov 06, 2008

  Having held back just long enough to avoid voter fury against Sacramento legislators who might have been hurt on November 4 if they backed his plans for a massive tax increase, the anti-tax Governor A... More >>

• Coalition of Whatever

  published November 6, 2008

  California’s record-breaking 13-million-plus voters on Nov. 4 proved to be a mercurial throng who followed no code or... More >>

• L.A. County suspends same sex marriages

  published Nov 05, 2008

  According to a Los Angeles County press release issued moments ago, County Registrar Dean Logan is suspending his department's issuing of marriage licenses or civil marriages for same-sex couples, af... More >>

• L.A. County Sales Tax by a Sliver! Antonio's Gang Tax Tanks!

  published Nov 05, 2008

  In a real squeaker, a few thousand voters put the half-cent sales tax over the 66.67 percent line, as Los Angeles County Registrar of Voters' employees toiled in the predawn hours trying to gather up ... More >>

• Eeny, meeny, miny, moe: Voting for LA County Superior Court Judges

  published Nov 03, 2008

  Just admit it, you have no idea who any of those judge-hopefuls are, and you're going to go ahead and vote anyway. It's the naughty private moment in a voting booth. The legal newspaper, Metropolitan ... More >>

• Bizarre Election Triangulation: Grim Sleeper, Clear Channel and Bernard Parks

  published Nov 03, 2008

  Category: Desperate election moves. Check out the new deal between former Police Chief Bernard Parks, now an L.A. City Councilman, and Clear Channel, whose bad neighbor approach to doing business has ... More >>

• Reading the Fine Print: How to Spot the Loopholes, Legal Doozies and Loose Phrasing in California's Ballot Initiatives

  published October 23, 2008

  Inside Sacramento’s domed Capitol building, where 120 senators and Assembly members tussle over budgets, a bill rumbled... More >>

• Delgadillo, Villaraigosa and L.A'.s 2008 Anti-Gang Tax

  published Oct 20, 2008

  You have to wonder if Antonio Villaraigosa and the Los Angeles City Council will come up with another "anti-gang program" that fails to woo a single kid away from gangs, now that Antonio Villaraigosa ... More >>

• Amazing Los Angeles City Council Salaries: $171,648 plus goodies

  published Oct 16, 2008

  With a recession smacking L.A. and home values plummeting, Los Angeles City Council members soon expect yet another automatic raise, and taxpayers can do nothing to stop them. They are the highest pai... More >>

• Los Angeles Median Home Value: $380,000

  published Oct 15, 2008

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• Billionaire Eli Broad's Fat Check to Long Beach Unified

  published Oct 14, 2008

  In a reminder that it's pure fallacy when teachers and pols claim that tough, urban schools filled with poor kids cannot produce high grades and academic achievement, the tough, urban Long Beach Unif... More >>

• Sylmar fire in Los Angeles could become a "siege"

  published Oct 13, 2008

  NOTE: This post is about the Sylmar fire in October of 2008. For news on the Sylmar fire of November 15, 2008, click here. Note: 10:41 a.m. update regarding the Martin Mars amphibious craft capable o... More >>

• Shoving 850 digital billboards down LA's throat

  published Oct 08, 2008

  We're thrilled to see Steve Lopez skewering the blazing, flashing, crass digital billboard clutter now sweeping L.A. while billboard-industry financed, highly conflicted members of the City Council, M... More >>

• Los Angeles Measure B's Curious Fine Print

  published Oct 07, 2008

  An extremely obscure measure on the Nov. 4 ballot would wipe out the two-story height restrictions on poverty housing in Los Angeles, legally allowing tall towers containing low-income housing once ag... More >>

• Grim Times and Crimes in Famed Melrose District

  published Oct 03, 2008

  The below press release sheds light on what some have begun to call an overwrought hyper-focus on gangs by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LAPD Chief William Bratton. As the Weekly has reported, Villar... More >>

• "Valley Vote" and the "All About Me Mayor"

  published Sep 16, 2008

  I guess they really do read LA Weekly in the San Fernando Valley. Monday night, Weekly writer Patrick McDonald was covering a meeting of Valley Vote, which spearheaded the Valley secession movement in... More >>

• Schwarzenegger may make history with a budget veto

  published Sep 16, 2008

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• Villaraigosa's Pose for Madame Tussaud

  published Sep 11, 2008

  Weekly writer Patrick McDonald has a great scoop today about Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's purported "16-hour" work days, which are filled with ceremonies, PR events and travel -- including a recent se... More >>

• North Hollywood High or McCain Mansionr

  published Sep 05, 2008

  How hilarious to see Talking Points Memo and other bloggers track down that interesting "mansion" used as a set piece behind John McCain last night at the RNC. McCain must be trying to match, in his o... More >>

• Scientist Kelman wins libel suit against Mold Queen Kramer

  published Aug 27, 2008

  News just came in that toxicologist Bruce Kelman, targeted by people who have an almost religious, misguided fear of common household mold, has prevailed in a key case against Mold Queen Sharon Kramer... More >>