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

• Donald Trump, Ed McMahon and Toxic Mold

  published Aug 15, 2008

  It's been unsettling to watch the massive layoffs at the LA Times and Daily News, but when you read a sanitized story like today's Los Angeles Times California section report on The Donald's effort to... More >>

• Juicy City Hall War: Delgadillo vs. Chick

  published Aug 12, 2008

  Most Angelenos still don't realize that the "$4.2 million" DWP/Fleishman-Hillard scandal that led to Mayor Jimmy Hahn's defeat by Antonio Villaraigosa ended in a whimper in court last summer, raising ... More >>

• Villaraigosa abandoned by Ace Smithr

  published Aug 11, 2008

  Has Antonio Villaraigosa fallen so far back in the 2010 race for California governor that his former consultant and negative research hound Ace Smith, who dug dirt on Villaraigosa's mayoral rivals, is... More >>

• Cell Phones Crash in a Modest LA Quake

  published Jul 29, 2008

  For an hour or longer, hundreds of thousand of residents of the Los Angeles Basin lost their cell phone service, following a very moderate earthquake that left little damage in most of the areas that ... More >>

• War Over MTA's "Eternity" Tax

  published July 24, 2008

  LOS ANGELES COUNTY SUPERVISORS Gloria Molina and Mike Antonovich don’t often agree, separated by a natural gulf between... More >>

• Los Angeles Population Slump!

  published Jul 16, 2008

  Is it wrong to chuckle over the latest U.S. Census numbers reminding us, in this strange town run by City Hall density hawks wedded to "compact housing" and the "construction crane as the official cit... More >>

• L.A. Times Layoffs and Stupid Sam Zell

  published Jul 15, 2008

  What person would choose to lay off the excellent Jesus Sanchez, one of the most rational, intelligent newspapermen in Los Angeles, when making the big, ugly cuts of up to 150 writers, editors, photog... More >>

• Do You Trust MTA With $40 billion?

  published July 10, 2008

  The other day, in a hip-looking building housing the architectural firm VTBS, former Santa Monica Mayor Denny Zane revved up... More >>

• Villaraigosa blames LA traffic on George Bush

  published Jun 27, 2008

  You can tell it's going to be The Silly Season in Los Angeles, from now to November, when Antonio Villaraigosa, whose growth-at-any-cost development beliefs have added tens of thousands of crowded new... More >>

• Goodbye Los Angeles Times Magazine

  published Jun 11, 2008

  Sure, the paper's Sunday magazine has sucked for much of its existence, and erupted in scandal after getting caught cutting a sleazy business deal with Staples Center (a big, ugly national story broke... More >>

• Sam Zell Gets out the Ruler at Los Angeles Times

  published Jun 09, 2008

  I ran into some friends from the Los Angeles Times at a party this weekend at the home of my predecessor at the Weekly, Al Mittelstadt (he was celebrating his recent, unplanned departure from the down... More >>

• Local Election Results: Ghostly L.A. Voters Deliver Surprises

  published June 5, 2008

  Voter turnout, which all day Tuesday looked more like a convention of ghosts than an election, produced several surprises,... More >>

• The Election That Wasn't

  published May 29, 2008

  A NASTY BATTLE SPAWNED from personal betrayal unfolds in the Valley. ... A rare openly gay Latino uses his City Hall... More >>

• Eminent Domain Targeted by Propositions 98 and 99

  published May 29, 2008

  THE THINNEST CALIFORNIA BALLOT in memory offers just one issue for statewide voters to think about on June 3: the bitter... More >>

• Fabian Nunez a Victim of Racism

  published May 22, 2008

  Describing himself as a guy who was "you could say, like a head of state," departing California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez gave a bizarre interview to Spanish language Univision in which he claimed... More >>

• Clueless California Voters Fail IQ Test

  published May 22, 2008

  You gotta love the brilliant decision by the respected polling group, Public Policy Institute of California, to once again sneak in subtle test questions of California residents while asking them to o... More >>

• Villaraigosa's Pico-Olympic One-Way Plan Killed

  published May 05, 2008

  It's got to come under the category of "what was City Hall thinkingr' that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa kept insisting his plan to funnel commuters onto Pico and Olympic boulevards by making them one-wa... More >>

• How Not to Fight Global Warming

  published April 17, 2008

  WHILE A DEBATE RAGES in Los Angeles over dense, multistory apartments popping up citywide, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and... More >>

• L.A. residents slam Special Order 40, Clear Channel shakedown

  published Apr 08, 2008

  Correction below: Alleged murderer Espinoza was released from jail by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, not the LAPD. Update: The LA City Council has approved the giant electronic billboar... More >>

• Clear Channel Messed with LA Weekly and Lost!

  published Apr 02, 2008

  Recently, reporter Christine Pelisek asked the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety for a list of all legal and illegal billboards in L.A. - an embarrassing document that will show the public... More >>

• Chuck Philips, Tupac Shakur, Sean Combs and The Con

  published Mar 27, 2008

  The amazing Page One Los Angeles Times article today, correcting a probably libelous Times Calendar story published on St. Patrick's Day and written by investigative reporter Chuck Philips, is known i... More >>

• Trees stripped down in Venice

  published Mar 03, 2008

  Los Angeles Unified School teacher Michael Zeno was sickened when he pulled into his regular shopping area at Lincoln Boulevard and Rose Avenue in Venice, only to find a beautiful stand of longtime tr... More >>

• Villaraigosa Density Hawks Vs. Angry Valleyites

  published Feb 28, 2008

  A Valley smackdown is brewing for tonight's 6 p.m. density Town Hall at the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn in Studio City, with scores of pissed-off San Fernando Valley residents from five different Neig... More >>

• Do Obama's Mounting Wins Make California/Latino Vote Irrelevant?

  published February 14, 2008

  "MYSTERY POLLSTER" MARK BLUMENTHAL lives nowhere near California and has no idea whether Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama will... More >>

• Fabian, maybe it's the friends you keep

  published Feb 06, 2008

  If you followed the election fine print - those ballot measures having nothing to do with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain or Mitt Romney, you might be wondering what killed Proposition 93, ... More >>