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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2009 Stories by Jill Stewart

• Los Angeles Freeway FUBAR: I-405 closures hitting Westside and Valley; expect an ugly three years

  published Dec 28, 2009

  If you live in the roughly 50 Southern California communities sprinkled between Granada Hills and the South Bay, or anywhere west of La Cienega Boulevard in L.A., you are about to live through the wor... More >>

• Broke, Schwarzenegger begs President Obama for $8 billion. Is a California default comingr

  published Dec 23, 2009

  Wow, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger just continues to flounder and flub and flim-flam his way through one of the worst performances by a governor in the United States even as he gets helped to the bot... More >>

• Was Rolling Hills lawyer Jeffrey Tidus, who repped failed New Century Financial, murderedr

  published Dec 09, 2009

  Rumors gripped the Los Angeles legal community today after the shocking fatal shooting Monday, in posh Rolling Hills Estates, of attorney Jeffrey A. Tidus. He was killed just hours after top executive... More >>

• Next California Speaker: John Perez, Villaraigosa's cousin, a neophyte with one year under his belt

  published Dec 02, 2009

  Proving that you can skyrocket from relative obscurity to big-time power if you play your cards just right, neophyte politician John Perez, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's first cousin, is widely expecte... More >>

• KCET scoop: FEMA shakes down South Central for "flood insurance" ten miles from ocean

  published Nov 05, 2009

  KCET is about to unleash, tonight, a stunning expose of FEMA and Los Angeles City Hall that involves an unintentional but outrageous shakedown of South Central Los Angeles residents for "flood" insura... More >>

• Judge: L.A. City Council's 2006 digital billboard settlement is "poison"

  published Oct 30, 2009

  Slamming the Los Angeles City Council's bizarre 2006 "settlement" with billboard giants Clear Channel and CBS Outdoor as "poison," Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry Green tossed out the backroom ... More >>

• CALPERS corruption: A plan to make New Yorkers homeless, and $50M to blowhard Al Villalobos

  published Oct 15, 2009

  California taxpayers unknowingly handed a cool $50 million to braggart Al Villalobos, and now the inept leaders of the California Public Employee Retirement System are arguing that they encouraged t... More >>

• Field Poll: Californians, whether Dem or GOP, really, really hate their politicians

  published Oct 14, 2009

  Californians finally agree strongly on something: 72 percent of Democrats, 86 percent of Republicans and 77 percent of "decline to state" voters (people who generally can't stand the two-party system)... More >>

• Secret criminal billionaires: Big-rig cargo thefts worth $$$ are hitting L.A.'s port

  published Oct 14, 2009

  Huge big-rigs are quietly vanishing from the Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach regularly, their cargo whisked away by sophisticated crime teams using regional leaders, fencers, "lumpers" and ... More >>

• Shriver Schwarzenegger cell phone dustup

  published Oct 14, 2009

  It's pretty hilarious to see the headlines this morning after a paparazzi standing on the street corner just down from the Brentwood home of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger caught the former n... More >>

• Girl Shot at New Helen Bernstein High School in Hollywood

  published Oct 13, 2009

  It's a gorgeous high school just off the 101 Freeway, lauded a few years ago by school officials as the new face of once-rundown Hollywood and named after Los Angeles education reformer Helen Bernstei... More >>

• L.A. Jury Award: Fake airplane crashes and costs 20th Century Fox $4 million

  published Oct 13, 2009

  So the film crew for the remake of "The Flight of the Phoenix" is down in Namibia in 2004, and during the filming this big, fake airplane weighing in at about 800 pounds accidentally crashes into the ... More >>

• Rain warning: Toxic Santa Monica Bay is a very big toilet today

  published Oct 13, 2009

  Is it soup yetr Definitely. Today, although it looks beautiful and white-capped under the gloomy skies, Santa Monica Bay is teeming with toxins and filth, big-time, because a fairly heavy rain hit th... More >>

• Arnold vetoes initiative ban: Sleazy effort by California legislature to hamstring signature-gathering

  published Oct 12, 2009

  One of the sleaziest bills vetoed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger over the weekend was a law written by the California State Legislature to quietly but decisively wipe out the citizen ballot-initiat... More >>

• Coming soon to L.A: Ignition-locking breathalyzers for cars

  published Oct 12, 2009

  Arnold Schwarzenegger spent the weekend madly signing scores of laws that will go into effect in 2010. The screw-ups who comprise our California state legislature had piled a heap of about 700 mostly ... More >>

• Did Feds Cause the Station-fire Disaster

  published October 8, 2009

  It’s been six weeks since the Station Fire roared out of control on a sweltering August weekend, but troubling stories grip the... More >>

• Dudamel in Los Angeles and El Sistema a Huge Success

  published Oct 04, 2009

  We sat perhaps 100 to 150 feet away from Gustavo Dudamel at the Hollywood Bowl last night, watching as he whipped his wiry, pale-skinned little body around the stage like dancer whose DNA somehow got... More >>

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  NYT Elvis Mitchell IRS scandal

  published Sep 29, 2009

  Uh, oh, the often-impossible-to-read film critic Elvis Mitchell, formerly of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, L.A. Weekly, New Times L.A., Detroit Free Press, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and, somehow, T... More >>

• $65 Million Brentwood Ranch still unsold: America's most expensive homes tank

  published Sep 28, 2009

  There's a weekend color real estate brochure called View that comes in some newspaper subscriptions, and View is desperately trying to peddle the palaces, mansions and compounds of the rich and famous... More >>

• Mt. Wilson Observatory Saved, Thanks to Firefighters: An Appreciation

  published Sep 03, 2009

  The 105-year-old Mount Wilson Observatory, which today was called "the birthplace of the expanding Universe" by Discover Magazine online, seemed on the verge of destruction just three days ago, evacua... More >>

• Station Fire Update: Killed L.A. firefighter's baby due

  published Aug 31, 2009

  The Los Angeles County Fire Department released two sad biographies of the firefighters who were killed when a boiling wall of flames suddenly appeared near a remote road where they were driving. Thei... More >>

• Station Fire Update: Stupid Gold Creek Road residents put firefighters' lives on the line

  published Aug 31, 2009

  5 P.M. UPDATE: Firefighters have abandoned efforts to rescue the trapped people on Gold Creek Road, deeming the rescue operation too hazardous, at least for now.  The most incredible news about t... More >>

• Villaraigosa Staff Shakeup: Now His Chief of Staff, Robin Kramer, Is Bolting

  published Aug 27, 2009

  This cannot be good news for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. As reported in extensive detail this morning by Ron Kaye, former editor of the Daily News, Villaraigosa's Chief of Staff Robin Kramer, the woma... More >>

• Bratton Successor: Insider LAPD Brass Who Want to Replace Him

  published Aug 27, 2009

  Nothing against the interesting list the Los Angeles Times published today, of the Los Angeles Police Department's top brass who want to replace the departing Bill Bratton. But the chances that City H... More >>

• Jasmine Fiore Dated California Convict -- How Much Weirder Can This Tragedy Get

  published Aug 21, 2009

  KFI's Eric Leonard has the strange scoop that the brutal killing and grotesque disfigurement of Jasmine Fiore now involves a new twist: she was romantically involved with a California prisoner and jus... More >>