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

• Max Taves and LA Weekly beat NYT for DeBakey biomedical award

  published Jun 18, 2009

  LA Weekly freelancer Max Taves is in Washington, D.C., today accepting a cash prize for the best 2008 coverage of biomedical research by a large newspaper for his news story, ""UCLA Profs and Scientis... More >>

• LA Weekly best in Southern California Journalism Awards in news, investigative, column, feature and political reporting

  published Jun 15, 2009

  It was a huge, huge night for LA Weekly at the Los Angeles Press Club's awards gala in Universal City a few hours ago. Staff writer Christine Pelisek triple-swept in the Hard News, Investigative and N... More >>

• Accused killer, lady LAPD cop Stephanie Lazarus, in court -- new photos

  published Jun 09, 2009

  The arraignment today in downtown Los Angeles for Stephanie Lazarus has been delayed until July 6, even as her alleged victim's family flew to Los Angeles to meet with police investigators and state t... More >>

• UPDATE with photo of LAPD Detective Stephanie Lazarus. Accused of murder, she was featured in LA Weekly People Issue

  published Jun 05, 2009

  Weird happenings in our grim, big city: Accused Los Angeles Police Department detective Stephanie Lazarus, who police today said killed Sherri Rae Rasmussen, the wife of her lover, and got away with i... More >>

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  Fighting City Hall: A "How-To" from L.A. cartoonist Donna Barstow

  published May 27, 2009

  With the Los Angeles City Council ready to approve a train wreck of a budget, and with its vote on May 26 to delay for months a bizarre plan to place "sign districts" potentially filled with pulsating... More >>

• California Supreme Court Upholds Proposition 8, allows 18,000 marriages

  published May 26, 2009

  In a split decision that ultimately heavily favors the opponents of gay marriage, the California Supreme Court today, May 26, upheld Proposition 8 while allowing about 18,000 gay marriages already per... More >>

• California's May 19 Election

  published May 21, 2009

  Even with one key Los Angeles City Council District race still hanging in the balance at presstime, the political wreckage... More >>

• Jill Stewart hits $178,789 City Council pay on KCET tonight

  published May 14, 2009

  The folks at KCET asked me to do a two-minute essay about the Los Angeles City Council, the highest paid such body in the nation, and whether they should take a far bigger salary cut than the mere 10 ... More >>

• LA Weekly has huge L.A. Press Club finalist showing against L.A. Times

  published May 14, 2009

  I haven't had time to count, but it's a huge year for LA Weekly in earning just-announced "finalist" nods from the Los Angeles Press Club's annual competition, The Southern California Journalism Award... More >>

• Why Arnold's May 19 Bailout Is Failing

  published May 14, 2009

  If the polls are right, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is about to lay the biggest ballot-box egg of his political career,... More >>

• L.A. City Attorney Race: One Cooley Customer

  published May 7, 2009

  Well over a year ago, District Attorney Steve Cooley was having lunch with one of his most respected former prosecutors, Curt... More >>

• LA People 2009: Mr. Fix-It — Richard Riordan

  published April 23, 2009

  Attorney Richard Riordan sits at the wheel of his Eddie Bauer–edition Ford Explorer, lost on a narrow street of... More >>

• LA People 2009: The Writer — Ray Bradbury

  published April 23, 2009

  Ray Bradbury peers at you, one eye gleaming and fully open as if challenging you, the other squinty and small as if sizing you... More >>

• New loopholes for Los Angeles billboards and "sign districts"

  published Mar 18, 2009

  A heated hearing unfolded earlier today before the Los Angeles City Planning Commission, which wants to create yet another complicated, exception-filled plan to try to control street clutter in Los An... More >>

• Obama Visits Los Angeles, Leno and Orange County

  published Mar 18, 2009

  If you're thinking of getting a glimpse of President Barack Obama, here's his itinerary from City News Service, and Yo! Venice offered a link to the signup sheet for attending the Town Hall (but alas,... More >>

• Poor Bob Dylan and His Malibu Outhouse Debacle

  published Mar 18, 2009

  Until yesterday, the most common keywords on Google linked to Bob Dylan were probably words like folk singer, blues, and songwriter. Now the words are "poo," "defecation" (New York Magazine)," "crap" ... More >>

• Replacing Wendy Greuel in the Valley

  published March 12, 2009

  With City Councilwoman Wendy Greuel’s big win on March 3 to replace Laura Chick as city controller, San Fernando Valley... More >>

• Early election results: Los Angeles March 3, 2009 primary

  published Mar 03, 2009

  Nobody is ever sure how closely absentee voters match the views of the voters who actually trek into the polls, but here is the first wave of election returns released by the City of Los Angeles elect... More >>

• The Unsung in Today's Los Angeles City Council and LAUSD Elections

  published Mar 03, 2009

  L.A. is a city of steamroller politics and barely aware voters. It is exceedingly difficult for everyday citizens to beat an incumbent running for Los Angeles City Council or Los Angeles Unified Schoo... More >>

• Bratton's Jump Into L.A.'s Mayoral Race

  published February 26, 2009

  Correction: 700 police have been added to the LAPD, not 400 as originally reported.Police Chief William... More >>

• The Greek Versus the Pixie: Can Upstart Nick Patsaouras Beat the Anointed Villaraigosa Insider Wendy Greuel?

  published February 19, 2009

  In a sweaty Van Nuys meeting room crammed with neighborhood leaders from the San Fernando Valley, the pleasant Los Angeles... More >>

• Delgadillo to Bulldoze Drew Street's House of Menace

  published Feb 03, 2009

  How fun it was to read in a press release moments ago that tomorrow City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and the Los Angeles Police Department will flatten, wreck, bulldoze and otherwise pulverize the Hous... More >>

• Zahniser and Orlov Hit Villaraigosa's Sneaky Solar Blob

  published Feb 02, 2009

  Can Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's Measure B, the massive solar panel installation project on the March 3 ballot that is certain to pass because Los Angeles voters have no idea what it really is, get an... More >>

• Shocking End of Los Angeles Times' California Section

  published Jan 30, 2009

  We've heard back from several top journalists at the Los Angeles Times, who are still in shock over the stunningly bad news that, amidst more layoffs, the California Section, previously known as Metro... More >>

• Villaraigosa could copy the Blagojevich billboard-removal crews

  published Jan 30, 2009

  People were cheering in Chicago and other parts of Illinois today after crews openly began dismantling the obnoxious blue signs that ousted Governor Milorad Blagojevich had slathered all over the stat... More >>