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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2010 Stories by Jill Stewart

• New Years Eve Warning in Los Angeles: LAPD Undercover Cops Will Cozy Up at Busy Bars To Catch Drunk Drivers

  published Dec 31, 2010

  Undercover Los Angeles Police officers will be hanging out at hot Los Angeles bars tonight, pretending to be customers to bust bartenders serving alcohol to people who shouldn't be driving, and partie... More >>

• Community Voice Newspaper on Eastside Slams Jose Huizar On Missing $1.5 Million Pollution Fund

  published Dec 29, 2010

  LA Weekly posted an item headlined "Jose Huizar, Los Angeles City Councilman, Pressed To Explain $1.5 Million Missing from Eastside Pollution Control Fund," detailing how Huizar convinced his ill-inf... More >>

• Leslie Dutton's Videos Freed Richard Fine From Jail. But Who Can Stop Charles McCoy & Friends' $57,000 Bonusesr

  published Dec 28, 2010

  L.A.'s bizarre legal story of 2010 was the solitary confinement jailing of elderly attorney Richard Fine on "contempt of court" -- and boy does Fine have contempt for Los Angeles Superior Court judge... More >>

• Big new $550 Sacramento tax fee faces up to 90,000 Californians on January 1 for paying late

  published Dec 27, 2010

  Get ready for a nasty new fee if you pay California state taxes late. Another way to screw the unemployed and struggling, straight from Sacramento: To start, more than 90,000 businesses, many of them ... More >>

• Jose Huizar, Los Angeles City Councilman, pressed to explain $1.5 million missing from Eastside pollution control fund

  published Dec 27, 2010

  Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar might be the first incumbent ousted by an outsider (Rudy Martinez, profiled here) since the 1980s if he isn't careful. The MayorSam watchdog blog is following ... More >>

• Jeremy Marks $50,000 Xmas Gift From Google Engineer Neil Fraser: He's Out Of Jail

  published Dec 25, 2010

  Jeremy Marks, a Verdugo Hills High School student jailed for eight months for "attempted lynching" after he used his cell phone camera to videotape a campus police officer striking a 15-year-old at an... More >>

• NYT Misreports Hollywood Farmers Market Versus Los Angeles Film School Feud

  published Dec 24, 2010

  Wow, it looks like Adam Nagourney needs to pick up an LA Weekly. His fascinating front of the home page story in the New York Times today about the Los Angeles Film School feud with the Hollywood Farm... More >>

• Hollywood is missing 30,300 people. Antonio Villaraigosa's "elegant density" plan says they'll appear

  published Dec 23, 2010

  Los Angeles City Hall produces padded "population growth estimates" for L.A., an over-jammed city now driving away more humans than it attracts. Now, Antonio Villaraigosa and Deputy Mayor Austin Beutn... More >>

• California Bullet Train To Los Angeles Via Bakersfield: Real Or A $43 Billion Mirager

  published Dec 20, 2010

  The California High-Speed Rail Authority, ridiculed for its secrecy, mismanagement, conflicts of interest and crazy overspending -- and for choosing as the California bullet train's first leg a "route... More >>

• $20,000 buys California laws: Felipe Fuentes, Charles Calderon, dozens of legislators take cash from special interests who ghost-write laws

  published Dec 20, 2010

  We've already reported that Los Angeles' State Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes is "The Worst Legislator in California," putting his name on laws that are actually ghostwritten by corporations, unions -- an... More >>

• (Video) Jeremy Marks, Los Angeles Student Accused Of Attempted Lynching: His Only Weapon Was His Cell Phone Camera

  published Dec 09, 2010

  Jeremy Marks' weapon was his cell phone. He used it to videotape Los Angeles Unified School District campus cop Erin Robles after she struck another student who tussled with her when she challenged th... More >>

• Charles Manson Cell Phone Prison Call On Tape; Big Killers, Mexican Mafia And 8,675 Criminals Use Smuggled Cells In California Prisons

  published Dec 03, 2010

  Charles Manson had a smuggled cell phone in prison. CBS has truly creepy audio of Manson singing in a sicko call to the outside world. The Weekly explained the ugly game by legislators Mark Leno and T... More >>

• A.J. Duffy's UTLA Cracks Further As Heather Kolodny Drops Los Angeles School Board Bid

  published Nov 30, 2010

  Paranoid leaders at United Teachers Los Angeles seek anti-reform teachers to run for Los Angeles Unified School Board. That's right. They grimly resist after losing public confidence following the bri... More >>

• Citizens Redistricting Commission Chosen by Lottery, Eight Make History In California

  published Nov 18, 2010

  The new California Citizens Redistricting Commission's first eight members are Democrats Jeanne Raya of San Gabriel, Elaine Kuo of Mountain View, Cynthia Dai of San Francisco; Republicans Jodie Filkin... More >>

• Antonio Villaraigosa shames L.A., slamming the California Citizens Redistricting Commission

  published Nov 18, 2010

  Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa embarrassingly complained that no L.A. resident has a shot at today's lottery in which eight Californians will be picked for the commission that draws up the state's voting ... More >>

• The Weirdest Lottery of All

  published November 11, 2010

  On Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001, an ashen-faced New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani spoke to a grieving America of the fallen... More >>

• L.A. County Vote 2010: Results for Propositions 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 And California Governor, Attorney General, Etc.

  published Nov 03, 2010

  Here's how Los Angeles County voters weighed in on November 2010 Election Day as of about 1:15 a.m. Wednesday morning, with 67% of precincts counted: Proposition 19 Legalize Marijuana: YES 582,228 ... More >>

• California Voter Guide for November 2, 2010, Los Angeles Weekly

  published Nov 01, 2010

  Confused about the propositions on Tuesday's ballotr Below are links to helpful information: Proposition 19: What Legal Marijuana Would Mean for California (full report) Proposition 19: Why It's Tank... More >>

• Barbara Boxer Camp's Internal Hysteria Meter Cools: Field Poll Shows California Senator Leads Carly Fiorina 8 Points And Independent Voters Rule

  published Oct 29, 2010

  All the internal hysteria that's periodically gripped the Barbara Boxer camp as California's longtime U.S. Senate ice maiden came closer than ever to losing her seatr It can probably be set aside. A... More >>

• Can Anna Nicole Smith Just Restr The Sandeep Kapoor, Howard K. Stern, Khristine Eroshevich Trial And Verdict Was An Overpriced Show

  published Oct 29, 2010

  How did Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, primary physician to Anna Nicole Smith, get acquitted of all charges by a Los Angeles jury and the other two -- Smith's friend Howard K. Stern and psychiatrist Khristine Er... More >>

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  California 'Governor' Jerry Brown Will Call Special 2011 Election To Raise Taxes, Says Gloom Meister Gray Davis

  published Oct 29, 2010

  Via the mayorsam blog via the Fresno Bee, that super-upbeat, super-flashy guy, gloomy Gray Davis, is saying that California Governor Jerry Brown, um, probable governor, will immediately set a Special ... More >>

• California's Mystery Freefall, 63,000 Jobs Vanish: Antonio Villaraigosa Doesn't Get It, But The Healthy Great Plains Hold A Secret

  published Oct 28, 2010

  What is causing the free-fall in job losses in California, while the Great Plains, with the raw exception of a few spots, are past the recessionr 63,000 jobs vanished in California in September, of 95... More >>

• Richard MacNaughton Draws A Bead On Eric Garcetti, Demands Trutanich Probe Coverup And Dirty Land Deal At Selma And Vine

  published Oct 22, 2010

  UPDATE: At 12:53 pm: Why can't they be honest at City Hallr The City Council delayed their vote under public pressure, and blamed Obama. See below. UPDATE: More amazing sleaze regarding today's upcom... More >>

• Steve Zimmer Anti-Reform, Yolie Flores For Reform: The Stark LAUSD School Board Drama Unfolding After Historic ACLU Settlement

  published Oct 14, 2010

  Steve Zimmer, elected by "sophisticates" on the Westside, is starkly shown as the leading anti-reformist on the LAUSD Board of Education in a fascinating LA Times story about how United Teachers Los A... More >>

• CicLAvia Los Angeles Is A Facebook Environmental Bicycling Dessert-Chomping Mashup, So Just Go

  published Oct 09, 2010

  At first Ciclavia looked like a lame "million trees" idea from Antonio Villaraigosa, but the bicycling community breathed big-time life into it. The city is closing 7.5 miles of Los Angeles streets, S... More >>