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

• A.J. Duffy's Whopper: UTLA Says It Wasn't Invited To ACLU Talks Leading To Stunning Blow To Teacher Seniority. He's Full Of It

  published Oct 07, 2010

  A.J. Duffy is all but calling the ACLU, the Public Counsel Law Center and the Morrison Foerster law firm big, fat liars. Duffy, the anti-reformist head of the L.A. teachers union, is histrionically th... More >>

• Cell Phones Flooding to Mexican Mafia Prisoners

  published October 7, 2010

  When Los Angeles–based state Sen. Alex Padilla read Vanity Fair's 2007 tale of the criminal takeover of the... More >>

• Carmen Trutanich, L.A. City Attorney, Wins Billboard Crackdown Ruling From U.S. Judge Audrey Collins: They Ain't Free Speech

  published Sep 29, 2010

  Reason to cheer the departure of Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo: Carmen Trutanich, his replacement, won another courtroom victory against the 11,000 billboards slathered all over sad-sack ... More >>

• Duane Roberts, Green Party U.S. Senate Candidate Against Carly Fiorina And Barbara Boxer, Assails KPCC For Censoring Him From Debate

  published Sep 29, 2010

  Green Party U.S. Senate Candidate Duane Roberts lashed out at public radio station KPCC 89.3 FM this morning for barring Roberts from debating Carly Fiorina and Barbara Boxer -- yet another incident ... More >>

• A.J. Duffy should resign in wake of Ruelas suicide: UTLA chief, not the L.A. Times, is the rot in Southern California school wars

  published Sep 27, 2010

  Pipsqueak United Teachers Los Angeles chief A.J. Duffy, who has turned the L.A. teachers union into a national laughingstock and encouraged this region's teachers to think like infantile whiners, shou... More >>

• Critical Mass L.A. Facebook Debate: Did Bicyclists Wimp Out In Face of LAPDr

  published Sep 25, 2010

  Interesting debate underway on Facebook over last night's Critical Mass bicycling throng on the streets of Los Angeles, which the mainstream media like KNBC-4 duly reported as a "smooth ride," but som... More >>

• Creep targets poor Watts kids, stealing 32 computers and ruining school year at Watts Learning Center. Help needed

  published Sep 24, 2010

  What kind of cowardly a-hole targets low-income grade school kids in Watts who are rising above the South Los Angeles grime at the Watts Learning Center, stealing 32 computers and school projectors an... More >>

• San Yun King's killer, one-man crime machine Larry Stewart, escapes California's Death Row thanks to a single juror holdout, D.A. decides

  published Sep 21, 2010

  Larry Stewart, the vicious crime machine who murdered the quiet, innocent, liquor store owner Sang Yun "Sam" Kim, severely beating and choking the South Los Angeles shopkeeper with his own belt -- the... More >>

• Antonio Villaraigosa ticket scandal: Fair Political Practices Commission orders thousands of California politicians to post freebies on Internet to fight corruption

  published Sep 18, 2010

  Thanks to Antonio Villaraigosa's practice of ignoring anti-corruption laws, angling for $50,000 to $100,000 in freebies, then failing to tell the City Ethics Commission, the Fair Political Practices C... More >>

• Has Ray Cortines Got Cojones?

  published September 9, 2010

  The Los Angeles Times is being variously praised and slammed for becoming the first newspaper ever to publish the... More >>

• Dr. Keith Richman near death: respected San Fernando Valley Jewish Republican formed rare bipartisan effort to force reform in Sacramento

  published Aug 01, 2010

  UPDATED: Keith Richman died Friday night at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, according to an extensive obituary by Kevin Modesti in the Los Angeles Daily News. This post is updated throughout. Dr.... More >>

• Bell corruption hits Maywood as grossly overpaid Angela Spaccia resigns

  published Jul 30, 2010

  Acting Maywood city manager Angela Spaccia has resigned after getting fingered as one of the greedy Bell city officials reaping ungodly salaries in a corruption scandal being probed by California Atto... More >>

• Missing the Grim Sleeper by a Hair

  published July 15, 2010

  Soon after LAPD Detective Rich Haro got the call in 1988 about a woman clinging to life at Harbor-UCLA hospital, he learned... More >>

• Grim Sleeper Sleuth Christine Pelisek Tells Daily Beast: "How I tracked Lonnie David Franklin"

  published Jul 10, 2010

  Award-winning Los Angeles Weekly crime reporter Christine Pelisek today reveals how she tracked the Grim Sleeper serial killer, Lonnie David Franklin Jr. An excerpt is below. Read it all in the Daily ... More >>

• Grim Sleeper survivor Enietra Margette must be happiest woman alive with Lonnie David Franklin arrest

  published Jul 07, 2010

  When Los Angeles Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek wrote the story of the Grim Sleeper's sole survivor -- gutsy Enietra Margette -- some of us in the media wondered how the churchgoing, life-loving wo... More >>

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  COVER STORY

  Villaraigosa's Vanishing Veracity

  published July 1, 2010

  The lofty-sounding 2005 directive from Antonio Villaraigosa read: "Avoid actual and perceived conflicts of interest at all... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  UPDATE Lawyer: Antonio Villaraigosa is above the anticorruption laws; public has no right to know who gave him free tickets

  published Jun 25, 2010

  By Tibby Rothman and Jill Stewart r Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's attorneys, after promising the public they would divulge his extensive acceptance of free tickets, meals, alcohol, parking and other go... More >>

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  FOURTH UPDATE Exclusive: Antonio Villaraigosa free tickets are worth $50,000 to $100,000. Full list here of 80 free events; corruption laws ignored

  published Jun 25, 2010

  By Tibby Rothman and Jill Stewartr L.A. Weekly is publishing below its exclusive ticket price list for the 80 events to which Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa accepted free seats.But first the hot news from... More >>

• Villaraigosa "finds" his 5 years' worth of missing free-ticket docs, then cops defiant attitude toward ethics laws

  published Jun 24, 2010

  By Tibby Rothman and Jill Stewart r Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced that he has found -- and on Friday will release -- five years worth of documents showing who gave him free seating, tickets, me... More >>

• Villaraigosa's Five-Year Free Ticket Spree

  published June 24, 2010

  Read more in this exclusive update: "Antonio... More >>

• CSU student fee hike is a big one: 5 percent slams California kids in November 2010

  published Jun 18, 2010

  If you attend CSUN, Cal State Los Angeles or Cal State Long Beach get ready, because costs for students and their families are taking a major leap, and graduate students are getting slammed even harde... More >>

• Meg Whitman's Uphill Battle

  published June 10, 2010

  It will all come down to math. Former eBay chief executive officer Meg Whitman, the Republican nominee for California... More >>

• Proposition 15 fails miserably because California voters can't stomach paying to elect jerks

  published Jun 09, 2010

  Wow, California voters really, really hate Proposition 15 and the idea of publicly financing political campaigns, despite the $105 million spent by Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner, and the up to $300 mi... More >>

• L.A. Times badly muffs its coverage of Villaraigosa free ticket scandal

  published May 31, 2010

  Wow, Los Angeles Times digger Phil Willon got hammered coming and going in his effort to expose the scandal in which Antonio Villaraigosa has failed to report what could amount to tens of thousands of... More >>

• Unclaimed $45 mil fortune in Los Angeles: Does the tax assessor owe you hundreds of dollarsr

  published May 31, 2010

  Does Los Angeles County own you a piece of $45 millionr You could easily be one of the 25,200 people the county can't "find" who got screwed shortly after the last California housing bubble collapse i... More >>