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

• Katrina Edwards: Mistress of the Dark World

  published May 20, 2010

  Katrina Edwards wears a baby tee and low-cut jeans, and pads around barefoot in her Craftsman-style home in South Pasadena,... More >>

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  Villaraigosa 2010-11 budget: look for Wall Street-style backdoors, city asset sales, flip-flops

  published Apr 20, 2010

  The mayor will release his official Los Angeles 2010-11 fiscal year city budget today, and it's widely expected to contain more flip-flops than a sidewalk sale at a 99-cent store. The Los Angeles City... More >>

• Bold girl criminals hit Encino, dubbed Knock-Knock crew by cops

  published Apr 19, 2010

  Cops are asking for the public's help in catching three, bold girl criminals in a burglary crew that hits pricey homes in the Encino and San Fernando Valley hills, by waltzing up to the front door and... More >>

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  Looks good for Romero-Dutton law: It bans ousted California politicians from getting unemployment

  published Apr 19, 2010

  California state Sen. Gloria Romero's  bill to prevent loser politicians who get ousted by voters from collecting California state unemployment insurance has made it out of a key labor committee ... More >>

• Pew poll says Americans hate government. Exhibit One: Howard Berman, gerrymander king

  published Apr 19, 2010

  The respected Pew Research Center several hours ago revealed that Americans from all walks of life are beset with distrust for government at all levels, plummeting from 73 percent who said they truste... More >>

• Rescued: A starved dog named "Courage" Arrested: a Bellflower veterinarian technician

  published Apr 16, 2010

  How sickening people are, but how amazing animals can be. "Courage" is the name of a dog who was unlucky enough to be owned by a young woman who allegedly starved him. He was rescued, clinging to life... More >>

• Save us, WWE and Barbie! Mattel reports a revenue turnaround and sighs with relief

  published Apr 16, 2010

  Can Barbie save us from the incredible, persistent 12 percent to 14 percent unemployment that has ravaged Los Angeles city and countyrThe folks over at Mattel are doing something right -- gobbling up ... More >>

• Connecting the really strange dots between Austin Beutner, National Enquirer, Los Angeles Times and Villaraigosa

  published Apr 16, 2010

  That love letter to Antonio Villaraigosa's new aide Austin Beutner in the Los Angeles Times today got us thinking about the most fascinating fact the L.A. media leaves out when it comes to  the s... More >>

• List of 100 Most Powerful People in California: How an obscure scientist beat Haim Saban

  published Apr 15, 2010

  The great scribes at Capitol Weekly who report on the deeply unpopular California State Legislature and only slightly less disliked Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger have issued the first 50 names in the... More >>

• Neon Tommy and Ron Kaye team up for a LOL slam of Antonio, Hahn, DWP and Los Angeles City Hall bumbling

  published Apr 15, 2010

  The Neon Tommy Web site has a hilarious -- hee-larious --  peek at L.A. City Hall and its absurd characters as seen by rabble-rousing newspaperman Ron Kaye in a Laugh Out Loud profile today of Ka... More >>

• City Hall's 2010 DWP Debacle

  published April 15, 2010

  In the past 31 days, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has taken one of the most tumultuous rides in the annals of municipal power... More >>

• Update: LA Marathon's hidden disaster: utterly incompetent logistics went unreported by L.A. media

  published Mar 23, 2010

  Tina Dupuy over at Fishbowl LA has a stunning report on what the Los Angeles media left out of their Los Angeles Marathon coverage on Sunday, apparently after dozens of print and broadcast journalists... More >>

• $51,887 = average check, for life, paid to Los Angeles City Hall employees to quit early (ERIP)

  published Mar 22, 2010

  Those fact-diggers at OurLA.org have outed some amazing stats about the yearly checks being handed to 2,400 City of Los Angeles workers, for life, to retire early and help to "save" the broke City of ... More >>

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  Hottie video proves Meg Whitman's hairstyle must go. So how's she beating Jerry Brown in the Field Pollr

  published Mar 17, 2010

  Sacramento bloggers and influence peddlers are buzzing like mad today over the new Field Poll (here's the San Diego Trib version) showing that Meg Whitman's massive $40 million radio and cable ad camp... More >>

• President Obama stiffs California public schools. Not a cent coming from $4 billion Race to Top money

  published Mar 04, 2010

  This was awfully easy to see coming: Hours before California college students took to the streets demanding more funding, Obama's education team in Washington D.C. announced that the California legisl... More >>

• Stimulus free-for-all: Los Angeles gets screwed by California Energy Commission

  published Feb 26, 2010

  Lots of outrage being expressed today about how badly the City of Los Angeles just got stiffed by the California Energy Commission in Sacramento, which is handing out loads of goodies --$110.3 million... More >>

• Redneck-style bust in Mar Vista on Westside: LAPD gets big load of machine guns

  published Feb 04, 2010

  Uh, who let the rednecks into Mar Vistar  The area was buzzing tonight about an LAPD raid in which explosives and machine guns were found in a cache in a residence in the fairly pricey, yet somew... More >>

• Weekly's Heimpel wins Anna Quindlen award for gripping story on growing up in foster care

  published Feb 01, 2010

  Daniel Heimpel, freelance writer for the Weekly, has won the national Anna Quindlen Award for Excellence in Journalism in Behalf of Children and Families, a national competition founded 15 years ago t... More >>