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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2011 Stories by Jill Stewart

• Antonio Villaraigosa's $30,000 a Day Trip to Asia: Another Empty Gesture as 13 Percent Jobless Rate Grips Los Angeles

  published Dec 06, 2011

  Thankfully, we have CitywatchLA explaining how Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa spends bundles of cash on pointless gestures. His trip to Asia, which will have zero effect on the Los Angeles economy, is bur... More >>

• John Deasy LAUSD Union Contract Cave-inr New Superintendent has a Rare Chance to Force Teachers to Really Teach

  published Nov 16, 2011

  Uh oh, John Deasy, the Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent, is issuing glowing claims to the media that he is nearly ready to cut a labor contract deal with the anti-reform leaders at U... More >>

• DWP Punishes Water Conservers: Ron Nichols Seeks $5 BofA-style Monthly Fee Because Angelenos Saved Too Much Water

  published Nov 16, 2011

  Shame on Los Angeles residents for conserving water. The Department of Water and Power (a widely hated agency, but also a public utility owned by all 4 million Angelenos) plans to slap everyone with a... More >>

• Judge Michael Nash: I'm Opening the Secret Courts in Los Angeles so Child Dependency Screwups Get Sunshine and Fewer Kids Die

  published Nov 10, 2011

  Presiding Judge Michael Nash in L.A. County Dependency Court has seen horrific child sexual predators who rape their toddlers and sickos who starve their foster children -- and social workers and judg... More >>

• San Pedro's Ugly-Tank Cleanup is Finally a Reality: 136 Westway Tanks Will be Demolished at Port of Los Angeles

  published Nov 04, 2011

  Way, way good news for folks in San Pedro living within breathable proximity of the abandoned, Westway tank farm, which the Port of L.A. will finally demolish. Locals hope that dirty industry on this ... More >>

• USC Cracks Copiale Cipher, the Code of a Secret Society Obsessed with Eyeballs

  published Oct 25, 2011

  Cool news from USC: a computer team led by a professor who has been trying to crack the Zodiac Killer's weird hieroglyphics has instead cracked the dense Greek and Roman code in the Copiale Cipher, a ... More >>

• Hero Dog Awards: Beverly Hills Gala October 1 Decides Bravest Four-Legged in the Nation

  published Oct 03, 2011

  Update: Yes, the posthumous winner was Roselle! Big cash prizes went to Roselle and others. See at bottom of second page. The hairy competition has been pitched, with 453 heroic dogs from around the... More >>

• Villaraigosa's 'Clean Truck' Plan for Port of Los Angeles Fails in 9th District Court of Appeals: Greenwashing Failed to Impress

  published Sep 26, 2011

  Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's controversial "clean trucks" plan to squeeze independent truckers out of the Port of Los Angeles as a favor to the Teamsters -- a green-washing plan he sold as... More >>

• 'Hands Off Proposition 13,' Two-Thirds of California Voters Tell Gov. Jerry Brown and Respected Field Poll

  published Sep 23, 2011

  Wow, this is pretty definitive: With all kinds of California newspapers bashing Proposition 13 (often inaccurately claiming that it has starved the state budget -- which has skyrocketed since 1978 eve... More >>

• League of Conservation Voters Moves to Silence Eight Candidates in Los Angeles City Council District 15 Election

  published Sep 23, 2011

  It's discomfiting to watch leaders of the Los Angeles League of Conservations Voters awkwardly try to play king-maker and repress debate in the wide-open Los Angeles City Council District 15 race to r... More >>

• Mike McNeilly, Skytag: The Loser Who Pushes Urban Blight and Ugly Supergraphics is Sued by Carmen Trutanich for Millions

  published Sep 19, 2011

  Mike McNeilly is still trying to wrap Los Angeles in hideous, dangerous, skyscraper-sized illegal supergraphic advertising so he can get richer. But once a loser, always a loser. McNeilly ran for Cal... More >>

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  Street Artist SABER Tries Skywriting to Shame Los Angeles City Council and Villaraigosa Over Their Decimation of Public Art Murals

  published Sep 19, 2011

  L.A. Taco, that lover of street art, blogged a few hours ago about Los Angeles artist SABER's fantastic skywriting protest over City Hall this morning to protest the Los Angeles City Council's bizarr... More >>

• Wendy Greuel L.A. Mayoral Election 2013 Antics: Why is She Acting Like a Blond Version of Schwarzenegger on 'Waste, Fraud, Abuse'r

  published Sep 15, 2011

  Is Wendy Greuel running for Los Angeles mayor by acting like a blond version of the failed Arnold Schwarzenegger, decrying waste, fraud and abuser She's fired off an election-aimed press release askin... More >>

• A Field of Billboards for Farmers Field

  published September 8, 2011

  Click here for "Farmers Field or Blade... More >>

• Stephen Yagman VS. Chemerinsky

  published September 1, 2011

  Stephen Yagman — the blustering, hated, brilliant, beloved, disbarred lawyer who won fame by regularly defeating police... More >>

• Warren Furutani and Paul Koretz: Separated at Birthr Why do People Who Parrot One Another Run for Los Angeles City Councilr

  published Jul 21, 2011

  Lots of folks want to run for the Los Angeles City Council District 15 seat being abandoned by Janice Hahn, recently elected to Congress. Voters will probably soon realize that several of the CD 15 ca... More >>

• Arnold Schwarzenegger Turns Cad -- Again -- over Divorce Fees: He Refuses to Pay for Maria Shriver's Attorney

  published Jul 21, 2011

  Arnold Schwarzenegger has a real tin ear about his impending divorce from Maria Shriver, how the public feels about him, and how to avoid adding to his sad reputation the new title of Reigning Califor... More >>

• Robert Canizalez and Martin Morones, Illegal Street Racers, Murdered Dora Groce and Her Two Kids in Fiery El Monte Crash

  published Jul 21, 2011

  Robert Canizalez and Martin Morones murdered Dora Groce and her two children in a horrific car blaze like a terror scene from Terminator, and California's 2nd District Court of Appeal yesterday denied... More >>

• California Redevelopment Agencies' Demise

  published June 30, 2011

  Until this week, Los Angeles' leaders had been on a mission that, due to attendant PR problems, unfolded behind closed doors:... More >>

• California Citizens Redistricting Map Shakeup: Why Disgusted Voters Took Control of Senate, Assembly and Congressional Electoral Borders

  published Jun 10, 2011

  By Hillel Aron and Jill Stewart Here's why California citizens today produced new, non-sleazy, non-trickster-y redistricting maps that starkly rejigger how communities are represented in the Califor... More >>

• Dance of the Lemons in California Schools: Finally, Big Shakeup at the Awful California Commission on Teacher Credentialing

  published Jun 03, 2011

  Buh-bye to Dale Janssen and Mary C. Armstrong, ousted from an agency that is among the most injurious to children in the U.S., the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. A withering state aud... More >>

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  Ashton Sweet, OC Cheerleader Left Brain-Dead by Alleged Drunk Driver, to be Organ Donor

  published Jun 02, 2011

  Update: Following Sweet's death and a not guilty plea from 26-year-old Austin Jeffrey Farley, accused in the DUI murder of the teen, the OC Register reports that her mom has donated the girl's heart, ... More >>

• Lies Abound About Why Senate Bill 18, to Limit and Ban Gifts to California Legislators, Was Killed by those Legislators

  published May 27, 2011

  Update: Ted Lieu says he was among the few legislators in favor of the gift ban but was prevented by the Democratic leadership from discussing or voting on it on May 26. See Jump. Remember the names ... More >>

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  Yvette Monje, High School Entrepreneur, Answers the Question: How to Make a Profit Off the Promr

  published May 25, 2011

  Yvette Monje's mom worries about the safety of her daughter, who is rapidly approaching womanhood. "A man might try to talk to me," explains Monje, a beautiful, dark-eyed high school girl from Sout... More >>

• Angelino Heights Victorian Enclave Saved by Murray Burns: How a Los Angeles Resident Saved an Entire, Amazing Neighborhood

  published May 25, 2011

  Murry Burns and Planaria Price were the subject of a People Issue profile by Los Angeles Weekly four years ago, and now they've landed on NBC talking about how Burns led a private effort that rehabbed... More >>