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

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  FEATURED STORY

  Malibu Lagoon Bulldozers Halted by San Francisco Superior Court: Small Environmental Group Beats California Coastal Commission

  published May 20, 2011

  Big victory for Wetlands Defense Fund, Access for All and attorneys James Birkelund and Rose M. Zoia, who convinced a San Francisco judge today to issue a preliminary injunction halting plans approved... More >>

• Jane Oshita: Fall Girl

  published May 19, 2011

  Kids can't do stunts in Hollywood, so other means are required when the script calls for putting a child in danger's way. Jane... More >>

• Dr. David Feinberg, Whose UCLA Salary was Doubled to $1.3 Million, Gets an L.A. Times Front Page Puff Piece

  published May 13, 2011

  You don't see pure puff pieces on the front of the Los Angeles Times much. But today the paper ran a near-lionization of Dr. David Feinberg, who LA Weekly investigated after UCLA doubled his base sal... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver Split: Trying to Cope Over Troubles in Storied 25-Year Marriage

  published May 09, 2011

  Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver are living apart while they figure out what to do about their troubled marriage, according to the Los Angeles Times. She has moved out of the fantastic Brentwoo... More >>

• Beth Barrett, Los Angeles Investigative Reporter, Wins Maggie Award for Best Public Service Series: The Dance of the Lemons

  published May 03, 2011

  Investigative reporter Beth Barrett, the Los Angeles journalist whose scoop revealing that Antonio Villaraigosa was cheating on his wife caused him extensive political harm, has won the Maggie Award f... More >>

• Jeremy Marks Attempted Lynching Charge Dropped by Los Angeles County DA

  published Apr 29, 2011

  The felony prosecution of Jeremy Marks has been abandoned by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office, which had accused the teen of "attempted lynching" -- a bizarre charge that drew nationa... More >>

• Save Malibu Lagoon Rally: The Fight to Prevent a Rare Los Angeles-Area Tidal Lagoon's Destruction-Reconstruction Gets Down to Wire

  published Apr 29, 2011

  Mayorsam blog says the battle to prevent Malibu Lagoon from being subjected to an elaborate "destroy-it-to-rebuild-it" plan is getting attention tomorrow at 4 p.m. at a rally at the Malibu Lagoon park... More >>

• Lara Logan Tells NYT She Was Raped by Object: By the Hands of Many Men in Tahrir Square

  published Apr 28, 2011

  Update: "Lara Logan Confirms She Was Brutally and Repeatedly Raped in Egypt: Why Did the Media Think She Wasn'tr" Lara Logan has told the New York Times' Brian Stelter that she was repeatedly raped b... More >>

• Richard McKee RIP: Pasadena Professor Beat Scores of Politicians in Court Who Illegally Kept Public Meetings and Info a Secret

  published Apr 26, 2011

  Big loss for anyone worried about the scheming, secretive government entities and politicians so common in California cities, counties and Sacramento: The surprise death of Richard McKee, a widely res... More >>

• Ron Nichols, DWP General Manager, Defends $23,000 And $1,300 Surprise Bills and Turnoff Threats to Customers Caused by His Staff

  published Apr 26, 2011

  Ron Nichols is getting off to an ugly start as chief of DWP, the widely hated utility monopoly, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. KNBC-4's Ana Garcia reports that general manager Ron Ni... More >>

• Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's 2011 'State of the City' Message: Rip Up the Teacher Union Contract if You Want School Reform

  published Apr 13, 2011

  Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gets major credit for two seldom-seen qualities tonight in his 2011 State of the City address: 1) He's got an attention span, focused on LAUSD's awful schools --... More >>

• Jerome Horton's $13,000 Fine: The BOE Tax Man Who Sat on $100,000 Brings Sleaze to California's Board of Equalization

  published Apr 04, 2011

  Did you hear the one about the sleazy tax man, Jerome Horton, who got caught secretly and illegally funneling money to a friend in Inglewood for a school board race, then had the nerve today to public... More >>

• John Quigley and Julia Posin Trial: Los Angeles DA Steve Cooley Pushing Jail Time for Enviros Who Tried to Save 249 Oak Trees

  published Mar 22, 2011

  Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley apparently is committed to jailing enviros John Quigley and Julia Posin, who sat in trees in the Arcadia woodlands north of Los Angeles to stop the c... More >>

• $9 Billion California High Speed Rail Route: The Planning is So Inept That it's Souring Residents from North to South

  published Mar 15, 2011

  Investigative reporter Tracy Wood writes today about the inept, cloaked, and somewhat creepy PR strategy followed by the California High Speed Rail engineers and Parsons Brinckerhoff, who have not fol... More >>

• Los Angeles Measures I and J Election Results: Big Backing for Reform of the Department of Water and Power

  published Mar 09, 2011

  Update: Hands down, these two L.A. DWP reform measures are the huge winners tonight. As of 12:20 a.m. Wed., Measure I had 77.35 percent yes, and Measure J had 81.27 percent. Early election returns f... More >>

• March 8 2011 Los Angeles Election Results at Your Fingertips: Click Here for Winners and Losers

  published Mar 08, 2011

  Beginning at 8:30 pm tonight, the Los Angeles City Clerk will issue the first Election Day results for seven Los Angeles City Council races where Jose Huizar, Bernard Parks, Tom LaBonge and other lon... More >>

• John Chiang Audit Hammers California Redevelopment Agencies: Millions of Dollars Gone from Affordable Housing Funds

  published Mar 08, 2011

  Update: The Los Angeles City Council is deciding today whether to hide $1 billion in redevelopment cash from Governor Jerry Brown. Few overweight or sickly Californians ever knew that the Los Angeles... More >>

• Villaraigosa screws Jerry Brown: Los Angeles redevelopment honchos had '48 hours of panic' while devising poison pill to shelter $1 billion.

  published Mar 04, 2011

  Read the blow-by-blow here about the possibly illegal doings by the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency in January, as it went into panic mode to squirrel away $1 billion that Gov. Jerry Brown ... More >>

• L.A.'s $350 Million Deficit Explained: City Employees Spent Years Collecting $215 Fine from Franklin Hanock. But He'd Already Paid.

  published Mar 03, 2011

  Valley Village resident Franklin Hanock, featured in an L.A. Daily News column by Kerry Cavanaugh, says "Where [LA] is heading scares the hell out of me." He got a $125 fine for a malfunctioning bur... More >>

• El Camino Real High School in San Fernando Valley, Nationally Respected, Flees LAUSD to Become Charter School

  published Mar 02, 2011

  Update: The school was in the news recently for the Jeff Stenroos faked shooting. One of the top-rated schools in the Western U.S., El Camino Real High School -- so good that parents have driven up ... More >>

• Governor Jerry Brown Orders Hiring Freeze: Let's Hope it's Not as Fake as "Freezes" where Arnold and Gray Davis Hired Like Madmen

  published Feb 15, 2011

  Today's breathless press release states that California Gov. Jerry Brown has ordered a massive state hiring freeze. Will that be anything like Gov. Gray Davis' utterly fake freeze, during which tens o... More >>

• Michael Trujillo's "bullet in forehead" email: Squirm-inducing antics by Jose Huizar aide take Los Angeles politics to new low

  published Feb 07, 2011

  Michael Trujillo's creepy, self-obsessed email to 28 insiders in the Jose Huizar campaign, in which he strutted and proclaimed like Captain Queeg: "We are about to put a political bullet in between Ru... More >>

• Pew Reports Los Angeles City Council is Biggest Spender On its Entourages and Salaries Among Big U.S. Cities: $1,400 Versus $178,789

  published Feb 02, 2011

  Pew Charitable Trusts reports that of 15 of the biggest U.S. cities, the Los Angeles City Council spends more on personal staffs and offices than anyone, has the highest pay (L.A. $178,789/San Antonio... More >>

• Jeff Stenroos Lied, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck Says: Entire Shooting at El Camino High School Was Fake, Manhunt Cancelled

  published Jan 27, 2011

  Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck tonight accused LAUSD campus cop Jeff Stenroos of staging his own shooting shooting himself near El Camino Real High School last week, creating a fake story about... More >>

• Maria Elena Durazo and Richard Riordan Lead Mixed Coalition on Measure L, To Save Los Angeles' Shuttered Libraries

  published Jan 25, 2011

  Finally, a big coalition is urging approval of Measure L on the March 8 ballot, which would save the decimated Los Angeles public library system from anti-library Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who, as m... More >>