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Los Angeles City Council District 11 Primary Results: Mike Bonin Wins Resounding Victory

In the Los Angeles City Council District 11 race, Mike Bonin, the longtime chief of staff to outgoing District 11 Councilman Bill Rosendahl, won a resounding victory on Tuesday night and will replace his boss. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Bonin earned 17,566 votes or 61.19 percent. Sin ... More >>

Los Angeles City Council District 11 Primary: Absentee Ballot Results Show Mike Bonin Leading by Large Margin

In the Los Angeles City Council District 11 race, frontrunner Mike Bonin, the longtime chief of staff to outgoing District 11 Councilman Bill Rosendahl, is expected to win big. But just how big? Will he grab more than 50 percent tonight and avoid a May runoff? As of now, Bonin is cleaning up with 6 ... More >>

Los Angeles City Council District 11 Primary Results: Mike Bonin Running Away with Race

In the Los Angeles City Council District 11 race, frontrunner Mike Bonin, the longtime chief of staff to outgoing District 11 Councilman Bill Rosendahl, is expected to win big. But just how big? Will he grab more than 50 percent tonight and avoid a May runoff? With more than 30 percent of precincts ... More >>

St. Petersburg's Anti-Gay Attacks On Gaga, Madonna Could End L.A. Sister City Status

The ACLU wants L.A. City Hall to cut its ties with St. Pertersburg, Russia, an official sister city. Why? The Russian metropolis hasn't exactly been gay-friendly. After passing a law last year making pro-gay "propagandizing" around youth a crime, St. Pertersburg targeted Lady Gaga with an investiga ... More >>

Venice Zip Line Approved For Spring

Starting as soon as spring, flying high in Venice will no longer just describe what homeless youths do on the boardwalk. Yes, after a big push by L.A. city Councilman Bill Rosendahl, the community he represents will get a zip line. The project needed the approval of a notoriously hard to please bu ... More >>

Byron Adams, Bill Rosendahl, Stevie St. John and L.A. Gay Equality Warriors Stunned, Thrilled by Obama 2013 Inaugural Promise

From revered gay UC Riverside professor and brilliant classical composer Byron Adams to Spectrum L.A. gay blog editor Stevie St. John, prominent Los Angeles-area lifelong fighters for equality were stunned by President Obama's surprise inaugural promise to bring full, unprecedented human rights to g ... More >>

Los Angeles Gadflies on Fire

City Hall politicians want them gone

Venice Bum-Haters Post List of Homeless-Advocate Addresses, Call It 'Guide to Safe Camping Locations'

The debate over how to curb/contain the homeless population in Venice has been tearing the community apart for years. Homeless advocates argue that the street people have owned Venice far longer than the arty millionaires. But some residents aren't down to pay skyrocketing rents while RVs dump huma ... More >>

L.A. City Redistricting Land Grab: Appointed Commissioners Try to Gerrymander Westside, Downtown

Updated at the bottom with a map of the land grab. This just got ugly. Every 10 years, Los Angeles is required to readjust its 15 City Council districts to accomodate for population shifts. But as with most decisions made at City Hall, the 2012 redistricting effort has turned from what should be a ... More >>

Porn Condom Battle Erupts in City Hall as Councilman Rosendahl Attempts to Block City Attorney From Stopping Voters From Deciding

FotoPhrogCity Hall is fighting for you.​When you mix porn, City Hall, and a City Council and City Attorney's office that don't seem to like each other, let alone work together, you have the makings of a juicy story. This week L.A. City Council members Bill Rosendahl and Paul Koretz filed a mo ... More >>

Farmers Field or Blade Runner Stadium?

The downtown NFL arena deal allows a sea of billboards, congestion and millions in public costs

Venice's Penmar Park Pulled From Consideration For Homeless Parking Program After Double Murder There

Dennis RomeroAn RV in Venice.​Few issues in the liberal seaside community of Venice are more contentious than what to do with otherwise homeless RV dwellers who have flocked the artists' enclave in recent years. City Councilman Bill Rosendahl, who represents the area, has come up with a compr ... More >>

Bus-Only Lane Will Run 7.7 Miles Down Wilshire Boulevard -- Conveniently Sparing Westwood's 'Condo Canyon'

LAStreetsBlogThe 720 -- home free!​Screwed year-in and year-out by rail-happy L.A. politicians and transportation officials, the Bus Riders Union finally gets to pop the bubbly tonight -- in celebration of a 7.7-mile bus lane it's taken them six years to win. (That is, if it's approved by L.A ... More >>

How Lobbyist John Ek Gets His Way at City Hall

Westchester to Break Ground on New Skate Park With The Help of Councilman Bill Rosendahl

A skater gets air, but not over Westchester. Not yet.​The city of L.A. continues to roll out skate parks, despite recent opposition from neighbors concerned about noise from skateboarders at a West L.A. rec center. The latest one will see a ceremonial groundbreaking Monday at 11 a.m. at 7000 ... More >>

Google Moves Into Hip, Gehry-Designed Pad at 340 Main Street in Venice Beach (PHOTOS)

wvs.topleftpixel.com​Welcome to Venice, Google! Your 6,000 new employees will be pleased to hear that Lindsay Lohan's new four-bedroom is located a convenient four-minute drive south [Voila! Driving directions! Have we told you lately that we love you, Goo-Goo?] and the weird sushi/hamburger/b ... More >>

L.A. Says Yes To RV Parking Limits In Venice, But Will Mayor Villaraigosa Veto The Restrictions?

Will RV dwellers be left out in the cold?​The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday said Venice can have parking zones where RVs and other big vehicles are prohibited from dropping anchor overnight. The question is, will Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa sign the ordinance or give it his mayoral vet ... More >>

Food Trucks Will Require Special Permits Under L.A. City Move

Special city permits might be in order for taco trucks like this one.​Following L.A. County's move to grade food trucks the same way restaurants receive letters (A through C, depending on cleanliness), the L.A. City Council jumped on that bandwagon Wednesday. It voted to draw up a law that wo ... More >>

Saving L.A. Foot by Foot

Once-Disgusting Venice Grand Canal is a living wetland again

Homeless RV Campers Could Be Banned From Parking Overnight In Venice; But Foot-Dragging Tortures Issue

​The days of otherwise homeless folks camping out in RVs parked on Venice streets could be coming to an end. After intense fighting over the plight of the "mobile homeless" in the liberal, beach-side community, the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday moved forward with a plan that would allo ... More >>

Venice Group Critical Of Plan To Create Overnight RV Parking Lots For 'Mobile Homeless'

​A Venice residents' group this week criticized a city program that aims to provide safe parking lots where at least some of the beach community's controversial RV dwellers could stay overnight. Zeroing in on the "Streets to Homes" document that seeks proposals from nonprofit groups that wish ... More >>

Food Truck Battle: City Council Hears Testimony

​The Wild West era of Los Angeles mobile food trucks is likely coming to an end, as a City Council committee heard testimony today on how to regulate the 4,000 trucks that are a prandial delight to many but a nuisance to others. The transportation committee, led by Councilman Bill Rosendahl, ... More >>

Venice Activists Calls B.S. On City's Vision Of Beach RV Life

A vision of RV life in Venice?​

Plan To Create Special Parking Lots For RV Dwellers In Venice Moves Forward

​A plan by Los Angeles city Councilman Bill Rosendahl to create special overnight parking lots for people who live in their RVs in Venice and other Westside communities in his district is moving forward this summer, but not without criticism on both sides of the homeless issue. The "Safe Park ... More >>

Bundy Village Gets Planning Commission Approval (UPDATED)

​The Los Angeles city Planning Commission voted to approve a controversial, mixed-use project at West Olympic Boulevard and Bundy Drive in West Los Angeles despite protests that it would add 21,000 extra car trips a day to the area. The developer, Michael Lombardi, trumpeted the unanimous app ... More >>

Residents Protest Massive Westside Development

An artist's rendering of Bundy Village.​Demonstrators on Tuesday hit the corner of West Olympic Boulevard and Bundy Drive to protest a proposed one-million square-foot development at the intersection that they argue will add 21,000 cars a day to already choked Westside traffic. The developmen ... More >>

Trutanich's Emergency Billboard Ban Approved by Los Angeles City Council

In his first big move to address a campaign promise, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich today sent one of his top attorneys to persuade the Los Angeles City Council to enact a flat-out, no exceptions ban on new billboards in Los Angeles, the capital of the illegal billboard industry.In an emergency acti ... More >>

City Council Postpones Controversial Billboard Vote

The Los Angeles City Council postponed a vote on a sweeping billboard law that would ban digital billboards and giant supergraphics, but allow them in specially designated "sign districts." Facing a barrage of criticism from anti-clutter activists and business leaders, council members agreed to hol ... More >>

L.A. City Council Clings to Stunning Perks and Pay

They can't bear to give up those record-high $178,898 salaries

Pen Pushers Break Bank: Cash-Strapped L.A. City Hall Spends $1 Million on Calligraphy

Despite fiscal free fall, Villaraigosa and City Council spend public money on scrolls

L.A's Hidden Housing Disaster

Massive rebuilding and the ownership bubble quietly wiped out 13,713 cheap rentals

Shutting Down Public-Access TV

AT&T and L.A. City Hall quietly lead a national push to silence the little guy

Code Enforcement Bureau Inundated by Billboard Related Complaints, According to a City Report

The Los Angeles Department of Building & Safety's Code Enforcement Bureau has 321 open cases involving sign complaints, according to a city report filed in early November. Eighty-nine of the complaints involve "supergraphics" or signs that wrap around buildings. Of those, 46 are currently in som ... More >>

Will L.A. Finally Zero in on Forest of Illegal Billboards?

Almost seven long years after the Los Angeles City Council vowed to find the exact locations and determine the physical condition of the city's virtually unregulated forest of legal and illegal 10,000 billboards, the city's Building and Safety Department says they will begin the long-awaited program ... More >>

Grand Avenue: Is L.A. City Hall's Pet Project Foundering?

Not a stick of the posh project is up, but a taxpayer subsidy could hit $123 million

Eli Broad's Grand Avenue Follies

Mecca for the monied can't get a loan, but is likely to get City Council's nod

Villaraigosa's Dead-End Pico and Olympic One-Way Plan ...

... hits the wall at Fairfax

Dem Presidential Candidates Face Gays

At Hollywood Q&A, Richardson screws up, Hillary argues, Edwards flipflops

LAX Expansion Betrayal?

Thinking they’d won, Westsiders eyeball an even more intrusive runway plan

Dog Food Caper

Journalists and City Council cave to iffy lawsuit

Welcome to Gentrification City

Teardowns. Evictions. Investment. Rebirth. And the significance of that new gelato stand. The perils and pleasures of gentrification

Shooting Down Trains

LAX director is no big fan of the Green Line

Coming to America and Playing to the Crowds

Drug Profits and Gang Wars

Seeking Council

Will neighborhood power grow or go in the new regime?

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Winners and Losers

Endorsements, Election Day March 8

Operation Enduring Dissent

Is the crackdown on free expression new, or business as usual?