Fabian Nunez

Villaraigosa Wants to be Governor of California

As mayor of Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa gets a D. Maybe a C. Blame constant multimillion-dollar deficits, a do-nothing City Council, the specter of municipal bankruptcy, corruption in Building and Safety, increased taxation through parking and traffic tickets, and the worst roads in America. ... More >>

Labor Groups Want MTA To Buy American On $900 Million Rail Car Contract

Update: MTA Board defies labor and votes to award the contract to Kinkisharyo. More below.The state's most powerful labor leaders are urging the MTA not to award a $890 million rail-car contract to a Japanese company, arguing that the money should instead be pumped into the U.S. economy.Labor leader ... More >>

California's $100B Bullet Train 'Not Feasible' at This Time, Says Peer Review Group for the High-Speed Rail (Surprise, Surprise)

The Bullet Train: Even more expensive a pipe dream than the L.A. mayor's "Subway to the Sea."​How many more warnings will it take for starry-eyed California politicians to realize the voter-approved $100 billion Bullet Train is a budget disaster waiting to implode? On top of skepticism from t ... More >>

$100 Billion Bullet Train

Democrats fray as cost skyrockets, feds bail, and Amtrak starts to look good

Portantino's Passion Ploy

An upstart suburban legislator outfoxes California Speaker John Perez

Schwarzenegger Snores When Reminded of Reduced Sentence for Manslaughter Convict Esteban Nunez

Arnold.​CBS 2 reporter Dave Bryan won't let former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger live down his last-minute sentence reduction for the manslaughtering son of a powerful state Democratic leader. And so he dogged the Governator today, asking him, Why? The gov wasn't having it, saying "Don't ask me ... More >>

Arnold Schwarzenegger Reprises His Sacramento Nightmare, Mounts Comeback as Comic Book Character "The Governator" (Really)

Entertainment Weekly​So Arnold Schwarzenegger is making a comeback as a cartoon character called ... "the Governator." The former California first man told Entertainment Weekly that he and Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee are working on a comic book and TV show based on the character who will b ... More >>

Arnold Schwarzenegger, State Prisons Sued Over Sentence Reduction for Esteban Nunez, Son of Fabian Nunez

Esteban Nunez.​Did the Governator violate California's own rules when he reduced the prison sentence of Esteban Nunez, son of pal Fabian Nunez? A lawsuit filed this week claims he did. Baby Nunez was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 16 years in prison for his involvement in the 2008 ... More >>

Will L.A. City Council and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Ever Resuscitate Public Access TV?

​Will the Los Angeles City Council and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa ever help resuscitate public access television in Los Angeles? It's a question public access advocates continue to put forward, although it seems to fall on deaf ears. In response, public access TV producer Leslie Dutton, act ... More >>

Gov. Arnold's Last Move: The Gift Of A Shorter Sentence For Manslaughter Convict Esteban Nunez, Son Of Democratic Player Fabian Nunez

Thanks, Arnold: Esteban Nunez.​We called them the "Bad Little Suburban Boys," the foursome accused in the brutal, beer-fueled stabbing of a San Diego State University student in the fall of 2008. And, true to form, bad little suburban boys, especially ones who are the sons of powerful state po ... More >>

Welcome Home, Jerry Brown

But really, what were you thinking? This state is a mess

Anatomy of a Murder

City Councilman Herb Wesson's Deputy To Go For Open Assembly Seat

Andrew Westall.​Andrew Westall, a 36-year-old senior deputy to Los Angeles City Councilman Herb Wesson, announced Monday that he would run for the state assembly seat left vacant by Paul Krekorian, who was elected as an East Valley representative of the council last week. "I have worked for t ... More >>

Report: Villaraigosa Held Back-Room Confab For Assembly Speaker Job Over Bottle Of Wine

Assemblyman Kevin De Leon represents Silver Lake, Echo Park and nearby communities.​It's been years since Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa worked as a Sacramento power player, but that hasn't stopped him from throwing his weight around in statehouse politics. The Los Angeles Times on Monday reported ... More >>

Riled Over California's High-Speed Rail

It sounded like such a good idea. But the highly disruptive routes anger many

High Speed De-Rail: Schwarzenegger Cronies Give Up $9 Million in Easy Money

​Looking for proof that good old fashioned muckraking can alter the course of political decision-making? Well, consider the latest twist in the controversy over Schwarzenegger cronies who had been handed a staggering $9 million for public relations efforts concerning California's high speed rail. ... More >>

Esteban Nunez's Friend Admits Destroying Evidence; Will Testify Against Former Assembly Speaker's Son

Just two weeks before the first anniversary of the death of 22-year-old San Diego college student Luis Santos, one of the four men charged with his fatal stabbing pleaded guilty September 16. Rafael Garcia, the son of a respected Sacramento administrative law judge, also agreed to testify against t ... More >>

Mushroom Season in Poisonous Sacramento

Assemblyman John Perez wants to make Phil Anschutz richer with a favor to Nokia Live

Is Google Joining AT&T to Shut Up the Little Guy?

We're fascinated to see a Variety journalist pick up on our last week's cover story, "Shutting Up the Little Guy," as a cautionary tale about not just what AT&T, Fabian Nunez and the Los Angeles City Council are doing to decimate local public access TV, but what might happen if net neutrality -- ... More >>

Shutting Down Public-Access TV

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

Esteban Nunez: Good Boy or Gangbanger?

That's the question explored by Latinopoliticsblog.com (from the "barrio to D.C."). Since former California Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez's son Esteban and four friends got picked up last week for allegedly stabbing a 22-year-old college student to death in San Diego, his Myspace "EsTeBaN" has pre ... More >>

Fabian Nunez's Son Arrested in Slay Case

Luis Santos

Reading the Fine Print: How to Spot the Loopholes, Legal Doozies and Loose Phrasing in California's Ballot Initiatives

Voter beware the phrases "associated with," "other uses" and "related issues"

Los Angeles City Hall as Slumlord

Council members Perry and Cardenas pressured the CRA to hand Ruben Islas public money. But a federal judge called it like it was.

Local Election Results: Ghostly L.A. Voters Deliver Surprises

... and mixed messages for Parks, Ridley-Thomas and Villaraigosa's cousin

Voter Guide: the Pros and Cons of the Initiatives, February 5 Ballot

Making sense of the issues

Tribal Flush: Pechanga People "Disenrolled" en Masse

On the eve of what could be the largest gambling expansion in U.S. history, a tale of power, betrayal and lost Indian heritage

Sacramento Bites Back

With Antonio preoccupied by an affair, L.A. loses its rail funds. You can thank Mike Villines

No Peace Offering Here

Our readers write back

Governator 2: Rise of the Girly Man

Arnold’s budget beats up the weak

How Alarcón Sold Out the Schools

Re-running for City Council, he got a free pass from the media over his troubling antics in Sacramento

Voters’ Guide

Making sense of the ballot measures L.A. City Measures:

Our Indian Government

Play at a casino, and elect a Republican

Voters' Guide

Making sense of the ballot measures

Come Home, Wayward Angelenos

Antonio’s call to the faithful

The New Fall Guy

Those high dropout rates and low test scores are Mayor V’s problem now

Wake Up and Vote

L.A. Weekly endorsements for next Tuesday’s primary

Jackie's Warring Clan

Going for broke in the race to replace Goldberg in the 45th Assembly District

All About Breaking Up

Antonio plays the bully in this school-board race

Arnold’s Broken Bond

Our taxing relationship with the governor

Anointed by Antonio

How Herb Wesson won an election without a vote of the people

Not-News Week

A Night for Mama

Antonio vows to work every day for all of L.A.

Stiffed and Miffed

L.A.’s lowest-paid call time-out

George and the Governator

So why do Californians despise Bush and embrace Arnold?

L.A. Weekly Voter's Guide

The L.A. Weekly’s Endorsements

Winning Grandma Millie’s Vote

The attorney general’s bottom line with Enron

Ruling by Referendum

Governor Arnold wants voters to fix his budget mess

Primary Concerns

Race, class and gumption in the March local elections