Hal Bernson

Buscaino vs. Furutani

L.A. City Council race is about preserving lifer politicians

Fight for Council District 12

Valley citizens try to crack open L.A. City Hall

L.A. City Council Candidate Mitchell Englander, Heir To The Incumbent, Nears Half-Million Mark As Top Competitor Brad Smith Drops From Race

Mitch Englander For City CouncilSitting pretty in District 12​Update: The race is back on! District 12 Candidate Brad Smith says: "One week ago, we had to put this campaign on hold because of very real issues that anyone working in today's economy can identify with; today, those issues have be ... More >>

Bill Bratton's Endorsements Spectacle

The LAPD chief's politicking has critics fearing a slide to the bad old days

Mayor Who?

Anonymous Jim resurrects Yorty’s L.A.

Your City Council (Not) at Work

What keeps L.A.’s politicians from delivering on their progressive dreams

Lord of the Race

Serving on two powerful air-quality boards., L.A. Marathon founder William Burke sets a fast pace. But it just might be when he crosses the finish line, the public — and clean air — are the big losers.

Sam and His Pals

L.A. is a Wal-Mart town. Get used to it.

Coughing Up a Plan

Clean-air strategy falls short

This Rocky Can Handle a Punch

Turning to a Newspaperman for Ethics

And assorted other City Council maneuvers

The Swinging Door

A new council, rich lobbyists and a sheriff who doesn’t want to leave

Labor Is Back

Ludlow’s victory revives dreams of L.A. movement

Still L.A. — With Regrets

The citywide implications of a Valley election

L.A. Weekly’s Choices

Endorsements

Our recommendations in the March 4 Los Angeles municipal election

L.A.’s War of Words

The Election Where Nobody Came

What to make of last week’s voting in California and L.A.

News From Up North

What the City of Smog can learn from the City of Light

The Wrong Battle

L.A.’s black political elite bamboozles itself

Fourth and Long Shots

How about putting a good politician into a politician’s job?

A House Divided

On the Hahn coalition, and other short-lived phenomena

Endorsements: Part 2

Our recommendations in the April 10 Los Angeles city election

Role Call

Dick Riordan faintly feigns toughness

The Bereaved

L.A.’s lost its chance to reform its police. Hooray.

Coming Alive

The City Council figures out its new role

Nagging Reforms

Let Bernie Parks lose another argument

Righting the Ship

What it will take to fix the LAPD

Bad Call

Mayor Dick makes spirited call to ol’ Hal

Hang On

Let’s not do away with the summer ritual of drag racing

Frittering Away

What the City Council does instead of governing

Rough Justice

L.A.'s school bureaucrats belong on the Belmont site

Sport of Supes

Maybe it makes sense to expand L.A.’s Board of Supervisors

The New Unionism Finds a Home

Once the nation’s most anti-union big city, L.A. has now become America’s most dynamic labor town

Cracked!

The Disaster Waiting To Happen Inside L.A.'s Steel-Frame Towers

The Charter End Game

Councilman Svorinich discovers global capitalism

Our Choices in the April 13 L.A. City Election

The Grand Finale?

The City Council lines up behind the new charter — but that doesn’t mean it has to like it

Jersey West

Why create a Garden State in the Golden State?

Whitewater West gets public airing

Stein-Hubbell affair

Rewriting the Stein-Hubbell affair

Council Ousts Ostrich

A farewell to Valley farm life