Subject: Jack Weiss

• Los Angeles City Councilmember Calls for Tougher Billboard Ban

  Los Angeles City Councilmember Jack Weiss introduced a motion yesterday that would address and fix the colossal problems that have been raised in court cases challenging the city's sign ordinance. The motion calls for the city's planning department, Department of Building and Safety and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's office to revise and toughen the 2002 ban on billboards. “I was very proud of the moratorium we passed a few years ago and very proud of the inspection program,” said Weiss.

  July 30, 2008

• Los Angeles City Committee Will Consider Motion to Rewrite Billboard Ordinance

  The City’s Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee will consider a motion today that would address and fix the colossal problems that have been raised in court cases challenging the city's sign ordinance. The motion, introduced by Los Angeles city councilmember Jack Weiss on July 29, calls for the city's planning department, Department of Building and Safety and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's office to revise and toughen the 2002 ban on billboards. The motion is the city’s lat

  September 9, 2008

• City Council Will Consider Selling Rights for Electronic Billboards

  The Los Angeles City Council will consider a proposal today to allow massive electronic signs along the 10 and 110 freeways next to the Los Angeles Convention Center. The proposal by Anschutz Entertainment Group reportedly calls for 50,000 square feet of advertising signs. Last week, the Trade, Commerce, and Tourism Committee - a city committee that oversees the LA Convention Center – approved the agreement to sell the city’s signage rights to AEG, owners of Staples Center. The agreement w

  September 10, 2008

• Stadium Games

  July 4, 2002

• Rap Names for L.A. Politicians

  What's in a name? Ask MyRapName, a Web site that automatically generates a rap-singer identity for you after you enter your first name and last initial. We did this with the names of some Los Angeles' leading statesmen and stateswomen -- just in case they require more street cred for their next election. One suspicious drawback: You'll get a different rap moniker every time you enter the same name. Below, we went with the first name offered.1. Antonio Villaraigosa: AA Doom2. Steve Cooley: SC Scr

  January 7, 2009

• City Report Calls For Digital Billboard Ban -- Kinda

  City planners are causing a stir with a report released today that calls for banning all new digital billboards -- with a huge exception.The much-anticipated Department of City Planning Recommendation Report, obtained early by L.A. Weekly, comes just weeks after the Los Angeles City Council approved a three-month moratorium on billboards and supergraphics, bowing to community outrage over the super-intense digital billboards now popping up from Baldwin Heights to Venice."Considering the estimate

  January 13, 2009

• CBS and Clear Channel Lose Billboard Secrecy Bid

  The judge says L.A.'s thousands of billboards are hardly a “trade secret”

  April 3, 2008

• Jack Weiss Took Dough from Outdoor Ad Pushers

  The Coalition to Ban Billboard Blight reports that outgoing Los Angeles City Council Member  Jack Weiss, who is the leading candidate for City Attorney, received a $1,000 campaign contribution in 2007 from Barry Rush, the president of Worldwide Rush. Rush is the owner of the huge, controversial Tropicana super-graphic at 10801 National Boulevard that is annoying tenants and anti-clutter activists citywide. Councilman Jack Weiss

  January 30, 2009

• Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

  New Mayor in Hot Seat  Mary Su, who was sworn in as Walnut's first Chinese-American woman mayor Wednesday night, is already at the top of recall petitions because she did not display enough ardor in opposing an NFL stadium being planned for neighboring Industry. Hoodie Recall About 300,000 kids' hoodies manufactured by Hill Sportswear of Paramount are being recalled following the strangulation death of a Fresno boy whose drawstring got caught on a slide.Gang Race Victim? An 18-year-old Citr

  February 13, 2009

• Trutanich Crime Ad: Tempest in PC Teapot

  Until last Sunday, many if not most Los Angeles voters had probably only heard of one of the City Attorney candidates, the somewhat annoying Westside City Councilman Jack Weiss. But then the Los Angeles Times endorsed Carmen "Nuch" Trutanich and we suddenly realized a race was on. The Times assured its readers that "Nuch" was a man of vision and solid virtues. Weiss' backers have found more faults than virtues, however, accusing Trutanich of being either a member or sympathizer of the Nation

  February 20, 2009

• Early election results: Los Angeles March 3, 2009 primary

  Nobody is ever sure how closely absentee voters match the views of the voters who actually trek into the polls, but here is the first wave of election returns released by the City of Los Angeles elections division about 45 minutes after the polls closed tonight.In the four hottest races, top percentages (if no candidate gets 50% plus one vote, the top two face off against each other in May):City Attorney, Michael Amerian 17.31%, David Berger 15.44%, Carmen Trutanich 21.30%, Noel Weiss 5.32%, Jac

  March 3, 2009

• Villaraigosa, Solar Measure B, Weiss all get voter rebuffs

  While Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa won, as expected, his poor showing, and the humiliating possible defeat of solar Measure B, was a repudiation by Los Angeles voters and indicates tough sailing if he decides to run for governor. While surprisingly biased cheerleading for the mayor continued today from the LA Daily News, and Jonathan Lloyd's MSNBC, who both called his too-close-for-comfort victory a "cruise," blogs like LAist got it right: just 5 percentage points more for his several opponents wo

  March 4, 2009

• Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

  DWP Ordered to Refund Customers A Superior Court judge has ordered the DWP to pay back $30 million in fees it channeled into cash-strapped city agencies. L.A. TimesBenefits Take a Holiday Employees of papers belonging to the Los Angeles Newspaper Group (Daily News, Daily Breeze, et al) have been told they will not be earning vacation time for the next three months. L.A. ObservedCity Att'y Race Turns Ugly The May 19 runoff for L.A. City Attorney has heated up, with both candidates trading accusat

  April 3, 2009

• Los Angeles on $300,000 a year

  Why next week's City Council "coronation" will cost you far more than money

  February 26, 2009

• A Shark Tank of Lawyers Takes on Jack Weiss for L.A. City Attorney

  Five sharp lawyers try to upset the Westside politician’s bid for the office

  February 26, 2009

• Fight for L.A.'s Ritzy Council District 5

  Six candidates vow to bring back "slow growth"

  February 19, 2009

• Digital Billboards Become a Bohemian Blasphemy

  Silver Lake, Hollywood, the Valley and Westside take on City Hall's anti-green transformation of LA

  November 20, 2008

• Billboards Gone Wild: 4,000 Illegal Billboards Choke L.A.'s Neighborhoods

  Is City Hall corrupt, or just inept?

  April 24, 2008

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

  ... hits the wall at Fairfax

  February 28, 2008

• Jean Nouvel Unveils Century City Condo Plan

  If you lived there, you'd be home by then

  February 21, 2008

• Should L.A. City Council Agree to Slash Its $178,789 Salaries?

  April 16, 2009

• Jack Weiss Recall Stumbles

  Westsiders turn an effort to oust a councilman into amateur hour

  September 27, 2007

• Weiss Recall Quickly Turns Ugly

  Westsiders furious at overdevelopment

  May 24, 2007

• Backing Jack

  And sparing trees

  April 5, 2007

• Targeting a Weiss Guy

  Westside homeowners are furious with their pro-development city councilman

  March 15, 2007

• Failing the Smell Test

  City claims Westside traffic will ease, thanks to two skyscraper condos

  December 7, 2006

• The Human Teardown

  Audit levels Andrew Adelman and his chaotic reign at L.A.�s building department

  July 13, 2006

• The Miseducation of Bill Rosendahl

  Lincoln Place proves a tough test for new councilman

  February 23, 2006

• The Let-It-Slide Commission

  L.A.�s watchdogs pander rather than police

  November 17, 2005

• We Endorse

  March 3, 2005

• Davids and Goliaths

  A few upstarts try to overcome the odds in four races

  February 24, 2005

• A Man of Contradictions

  July 31, 2003

• Bush Offensive Stalls at City Gates

  March 6, 2003

• A Draining Problem

  January 23, 2003

• Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

  Eyesore or Landmark? The Century Plaza Hotel and its fate are a bone of contention between city preservationists enamored with its curving, Jet Age architecture, and the hotel's owner, who wants to raze it and raise a mixed-use development in its stead. L.A. TimesNo YouthTube for L.A. Times The city's paper of record is dropping its printing-cost support for L.A. Youth, the country's largest not-for-profit newspaper for and by teenagers. L.A. ObservedSheriff Positive L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca

  April 28, 2009

• Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

  Cinco de Mayo to Flu: Bring It On! Several large Cinco de Mayo celebrations scheduled across America will not hold de Mayo, despite fears that swine flu could spread in crowds of densely packed people. Los Angeles'  festivities will take place on Olvera Street, although a Chicago celebration has been cancelled. Associated PressIs There a Lawyer in the House? Both candidates for L.A. City Attorney, Jack Weiss and Carmen Trutanich, are calling for ethics investigations of their opponent's cam

  April 30, 2009

• L.A. City Attorney Race: One Cooley Customer

  May 7, 2009

• Bratton and Villaraigosa Seek More Cops During Fiscal Crisis

  Yesterday, at the Los Angeles Police Department Metropolitan Dispatch Center in downtown, Chief Bill Bratton and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa were buddying up again, with City Attorney candidate and Councilman Jack Weiss along for the ride. LAPD Chief Bill BrattonInitially described in press releases as a "report" on the city's crime rate, Thursday morning's confab with reporters quickly turned into something of a political event when Villaraigosa insisted that despite a massive budget shortfall o

  May 8, 2009

• Vahedi vs. Koretz City Council Race

  May 14, 2009

• Bill Bratton's Endorsements Spectacle

  May 14, 2009

• Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

  Mayor Levels With Base Antonio Villaraigosa painted a bleak economic picture for one of his largest constituencies, organized labor. The mayor suggested shorter work weeks and increased employee retirement contributions as ways to avoid city worker layoffs that could climb to seven percent of the municipal labor force. Associated PressBuilding Census in Progress A survey of notable L.A. architecture is underway, with plans to create lists of what is worth saving or restoring. LA. TimesWater Down

  April 7, 2009

• Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

  Sheriff to Close Jails? Going far beyond the early release of county inmates, Sheriff Lee Baca may also close a jail or two to cope with a massive budget shortfall that his department faces. L.A. TimesCandidate Boycotts Own Press Conference L.A. City Councilman and City Attorney candidate Jack Weiss was a no-show at his own press conference, which had been scheduled to announce the support of local environmental activists. Sausage Factory, L.A. ObservedCough Him Up Dept. South Bay Congresswoman

  February 24, 2009

• May 19 Election: Schwarzenegger, Villaraigosa, Weiss, Bratton, Bass, Go Down in Flames

  Even with one key Los Angeles City Council District race still hanging in the balance on the Westside, the political wreckage surrounding some of California's best-known politicians was waist-deep, leaving Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to slog through the recriminations and explanations.A political unknown until just months ago, former San Pedro cannery worker and longtime attorney Carmen Trutanich, trounced the establishment candidate, Jack Weiss, for Los Angeles

  May 20, 2009

• Billboard Crackdown? Not Likely!

  Will the long-overdue billboard fee inspection program start at long last? Don’t count on it. On May 27, Los Angeles’ Department of Building and Safety is expected to update the Planning & Land Use Management (PLUM) Committee on the status of the city’s billboard inspection program. That sounds like good news. However, building officials are infamous for blowing off City Hall’s requests to inventory thousands of legal and illegal billboards bristling along the streets. At the last PLU

  May 21, 2008

• Crackdown on Gigantic Ads

  Companies that put up huge “supergraphics” on buildings and the building owners who allow the gigantic illegal signs could be fined $2,500 a day under a new plan announced today by Los Angeles City Council Member Jack Weiss. “These monster signs turn buildings into billboards,” said Weiss at a press conference today that was held in front of the huge Gap “supergraphic” plastered along the side of a bank building on the corner of Pico Boulevard and Overland. “It is illegal. I want

  April 10, 2008

• L.A. residents slam Special Order 40, Clear Channel shakedown

  Correction below: Alleged murderer Espinoza was released from jail by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, not the LAPD. Update: The LA City Council has approved the giant electronic billboard on the 10 Freeway by a vote of 13-1 with only Jack Weiss opposing. It will go before the council again next week for a final vote. Woo-whee, the testimony was riveting this morning before the Los Angeles City Council when a group of black residents pleaded with the 15 elected council members to r

  April 8, 2008

• California's May 19 Election

  May 21, 2009

• L.A.'s Reefer Revolution

  July 16, 2009

• Bye-Bye, Bill Bratton

  August 13, 2009

• Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

  Over the Rainbow Flags Between 3,500 and 5,000 gay-marriage supporters peacefully marched from West Hollywood to Hollywood tonight, protesting today's state supreme court ruling upholding Proposition 8's ban on same-sex matrimony. NBC, City News Service (subscription required)Koretz Claims Win As Paul Koretz's lead over David Vahedi in the Westside's 2nd City Council District race increased to 702 votes, Koretz claimed victory in the campaign to succeed Jack Weiss. City News Service (subscriptio

  May 27, 2009