Jack Weiss

Carmen Trutanich Was the Front-Runner in the DA's Race — Until He Failed to Even Make the Runoff. What Went Wrong?

Jane Usher: Neighborhood Blight Fighter

Bye-Bye, Bill Bratton

Top five reasons the chief is really leaving Los Angeles

L.A.'s Reefer Revolution

City Hall's yawning loophole for pot dispensaries spawns a Woodstock economy

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 Pa ... More >>

California's May 19 Election

Schwarzenegger, Villaraigosa, Weiss, Bratton, Bass, all repudiated

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 recriminatio ... More >>

Vahedi vs. Koretz City Council Race

L.A.'s upscale 5th District seeks a slow-growther to replace Jack Weiss

Bill Bratton's Endorsements Spectacle

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

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 ... More >>

L.A. City Attorney Race: One Cooley Customer

The white-hot battle between Trutanich and Weiss

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 ha ... More >>

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

15 richly paid politicians are happy to cut their pay — by 2.5 percent

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 mu ... More >>

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 tol ... More >>

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 fro ... More >>

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 percent ... More >>

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

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 ... More >>

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 assu ... More >>

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

Six candidates vow to bring back "slow growth"

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 ... More >>

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 elec ... More >>

Digital Billboards Become a Bohemian Blasphemy

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

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, Co ... More >>

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, ca ... More >>

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 Attorne ... More >>

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 sou ... More >>

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

Is City Hall corrupt, or just inept?

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 ... More >>

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 a ... More >>

CBS and Clear Channel Lose Billboard Secrecy Bid

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

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

... hits the wall at Fairfax

Jean Nouvel Unveils Century City Condo Plan

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

Jack Weiss Recall Stumbles

Westsiders turn an effort to oust a councilman into amateur hour

Weiss Recall Quickly Turns Ugly

Westsiders furious at overdevelopment

Backing Jack

And sparing trees

Targeting a Weiss Guy

Westside homeowners are furious with their pro-development city councilman

Failing the Smell Test

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

The Human Teardown

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

The Miseducation of Bill Rosendahl

Lincoln Place proves a tough test for new councilman

The Let-It-Slide Commission

L.A.�s watchdogs pander rather than police

We Endorse

L.A. Weekly�s choices in next Tuesday�s election

Davids and Goliaths

A few upstarts try to overcome the odds in four races

A Man of Contradictions

Bush Offensive Stalls at City Gates

Why U.S. cities are going anti-war; how L.A. joined them

A Draining Problem

Cleaning up the ocean pits environmentalists against local cities

Stadium Games

You want football in L.A.? Turn on the TV