Jack Weiss

Beverly Hills Versus the Westside Subway

Steve Cooley Wants To Have A Big Role In Picking His Successor

Photo by Kevin ScanlonSteve Cooley​At a press conference in his office this afternoon, Steve Cooley all but ruled out running for a fourth term as district attorney.But Cooley, fresh off a narrow defeat to Kamala Harris in the race for attorney general, plans to have a big role in choosing his suc ... More >>

Usher E-mail Excoriates Mayor

​ By Tibby RothmanClearly Special Assistant City Attorney Jane Usher has not received Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's memo on insubordination.Today, the woman who as the chair of the City Planning Commission urged residents to sue the city over an unpopular development policy, issued a scathing e-mai ... More >>

Invasion of the Granny Flat

Los Angeles weighs a plan to allow back yard dwellings and car parking on lawns

Poor, Ultrarich Tim Leiweke

L.A. City Hall genuflects to AEG. Somebody forgot to tell Carmen Trutanich

LAPD Chief Bill Bratton Endorses Delgadillo Rival

After following Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bill Bratton in the news these past few weeks, we get the distinct impression that he wants to leave this town jabbing and swinging ... especially when it comes to his political enemies and critics.LAPD Chief Bill Bratton stars in a Mark Ridley-Tho ... More >>

LAPD's Bill Bratton Will Join Altegrity Inc.

Chief Bill Bratton is expected to announce today that he plans to resign from the Los Angeles Police Department to take over as the top gun of a private security firm. According to radio reports, he has accepted a job at Altegrity Inc., which is based in Falls Church, Virginia. The company is owned ... More >>

City Attorney Carmen Trutanich in the House

Rocky Delgadillo departs on an acid note, and a black SUV visits "Nuch"

The Greek Versus the Pixie: Can Upstart Nick Patsaouras Beat the Anointed Villaraigosa Insider Wendy Greuel?

Greuel's long-planned bid to become the new Laura Chick looked like a cakewalk. But that was before the economy tanked

Is Mayoral Candidate Walter Moore a Billboard Enabler? Or Just In Love With Neon?

As the March primary election nears, L.A. mayoral candidate Walter Moore is taking some heat from bloggers who are questioning his day job. Moore, who is running for the big spot for the second time, is an attorney with Richard Hamlin Attorneys. The problem? The Los Angeles-based law firm, which spe ... More >>

Mega-Billboard for Billionaire Anschutz: What's Next, Preparation H Pavilion?

City Council rolls over for tycoon, ignoring its own anti-billboard law

Grim Sleeper Returns: He's Murdering Angelenos, as Cops Hunt his DNA

The most elusive serial killer west of the Mississippi took a 13-year break. Now he's back

Billboard Coalition Elects New President

Los Angeles activist Dennis Hathaway has been elected president of the Coalition to Ban Billboard Blight. Hathaway says he is putting together an action plan “to make a concerted effort to effectively fight the city and billboard companies.” In addition, Hathaway says he hopes to educate the pu ... More >>

Parks and Wreck: L.A.'s Fight for Public Green Space

In search of the Emerald City

Building a Britney Bubble: The Paparazzi No-Spy Zone

Will the City Council decide who is a protected "celebrity"?

Splitsville

Watch out for whiplash as Villaraigosa spins his wrecked marriage

Splitsville: Villaraigosa Spins his Wrecked Marriage

Watch out for whiplash

Power Failure

An Orwellian day at City Hall, with congrats all around for Villaraigosa�s school-takeover failure

What Really Happened at Fire Station 5?

A dog-food prank gone bad wrecks careers and morale as Tennie Pierce demands millions

Nasty Battle for Classroom Control

L.A., which educates one of every 12 California students, is ground zero in the Education Wars

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

Friends in High-Rise Places

Developers make big plans for Westside, write big checks for Antonio

The Cop Tax

Or was it a trash tax, or no tax at all?

Hopes of Venice

Lincoln Place finds room for a mediator

First-Day Chatters

Jos� and Herb can�t be bothered by the public on their inaugural day

Team Antonio Scores

Maybe Nick will get the message this time

Summer of Power

Antonio and his pursuit of a new L.A.

The Ghosts of Dan Carvin

Paying the price for mishandling fat legal bills

Winners and Losers

Jack Weiss, City Council District 5

Cloning Dan Carvin

Fired L.A. investigator may have been ahead of his time

Out of the Darkness

Some city leaders call for DWP to shed light on secret settlements. . . some don�t

The Blue Bottom Line

Egos overcome reason in debate over more cops

Endorsements

Our recommendations in the March 4 Los Angeles municipal election

City in Doldrums