Jack Weiss

The Truth About Trutanich

Carmen Trutanich, L.A. City Attorney, Tramples the Rights of Pot Smokers, Street Artists and Protesters

Medical Marijuana Ban in L.A.? City Officials Botched Regulation, Now Want Prohibition

Medical weed ban heads to City Council

Carmen Trutanich Forms Committee To Run For District Attorney

Carmen Trutanich​Updated at 7:39 p.m. with Trutanich's campaign manager taking some swings at D.A. rival Alan Jackson. L.A. City Attorney Carmen Trutanich filed paperwork today to begin his campaign for L.A. District Attorney. According to the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder's office, Trutanich sub ... More >>

Art-House Blues

UPDATE: Sending Trutanich to His Corner

In layoff roulette, mayor aims at city attorney but City Council won't pull trigger

L.A.'s Medical-Weed Wars

How the potheads outwitted Antonio Villaraigosa and the L.A. City Council

Another Bratton Endorsement Bites the Dust

Outgoing Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bill Bratton once told the Weekly that he would never personally run for office . . . but it still didn't keep L.A.'s Top Cop from backing political candidates when critics said he should stay out of the endorsement business.Ted SoquiLAPD Chief Bill Bratt ... More >>

Can an Activist Crack L.A. City Hall's Machine?

In the riled-up S.F. Valley, a struggle pits regular folk against big money

Villaraigosa Staff Shakeup: Now His Chief of Staff, Robin Kramer, Is Bolting

This cannot be good news for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. As reported in extensive detail this morning by Ron Kaye, former editor of the Daily News, Villaraigosa's Chief of Staff Robin Kramer, the woman some view as the most rational adult at City Hall, is jumping ship amidst a series of resignation ... More >>

Tom Hayden: Bill Bratton Conflict of Interest in Cherkasky Deal?

Tom Hayden has been one of the gutsiest politicians in California, whether you like him or not. I've always admired him for that. It's not surprising to see that Hayden alone, so far among local civic leaders, is asking an obvious question also raised by my piece in L.A. Weekly today: isn't Bill Bra ... More >>

Fighting City Hall: A "How-To" from L.A. cartoonist Donna Barstow

With Los Angeles City Council ready to approve a train wreck of a budget, and with their vote on May 26 to delay for months a bizarre plan to place "sign districts" potentially filled with pulsating digital billboards in more than 20 residential and business districts citywide, arm yourself by knowi ... More >>

L.A. City Council Clings to Stunning Perks and Pay

They can't bear to give up those record-high $178,898 salaries

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 ... More >>

Weiss & Trutanich Spar Again . . . and Again

Is it just me or is it getting hotter in here with the City Attorney's race on fire? Wednesday evening, candidates Jack Weiss and Carmen "Nuch" Trutanich squared off once more in candidate-forum mode, at the Westside Jewish Community Center. According to the L.A. Times, the Earth Day event, sponsore ... More >>

Pen Pushers Break Bank: Cash-Strapped L.A. City Hall Spends $1 Million on Calligraphy

Despite fiscal free fall, Villaraigosa and City Council spend public money on scrolls

Paul Koretz Gets Business Nod

Faced with choosing between a veteran politician who's heavily backed by labor, and a rookie candidate who's built his campaign on an anti-growth stance, the Central City Association has decided to back the veteran. The business group announced its support of liberal Democrat Paul Koretz, who has se ... More >>

Human Rights Watch: L.A. County has U.S.'s largest rape kit backlog

Los Angeles County has the largest rape kit backlog in the United States, according to a report released today by Human Rights Watch. More than 50 reporters, rape kit advocates, city workers and cops gathered today at a 40-minute press conference outside Los Angeles City Hall to hear the bleak ne ... More >>

City Council to Boks: Restore Spay-Neuter Pet Vouchers

L.A.'s Animal Services general manager Ed Boks left a City Council committee hearing with his tail between his legs yesterday, after being grilled about his unilateral decision to suspend his agency's spay-neuter voucher program. Last week Boks, claiming his department had to plug a huge budget gap, ... More >>

DNA Deep Freeze

Why Los Angeles crime-fighters fell years behind on rape testing, and may never catch up

Replacing Wendy Greuel in the Valley

A juicy $2.5 million City Council seat opens in anti-Villaraigosa territory

Will L.A. Finally Zero in on Forest of Illegal Billboards?

Almost seven long years after the Los Angeles City Council vowed to find the exact locations and determine the physical condition of the city's virtually unregulated forest of legal and illegal 10,000 billboards, the city's Building and Safety Department says they will begin the long-awaited program ... More >>

Silver Lake Residents Protest Against Digital Billboard Blight

Dozens of Silver Lake residents gathered yesterday at City Hall to protest against a pulsating digital billboard that recently popped up along Silver Lake Boulevard throwing lights into neighborhood homes. “Silver Lake is one of the most desirable neighborhoods in Los Angeles,” said Suzanne Fe ... More >>

Shoving 850 digital billboards down LA's throat

We're thrilled to see Steve Lopez skewering the blazing, flashing, crass digital billboard clutter now sweeping L.A. while billboard-industry financed, highly conflicted members of the City Council, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo let it all happen. Lopez has joined t ... More >>

Council Member Garcetti to Introduce Legislation Targeting Electronic Billboards

Council President Eric Garcetti plans today to introduce two resolutions that would address the rapid spread of electronic billboards in Los Angeles. The first motion calls for City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo to revisit the terms of the settlement agreement between the City of Los Angeles ... More >>

Billboard Inspection Program Still a Bust

“It is the Los Angeles dodge and delay program,” said a frustrated Marilyn Cohon, the Vice President of Westwood South of Santa Monica Homeowners Association about City Hall’s long-awaited billboard fee inspection program. “We find it appalling that the city is dragging its feet.” Even C ... More >>

Little Old Lady Power

Fueling a victory at Lincoln Place

What's Smart About Smart Growth?

City Hall's plan for the future expects you to give up the yard, the car - and learn to love density

Do As We Say, Not As We Do

Smart growth�s biggest boosters still love suburban living

Patti Smith Is Starting to Annoy Me

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Heat-Releasing Missives

And nonsense and sensibility

Gravy Train

A line forms as City Council confronts the $2.7 million dog-food debacle

Ron Burkle and the Stern Sting

A Methane-charged Lawsuit

Playa foes urge a judge to rule permits invalid for massive development

to the Rescue . . . Not

What does your council member say about Bill’s plan to save Lincoln Place?

A Night for Mama

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

New Egos and Agendas

The battles ahead for the City Council

Your City Council (Not) at Work

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

Just One More Thing

Missing motives in L.A.�s pay-to-play scandal

DWP�s Public Relations Boomerang

The plug is pulled on Fleishman Hillard�s power

Yet More Lists

Changing Cops

Chief Bratton may finally be bringing reform to the LAPD

Neat and Messy

Two guys who will police the police

L.A.�s War of Words

L.A.�s Slow March to Peace

Two for the Money

Top spenders will vie to replace the late John Ferraro

Two Toms

We have the vision of the one, we need the vision of the other

Letters

Endorsements

Our recommendations in the June 5 Los Angeles city election

Endorsements: Part 2

Our recommendations in the April 10 Los Angeles city election