James Hahn

Mayor's Race: L.A. County Federation Of Labor Can't Decide Between Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel

The L.A. County Federation of Labor, one of the biggest sources of power in L.A. elections, has decided not to endorse in the first round of the L.A. mayor's race, according to multiple sources.Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel are the two candidates with the strongest labor support. But neither could ... More >>

Residents Sue OverCrumbling L.A.

City Council ignorant about state of infrastructure

Fake Fire Inspection Letters With Ex-Mayor Jim Hahn's Name on Them go Out to Residents: LAPD Says Burglars Are at Work

James K. back in the day.​These would-be criminals are so dumb they don't know the name of the mayor of L.A. At least one would-be victim was smart enough to alert authorities: The LAPD last night warned residents that wannabe burglars are sending fake letters on city letterhead saying that f ... More >>

How Lobbyist John Ek Gets His Way at City Hall

Debra Bowen Will Run For Congress

Debra Bowen​Updated at 3 p.m. with interview of Bowen.Secretary of State Debra Bowen announced today that she is running for Congress to fill the seat held by retiring Rep. Jane Harman.Bowen will face off against L.A. Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who launched her campaign last week. In an interview t ... More >>

City of Airheads: Villaraigosa Dismantles L.A.'s Vaunted Library System

Mayor mirrors Detroit's disastrous choice

Villaraigosa's Five-Year Free Ticket Spree

The Los Angeles mayor's usurping of anticorruption rules could spread to pols across California

Update: Trutanich may conduct criminal probe of Michael Jackson/AEG memorial costs

UPDATE: I missed this really funny Los Angeles City Council agenda list published today by Mayor Sam blog's Petra Fried, showing the council's time today is being dominated by post-Jackson explanations, probes and studies. One interesting agenda item: trying to explain how the city spent a fortune o ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Intoxicating Salaries The high wages earned by administrators of the publicly funded Tarzana Treatment Center are raising eyebrows. L.A. TimesProp Company Clears the Set The second-largest film and TV prop company is folding, a victim of production slowdowns due to Industry strike fears. L.A. Daily ... More >>

The All-About-Me Mayor: Antonio Villaraigosa's Frenetic Self-Promotion

Hours of travel, fund-raising and PR leave little time for his job

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

Is City Hall corrupt, or just inept?

Villaraigosa Density Hawks Vs. Angry Valleyites

A Valley smackdown is brewing for tonight's 6 p.m. density Town Hall at the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn in Studio City, with scores of pissed-off San Fernando Valley residents from five different Neighborhood Councils in the Valley confronting Antonio Villaraigosa's administration over its quiet pla ... More >>

Municipal Whiplash

The mayor suddenly decides gang crime, not L.A. Unified, is public enemy No. 1

The Cop Tax

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

A Billionaire’s Bark

Surgeon-inventor is behind shakeup of L.A.’s animal services

Antonio Is In!

New mayor’s inauguration gets Fourth of July weekend party rolling

Antonio’s Takeover

A guy From City Terrace moves into City Hall

Seeking Council

Will neighborhood power grow or go in the new regime?

Flunking Campaigns

Jim and Antonio are out of control on schools

James Hahn Interview Transcript

Shut Up, Already!

The City Council loses it on the police tax

Rebel With a Plan

Ed Reyes is angry. He wants the "zombies" in L.A.’s Planning Department out. He wants affordable-housing supporters in. And he wants his more polite colleagues on the City Council to help him pull it off.

Exposing L.A. Secrets

The right lawyer could make sure that L.A. County is run openly

Money in the Lake

You will end up paying for repairing Owens Valley

Art in Jeopardy

Not a pretty picture for Mayor Hahn

Back in the Room

Exposing the power play that had silenced four labor-friendly MTA members

CitySweep

Neat and Messy

Two guys who will police the police

Give 'em Shelter

L.A. city and county are far apart on aid to the homeless

Port in a Storm

Dealing with the polluting ways of world trade

Bring on the Dirty Cops

Chief Bratton wants a department-wide investigation to expose once and for all Rampart-style sins

A Clean Slate

Sweet Smell of Secession

White Man’s Burden

Let’s draft David Dotson for police chief

A Necessary City

Why we shouldn’t break up L.A.

The Bernie Blow-off

Secret meetings on police chief's future could have been open to the public

Biting Back

L.A.’s fired animal chief says he was mistreated

L.A.’s Watchdog

Laura Chick’s challenge is getting people to listen

Letters

Beating History

Hahn better hope voters forget his mistakes dealing with Daryl Gates and Rodney King

Getting to 50-plus-1

Hahn and Villaraigosa look to their right

Letters

Old and New

Hahn and Villaraigosa square off for the mayoral finale

Crunch Time

The race to succeed Richard Riordan — and to reshape Los Angeles — comes down to the wire

Willie Williams Rerun?

This police chief also looks like a one-termer

Righting the Ship

What it will take to fix the LAPD

Enter the Janitors

Transforming L.A.

Cattle Call

The Race to Succeed Richard Riordan -- and to Shape the Future of Los Angeles -- Has Already Begun

Crips and Bloods Unite

Nation of Islam steps in to challenge gang injunction

Magic Marker Dragoon