Jan Perry

Wendy Greuel Had Dinner With Union Boss; Rival Mayoral Candidate Alleges Illegal Coordination

In the closing weekend of the L.A. mayoral primary, new allegations are surfacing about a dinner that Controller Wendy Greuel shared recently with one of the co-chairs of the independent group supporting her campaign.Independent committees are barred from coordinating their efforts with candidates. ... More >>

Jan Perry's Bankruptcies and Tax Liens Strangely Absent From Mayoral Campaign

Update below: Finally. Perry gets attacked in a radio ad. When Councilwoman Jan Perry separated from her husband a decade ago, she asked a judge to seal the records. Some of the documents pertained to the couple's troubled financial history, which included two bankruptcies and hundreds of thous ... More >>

2013 Mayoral Race: Underdog Jan Perry Courts Pet Vote in Odd Campaign Video

If you were a pet in Los Angeles and could vote, you'd probably pick mayoral candidate and City Councilwoman Jan Perry. In an odd campaign video, Perry lays out an "ambitious" pro-pet agenda with the kind of passionate delivery that makes one wonder if the whole thing is a spoof or if she's really s ... More >>

Related California Breaks Ground on Grand Avenue after Years of Delays and Controversy

Read "Grand Avenue Drenched in Misdirection" by Tibby Rothman. It's been promised for years, but developer Related California finally broke ground for the first private component of the multi-billion-dollar Grand Avenue Project in downtown Los Angeles, with mayoral candidate and City Councilwoman J ... More >>

L.A. Council Votes To Put Half-Cent Sales Tax On March Ballot; But Citywide Candidates Are All Opposed

The L.A. City Council voted 10-4 today to put a half-cent sales tax increase on the March ballot. But all of the candidates for citywide office opposed it.Councilman Eric Garcetti and Councilwoman Jan Perry, who are running for mayor, voted no. So did Councilman Dennis Zine, who is running for contr ... More >>

L.A. City Council Approves Meatless Mondays

If you want more validation for choosing not to eat meat today, the Los Angeles City Council just gave it to you. On Friday, L.A. became the largest city in America to support the Meatless Monday campaign when the City Council voted unanimously, in a 12-0 vote, to support the resolution.

In Mayor's Race, Jan Perry Vows to Speak Truth To Union Power

Now that the election is over, it's finally time to focus on the race for L.A. mayor. What? Too soon? Well, tell that to Councilwoman Jan Perry, who kicked off her campaign with a speech in which she vowed to speak truth to the powerful public employee unions at City Hall."The truth is that we ... More >>

Found LA: Festival of Neighborhoods

L.A. Street Artists Call Out Councilwoman Jan Perry, Central City East Association With Cardboard 'Skid Row Estates'

Update, 6:20 p.m.: According to a photo Tweeted by Esoteric Tours, the Skid Row Estates have been demolished. The art piece "looks to have been smashed in anger," writes the tour company. Two downtown street artists -- Calder Greenwood and the mysterious "Wild Life" -- have been sticking it to The ... More >>

The Five Most Furious Reactions to the Redistricting of Los Angeles

As insanely boring -- and incomprehensible to the average voter -- as the redistricting of Los Angeles may be, it's kind of a big deal. We understand the apathy. In a city where only a little over 10 percent of eligible voters turn out for municipal elections at all, they can hardly be expected to ... More >>

L.A. City Redistricting Land Grab: Appointed Commissioners Try to Gerrymander Westside, Downtown

Updated at the bottom with a map of the land grab. This just got ugly. Every 10 years, Los Angeles is required to readjust its 15 City Council districts to accomodate for population shifts. But as with most decisions made at City Hall, the 2012 redistricting effort has turned from what should be a ... More >>

Assemblyman Mike Davis, Running for L.A. City Council, Will Fit Right in: He Voted 'No' on 0.01% of Assembly Bills

Few voting bodies are as creepily hive-minded as the Los Angeles City Council. In 2011, under the leadership of former City Council President Eric Garcetti (now running for mayor), the group of 15 local politicians, who also happen to be the highest-paid councilmembers in the country, voted unanimo ... More >>

L.A. City Council Breaks Promise to South Central Farmers, Trades Park for Factory

la.indymedia.orgButcher paper is no match for a sweet development deal.​We knew L.A. City Councilwoman Jan Perry liked to cozy up to rich real-estate types, but this takes City Hall's sleazy development hounding to new lows. It all started in 2003, when the city sold a South L.A. land parcel ... More >>

Jan Perry Quits as L.A.'s Council President Pro Tem After Backroom Deals Leave Her in The Cold

Jan Perry.​Strange. Jan Perry has had no trouble with the backroom planning leading up to the L.A. City Council's rubber-spine stance on a proposed stadium that would be plopped down onto taxpayer property. She's as gung-ho as they come, even if the process has been less than transparent. But ... More >>

Skid Row vs. Gensler

Who should get $1 million in poverty funds, the rich or the poor?

Art Walk's Drunken Masses And Out-of-Control Partiers Can be Blamed on ... Food Trucks?

Behave.​A student of politics would be wise to observe L.A.'s city leadership, a group so masterful at weaving around reality (witness the City Council's fake Arizona boycott) that it shames any Third World dictatorship. In this edition of WTF, City Hall? we have the Downtown Art Walk Task Fo ... More >>

Zev Yaroslavsky Will Replace Antonio Villaraigosa as Mayor, Experts Predict

If Zev runs, he’s the man to beat in 2013

Jan Perry: Union Campaign Against Bernard Parks Is A "Tantrum"

Brian D'Arcy​Councilwoman Jan Perry called out the leader of IBEW Local 18 today, saying that a union-backed campaign against Bernard Parks is nothing more than a "massive, ridiculous tantrum."Two union groups have so far spent $192,000 $207,000* to defeat Parks in the city election on March 8. Th ... More >>

New Fast-Food Joints Barred From Opening Near Old Ones In South L.A.

babble.comFight for your right​The Los Angeles City Council is painting itself green and health-conscious again -- this time, with a strict city ordinance that holds down a temporary South L.A. ban on new fast-food restaurants opening within a half-mile of existing ones. The zone also includes ... More >>

L.A. City Finally Gets Its Department Of Water And Power Money

​The board of commissioners of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power today voted to give the city's main coffers a promised $73.5 million after three months of argument about the cash, which was held up over the DWP's demand that the City Council raise electricity rates. (We've seen ho ... More >>

Breaking: Permanent Electricity Hike For L.A. Residents Slides By (Updated)

Councilwoman Jan Perry.​Despite attempts by Councilwoman Jan Perry on Tuesday to get the rest of the City Council to join her and amend a planned electricity rate hike to make it last only three months starting July 1, a permanent increase slid past today's deadline and into the record books. ... More >>

L.A. City Council Aims For 4,000 Total Layoffs

​The City Council on Thursday voted to order city departments to identify and layoff an additional 3,000 employees, above the 1,000 already targeted for cuts. The vote was nine in favor and three abstaining but, once again, layoffs have not been set in stone. Based on a motion by Councilwoman ... More >>

Does Jan Perry Have A Westside Problem?

Councilwoman Jan Perry.​At a Westside fundraiser for the reelection of California Secretary of State Debra Bowen Sunday, several people walked away as Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jan Perry held court to introduce Bowen, a source who was at the event tells LA Weekly. Most of those people qui ... More >>

VANS ARE NOT ALWAYS SNEAKERS

Public Unwelcome at Grand Avenue

An obscure body of five will decide if Eli Broad gets public land for his art museum

L.A. Council Votes To Close 475 Marijuana Dispensaries

​The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday gave tentative approval to a law that would eventually shut down all but 70 of the city's medical marijuana dispensaries. The ordinance would some day close down 475 of the 545 pot stores that the Weekly has found to be up and operating. The council ha ... More >>

Councilwoman Jan Perry Votes Against Hiring More Police -- Really?!

Councilwoman Jan Perry poses with Los Angeles police officers.​In this edition of "Really?!," we take a look at the recent stances of Los Angeles city Councilwoman Jan Perry. This week Perry voted against allowing the LAPD to train and hire 11 much-needed officers, complaining that the city did no ... More >>

Los Angeles Corporate Welfare: Ritz-Carlton and AEG

Rich entities siphon taxpayer money while real communities struggle

City Council Votes for Permanent Ban on Digital Billboards

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously today to ban all digital billboards in the city, an action brought before them by City Attorney Carmen Trutanich, who feared that an existing "Interim Control Ordinance" that temporarily bans digital billboards and super-graphics may soon be found inval ... More >>

L.A. City Councilwoman Jan Perry Running for Mayor?

Today, the L.A. Times published a flattering day-in-the-life piece on L.A. City Councilwoman Jan Perry, who's been the acting mayor of Los Angeles since Antonio Villaraigosa and City Council President Eric Garcetti have been out of town for the past several days.L.A. City Councilwoman Jan PerryThe " ... More >>

On City Officials: Useless and Overpaid? Or Just Weekly Hyperbole?

Jan Perry's Grand Avenue Conflict

An L.A. politician votes for public subsidies that boost her home's value

Funny Math on Downtown L.A. Civic Park

Taxpayers may be out $27 million if "Grand Avenue" project breaks ground

Grand Avenue Drenched in Misdirection

L.A. politicos don't understand what they vote on. Taxpayers are on the hook

Los Angeles City Hall as Slumlord

Council members Perry and Cardenas pressured the CRA to hand Ruben Islas public money. But a federal judge called it like it was.

There Goes the Neighborhood Council

Comments on the Vernon/Main Neighborhood Council story

Bureaucrats Move to Silence South L.A. Black Neighborhood Group

Department of disempowerment

First-Day Chatters

José and Herb can’t be bothered by the public on their inaugural day

Forces of Agitation

Politics and the homeless are leading causes of Jan Perry’s gripes with Officer Torres

Badge of Anger

Jan Perry goes after LAPD Officer Torres

Back to the Future Cop

Peter Torres is the only LAPD officer who calls the hard streets of Newton Division home. Is he the next generation of L.A. policing?

Peter Torres, City Council District 9

Davids and Goliaths

A few upstarts try to overcome the odds in four races

Give 'em Shelter

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

Bucking Skid Row

Councilwoman Jan Perry explains why she’s against free meal handouts for the homeless

Stadium Schemes

The secretive and expensive road to L.A. football

Endorsements: Part 2

Our recommendations in the April 10 Los Angeles city election