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Blogs
October 26, 2012
Councilman Jose Huizar Not Drunk When He Crashed Car In Boyle Heights
Councilman Jose Huizar was not drunk when he crashed his Toyota Highlander in Boyle Heights last night, according to the LAPD.Huizar was at the intersection of 1st Street and Boyle Avenue when he was involved in a three-car accident about 6:30 p.m., said LAPD Det. Gus Villanueva.Huizar was given a f ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2012
Sixth Street Bridge Design Is Way Cool
City officials today announced that, after an international competition, the firm HNTB has been chosen to design a replacement for the crumbling Sixth Street Bridge. And boy, is their vision cool. (See photos, above and after the jump):
Blogs
July 31, 2012
Marijuana Dispensary Police Unit Considered to Enforce L.A. Pot Shop Ban
It's hard to figure out how serious the L.A. City Council is about closing down all of the city's dispensaries. While the body's vote last week was a nail in the coffin of our town's nationally prominent cannabis culture, you have to consider the history: The City Council has been trying to regulat ... More >>
Blogs
July 31, 2012
Streetcar for Downtown L.A.? Council Creates Special Voting District So Residents Can Decide
What a romantic day for downtown: Dreams of a streetcar loop from Broadway to 11th to Figeroa to Hill (see map below) have a chance of becoming reality, now that the L.A. City Council has created a special voting district in the area it would service. Residents will be given the option to pay a sma ... More >>
Blogs
July 24, 2012
Marijuana Dispensary Ban in Los Angeles Scheduled For City Council Vote TODAY
Today the L.A. City Council is scheduled to bust a long-awaited move: To ban marijuana dispensaries or not to ban them? That is the question. Few on the council, however, seem to be saying 'tis nobler to let pot shops operate in the city. The arguments so far have been over the details of how stron ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2012
Marijuana Dispensary Ban Passed by L.A. Committee: Only One Vote Left Before Pot Shops Wiped Out
You've heard it before: The L.A. City Council is trying to ban all marijuana dispensaries from the streets of Los Angeles. But things just got real. Councilman Jose Huizar's proposal was solidified into an ordinance today -- meaning only one single meeting on July 22 stands between our current pot- ... More >>
News
February 16, 2012
Medical Marijuana Ban in L.A.? City Officials Botched Regulation, Now Want Prohibition
Medical weed ban heads to City Council
Blogs
February 10, 2012
L.A. Redistricting: Ed Reyes' District 1 Looks Like a Ridiculous Poodle
Simone WilsonThis is the third chapter in a (badly Photoshopped) series on the L.A. Redistricting Commission's gerrymandered new voting districts. Previously: "Eric Garcetti's District 13 Looks Like an Evil Squirrel" "Bernard Parks' District 8 Looks Like a U.S. Army Tank" "Tom LaBonge's Distr ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2012
Shepard Fairey, Saber to Discuss L.A. City Mural Ordinance at Public Panel Discussion
An unprecedented meeting of street artists and political artists will happen tonight in downtown L.A. Expected to attend: Shepard Fairey and Saber. Los Angeles, of course, is a graffiti art hot spot and a onetime mural capital of the world. But a city law against public murals made putting one up i ... More >>
Blogs
November 23, 2011
Marijuana Dispensary Ban For Entire City Proposed by L.A. Councilman Jose Huizar
Updated at the bottom with feedback from Americans for Safe Access, a group that is supporting an appeal of the Long Beach decision that inspired Huizar's proposed ban. They say outlawing pot shops is not necessary under the ruling. First posted at 11:14 a.m. Is the end near for L.A.'s go-go medica ... More >>
Blogs
September 6, 2011
Neighborhood Council Evicted From Constituent Center by L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar
Councilman Huizar.L.A. neighborhood councils were launched as a way to get grass-roots participation in City Hall's decisions. They're an official part of L.A.'s governing process, and in many cases they occupy taxpayer-funded offices. But one "NC," Northeast L.A.'s "32," was recently kicked ... More >>
Blogs
August 10, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
August 9, 2011
L.A. City Councilmember Jose Huizar Has Missed Half His Meetings This Summer
No one plays hooky like Jose Huizar.Leave it to Ron Kaye, former editor of the LA Daily News (til' he got too crazy -- read: too Valley -- for that shit), to comb through the L.A. City Council's abysmal attendance records for the last couple months, callin' out councilmembers on their devil-m ... More >>
Blogs
July 29, 2011
Art Walk Can't Become 'a Mardi Gras Type of Event:' L.A. City Hall Looks at Reining it in Following Death of Infant
Fourth and Main during Art Walk.It looks like City Hall wants to make downtown's burgeoning Art Walk a safer place for hipsters after a 2-month-old boy was killed in an accident during a crowded version of the event earlier this month. A 22-year-old without a drivers license was attempting t ... More >>
News
March 17, 2011
Campaign Consultants Stank up L.A. on March 8
City Council candidate Rudy Martinez should have listened to his mom
Blogs
March 9, 2011
Jose Huizar Destroys Rudy Martinez in L.A. City Council District 14 Election: Here's What Went Wrong for the Challenger
Jose Huizar had nothing to worry aboutUpdate: The final count, Huizar over Martinez, is 64.22 percent to 35.78 percent. 14,429 people voted in the race. Originally posted at 12:20 a.m. Eighty-three percent of votes have been counted in the City Council District 14 election, and the people's ... More >>
Blogs
March 8, 2011
Jose Huizar vs. Rudy Martinez: LA Weekly Exit Poll in Eagle Rock Shows Problems for Martinez
District 14 challenger Rudy MartinezUpdate: Early election results reveal Martinez' problems may be even bigger than we thought. As of 9:08 p.m., Huizar holds over 60 percent of the vote, though only 15 percent has been reported (and that's mostly older absentees). Reporting by David Futch a ... More >>
News
March 3, 2011
Blogger Field Day in Huizar vs. Martinez
The fur-flying Council District 14 race is influenced by citizen journos
News
February 17, 2011
Martinez-Huizar Numbers Game
Council District 14's real war is unfoldingon secret maps
Blogs
February 14, 2011
Coliseum Manager Todd DeStefano Hired Lobbyist to Represent Pro-Rave Argument in City Hall
Caesar SebastianA dancer at Electric Daisy Carnival.The L.A. Coliseum manager who was doing double duty working for the embattled promoter of controversial raves there had also hired a lobbying firm to fight for organizer's right to throw these parties. L.A. City Ethics Commission website sh ... More >>
Blogs
February 7, 2011
Michael Trujillo, Consultant to L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar, Axed Over Email Calling Challenger Rudy Martinez a 'Dead Rat'
Jose Huizar.Update: Martinez's campaign says he has filed a police report and that the LAPD is investigating the threatening language in Trujillo's email. In the contentious battle for the city's Eastside council seat, things took a turn for the strange over the weekend as a campaign consult ... More >>
Blogs
February 1, 2011
Huizar vs. Martinez: L.A. D.A. Investigating Rudy Martinez's Eastside Campaign Contributions
City MavenRudy Martinez (left) and Jose Huizar together in friendlier times.Updated after the jump with reaction from Martinez's campaign regarding his statements that the FBI questioned him about Huizar's business dealings. The fight over Jose Huizar's Eastside L.A. City Council seat is get ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2011
Rudy Martinez Vs Jose Huizar: Did Huizar, the L.A. City Council District 14 Incumbent, Sic a Building Inspector on Rival Rudy?
By David Futch Rudy Martinez's worst nightmareThe feud that could see an outsider (Rudy Martinez) unseat a Los Angeles City Council incumbent for the first time in 24 years all got started over ... an over-sized patio? That's what it looks like in the Martinez Vs. Jose Huizar race for Counc ... More >>
Blogs
January 25, 2011
L.A. City Council Meeting Canceled Because Members Jose Huizar, Paul Koretz Were Late; Others Were Known No-Shows
The chambers of ACTION!Ah, the great city of L.A. Shit gets done! Mountains get moved! The City Council ... cancels meetings because slacker members don't show up on time. Yeah, you heard right. For the second time in four months the second largest city in the nation's scheduled council mee ... More >>
News
January 20, 2011
Jose Huizar Unfriends Rudy Martinez
Every voter counts as ex-pals fight for 10,000 elusive Eastsiders
Blogs
January 18, 2011
One 'Gate' Too Many: L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar Devoured Alive by Opponent Rudy Martinez, LA Times, Gleeful Citywatchers
Jose y Rudy, muy amigosUpdated after the jump: Huizar's gossip-girly "power analysis" lists in full! We'd call this a lynching -- if it weren't so based in fact. Over the last few weeks, the L.A. media hounds have gotten their paws on a series of embarrassing documents tied to L.A. City Coun ... More >>
Blogs
January 11, 2011
L.A. City Councilmembers Eric Garcetti And Jose Huizar Take Firm Stance On Potholes; 10,000 To Be Filled By Sunday
seiu721 via FlickrKing o' Potholes and L.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti (black suit left) backs up City Hall buddy Jose Huizar (black suit right) at a public plea for more road-primping fundsUpdated after the jump: Final pothole fill-count exceeds Garcetti and Huizar's wildest dreams ... More >>
Blogs
December 29, 2010
Community Voice Newspaper on Eastside Slams Jose Huizar On Missing $1.5 Million Pollution Fund
Even Homer can't find the $1.5 million CLARTS fund snatched by HuizarLA Weekly posted an item headlined "Jose Huizar, Los Angeles City Councilman, Pressed To Explain $1.5 Million Missing from Eastside Pollution Control Fund," detailing how Huizar convinced his ill-informed City Council pals ... More >>
Blogs
December 27, 2010
Jose Huizar, Los Angeles City Councilman, pressed to explain $1.5 million missing from Eastside pollution control fund
L.A. City Councilman Jose Huizar pats a back other than his own.Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar might be the first incumbent ousted by an outsider (Rudy Martinez, profiled here) since the 1980s if he isn't careful. The MayorSam watchdog blog is following La Opinion in exposing that H ... More >>
News
December 2, 2010
Rudy Martinez Versus Los Angeles City Hall
Flip This House reality TV star hopes to push out Councilman Jose Huizar
Blogs
November 23, 2010
Rudy Martinez, Reality-TV Star Up For City Council, Bashes Incumbent Jose Huizar For His Watered-Down DWP Vote
A&ERudy Martinez at his day jobExclusive: Fiery response from Camp Huizar after the jump! Originally posted at 11:30 a.m. To be an L.A. City Councilmember last Tuesday, voting on the creation of an Office of Public Accountability for the Department of Water and Power, was a lose-lose situati ... More >>
Blogs
October 12, 2010
Rudy Martinez, Star Of "Flip This House," Drops $150,000 On Surprise Los Angeles City Council Campaign
A&ERudy Martinez on reality show "Flip This House"Updated after the jump: Competitor Jose Huizar one-ups Martinez. Originally posted at 1:52 p.m. Finally -- an L.A. City Council candidate who can rack up airline miles on his own credit card, instead of mooching off the public fund. With a $ ... More >>
Blogs
September 8, 2010
Pot Shop Advocates Press For New L.A. City Ordinance As Council Takes Wait-And-See Stance
Councilman Jose Huizar.What do you say when a years-long drama to rein in Los Angeles' out-of-control pot shops ends in hardly any regulation, which is what we have today? "I think this process is working just fine." Those were the words of Los Angeles city Councilman Jose Huizar after pro-m ... More >>
Blogs
August 6, 2010
Eastside Rave Spot Shut Down By Police; More Fallout From 'EDC'
Ravers.A Boyle Heights location used regularly for raves and after-hours parties has been effectively shut down after neighbors complained to police and Eastside City Councilman Jose Huizar. Eastern Group Publications reports that the last party at the location at 650 S. Clarence St. was bro ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2010
L.A. Council's Travel, Lavish Accomodations Questioned
A recent report by NBC4's Colleen Williams (pictured) questions the Los Angeles City Council's sometimes-lavish travel arrangements, especially in light of City Hall's $585 million deficit and impending layoffs. The station found that the mayor and council spent $70,000 on travel in 2008 and ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2010
Regulating Pot Shops? Councilman Asks, "Can't Someone Else Do It?"
FoxCity Councilman Jose Huizar has called on the state legislature to clarify California's medical marijuana rules, arguing that the city's own ordinance could only go so far with out clearer guidelines on such issues as what constitutes a sale, whether over-the-counter dispensaries were legi ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2009
Murder was the Case: LA Homicide No. 285, (UPDATE) $50,000 Reward Offered for Info on Teen Murder
A $50,000 reward was offered today for information leading to the arrest of a woman suspected of fatally shooting 15-year-old Luis Eduardo Perez. The Dec 7 shooting occurred around 7:34 a.m. in the 2100 block of East Cesar Chavez Avenue at a bus stop. View Larger Map The Los Angeles Police Depa ... More >>
Blogs
November 4, 2009
Density Be Damned: El Sereno Shuts Down Major Development
Despite the mayor's insistence that inner-city residents want -- and need -- denser housing developments in their neighborhoods, the locals in one Northeast Los Angeles neighborhood shut down a monstrous housing wart planned for the top of a picturesque hill in their area. In it's place, they're get ... More >>
News
June 7, 2007
Taming the Wild 740 Club
City investigating politically connected nightspot that draws 1,000
News
April 12, 2007
Mexican American Princes: �Mas Suave!
They�re handsome, charming and so good to their mothers. They�re Mexican American Princes, and they rule Los Angeles
News
December 14, 2006
Pulling a Huizar
An insider talks trash as he eyes his boss�s lucrative City Council seat
News
July 13, 2006
Power of Dirty Money
Can the L.A. City Council really get serious about campaign ethics?
News
March 2, 2006
An A-Plus in Fund-Raising
Teacher unions-backed candidate rolling in the dough
News
December 1, 2005
First-Day Chatters
Jos� and Herb can�t be bothered by the public on their inaugural day
News
November 10, 2005
Team Antonio Scores
Maybe Nick will get the message this time
News
November 3, 2005
We Endorse
L.A. Weekly�s recommendations in Tuesday�s election
Calendar
October 20, 2005
José vs. Nick
The past confronts the future for control of L.A.’s Eastside political machine
News
April 5, 2001
Endorsements: Part 2
Our recommendations in the April 10 Los Angeles city election
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