Los Angeles City Council

High-Capacity Gun Magazines Banned In Los Angeles

Do you need your assault-style rifle to have more than 10 bullets attached to it, at the ready to pierce unsuspecting deer, paper targets and beer cans? Really? The Los Angeles City Council today dove into a contentious debate and did what congress has been unable to do: It banned 11-round-plus mag ... More >>

Los Angeles City Council District 9 Primary Results: Curren Price and Ana Cubas Leading in Tight Race

In the Los Angeles City Council District 9 race, Latina candidate Ana Cubas and state legislator Curren Price may grab the top two slots and head to the May runoff. Cubas, the only woman in the field, is facing African American politicos Curren Price, Mike Davis, and David Roberts as well as Asian ... More >>

Los Angeles City Council District 9 Primary Results: Curren Price and Ana Cubas To Face Each Other in May Runoff

In the Los Angeles City Council District 9 race, Latina candidate Ana Cubas and state legislator Curren Price grabbed the top two slots and will head to a May 21 runoff. Cubas, the only woman in the field, faced African American politicos Curren Price, Mike Davis, and David Roberts as well as Asian ... 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 District 15 Race

Taxpayer funds make San Pedro-to-Watts election the most competitive in years

League of Conservation Voters Moves to Silence Eight Candidates in Los Angeles City Council District 15 Election

monkeybuddha.comA consultant for the Los Angeles League of Conservation Voters chooses the top three L.A. City Council candidates. ​It's discomfiting to watch leaders of the Los Angeles League of Conservations Voters awkwardly try to play king-maker and repress debate in the wide-open Los Ange ... More >>

Street Artist SABER Tries Skywriting to Shame Los Angeles City Council and Villaraigosa Over Their Decimation of Public Art Murals

L.A. TacoObey the politicians: See our billboard blight, buy our products. Screw beauty. Forget art. ​L.A. Taco, that lover of street art, blogged a few hours ago about Los Angeles artist SABER's fantastic skywriting protest over City Hall this morning to protest the Los Angeles City Council' ... More >>

Warren Furutani and Paul Koretz: Separated at Birth? Why do People Who Parrot One Another Run for Los Angeles City Council?

Keith PlocekWarren Furitani, separated at birth from ... Paul Koretz?​Lots of folks want to run for the Los Angeles City Council District 15 seat being abandoned by Janice Hahn, recently elected to Congress. Voters will probably soon realize that several of the CD 15 candidates sound exactly t ... More >>

L.A.'s $350 Million Deficit Explained: City Employees Spent Years Collecting $215 Fine from Franklin Hanock. But He'd Already Paid.

An employee mans Los Angeles City Hall's state-of-the-art collections system.​Valley Village resident Franklin Hanock, featured in an L.A. Daily News column by Kerry Cavanaugh, says "Where [LA] is heading scares the hell out of me." He got a $125 fine for a malfunctioning burglar alarm that ... More >>

Pew Reports Los Angeles City Council is Biggest Spender On its Entourages and Salaries Among Big U.S. Cities: $1,400 Versus $178,789

Los Angeles City Council viewed from broken streets of Los Angeles​Pew Charitable Trusts reports that of 15 of the biggest U.S. cities, the Los Angeles City Council spends more on personal staffs and offices than anyone, has the highest pay (L.A. $178,789/San Antonio $1,400!), and is one of on ... More >>

Pot Shops Rejoice: Much Of L.A. City's Dispensary Rules Knocked Down

The notorious K.F.C: Legal again?​Updated after the jump with emergency rules being considered by the City Council. First posted at 5:15 p.m. Speak of the devil. Much of the pot shop ordinance that the Los Angeles City Council took so long to finally get on the books was blocked by a judge Fr ... More >>

Some On Los Angeles City Council Seem Ready To Welcome California Pot Legalization With Open Arms

Good to know where the L.A. City Council stands on green issues.​What happens in L.A. if the state legalizes pot? The Los Angeles City Council was expected this week to vote on a measure that would put a local tax on marijuana sales before voters in March. In other words, if Prop. 19 passes, ... More >>

Wanna Run For L.A. City Council? Move To Your District Of Choice Now Or Steve Cooley Will Getcha (We Have Some Recommended Digs)

​All you politicians and would-be politicos out there it's time to play that game we call musical chairs: The L.A. City Clerk warns that it's time to move to the voting district you plan to temporarily represent while you think of a better political gig.If you don't move now, you won't just be ine ... More >>

L.A. City Council Sells Control Of Lucrative Parking Lots For Quick Budget Fix

​The Los Angeles City Council this week followed through with a proposal to give up control of some of the public's most lucrative parking lots when it voted 9-3 to start soliciting bids from companies that want to take over the properties based on 50-year leases. In exchange the city expects ... More >>

LAPD Officers In Arizona This Week Despite Los Angeles City Boycott Over Immigration Law

​Despite the Los Angeles City Council's economic and travel boycott of Arizona over its controversial illegal immigration law (SB1070), four Los Angeles police air-unit officers went to Tucson anyway for law enforcement training. Though funding for the conference was denied by city leaders, th ... More >>

L.A. Councilman Wants To Ban Pot Delivery

​After news of broke here and elsewhere about the burgeoning business of medical-marijuana delivery, the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday was asked to specifically ban mobile-based pot shops as part of its restrictive dispensary law that took effect Monday. Councilman Jose Juizar introduced ... More >>

L.A. City Council Puts Off Moratorium On Rent Hikes

​The Los Angeles City Council on Friday put off a proposal to prohibit hikes for residents of rent-conrol units in the city, a move that means the freeze on increases for the quarter beginning July 1 probably won't happen at all. The council voted to send the proposal to deflect three percent ... More >>

L.A. City Council Puts Off Massive Layoffs

The Los Angeles City Council on Monday put off massive layoffs but agreed to cut 761 city employees in order to reduce $585 million in red ink. Approval of the $6.7 billion budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 came late Monday as the council voted to let city unions have until Oct. 1 to co ... More >>

L.A. Council Once Again Puts Off Tough Choices

​Surprise, surprise. The Los Angeles City Council on Friday put off a vote on the city's budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1, opting instead to issue dire warnings while threatening to finally make a move on Monday that could result in hundreds of job cuts. City Hall is facing $585 ... More >>

City Of L.A. Looking At Years Of Deficits

​This picture tells the story of what the Los Angeles City Council is facing as it tries to pare a $492 million deficit projected to hit for the new fiscal year in July. Is the council serious? Because this chart, presented to the city in recent weeks, shows that deficits will only get worse, ... More >>

Is The L.A. City Council In Denial Over Budget Mess?

​We've been snickering about it for quite sometime, but the Los Angeles City Council's feet-dragging distaste for all things budgetary (the city is now looking to pare down a $585 million deficit) seems to be inspiring more-and-more late-night-style quips. The latest (and perhaps greatest) co ... More >>

L.A. Council Moves To Cap Increases On Rent-Controlled Apartments

​The Los Angeles City Council on Friday voted to move forward with a three-month cap on rate hikes for those who live in rent-controlled apartments. The 8-6 vote sends the ordinance to the City Attorney's office for drafting, with a final vote expected in two weeks. If passed, the move would ... More >>

Some L.A. Residents Could Get Reprieves On Rent Hikes

​The Los Angeles City Council housing committee recommended Wednesday that tenants of city rent-controlled units should get a four-month reprieve on rent increases as a result of L.A's high unemployment and stagnant economy. "It's a very contentious issue and I think that the apartment owners ... More >>

Villaraigosa 2010-11 budget: look for Wall Street-style backdoors, city asset sales, flip-flops

The mayor will release his official Los Angeles 2010-11 fiscal year city budget today, and it's widely expected to contain more flip-flops than a sidewalk sale at a 99-cent store. The Los Angeles City Council appears stunned by yesterday's announcement by Antonio Villaraigosa that the city doesn't n ... More >>

City Council Passes Pot-Shop Law; Challenges Likely

​After years of wrangling and foot-dragging the Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday gave final approval to a law that would essentially shut down nearly 475 medical marijuana dispensaries in the city while allowing another 137 or so to remain open. The ordinance has a final goal of capping th ... More >>

Are Mushrooms L.A.'s Next Medicinal Growth Industry?

HBOCharacters on 'Entourage' hit the 'shrooms.​As the Los Angeles City Council Tuesday cracked down on a burgeoning medical-marijuana retail scene that might or might not have inspired a sprawling residential "grow-house" industry, authorities in Lake Los Angeles busted a rare grow house for ... More >>

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 >>

L.A. Location Shoots At Low Point In 2009

​On-location movie shoots in Los Angeles dipped nearly 30 percent in 2009, and all the local, location-based film, television and commercial productions comprised a 19.4 percent dip compared to 2008, marking a low point since records were kept in 1993. The dire report from FilmLA was touted a ... More >>

L.A. Council Rejects Home Buffer Zone For Pot Shops

​Considering its long-awaited ordinance to get a grip on 545 largely unregulated medical marijuana retailers in L.A., the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday rejected a proposed 500 foot buffer zone between the shops and homes and instead drafted language that would prohibit the businesses f ... More >>

Marijuana Dispensary Shut Down By County

​While the Los Angeles City Council has been sitting on its hands for the last three years and still has yet to produce a law governing local pot dispensaries, the county government of Los Angeles put regulations on the book in 2006 and this week moved to close a marijuana shop in Whittier. C ... More >>

End Of Most Pot Shops Could Start Wednesday

​The Los Angeles City Council is set to vote on a law that would eliminate most of the 540 or so operating marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles. After two years of grappling with the issue the council will likely limit the number of pot shops, capping them at 137. The proposed ordinance would al ... More >>

L.A. City Council Puts Off Pot-Shop Ordinance ... Again

​If you were an animal-rights advocate worried about the plight of cats and their claws, justice would be swift and City Hall would be at your service with a quick ban of declawing. But if, say, you lived next to a pot dispensary that did more business than a 7-Eleven (and that had shady chara ... More >>

Cat Declawing: Los Angeles City Council Tackles Monumental Issue, Sets Tone For Rest Of Century

You gotta give it to the Los Angeles City Council. It's a real go-getter of a group, ever progressive in its drive to make the city a better place.It has deliberated and debated for more than a year on regulating the 800 or so pot dispensaries in town for our own good -- to make sure that these reta ... More >>

Medical Pot Is Bringing L.A. Together

In the increasingly acrimonious pot wars, all sides agree City Hall is incompetent

Field Poll: Californians, whether Dem or GOP, really, really hate their politicians

Californians finally agree strongly on something: 72 percent of Democrats, 86 percent of Republicans and 77 percent of "decline to state" voters (people who generally can't stand the two-party system), all disapprove of the California State Legislature.That's what the new Field Poll says, the lowest ... More >>

Potshots Over Los Angeles Pot Shops

A year late, the City Council tries to uninvite its unvetted marijuana collectives

Unions Claim Accord With City

The Coalition of L.A. City Unions is claiming to have reached an agreement with the Los Angeles City Council that will preserve a June 26 accord to permit eligible employees to retire early. "After around-the clock-negotiations resulted in a Tentative Agreement with City unions," said a coalition pr ... More >>

Trutanich's Emergency Billboard Ban Approved by Los Angeles City Council

In his first big move to address a campaign promise, City Attorney Carmen Trutanich today sent one of his top attorneys to persuade the Los Angeles City Council to enact a flat-out, no exceptions ban on new billboards in Los Angeles, the capital of the illegal billboard industry.In an emergency acti ... More >>

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 Council Clings to Stunning Perks and Pay

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

City Council Extends Billboard Moratorium

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously yesterday to extend its citywide billboard moratorium until June 24. The council's 12-0 vote (members Weiss, Wesson and Reyes were absent) came one day after a federal judge issued a temporary injunction barring the city from taking action against 18 un ... More >>

Should L.A. City Council Agree to Slash Its $178,789 Salaries?

15 richly paid politicians are happy to cut their pay — by 2.5 percent

How L.A. City Council Got Those Huge $178,789 Salaries

Surprise! Billboard Industry Poll Reports that Angelenos Dig Digital Billboards

A newly released survey conducted in Los Angeles County found that  just 22 percent of residents polled were familiar with the politics and legal mess surrounding digital billboards. Of that fraction, just six percent reported that the issue was important to them. Those are only a few of the su ... More >>

Amazing Los Angeles City Council Salaries: $171,648 plus goodies

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 >>

Los Angeles City Hall offers $500,000 for Grim Sleeper

By Christine Pelisek In response to a four-month investigation by the L.A. Weekly that last week revealed the existence of an active serial killer who has been slaughtering people in South Los Angeles since 1985, the Los Angeles City Council voted today to reward $200,000 to any person who supplies ... More >>

Eric Garcetti Responds to "Doomscraper?"

Eli Broad's Grand Illusion

While real L.A. goes begging, City Hall pours millions into a plastic promenade

Parade's End

The new charter is too big to stop