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Hyongsoon Kim: The Koreatown Advocate

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here.On the 24th floor of Century Plaza Towers, in his office at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, attorney Hyongsoon Kim enjoys expansive views of West L.A. and the Pacific Ocean b ... More >>

Los Angeles City Council District 3 Primary Results: Bob Blumenfield Wins Over Joyce Pearson

Despite his massive spending, Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield barely gained the votes needed to beat neighborhood council activist Joyce Pearson in Los Angeles City Council District 3 race in the West San Fernando Valley. Blumenfield, one of the more audacious job-hoppers from Sacramento, who has nea ... More >>

Mayor Michael Bloomberg Pours $1 Million into LAUSD Elections to Oust Steve Zimmer, Elect Monica Garcia

See also, "LAUSD's Dance of the Lemons," and "Can Kate Anderson, Mom of Twins, Fix LAUSD?"Los Angeles Unified School District, whose teachers union UTLA has squelched attempts to raise student learning by making ineffective certified teachers relearn subject matter and skills, just attracted $1 mill ... More >>

L.A. Coptic Church, L.A. Muslim Group to Denounce Innocence of Muslims

The anti-Islam video that set off a fire storm in the Middle East appears to have been made by a few fanatical Coptic Christians right here in Southern California. But the Coptic Orthodox Church of Los Angeles will join hands with the Muslim Public Affairs Council today to denounce the almost-silly ... More >>

Proposition 29 Cigarette Tax

Why it may fail in liberal California

Venice Boardwalk Trinket Sales Ban

LAPD will decide what can be peddled as art

The Zen of LAPD Chief Charlie Beck

Police top gun ignores pot smoking, finds his inner haiku at Occupy L.A.

City Council Unanimously Passes Occupy L.A. Resolution -- Protesters Struggle to Distance Themselves From Democrats, Unions

Los Angeles TimesCity Council President Eric Garcetti shows his support.​Just now, the L.A. City Council unanimously approved a joint resolution to officially "support" the Occupy L.A. demonstration and "demand accountability and results from the banks we invest taxpayer dollars in." (Full tex ... More >>

Villaraigosa's 'Clean Truck' Plan for Port of Los Angeles Fails in 9th District Court of Appeals: Greenwashing Failed to Impress

Sparkling clean truck: Los Angeles greenwashing almost worked.​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's controversial "clean trucks" plan to squeeze independent truckers out of the Port of Los Angeles as a favor to the Teamsters -- a green-washing plan he sold as merely a wholesome effort to r ... 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 >>

Farmers Field or Blade Runner Stadium?

The downtown NFL arena deal allows a sea of billboards, congestion and millions in public costs

CIM Group's Bitter Lesson to Mid-City

Neighborhoods must sue L.A. City Hall to avert Lowe's-like disasters

California Redevelopment Agencies' Demise

Charlie Beck, L.A. Police Chief, Required to Cut $40 Million to Balance Budget, But Given No Guidance

Kyle T. Websteroops ​Today L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will receive amendments made by the City Council to his 2011-12 proposed City budget. The big issue is more than $40 million that Villaraigosa had wanted to borrow on commercial paper. That debt plan has now been trashed, and the bur ... More >>

Fight for Council District 12

Valley citizens try to crack open L.A. City Hall

The Bikeroots

City Council candidate Stephen Box and L.A. bicyclists roll into the halls of power

Van Nuys Farmers Market Shut Down By L.A. City Councilman Tony Cardenas

Here In Van NuysA much lusher Van Nuys Farmers Market, back in October 2008​Updated after the jump: Councilman Cardenas explains his decision. Meanwhile, the market remains shuttered indefinitely. 'Tis the season for L.A. brick-and-mortar businesses to hate on those damned gypsy vendors who s ... More >>

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 job​Exclusive: 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 >>

L.A. May Say Good-bye to EIRs and public notice

City Council tries to upend Community Plans and zoning protection

California's 2010 Embrace of Green Tech

In killing Proposition 23, residents choose to pay more for energy, use less

Will L.A. Fire Chief Millage Peaks Have the Cojones to Demand Antonio Villaraigosa's Staffers Fill Potholes?

Kyle T. WebsterL.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa​Yet another budgetary dust up is developing at Los Angeles City Hall this week, this time involving Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Los Angeles Fire Department brass, whose 51 assistants may have to hit the streets to help fight fires due to a may ... More >>

Saving L.A. Foot by Foot

Once-Disgusting Venice Grand Canal is a living wetland again

Antonio Villaraigosa ticket scandal: Fair Political Practices Commission orders thousands of California politicians to post freebies on Internet to fight corruption

Now I see the light.​Thanks to Antonio Villaraigosa's practice of ignoring anti-corruption laws, angling for $50,000 to $100,000 in freebies, then failing to tell the City Ethics Commission, the Fair Political Practices Commission has just enacted a strict rule forcing California politicians ... More >>

Same-Sex Marriages To Resume In California Next Week: Federal Judge Lifts Stay On Decision Overturning Prop. 8

Via TwitpicCelebration earlier this month at San Francisco City Hall.​ By Dennis Romero and Patrick Range McDonald, with reporting by Steve La from Norwalk Updated with reporting from the county clerk's office. First posted at 12:40 p.m. U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker on Thursday mo ... More >>

Villaraigosa's Vanishing Veracity

His executive directive No. 1 in 2005 vowed to halt even the appearance of sleaze and conflicts

Amanda Seward: Preserving Lincoln Place

Pew poll says Americans hate government. Exhibit One: Howard Berman, gerrymander king

The respected Pew Research Center several hours ago revealed that Americans from all walks of life are beset with distrust for government at all levels, plummeting from 73 percent who said they trusted government in the Eisenhower era, to only 22 percent who say so today.Howard Berman ​This week's ... More >>

Connecting the really strange dots between Austin Beutner, National Enquirer, Los Angeles Times and Villaraigosa

Austin Beutner​That love letter to Antonio Villaraigosa's new aide Austin Beutner in the Los Angeles Times today got us thinking about the most fascinating fact the L.A. media leaves out when it comes to  the super-rich, super-successful investment banker Beutner: his previous role as a honch ... More >>

KCET scoop: FEMA shakes down South Central for "flood insurance" ten miles from ocean

KCET is about to unleash, tonight, a stunning expose of FEMA and Los Angeles City Hall that involves an unintentional but outrageous shakedown of South Central Los Angeles residents for "flood" insurance costing an eye-popping $900 to $1,700 a year. Mostly black and Latino homeowners in virtually no ... More >>

Judge: L.A. City Council's 2006 digital billboard settlement is "poison"

Slamming the Los Angeles City Council's bizarre 2006 "settlement" with billboard giants Clear Channel and CBS Outdoor as "poison," Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Terry Green tossed out the backroom deal that handed huge outdoor advertisers a multi-billion-dollar gift to erect more than 800 glaring ... More >>

Los Angeles Corporate Welfare: Ritz-Carlton and AEG

Rich entities siphon taxpayer money while real communities struggle

Andrew Adelman Rape Scandal and Incompetence at City Hall

The shocking investigation of Andrew Adelman, a powerful Los Angeles City Hall department head, will also put a spotlight on how this unpleasant and abusive bureaucrat was allowed for years to run one of the most-criticized municipal departments in Southern California, all while being protected by t ... More >>

$4 Million Jackson Memorial Cost to Taxpayers?

By Tibby Rothman City Hall is begging Jackson fans for alms, but upset L.A. residents face paying a king's ransom for the memorial to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. During the hours leading up to today's globally viewed memorial, the Los Angeles Police Department and other city offices were str ... More >>

LA People 2009: The Writer — Ray Bradbury

Measure B: Tweet Against the Machine

How L.A. City Hall power was struck down by blogs and online social networks

Why Do Secret Citizens Control the Gang Contracting?

Villaraigosa says they have to be anonymous. A dead city attorney told him so

Secrecy Rules in L.A.'s $24 Million Gang Program

Carr and Villaraigosa use 50 anonymous people to decide who gets the money

Villaraigosa's Fiscal Folly

The ant (L.A. County Board of Supervisors) and the dung beetle (City Hall)

Mega-Billboard for Billionaire Anschutz: What's Next, Preparation H Pavilion?

City Council rolls over for tycoon, ignoring its own anti-billboard law

"Valley Vote" and the "All About Me Mayor"

I guess they really do read LA Weekly in the San Fernando Valley. Monday night, Weekly writer Patrick McDonald was covering a meeting of Valley Vote, which spearheaded the Valley secession movement in 2001-02 and is still a highly active voice in questioning the leadership at Los Angeles City Hall. ... More >>

San Francisco Outdoor Advertising Company Lawsuit Mirrors Billboard Attacks Against Los Angeles

Two Los Angeles court rulings in favor of outdoor advertising companies are playing strong roles in a recent court filing in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Metro Fuel, which is owned by New York based Fuel Outdoor Holdings, which specializes in mini billb ... More >>

Outdoor Advertising Company Attacks San Francisco’s Billboard Ban

Last Friday, Metro Fuel filed a motion in United States District Court for the Northern District of California to prevent the city of San Francisco from enforcing its laws against illegal billboards. The outdoor advertising company, which is owned by New York based Fuel Outdoor Holdings, which sp ... More >>

Singleton's "Small-Town L.A." Papers Nosedive

Suburban coverage hit hard as the Press-Telegram, Daily News, Daily Bulletin, others, falter

Villaraigosa's Dead-End Pico and Olympic One-Way Plan ...

... hits the wall at Fairfax

The Priciest Corner in L.A.

A ban on turning right — on the green, no less — baffles and enrages motorists

Broken Bridges

Did City Hall’s plan to fight gangs bankroll a gangster?

The Story of O

How much difference can a pot of money make in the fight against urban runoff?

Lord of the Race

Serving on two powerful air-quality boards., L.A. Marathon founder William Burke sets a fast pace. But it just might be when he crosses the finish line, the public — and clean air — are the big losers.