Neighborhood Council

Silver Lake Millennials War With Boomers in America's "Most Livable" Community

Wallis Annenberg's Development at Ballona Wetlands: Edison Boss Attacks "Eco-Jihadists"

See Also: "Annenberg Foundation Can't Grasp Disgust Over Its Wetlands 'Interpretive Center' and Dog Pound" Environmentalists raised angry questions this week about whether lobbyists and PR people for Annenberg Foundation should be sitting on Westchester/Playa Neighborhood Council -- a new twist in ... More >>

Rape at Occidental College: Official Hush-Up Shatters Trust

Gray Davis, David Fleming Defend "LA 20/20" to Criticism the Group is Light on High-Tech, Hollywood or Entrepreneurs

Is LA 20/20, the high-powered committee that includes former Gov. Gray Davis and was selected by former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kantor and multimillionaire Austin Beutner to find ways to bring economic health to L.A., a bit light on entrepreneurs and others who can create jobs? Jack Hump ... More >>

Frank McCourt's Dodger Parking Lot

Is it OK if Frank still co-owns the vast acres encircling Dodger Stadium?

Medical Marijuana Ban in L.A.? City Officials Botched Regulation, Now Want Prohibition

Medical weed ban heads to City Council

L.A. Redistricting: Tom LaBonge's District 4 Looks Like a Losing Matador

This 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" This has to be a joke, right? City Coun ... More >>

Dodgers Auction: Who Should Own the Team?

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 >>

Sunset Junction's Failed Mission

The so-called charity spent $12,000 on lobbyists. Needy kids got $500

Clamor Over Venice 311

Albert Abrams, Mayor Villaraigosa's Neighborhood Councils Honcho, Blames 'Split Personality,' Pain, For Child Porn Problems

Albert Abrams.​Updated at the bottom with with reaction from one Neighborhood Council leader. First posted at 11:33 p.m. Wednesday. Albert Abrams, top dog at the L.A. Department of Neighborhood Empowerment, appeared to admit to a local TV news station that he viewed child porn because "it is ... More >>

LA Daily News, Los Angeles Times Endorse Non-Incumbents in District 4 City Council Race

Neon TommyCity Council challengers Stephen Box (left) and Tomas O'Grady (right) at a debate​We can't remember the last time both big L.A. dailies endorsed a non-incumbent with relatively light campaign funding in one of the City Council races -- and, even more unusually, the District 4 endorse ... More >>

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 >>

City Activists Push For Locally Elected Seat On Each Of Villaraigosa's Incestual, Downtown-Heavy Commissions

S.C. Asher via FlickrOnce again, the Valley feels left out​Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's downtown-centric frame of vision -- one that certainly sticks to City Hall tradition -- is (once again) pissing off the people. The mayor currently selects all five members on each of 51 City C ... More >>

Done In by Democratic Process

Studio City Neighborhood Council dispute sees member booted from board, then vindicated by re-election

Dr. Keith Richman near death: respected San Fernando Valley Jewish Republican formed rare bipartisan effort to force reform in Sacramento

Los Angeles Daily NewsKeith Richman ​ UPDATED: Keith Richman died Friday night at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, according to an extensive obituary by Kevin Modesti in the Los Angeles Daily News. This post is updated throughout. Dr. Keith Richman, a fascinating mix of Jewish doctor, Repub ... More >>

Los Angeles Civic Park's Stillbirth

Why you've never heard of this signature city park — and why that fact might irk you

Eight candidates scare L.A. City Hall

A September 22 election in Council District 2 may shake all the way to downtown

Slashing L.A. City Council Pay to $90K

Can pissed-off Angelenos cut the nation's richest city council salaries by half?

Echo Park's Neighborhood Council Dustup

The Eastsider L.A. carries a report of push coming to shove in that anger-management encounter group known as the Greater Echo Park Elysian Neighborhood Council. Some of the council's past meetings have been fraught with temper tantrums and shouting matches between its middle-aged members. Recently, ... More >>

Life of the Party: Sunset Junction Street Fair Hits Dead End

The fate of the yearly Silver Lake music fete is far from assured. But that’s nothing new

Is Sunset Junction on a Collision Course?

The fate of this year's annual festival has yet to be decided

Sunset Junction in 2009? Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Addresses Concerns

Mark "Cobrasnake" HunterFreedom of information at Sunset Junction Thursday night, the auditorium of Micheltorena Elementary School was packed with supporters and detractors of the annual Sunset Junction Street Fair for a special meeting held by Silver Lake Neighborhood Council. The three hour meeti ... More >>

Behind the Veil: A Bigger Dream, A Bigger Dream Center

The Eastsider L.A. reports on the progress of the Dream Center's renovations -- renovations that will expand the 8.8-acre evangelical compound into a shelter that can house up to 1,200 people. Currently, massive construction tarps veil the project from public view as the renovations take shape. (Wee ... More >>

Silver Lake Neighborhood Council Says Sunset Junction Needs an Overhaul

Lina LecaroCrowds at the annual Sunset Junction street fair. Sunset Junction Street Festival still exists, but it might not be continuing in the large, Coachella-light style that it has for the bulk of this decade.

Villaraigosa's Fiscal Folly

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

From Echo Park to MacArthur Park: Neighborhood Noise

Plus, UCLA Live's David Sefton weighs in

Echo Park's Gentrification Woes

A nasty Neighborhood Council election marks a divide emerging citywide

Billboard Inspection Program Still a Bust

“It is the Los Angeles dodge and delay program,” said a frustrated Marilyn Cohon, the Vice President of Westwood South of Santa Monica Homeowners Association about City Hall’s long-awaited billboard fee inspection program. “We find it appalling that the city is dragging its feet.” Even C ... More >>

Doomscraper? Here Comes Hollywood's First-Ever Mega-Skyscraper

A community thrown into shadow and vistas of the Hollywood sign could be destroyed

City Hall's "Density Hawks" Are Changing L.A.'s DNA

Bitter homes & gardens?

There Goes the Neighborhood Council

Comments on the Vernon/Main Neighborhood Council story

DWP�s Power Surge

Mystery surrounding troubled contract points to mismanagement of L.A.�s giant utility

Letters

Not in My Neighborhood Council

What can save L.A.�s broken neighborhood councils?