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 >>
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 >>
Is it OK if Frank still co-owns the vast acres encircling Dodger Stadium?
Medical weed ban heads to City Council
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 >>
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 >>
The so-called charity spent $12,000 on lobbyists. Needy kids got $500
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 >>
Neon TommyCity Council challengers Stephen Box (left) and Tomas O'Grady (right) at a debateWe 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 >>
Here In Van NuysA much lusher Van Nuys Farmers Market, back in October 2008Updated 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 >>
S.C. Asher via FlickrOnce again, the Valley feels left outLos 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 >>
Studio City Neighborhood Council dispute sees member booted from board, then vindicated by re-election
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 >>
Why you've never heard of this signature city park and why that fact might irk you
A September 22 election in Council District 2 may shake all the way to downtown
Can pissed-off Angelenos cut the nation's richest city council salaries by half?
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 >>
The fate of the yearly Silver Lake music fete is far from assured. But thats nothing new
The fate of this year's annual festival has yet to be decided
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 >>
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 >>
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.
The ant (L.A. County Board of Supervisors) and the dung beetle (City Hall)
Plus, UCLA Live's David Sefton weighs in
A nasty Neighborhood Council election marks a divide emerging citywide
“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 >>
A community thrown into shadow and vistas of the Hollywood sign could be destroyed
Bitter homes & gardens?
Comments on the Vernon/Main Neighborhood Council story
Mystery surrounding troubled contract points to mismanagement of L.A.s giant utility
What can save L.A.s broken neighborhood councils?
