Tony Cardenas

Sherman Oaks Residents Enraged Over Fire Station Secrecy

Why Are Women Practically Nonexistent on L.A. City Council?

Of 15 City Council seats, the Valley's may soon have the sole female

Eric Garcetti Is A "Rising Star" At Democratic Convention, Says Eric Garcetti

Everybody knows who the Democrats will nominate for president this week. But who will they nominate in four years, or 12? Chances are those folks are in Charlotte, and party regulars are looking for them. Away from the TV cameras, a convention can resemble an NFL scouting combine, as everyone hunts ... More >>

L.A. City Hall Opens New Lactation Room Under Obamacare Mandate

Breastfeeding: So hot right now! While supermoms like TIME covergirl and L.A. resident Jamie Lynne Grumet are fighting the good fight to breastfeed their toddlers in public (through radical nurse-ins called Boobie Paloozas; we kid you not), the female employees and visitors at L.A. City Hall would ... More >>

L.A. Parking Taxes Gone Wild: City Approves New Meters, Looks to Expand Street Sweeping

The L.A. City Council knows our weak spot. In order to get almost anywhere in this godforsaken sprawl pit, we need to drive a car. And unless we can afford valet/a driveway, we often need to park that car on the street; and unless we're perfect parking robots, we sometimes sprint back to our vehicle ... More >>

L.A. Parking Taxes Gone Wild: City Approves New Meters, Looks to Expand Street Sweeping

The L.A. City Council knows our weak spot. In order to get almost anywhere in this godforsaken sprawl pit, we need to drive a car. Unless we can afford valet/a driveway, we often need to park that car on the street; and unless we're perfect parking robots, we sometimes sprint back to our vehicles fi ... More >>

L.A. City Hall's 'Elephant Awareness Day' Apparently Not Enough to Keep Ringling Bros. Out of Staples Center

Surprise, surprise! Not one month after L.A. politicians wasted time and resources designating August 3 as the city's official "Elephant Awareness Day," the poster corporation for alleged elephant abuse is coming to town. This very evening, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus (owned by Feld E ... More >>

Helen Kim Takes on L.A.'s Old Guard

Rising star of Koreatown's Generation K

$109,000 Salaries to 'Redevelop' The Ghetto? L.A. Leaders Abandon Overpaid City Agency

Despite its whining about Gov. Jerry Brown's successful move to wipe California's local redevelopment agencies off the face of the earth, City Hall wants nothing to do with the remnants of its own "CRA." No life vests here. The City Council just voted 9-3 to just let the thing die instead of becom ... More >>

Tony Cardenas Is Headed To Congress: Howard Berman Endorsement Clears Last Roadblock

Tony Cardenas​Looks like Councilman Tony Cardenas can start looking for apartments in Washington, D.C.Today, he got the endorsement of Rep. Howard Berman in his race for the new "Latino" Congressional seat in the San Fernando Valley. That appears to eliminate the most serious threat to Cardenas' c ... More >>

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 >>

Tony Cardenas Picks Up Support From San Fernando Valley Latinos

Tony Cardenas​Latino lawmakers are lining up behind Councilman Tony Cardenas in his race for the new "Latino" Congressional seat in the San Fernando Valley.Cardenas announced the endorsements today of Sen. Alex Padilla and Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes. No big surprise there: Padilla used to work for ... More >>

Red Light Cameras in L.A. Could Become Extinct After City Council Declines to Save Them

dullhunk​Guess all the lobbyists in the world couldn't give this program the green light. The city's much-hated red light cameras have been quagmired out of existence after the L.A. Police Commission said they must go and their defenders on the L.A. City Council couldn't muster enough votes t ... More >>

Tony Cardenas, One of L.A.'s $178,000-a-Year Councilman, is Asking For Your Help (Dig Deep, People)

Tony loco.​If I were a councilman / Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum / All day long I'd biddy biddy bum / If I were a councilman. So, $178,000 a year and a taxpayer-bought car isn't enough for you? What do you do? You take a day off and ... ask for more money! That's the gi ... More >>

How Lobbyist John Ek Gets His Way at City Hall

Ethics Fines For L.A. Council Members Garcetti, Huizar, Wesson, Cardenas

Ethics fines for city leaders.​Looks like Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wasn't the only leader in City Hall invited to this here party. But, unlike other events officials have attended, this one will cost you. Yeah, four City Council members got caught up in ticketgate and will also have to pay ... More >>

City Council Pays for Needless Study By Not Doing Its Homework

Tony Cardenas vs. Rich Goodman: Election Results

Tony Cardenas​Councilman Tony Cardenas appears headed to an easy re-election over a field of three underfunded challengers.Cardenas has 57% of the vote in early returns. He's far ahead of his closest challenger, 27-year-old Rich Goodman, who stands at 18%.Goodman, a web entrepreneur who moved into ... More >>

L.A. City Council Spends Thousands of Your Money on Top Restaurants, Clubs Hotels (Even for a 'Personal Fiesta')

Tony Cardenas​Despite the budget crunch of the last few years, some L.A. City Council members have been ... let's say liberal with your tax dollars when it comes to restaurant and hotel spending. (And remember, these are the highest-paid elected city officials in the nation). San Fernando Val ... More >>

L.A. City Council Bums

Entrenched and ridiculed, they line up for a March 8 "coronation"

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 >>

L.A. Council People Hahn, Reyes, Cardenas, Whine About Death Threats Following City's Boycott Of Arizona

​Updated after the jump with a response from Hahn's chief of staff, who says there was no whining involved. First posted at 1:10 p.m. We've ribbed the Los Angeles City Council for taking easy, painless stances (cat declawing) while putting off hard choices (pension reform), but in the case of ... More >>

City of Airheads: Villaraigosa Dismantles L.A.'s Vaunted Library System

Mayor mirrors Detroit's disastrous choice

Janice Hahn Concerned About Conflicts On LAX Concession Contract

Janice Hahn: concerned and conflicted​The Board of Referred Powers, the L.A. City Council body charged with ruling on the lucrative LAX concessions contract, held just its second meeting in as many months yesterday.Not much got done, but Councilwoman Janice Hahn did say she was concerned about new ... More >>

Cárdenas Won't Take From LAX Concessions; But His Chief of Staff Will

Jose Cornejo (left) chats with his boss, Tony Cardenas​Earlier this week, we told you about the fundraiser that L.A. Councilman Tony Cárdenas will hold at El Paseo Inn. The fundraiser will be on July 29, the same day that Cårdenas presides over a hearing on the extremely lucrative LAX concession ... More >>

Tony Cárdenas To Hold Fundraiser At Restaurant Bidding For LAX Business

Cardenas kickoff: $500/seat​All this summer, L.A. City Hall is embroiled in a big-money battle for the right to sell quick-serve cuisine to LAX passengers.Just one of the eight packages is worth $600 million in sales, so you can imagine how much lobbying pressure has been applied to the Board of R ... More >>

Villaraigosa & Garcetti Backed the Arrested Anti-Gang Expert Alex Sanchez

In a shocking development in the gang world today, the FBI has arrested high-profile anti-gang expert Alex Sanchez at his Bellflower home on federal racketeering charges, according to the Associated Press. Homies Unidos Executive Director Alex SanchezAs executive director of the Los Angeles-based, n ... More >>

Pen Pushers Break Bank: Cash-Strapped L.A. City Hall Spends $1 Million on Calligraphy

Despite fiscal free fall, Villaraigosa and City Council spend public money on scrolls

Measure B: Baffled DWP can't name one "on time" solar project

By Daniel HeimpelAt a special meeting this morning of the Los Angeles City Council's Energy and Environment Committee, the topic was the council's March 3 ballot measure that, purportedly, will drape 1,500 acres of silicon solar panels on rooftops in L.A.On the defensive after taking a media hammeri ... More >>

Pachyderm Forest: Zoo Gem or Elephant Graveyard?

It's one of those stories that has Only in L.A. stenciled all over it. The L.A. Times reports that as rock guitarist Slash and zoo employees rallied at City Hall to keep the L.A. Zoo's $42 million Pachyderm Forest habitat on track,  Bob Barker has thrilled animal-rights opponents of the forest ... More >>

Shutting Down Public-Access TV

AT&T and L.A. City Hall quietly lead a national push to silence the little guy

Los Angeles City Hall as Slumlord

Council members Perry and Cardenas pressured the CRA to hand Ruben Islas public money. But a federal judge called it like it was.

Goodbye, L.A. Gangs

If that smart Connie Rice is right, we just need to change society and spend $1 billion

MIA on DWP

In search of wise council on the Owens Valley mess

Chaos On the Lake

New DWP board creates its own dust storm over runaway costs of desert project

The Hidden Empire

What DWP’s massive raise says about L.A.’s leadership

The Second Coming

Hyper and charismatic, Antonio wants another shot at making modern L.A.

The Defibrillator

Richard Alarcón tries to jolt the mayor with a campaign about saving the middle class, Latinos and the Valley

End of Empire

DWP’s monopoly cleaning contract gets scrubbed

The Rise of Empire

The DWP has hired private eyes to follow janitors who complain about shoddy cleaning supplies — and a $25 million monopoly contract

Endorsements

Our recommendations in the March 4 Los Angeles municipal election

Autumn Follies

The City Council races shape up a month early this year

What Goes Around

How Tony Cardenas lost his bid for City Council

Gray in His Groove

Primary matters: The false spring of the Republican right, the real spring of the Democratic left

Endorsements

The Weekly’s recommendations in the March primary

Costly Venture, Nothing Gained

Cardenas and Greuel must square off again in City Council race

The Battle for Tujunga

Wendy and Tony battle to fill the shoes of Wachs

Wendy Greuel for City Council

The Weekly’s recommendation in the December 11 special election in the 2nd District

Pacoima Reality Check

What do electric cars have to do with inner-city air quality?

Cross of Gold

The California Air Resources Board swivels in the battle of the standards