Christine Pelisek

Though it seems that City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and City Controller Laura Chick have buried the hatchet and agreed to leave their squabbles to voters next year, the Weekly decided to take a peek at the City Attorney’s lengthy legal complaint. The legal spat focuses on Chick’s decision to audit......

The LA Weekly recently took a peek at last month’s state Board of Parole Hearings transcript in which Manson follower and convicted murderer Susan Atkins was denied “compassionate release.” In May, Atkins’ husband asked for “compassionate release” for his wife because she is dying from brain cancer and has less......

Billboard activists are happy to learn that a Kentucky governor is on their side – at least for now. Last month, the Louisville Courier-Journal reported that Kentucky governor Steve Beshear ordered that a major proposed change in billboard regulations be withdrawn because of safety fears. The bill would have allowed......

In January, the LA Weekly published a cover story about how City Hall's dream of recruiting more women firefighters turned into a multimillion-dollar disaster. So it wasn’t too surprising to learn that not much has changed. The fire department is still trying and failing to recruit women. Over the years,......

In April, LA Weekly published a cover story about the city’s 4,000 illegal billboards and the newspaper’s legal struggle to get a simple list of billboards owned by Clear Channel Outdoor and CBS Outdoor. It seems that our “Billboards Gone Wild” headline made quite the impression on other media folks......

Los Angeles City Councilmember Jack Weiss introduced a motion yesterday that would address and fix the colossal problems that have been raised in court cases challenging the city's sign ordinance. The motion calls for the city's planning department, Department of Building and Safety and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's office to......

The LA Weekly was taking a peek at court papers when we came across an interesting tidbit by a federal district judge who issued a preliminary injunction in June barring the city of Los Angeles from enforcing its sign ordinance against those huge, tacky, building-sized ads now slathering much of......