Hillel Aron

The search committee for a new superintendent of Los Angeles Unified promised to look far and wide for the most qualified candidate to lead the nation’s second-largest school district. But in the end, the LAUSD school board decided to hire from within, choosing longtime deputy superintendent Michelle King to oversee......

Ah, billboard companies. The cartoon villains of Los Angeles. Fun fact: when a tree has the impudence to stand in between a passerby and a billboard that they may or may not want to look at, the billboard company can simply trim the trees — i.e., hack off all the......

If you grew up in Los Angeles, the name Inglewood was forever linked in your mind to the Tupac line, "always up to no good," much as the humble beach city of El Segundo was known as a place where the guy in A Tribe Called Quest's debut single left his wallet. ......

Which has a better long-term fiscal outlook: L.A.'s print newspapers or its school district? A report released in November and recently obtained by the Weekly (which is to say, we finally got around to reading it) describes a looming financial disaster the Los Angeles Unified School District faces in, oh,......

In the two days before Christmas, Black Lives Matter activists staged protests nationwide. Hundreds swarmed the Mall of America in Minneapolis. Protestors in Chicago hit the area's so-called "Magnificent Mile" shopping district. And in Los Angeles, a dozen or so activists shut down our most sacred of cows: the 405......

In June, they started slowly draining out the water in the Silver Lake reservoir. It's almost all gone.  The obituary for Silver Lake as a great neighborhood could've been written many, many times in over the last decade: in 2011, when the Sunset Junction street fair was abruptly cancelled; years......

Julie Hluchota was 21. She was from Elkhart, Indiana. And she had a drug problem. She couldn't stop using heroin and Oxycontin. In November 2009, Hluchota and her mom flew to Los Angeles and checked Hluchota into Seasons, a high-end drug rehab clinic in Malibu. According to a lawsuit she......

At a late afternoon press conference on Tuesday, the mayor and police chief of Los Angeles were eager to point out that the decision to shut down more than 900 schools following a terrorist threat rested with one man – LAUSD Superintendent Ramon Cortines.  The 83-year-old Cortines stood silently in......