Jill Stewart

It's discomfiting to watch leaders of the Los Angeles League of Conservations Voters awkwardly try to play king-maker and repress debate in the wide-open Los Angeles City Council District 15 race to replace the quickly forgotten Janice Hahn. The League thinks it knows who the front-runners are. It has decided......

Mike McNeilly is still trying to wrap Los Angeles in hideous, dangerous, skyscraper-sized illegal supergraphic advertising so he can get richer. But once a loser, always a loser. McNeilly ran for California governor in the Republican Party in 2003 and got 581 votes -- out of 5.4 million GOP votes......

Is Wendy Greuel running for Los Angeles mayor by acting like a blond version of the failed Arnold Schwarzenegger, decrying waste, fraud and abuse? She's fired off an election-aimed press release asking the City Council's inept Audits and Governmental Efficiency Committee to address fraud in the 50,000-plus city work force......

Lots of folks want to run for the Los Angeles City Council District 15 seat being abandoned by Janice Hahn, recently elected to Congress. Voters will probably soon realize that several of the CD 15 candidates sound exactly the same as the current City Council. The L.A. City Council votes......

Robert Canizalez and Martin Morones murdered Dora Groce and her two children in a horrific car blaze like a terror scene from Terminator, and California's 2nd District Court of Appeal yesterday denied their absurd attempt to undo their convictions. A lower court had already decided in 2009 that these two......

By Hillel Aron and Jill Stewart Here's why California citizens today produced new, non-sleazy, non-trickster-y redistricting maps that starkly rejigger how communities are represented in the California state Capitol and the U.S. Congress. This story is true: On Thursday, Sept. 13, 2001, an ashen-faced New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani spoke......

Buh-bye to Dale Janssen and Mary C. Armstrong, ousted from an agency that is among the most injurious to children in the U.S., the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. A withering state audit in April found the powerful commission to be a flagrant disaster. Executive Director Janssen and General Counsel......

Update: Following Sweet's death and a not guilty plea from 26-year-old Austin Jeffrey Farley, accused in the DUI murder of the teen, the OC Register reports that her mom has donated the girl's heart, liver, kidneys and pancreas to six patients. Ashton Sweet smiles in the photograph, gorgeous with her......