Jill Stewart

Update: "Lara Logan Confirms She Was Brutally and Repeatedly Raped in Egypt: Why Did the Media Think She Wasn't?" Lara Logan has told the New York Times' Brian Stelter that she was repeatedly raped by the hands of many men in Tahrir Square in February. Logan will tell further details......

Big loss for anyone worried about the scheming, secretive government entities and politicians so common in California cities, counties and Sacramento: The surprise death of Richard McKee, a widely respected expert on the California Public Records Act and Brown Act who sued some 30 cities and governments who kept public......

Ron Nichols is getting off to an ugly start as chief of DWP, the widely hated utility monopoly, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. KNBC-4's Ana Garcia reports that general manager Ron Nichols allowed his underlings to send out $23,000 and $1,300 surprise bills to shocked Los Angeles......

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa gets major credit for two seldom-seen qualities tonight in his 2011 State of the City address: 1) He's got an attention span, focused on LAUSD's awful schools -- which constitute the single biggest cultural and economic drag on the region, and could, in the next......

Did you hear the one about the sleazy tax man, Jerome Horton, who got caught secretly and illegally funneling money to a friend in Inglewood for a school board race, then had the nerve today to publicly lecture Californians on following the law and paying "use" taxes for stuff they......

Investigative reporter Tracy Wood writes today about the inept, cloaked, and somewhat creepy PR strategy followed by the California High Speed Rail engineers and Parsons Brinckerhoff, who have not followed basic transparency and outreach rules in haughtily pushing for the route -- and the massive land -- the rail will......

Update: Hands down, these two L.A. DWP reform measures are the huge winners tonight. As of 12:20 a.m. Wed., Measure I had 77.35 percent yes, and Measure J had 81.27 percent. Early election returns for March 8, 2011 suggest that Los Angeles voters really really want changes in how the......

Beginning at 8:30 pm tonight, the Los Angeles City Clerk will issue the first Election Day results for seven Los Angeles City Council races where Jose Huizar, Bernard Parks, Tom LaBonge and other long-timers face challengers. We in the media will update the latest results for Measure L (libraries), Measure......

Update: The Los Angeles City Council is deciding today whether to hide $1 billion in redevelopment cash from Governor Jerry Brown. Few overweight or sickly Californians ever knew that the Los Angeles City Council and Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency tried to gin up a state law defining "blight," by......