Jill Stewart

Undercover Los Angeles Police officers will be hanging out at hot Los Angeles bars tonight, pretending to be customers to bust bartenders serving alcohol to people who shouldn't be driving, and partiers staggering toward parking lots, on New Years Eve. The Los Angeles Daily News has the story, quoting San......

LA Weekly posted an item headlined "Jose Huizar, Los Angeles City Councilman, Pressed To Explain $1.5 Million Missing from Eastside Pollution Control Fund," detailing how Huizar convinced his ill-informed City Council pals to snatch the cash -- and spend it on Huizar's pet projects, huge staff and "street repair." Huizar......

L.A.'s bizarre legal story of 2010 was the solitary confinement jailing of elderly attorney Richard Fine on "contempt of court" -- and boy does Fine have contempt for Los Angeles Superior Court judges who greedily grab $57,000 "bonuses" totalling $300 million. Richard Fine challenged the judges' nasty enrichment scheme as......

Get ready for a nasty new fee if you pay California state taxes late. Another way to screw the unemployed and struggling, straight from Sacramento: To start, more than 90,000 businesses, many of them mom-and-pops, will be warned of the fee after Jan. 1, 2011. An official notice out today......

Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar might be the first incumbent ousted by an outsider (Rudy Martinez, profiled here) since the 1980s if he isn't careful. The MayorSam watchdog blog is following La Opinion in exposing that Huizar funneled $1.5 million from a fund for offsetting air pollution on L.A.'s......

Jeremy Marks, a Verdugo Hills High School student jailed for eight months for "attempted lynching" after he used his cell phone camera to videotape a campus police officer striking a 15-year-old at an MTA bus stop, was finally home with his family on Christmas Eve. A Google engineer from San......

Los Angeles City Hall produces padded "population growth estimates" for L.A., an over-jammed city now driving away more humans than it attracts. Now, Antonio Villaraigosa and Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner are using the junk data to further remake Hollywood. City planners (a silly term) insisted that from 1990 to 2010,......

The California High-Speed Rail Authority, ridiculed for its secrecy, mismanagement, conflicts of interest and crazy overspending -- and for choosing as the California bullet train's first leg a "route to nowhere" between the dusty towns of Corcoran and Borden -- has just approved a new leg that extends the troubled......

We've already reported that Los Angeles' State Assemblyman Felipe Fuentes is "The Worst Legislator in California," putting his name on laws that are actually ghostwritten by corporations, unions -- and anyone else Fuentes thinks he can squeeze for campaign help. San Jose Mercury News reporter Karen de Sa, who unveiled......