Jill Stewart

Jeremy Marks' weapon was his cell phone. He used it to videotape Los Angeles Unified School District campus cop Erin Robles after she struck another student who tussled with her when she challenged the kid for smoking a cigar or joint at an MTA bus stop last May. As the......

Paranoid leaders at United Teachers Los Angeles seek anti-reform teachers to run for Los Angeles Unified School Board. That's right. They grimly resist after losing public confidence following the brilliant L.A. Times test score expose of 6,000 teachers. The Times showed that thousands of good students fall behind under LAUSD......

The new California Citizens Redistricting Commission's first eight members are Democrats Jeanne Raya of San Gabriel, Elaine Kuo of Mountain View, Cynthia Dai of San Francisco; Republicans Jodie Filkins Webber of Norco, Peter Yao of Claremont and Vincent Barabba of Capitola; and "decline to states" Stanley Forbes of Esparto and......

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa embarrassingly complained that no L.A. resident has a shot at today's lottery in which eight Californians will be picked for the commission that draws up the state's voting districts. The lottery live-streams at We Draw the Lines, here at 10 a.m. The strength of the California Citizens......

Confused about the propositions on Tuesday's ballot? Below are links to helpful information: Proposition 19: What Legal Marijuana Would Mean for California (full report) Proposition 19: Why It's Tanking In Polls Proposition 19: Obama Admin Fights 19 Proposition 20 Frequently Asked Questions: This measure, leading in polls, expands voter reforms......

All the internal hysteria that's periodically gripped the Barbara Boxer camp as California's longtime U.S. Senate ice maiden came closer than ever to losing her seat? It can probably be set aside. Anything can happen November 2, 2010. But today's Field Poll shows Boxer adding two percentage points to lead......

How did Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, primary physician to Anna Nicole Smith, get acquitted of all charges by a Los Angeles jury and the other two -- Smith's friend Howard K. Stern and psychiatrist Khristine Eroshevich -- get really light convictions? The three were accused by District Attorney Steve Cooley's prosecutors......

Via the mayorsam blog via the Fresno Bee, that super-upbeat, super-flashy guy, gloomy Gray Davis, is saying that California Governor Jerry Brown, um, probable governor, will immediately set a Special Election to ask Californians to raise taxes. God, which is worse? Another special election. Just shoot us all now. Or......