Jill Stewart

This was awfully easy to see coming: Hours before California college students took to the streets demanding more funding, Obama's education team in Washington D.C. announced that the California legislature's "education reforms" -- so pathetic that almost nobody is calling them reforms -- are not sufficient to award California $700......

Lots of outrage being expressed today about how badly the City of Los Angeles just got stiffed by the California Energy Commission in Sacramento, which is handing out loads of goodies --$110.3 million -- in the form of federal stimulus money for energy efficiency programs.Isn't it just a little humorous......

Uh, who let the rednecks into Mar Vista?  The area was buzzing tonight about an LAPD raid in which explosives and machine guns were found in a cache in a residence in the fairly pricey, yet somewhat Bohemian, Westside neighborhood with stunning views of the Pacific Ocean.According to one report,......

Daniel Heimpel, freelance writer for the Weekly, has won the national Anna Quindlen Award for Excellence in Journalism in Behalf of Children and Families, a national competition founded 15 years ago to recognize print reporters, editorial writers, and broadcasters whose coverage of child welfare "advances knowledge and understanding of the......

Wow, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger just continues to flounder and flub and flim-flam his way through one of the worst performances by a governor in the United States even as he gets helped to the bottom by one of the worst full-time legislatures ever elected in the United States -- or......

Rumors gripped the Los Angeles legal community today after the shocking fatal shooting Monday, in posh Rolling Hills Estates, of attorney Jeffrey A. Tidus. He was killed just hours after top executives at a firm Tidus represented, New Century Financial, were accused of fraud by federal regulators.The bizarre timing has......

Proving that you can skyrocket from relative obscurity to big-time power if you play your cards just right, neophyte politician John Perez, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's first cousin, is widely expected to be chosen by the Democratic majority in Sacramento as the next California Assembly Speaker, KQED radio is reporting from......

KCET is about to unleash, tonight, a stunning expose of FEMA and Los Angeles City Hall that involves an unintentional but outrageous shakedown of South Central Los Angeles residents for "flood" insurance costing an eye-popping $900 to $1,700 a year. Mostly black and Latino homeowners in virtually no risk of......