Jill Stewart

One of the sleaziest bills vetoed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger over the weekend was a law written by the California State Legislature to quietly but decisively wipe out the citizen ballot-initiative movement in California.Under the false guise of "reform", the bill was a blatant effort by legislators, working on behalf......

Arnold Schwarzenegger spent the weekend madly signing scores of laws that will go into effect in 2010. The screw-ups who comprise our California state legislature had piled a heap of about 700 mostly unneeded, mostly special-interest-ghostwritten new laws on his desk, many of them just  in the last few weeks.But......

It’s been six weeks since the Station Fire roared out of control on a sweltering August weekend, but troubling stories grip the communities that edge the Angele...

Uh, oh, the often-impossible-to-read film critic Elvis Mitchell, formerly of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, L.A. Weekly, New Times L.A., Detroit Free Press, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and, somehow, The New York Times, is facing a huge bill from the IRS, of close to $500,000.According to the Detroit News, Mitchell told......

There's a weekend color real estate brochure called View that comes in some newspaper subscriptions, and View is desperately trying to peddle the palaces, mansions and compounds of the rich and famous in Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Malibu, Calabasas and the like.I doubt they want any press about the fact that......

The Los Angeles County Fire Department released two sad biographies of the firefighters who were killed when a boiling wall of flames suddenly appeared near a remote road where they were driving. Their vehicle went over the side, plummeting 800 feet down a cliff. Arnie Quinones, horribly, is expecting a......

5 P.M. UPDATE: Firefighters have abandoned efforts to rescue the trapped people on Gold Creek Road, deeming the rescue operation too hazardous, at least for now.  The most incredible news about today's growing fire, which many fire officials fear could get whipped into a massive conflagration this afternoon as winds......

This cannot be good news for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. As reported in extensive detail this morning by Ron Kaye, former editor of the Daily News, Villaraigosa's Chief of Staff Robin Kramer, the woman some view as the most rational adult at City Hall, is jumping ship amidst a series of......