Jill Stewart

Nothing against the interesting list the Los Angeles Times published today, of the Los Angeles Police Department's top brass who want to replace the departing Bill Bratton. But the chances that City Hall would somehow have a permanent new chief in place the day Bratton leaves for New York, which......

As we reported last week, City Hall is swirling with high-end, believable rumors about why Chief William J. Bratton is really leaving Los Angeles -- having nothing to do with his claim that he's abandoning ship mid-way through a five-year contract merely to go get rich in the private sector......

Tom Hayden has been one of the gutsiest politicians in California, whether you like him or not. I've always admired him for that. It's not surprising to see that Hayden alone, so far among local civic leaders, is asking an obvious question also raised by my piece in L.A. Weekly......

The shocking investigation of Andrew Adelman, a powerful Los Angeles City Hall department head, will also put a spotlight on how this unpleasant and abusive bureaucrat was allowed for years to run one of the most-criticized municipal departments in Southern California, all while being protected by the Villaraigosa Administration. For......

Thanks to Curbed LA for pointing out what I keep hearing about the architecture, architect and design work that brought us AEG's LA Live complex near Staples Center: despite the unintentionally humorous PR spin from the mayor and other politicians that this is a "public square," LA Live is hideously......

Poor, poor Rob Maguire -- at least as reported yesterday in the Wall Street Journal, just a few months after this pretty-near fawning story about him and his supposed savior, Nelson Rising, in the Los Angeles Times. The WSJ story shows the "disastrous" decisions he made, especially in Orange County......

For a lot of people, the vibrantly sunny Los Angeles weekend was a time to focus on the life and death of 17-year-old Lily Burk, who was honored at a ceremony at Barnsdall Art Park. It's not often you see 500 people gathered to note the passing of a teenager......