Jill Stewart

Credit: Courtesy of Donna Barstow

Fighting City Hall: A "How-To" from L.A. cartoonist Donna Barstow

With the Los Angeles City Council ready to approve a train wreck of a budget, and with its vote on May 26 to delay for months a bizarre plan to place "sign districts" potentially filled with pulsating digital billboards in more than 20 residential and business districts citywide, arm yourself......

California Supreme Court Upholds Proposition 8, allows 18,000 marriages

In a split decision that ultimately heavily favors the opponents of gay marriage, the California Supreme Court today, May 26, upheld Proposition 8 while allowing about 18,000 gay marriages already performed to stand.Reaction was swift from both sides, who had organized large groups scattered across  California, from West Hollywood to......

California’s May 19 Election

Even with one key Los Angeles City Council District race still hanging in the balance at presstime, the political wreckage surrounding some of California’s best...
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Jill Stewart hits $178,789 City Council pay on KCET tonight

The folks at KCET asked me to do a two-minute essay about the Los Angeles City Council, the highest paid such body in the nation, and whether they should take a far bigger salary cut than the mere 10 percent being bandied about lately. My views air on SoCal Connected......

LA Weekly has huge L.A. Press Club finalist showing against L.A. Times

I haven't had time to count, but it's a huge year for LA Weekly in earning just-announced "finalist" nods from the Los Angeles Press Club's annual competition, The Southern California Journalism Awards. In many categories of the competition, we are vastly surpassing the Los Angeles Times. Our great sister paper,......
Ray Bradbury; Credit: Kevin Scanlon

LA People 2009: The Writer — Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury peers at you, one eye gleaming and fully open as if challenging you, the other squinty and small as if sizing you up. Maybe it’s the asymmetry left by his 1999 stroke. Or maybe it’s the bent way the author see things, having reached the age of 88......