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Delgadillo to Bulldoze Drew Street's House of Menace

Jill Stewart
How fun it was to read in a press release moments ago that tomorrow City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and the Los Angeles Police Department will flatten, wreck, bulldoze and otherwise pulverize the House of Menace and center of gang activity that has made Glassell Park's Drew Street such a nasty,......

Zahniser and Orlov Hit Villaraigosa's Sneaky Solar Blob

Jill Stewart
Can Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's Measure B, the massive solar panel installation project on the March 3 ballot that is certain to pass because Los Angeles voters have no idea what it really is, get any sleazier?Today, the estimable Dave Z writes in the soon-to-be gone California Section of the L.A......

Shocking End of Los Angeles Times' California Section

Jill Stewart
We've heard back from several top journalists at the Los Angeles Times, who are still in shock over the stunningly bad news that, amidst more layoffs, the California Section, previously known as Metro, will be wiped out and tucked somewhere in the A Section of the recession-whacked newspaper.This is a......
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Villaraigosa could copy the Blagojevich billboard-removal crews

Jill Stewart
People were cheering in Chicago and other parts of Illinois today after crews openly began dismantling the obnoxious blue signs that ousted Governor Milorad Blagojevich had slathered all over the state in an embarrassing effort to personally take credit for road projects.When I saw this efficient-looking crew taking down the......

Snakebit L.A.: Lupoe family massacre, one-way freeway carnage

Jill Stewart
Is Los Angeles snakebit? It feels that way today, with the city falling apart in epic proportions, harder hit by home foreclosures and unemployment that almost any other area of the West, and now leading the official Bad News segments of national and global news organizations. It seemed to come......

Ramon Cortines' bizarre letter to Schwarzenegger

Jill Stewart
Somebody provided us the strange letter Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Ramon Cortines purportedly sent today to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, about the governor's plan to allow school districts to reduce the school year, increase class size, and/or drop a key science course that California students normally must take to......

A nod to Tina Dupuy, Michael Higby and Doug McIntyre

Jill Stewart
Those of us blogging at LA Daily appreciate it when fellow journalists, bloggers and broadcasters make note of our efforts in print at LA Weekly, so we were thrilled to see Fishbowl LA's Tina Dupuy and Mayor Sam's Michael Higby weighing in on Patrick Range McDonald's coverage of Antonio Villaraigosa,......