Jill Stewart

Los Angeles Population Slump!

Jill Stewart
Is it wrong to chuckle over the latest U.S. Census numbers reminding us, in this strange town run by City Hall density hawks wedded to "compact housing" and the "construction crane as the official city bird," that L.A. population growth has stagnated? As in, we're barely adding any new population......

L.A. Times Layoffs and Stupid Sam Zell

Jill Stewart
What person would choose to lay off the excellent Jesus Sanchez, one of the most rational, intelligent newspapermen in Los Angeles, when making the big, ugly cuts of up to 150 writers, editors, photographers and others that began today at the Los Angeles Times? Jesus is not just a multi-talented......

Villaraigosa blames LA traffic on George Bush

Jill Stewart
You can tell it's going to be The Silly Season in Los Angeles, from now to November, when Antonio Villaraigosa, whose growth-at-any-cost development beliefs have added tens of thousands of crowded new apartments to this overbuilt city, blames L.A.'s attention-getting traffic on the War in Iraq. Yep. He actually told......

Goodbye Los Angeles Times Magazine

Jill Stewart
Sure, the paper's Sunday magazine has sucked for much of its existence, and erupted in scandal after getting caught cutting a sleazy business deal with Staples Center (a big, ugly national story broken by my fab ex-boss, Rick Barrs, at the now-defunct New Times Los Angeles). But from time to......

Sam Zell Gets out the Ruler at Los Angeles Times

Jill Stewart
I ran into some friends from the Los Angeles Times at a party this weekend at the home of my predecessor at the Weekly, Al Mittelstadt (he was celebrating his recent, unplanned departure from the downsizing CityBeat). The Times folks were commiserating over Sam Zell's huge upcoming cuts, in which......
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The Election That Wasn’t

Jill Stewart
A NASTY BATTLE SPAWNED from personal betrayal unfolds in the Valley. ... A rare openly gay Latino uses his City Hall connections to scare off Democratic rival...

Fabian Nunez a Victim of Racism

Jill Stewart
Describing himself as a guy who was "you could say, like a head of state," departing California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez gave a bizarre interview to Spanish language Univision in which he claimed that slams on his lush lifestyle were based on his ethnicity. The Sacramento Bee broke the story......