Jill Stewart

Clueless California Voters Fail IQ Test

You gotta love the brilliant decision by the respected polling group, Public Policy Institute of California, to once again sneak in subtle test questions of California residents while asking them to opine on everything from whether we should borrow from the Lottery (voters say No) to whether Schwarzenegger is doing......

Villaraigosa's Pico-Olympic One-Way Plan Killed

It's got to come under the category of "what was City Hall thinking?' that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa kept insisting his plan to funnel commuters onto Pico and Olympic boulevards by making them one-way streets would have no effect on the local environment. A judge sounded almost incredulous in a five-page......

How Not to Fight Global Warming

WHILE A DEBATE RAGES in Los Angeles over dense, multistory apartments popping up citywide, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown are movi...

L.A. residents slam Special Order 40, Clear Channel shakedown

Correction below: Alleged murderer Espinoza was released from jail by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, not the LAPD. Update: The LA City Council has approved the giant electronic billboard on the 10 Freeway by a vote of 13-1 with only Jack Weiss opposing. It will go before the council......

Clear Channel Messed with LA Weekly and Lost!

Recently, reporter Christine Pelisek asked the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety for a list of all legal and illegal billboards in L.A. - an embarrassing document that will show the public all 11,000 "points of blight" allowed on local streets by City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa......

Chuck Philips, Tupac Shakur, Sean Combs and The Con

The amazing Page One Los Angeles Times article today, correcting a probably libelous Times Calendar story published on St. Patrick's Day and written by investigative reporter Chuck Philips, is known in the journalism biz as a “skinback.” I don't know exactly where the term “skinback” originated, but you could feel......
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Trees stripped down in Venice

Los Angeles Unified School teacher Michael Zeno was sickened when he pulled into his regular shopping area at Lincoln Boulevard and Rose Avenue in Venice, only to find a beautiful stand of longtime trees slashed to the ground. This latest bit of urban renewal is thanks to "density hawks" in......

Villaraigosa Density Hawks Vs. Angry Valleyites

A Valley smackdown is brewing for tonight's 6 p.m. density Town Hall at the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn in Studio City, with scores of pissed-off San Fernando Valley residents from five different Neighborhood Councils in the Valley confronting Antonio Villaraigosa's administration over its quiet plans to bring several skyscrapers and......

Fabian, maybe it's the friends you keep

If you followed the election fine print - those ballot measures having nothing to do with Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain or Mitt Romney, you might be wondering what killed Proposition 93, the plan to alter California Term Limits for the first time since voters overwhelmingly passed the limits......

Hillary Clinton projected winner in California

By Jill Stewart The networks and Fox News have projected Hillary Clinton as the winner in California, with huge leads among Latinos, Asians and, to a lesser degree, women. The projection came only about an hour and fifteen minutes after the polls closed, and indicated that Clinton also did very......