Patrick Range McDonald

UPDATE, 5 p.m.: Eric Garcetti breaks silence on Parent Trigger. After the jump. UPDATE, 4 p.m.: Wendy Greuel tells L.A. Weekly she supports the Parent Trigger. Eric Garcetti is now the only mayoral candidate who remains to be silent. After the jump. After Los Angeles Unified School District board members......

Every two years, West Hollywood residents often get a startling look at how their government is actually run via City Council elections, and every two years West Hollywood residents almost always vote for the same people -- if they show up at the voting booths at all. Will this year......

Elected board members of the Los Angeles Unified School District -- the second largest public school system in the country -- unanimously approved a Parent Trigger for the 24th Street Elementary School in West Adams. It's a first for L.A. Unified, and Los Angeles mayoral candidates are weighing in or......

UPDATE: Emanuel Pleitez speaks out at press conference, after the jump. After seeing a bump in his polling numbers among Latino voters, Los Angeles mayoral candidate Emanuel Pleitez is getting aggressive and now looking to beef up that support by bringing the politics of immigration into the fold. Immigration reform......

Another important study about the impacts of air pollution on children was released last week, but don't expect mayoral frontrunners Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel to say or do anything specific about it. In 2010, L.A. Weekly exposed in the cover story "Black Lung Lofts" the dangerous side effects of......

While the Los Angeles mayor's race hasn't been the most inspiring contest -- frontrunners Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel have been so careful with what they say that the average voter probably has no idea what one of them will do if elected mayor -- candidate Kevin James has been......

Los Angeles mayoral candidate Emanuel Pleitez rolled out a "seven-point" policy plan yesterday at the Los Angeles Trade Technical College near downtown, with more details to come during a citywide "policy tour" between now and the March 5 primary. Pleitez said too many city services have been cut "because our......

WEHOville recently broke a jaw-dropping story that's causing a major stir in West Hollywood and could possibly impact any driver passing through that city on Santa Monica Boulevard, which is already a rush hour nightmare. Developer Charles Cohen, who owns the Pacific Design Center and recently added the huge "red......

With a new poll for the Los Angeles mayoral race in his back pocket, underdog candidate Emanuel Pleitez (pronounced "play-tez," in case you were wondering) has come out swinging, telling rivals Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel that the Latino vote is "not for sale." Pleitez, whose mother is Mexican and......

Los Angeles City Council candidate Odysseus Bostick is facing an extremely difficult election against frontrunner and longtime Councilman Bill Rosendahl aide Mike Bonin, but Bostick has been the beneficiary of some cool street art. Recently, two murals have popped up in the Westside in Council District 11, where Bostick, a......