Patrick Range McDonald

In the 1960s, Mercedes Cortes arrived in Hollywood after fleeing her homeland of Guatemala, which was roiled by bloody unrest. After moving around a bit, she and her husband and their three sons settled in a two-bedroom apartment on Eleanor Avenue, a community of run-down apartment buildings and old Craftsman-style......

West Hollywood always gets crazed when election season rolls around, and this one has been no different. In fact, with a term-limit ballot measure added to an already combustible City Council race, 2013 could be one for the history books. So it may be good for everyone that comedian Matt......

One Washington D.C. job can now be marked off the list for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who appears to have his eyes on a major gig in the national's capital after he leaves office on June 30, 2013. Last month, Politico columnist Alexander Burns wrote that Villaraigosa was "high......

By now it's common knowledge that Los Angeles City Council members love their perks and holidays. Just read the L.A. Weekly cover story "Los Angeles on $300,00 a Year." But now they're taking time off from dealing with important city business -- it's officially called a "recess" -- for a......

Update, 1:05 p.m.: Bloom campaign releases cautious statement about possibly victory, after the jump. Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom holds on to an extremely slim lead over Assemblywoman Betsy Butler. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Bloom captured 69,280 votes, or 50.08 percent, to Butler's 69,062 votes, or 49.92 percent......

A few weeks ago, we conducted an informal exit poll for the hotly contested Assembly District 50 race, wanting to know why people voted for Santa Monica Mayor Richard Bloom and Assemblywoman Betsy Butler. Then last week, we got an email from CalTech political science graduate student Andrew Sinclair. As......