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All Sides In L.A.'s Pot Wars Agree: City Hall is Incompetentnew
The disparate groups in the pot debate agree on one thing: Los Angeles City Hall has been almost comically inept at complying with simple state deadlines for municipalities to create rules for medicinal marijuana.
L.A. Weekly |
Patrick Range McDonald and Jill Stewart |
10-23-2009 |
Drugs
Bye-Bye, Bill Brattonnew
Media coverage has been filled with praise for Bratton, but some are questioning how he could so readily accept a job right after Michael Cherkasky played a key role in helping to hand Bratton a historic career and political victory -- the lifting of the consent decree.
L.A. Weekly |
Jill Stewart |
08-14-2009 |
Crime & Justice
State Budget Debacle: California Descendingnew
Some experts predict the state budget will quickly become unbalanced again, thanks to a persistently bad economy. But that didn't stop self-congratulations and posturing by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Democratic majority leaders Karen Bass and Darrell Steinberg, and Republican minority leaders Dennis Hollingsworth and Sam Blakeslee, the so-called "big five" who worked out this latest budget.
L.A. Weekly |
Jill Stewart |
07-31-2009 |
Politics
In California, the Mystery Voters Have Their Waynew
The record-breaking 13-million-plus voters proved to be a mercurial throng who followed no code or discernible ideology, placing into the state constitution a ban on gay marriage, even as they trampled a proposal to require notification of parents whose daughters seek abortions. It was an almost schizophrenic Coalition of Whatever.
L.A. Weekly |
Jill Stewart |
11-07-2008 |
Politics
Eminent Domain Targeted by California's Propositions 98 and 99new
Californians face two radically different choices for protecting private property on the June 3 ballot. But the campaigns for propositions 98 and 99 have managed to create enough confusion, suspicion and hyperbole that fresh surveys indicate neither measure is currently luring the 50-percent-plus-one voters needed for passage.
L.A. Weekly |
Jill Stewart |
05-30-2008 |
Housing & Development
California Shows Us How Not to Fight Global Warmingnew
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown are moving forward with new ways of forcing significantly more density upon L.A. and other cities. But the debate is being dominated by the smart-growth movement, unsettling several top global-warming scientists and researchers, who say the sweeping land-use proposals being considered have little basis in science.
L.A. Weekly |
Jill Stewart |
04-18-2008 |
Environment
Is 'Run' the Strategy Against Firestorms in California?new
From the self-congratulations of big pols to finger pointing over a lack of air support, one of the most troubling aspects of the tragedy -- despite the claims of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger -- was how little government has changed in response to the lessons of 2003.
L.A. Weekly |
Patrick Range McDonald, Christine Pelisek and Jill Stewart |
11-02-2007 |
Disasters
Freed Sex Slave Caught in Legal Bindnew
Looking for Schwarzenegger pardon to save trafficking victim-turned-counselor Maria Suarez from deportation.
L.A. Weekly |
Jill Stewart |
04-13-2007 |
Crime & Justice
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