Recent Streetsblog LA posts about Jack Weiss

Fmr. Councilman Weiss: We Need the NFL to Increase Our Public Space

By Damien Newton | Jan 27, 2010 | 5 Comments

Candidate Weiss and his union supporters last March. Photo: Jack Weiss/Flickr Former City Councilman Jack Weiss has not been what one would call progressive on most transportation issues. While he backed the Mayor on transit issues, he also was his largest backer for the massively unpopular Pico-Olympic Plan which would have sped up rush hour […]

Council Considers (Again) Removing Traffic Calming in Westwood

By Damien Newton | May 5, 2009 | 4 Comments

Traffic calming prevents left turns at corner of Hilgard and Lindbrook Nearly a month ago, we discussed the efforts of local Councilman Jack Weiss and the LADOT to remove three temporary traffic calming measures that were placed on streets surrounding the Palazzo development to mitigate traffic on the streets surrounding the large, mixed-use development. Before […]

City Attorney Candidate Survey: Jack Weiss

By Damien Newton | Apr 20, 2009 | 15 Comments

Jack Weiss speaks to supporters on election night. Late last night, 5th District City Councilman and candidate for City Attorney Jack Weiss responded to our candidate survey. While Streetsblog has been critical of some of Weiss’ transportation priorities as Councilman, there’s a lot to like in Weiss’s responses to our questions. Some highlights: "No level […]

Edit My Questionnaire for the City Attorney Candidates

By Damien Newton | Apr 2, 2009 | 3 Comments

Photo: Los Angeles Times I’ve been promising for awhile to write out questionnaires for the remaining candidates for City Attorney. Here are a couple of questions I would like to put to paper, but since the whole point of blogs is "two-way communication" how about all of you play editor and review my questions and […]

City Attorney, 5th District City Council Yet to Be Resolved

By Damien Newton | Mar 4, 2009 | 2 Comments

While almost all of the races in yesterday’s city-wide elections were foregone conclusions before the ballots were counted, there are still a couple of important races yet to be decided. Ironically, the races that are yet to be decided are the races between Fifth District City Councilman Jack Weiss and Carmen Trutanich for City Attorney […]