Recent Streetsblog LA posts about 2011 Election

Now that the field for the June election to replace Jane Harman has “narrowed” to eighteen confirmed candidates, it’s time to begin to put together the questionnaire for the candidates to make the case to Streetsblog readers.  What do you want to ask the candidates?  Leave your thoughts in the comments section. More than other […]

Apparently, Los Angeles’ voters think everything is going pretty well in Los Angeles right now.  How else to explain the “clean sweep” that incumbent Councilmen, and in one case a hand-picked successor, enjoyed.  Not even one of the races went to a runoff, meaning that even in crowded fields incumbents garnered over 50% of the […]

Election Day is finally here, and half of Los Angeles’ City Council is up for re-election.  Streetsblog has covered each of the seven City Council elections and Ballot Initiative O. Proposition O is an oil extraction tax of $1.44 per barrel.  Opponents of the tax claim it will raise gas prices at a time when […]

In the North part of the San Fernando Valley, there’s a six candidate free-for all to replace retiring Councilman Greig Smith.  The clear front-runner in the race, in terms of endorsements and dollars, is Smith’s Chief of Staff Mitch Englander.  Leading the pack of challengers is Brad Smith, who is joined by Dinesh Lankanpahl, Kelly […]

Unlike the other races we’ve covered thus far, Council District 10 has a group of candidates challenging the incumbent, the affable Herb Wesson.  Wesson hasn’t been regularly featured on Streetsblog as Krekorian, LaBonge and Parks.  However, he has been a major player in some of the large issues we’ve discussed because they happen to go […]