Michael Antonovich

Monica Ratliff's election to L.A. school board is 'huge upset'

2013-05-22 23:14:00

On its face, the election this week of a Los Angeles fifth-grade teacher to the Board of Education was a stunner. Monica Ratliff's low-budget effort included her boyfriend, a film school instructor, as her campaign manager. She had no paid staff and no...

L.A. County keeps troubled foster care contractor

2013-05-21 18:24:00

Los Angeles County Supervisors Michael D. Antonovich and Gloria Molina were unable to win majority support for their push to sever all ties to a foster care contractor with a history of substantiated child abuse and financial malfeasance. Under the...

Grand Park filming fees temporarily lowered

2013-04-30 17:45:00

Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to temporarily lower filming fees at their newly opened Grand Park downtown. Movie and television crews previously had to pay $20,000 a day per block of park space they used. Many entertainment executives...

L.A. County supervisors to consider cutting Grand Park filming fees

2013-04-30 06:05:00

Los Angeles County supervisors are scheduled to vote Tuesday on whether to eliminate or reduce filming fees at their newly opened downtown Grand Park to�entice�Hollywood to use the site more. Movie productions currently have to spend $20,000 per block...

L.A. County supervisors are split on Grand Park filming fees

2013-04-14 15:57:00

Two Los Angeles County supervisors want to temporarily eliminate filming fees at downtown's newly opened Grand Park to drum up Hollywood interest in the site. The other three, however, are wary of dropping fees, fearing it could close off parts of the...

Minority of L.A. County voters quashed transit tax extension

2013-03-31 05:00:00

A minority of voters living in a daisy chain of small, suburban and relatively upscale enclaves around the county's outer rim were largely responsible for last fall's razor thin defeat of a $90-billion transit tax that received lopsided ballot box...

Supervisors pull back storm water pollution fee proposal

2013-03-12 16:54:05

Candidates barnstorm, new controversies emerge

2013-03-05 09:46:00

Tuesday is election day in Los Angeles, and voters will weigh in on who should be the city’s next mayor and decide on a measure that would boost the city’s sales tax. Also on the ballot are contests for city controller, city attorney, eight...

L.A. Votes: Election Day! Candidates barnstorm, new controversies emerge

2013-03-05 09:32:31

Antonovich 'outraged' by Kevin James endorsement email

2013-03-04 18:25:03

Newton: An MTA power play

2013-02-18 00:00:00

The transportation future of this region rests, in no small measure, with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. And that body's board is about to change. In part, that is because Los Angeles will be getting a new mayor. That mayor will sit on the...

L.A. supervisors approve task force to examine 'maternity hotels'

2013-02-05 14:22:24

County Supervisor Michael Antonovich, center, talks to members of La Canada Flintridge Republican Club during their meeting, which took place at the La Canada Flintridge Country Club on Wednesday, January 25, 2012. (Cheryl A. Guerrero/Staff Photographer)

2012-01-31 15:55:20