Archive: Garcetti

The mayor has now been to the four early nominating states for the 2020 presidential election. But Monday it's a speech in Los Angeles.

This weekend's fire in Los Angeles isn't even the worst La Tuna Canyon fire in recent times.

Bullet Points: A horrific jail death. Food writers in Tuscany. The LA Times follows on Canter's. A media promotion, a hire, and the celebrity terminal at LAX. Plus a difficult long read.

The total jumped 23 percent over last year despite many more homeless people being moved into housing. So it could have been even worse.

"As Mayor, there’s no issue I spend more time on," Garcetti says in his annual state of the city speech.

Villaraigosa talked down speculation that he might end the week as chair of the Democratic National Committee.

People see what he backs as a politician, but they don’t see what he’s willing to fight for, says Los Angeles Magazine.

There's nothing going on, but the trick is to make it look like there is for a few days.

In the end he did endorse Clinton, but it took the mayor's staff a while to get there.

There are openings for deputy director of communications, speechwriter and press secretary, per LinkedIn.

Yahoo Politics profile says LA's mayor may be the future of the Democrats. Plus Garcetti on the set of "Brooklyn Nine-Nine."

A community forum in Jefferson Park was cut short by protesters and, in front of TV cameras, the mayor was hustled out through a pressing crowd.

A show of Eric Garcetti's social media photos opens downtown on Saturday and runs through Oct. 31.

Jeff Millman is going to work for the effort preparing LA's bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday signed an executive order ordering departments to report back with ways to reduce traffic deaths in Los Angeles -- to zero.

City Council members have other ideas on some of the mayor's favorite things. Plus: Calling the pols on setting impossible goals.

"Unfortunately, our concerns are becoming reality," the LAT opinion side says in its latest report card.

The narrative of Mayor Eric Garcetti as an overly cautious waffler continues to take hold.

The City Hall press corps seems to be tiring of the mayor's style.

The mayor left the city at a tense moment for a Georgetown fundraiser, then obfuscated in the face of questions by the Times.

Seligman says she "has helped end the careers of some of the most corrupt members of Congress, targeted the NRA and its allies, exposed front groups covering for corporate interests, and rooted out misinformation in the media."

Garcetti has his night, but was anybody listening. Is Hollywood divided on Clinton or what? Politico to launch California Playbook.

The mayor also filed the paperwork to begin raising money for 2017.

Read the memo: The mayor's top spokesman is off "to pursue new opportunities."

Zocalo thought he might go for a documentary or an old black-and-white classic. Nope.

A glowing puff piece in the Columbia magazine declares Eric Garcetti the "very model of the modern mayor." He blogs, he tweets, he has a mountain bike and he speaks Spanish.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, in China on a trade mission, posed at the Great Wall with City Council members Joe Buscaino, Mike Bonin, Curren Price and Gilbert Cedillo

Minimum wage raises are popular with the people, but Garcetti risks his image as a politico who can work with business and labor. Having Eli Broad at your kick-off event doesn't hurt.

Garcetti was absent for a lot of local news during his summer vacation. Plus: Does Garcetti have a big enough vision for LA?

The City Council returned this week from a summer recess, but the office of Mayor Eric Garcetti informed the media that "Mayor Garcetti will be traveling with his family out of the state from July 25 until August 4."

The buyer is reportedly Anthony Gonzalez of the band M83. No sales price has been reported yet.

Garcetti finds a way to join in the fun and get everybody talking about him. Just say fucking on live TV while holding a beer.

Nothing that you would probably call truly great is envisioned, but the idea is to freshen up the streetscape a bit — in one strip per City Council district.

While the NBA considers the Clippers sold, Donald Sterling sues in federal court.

Mayor Eric Garcetti's staff has posted another set of Facebook photos showing him as a regular guy. This time he's riding a bike to work in Koreatown

The Donald Sterling story was featured on "Face the Nation" and in the opening segment of "Saturday Night Live," plus Barbara Walters interviewed V. Stiviano.

Garcetti has been using his personal account to post pics from inside the rope lines and events such as his walk to work on Wilshire Boulevard a few weeks ago. The NYT takes notice.

In his first State of the City speech, Garcetti doesn't make much news but lists some early accomplishments and some plans.

David Letterman announces he will step down in 2015 and quips he always knew "when this show stops being fun, I will retire 10 years later."

Mayor Eric Garcetti rode on a Chatsworth trail ride with other electeds this weekend — it's kind of a tradition for LA City Hall politicians. Photos inside.

Los Angeles Magazine is posting the full video this week of a breakfast session with Mayor Eric Garcetti held last week at the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel. He chats in the free-flowing interview with editor Mary Melton.

The mayor held a wide-ranging interview with reporters and editors and said the city cannot afford raises for workers for a few years.

Mayor Eric Garcetti's office just released a statement on the death of an Los Angeles Police Department officer in a Beverly Hills crash this morning.

In Los Angeles, Garcetti is known to speak pretty decent LA media Spanish — early in their careers he was the one giving Spanish speaking tips to Antonio Villaraigosa. In Mexico City, people are appreciative and forgiving of the details.

Mayor Eric Garcetti and LA Weekly politics writer Gene Maddaus have a different view of how the mayor is doing so far. "His head is swirling with ideas, but...his record is surprisingly thin," Maddaus writes.

Staffers had a little birthday spread today for Mayor Eric Garcetti at City Hall.

Peter Marx has been vice president of business development at Qualcomm Labs and vice president of the technology and digital studio at Mattel.

The mayor says anti-poverty money will go south of the 10 freeway, but there is a lot of upset and finger pointing.

The city-owned SUV that Mayor Eric Garcetti rides around in struck and injured a female pedestrian at 2nd and Spring streets, outside the Los Angeles Times building. An LAPD driver was behind the wheel. The victim was taken to the hospital by LAFD ambulance.

Mayor Eric Garcetti announced this morning that Ron Nichols, the general manager of the city's Department of Water and Power for three years, will leave at the end of the month. A letter from Nichols said he was going for personal reasons.

While Mayor Eric Garcetti and his family are headed off to Australia today for a ten-day vacation, his staff has posted an invitation to suggest what the city can do better next year.

Amy Wakeland, the wife of Mayor Eric Garcetti, attended Thursday night's meeting of the Windsor Square Association to break the news. A new slate of events are on tap, she says.

Or is it Wendy Greuel? Just kidding.

"I just couldn't resist," Garcetti posts on Facebook. Check it out.

New York Times video says that Mayor Eric Garcetti "connected with Mexican-Americans at a recent celebration in the city."

Of the 84 people chosen by Garcetti to serve on boards and commissions, at least three-fourths are friends, former staffers, campaign backers or relatives of campaign backers.

Only one holdover from the Villaraigosa planning commission — plus two key Wendy Greuel backers in the last election and some more Garcetti contributors.

Insipid web listicle omits the inconvenient truths that Garcetti is married and a father.

Garcetti was taped for YouTube while floating in a kayak on the Los Angeles River.

He talks with Giselle Fernandez of Los Angeles Magazine about leaving AEG, his breakup with Phil Anschutz, regrets about the NFL stadium deal and the leadership potential of Eric Garcetti.

Mayor Eric Garcetti announced today that he will be concluding his active service with the Navy Reserve at the end of the year.

Steve Soboroff, Paula Madison and two other new faces will give the Garcetti police commission a new look. Emanuel Pleitez gets a pension commission slot.

Katz is vice president of the Brookings Institution and founder and co-director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. He contributes to The Atlantic Cities and has written a book, "The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy."

Jacobs is founder of the Courage Campaign, a big part of the effort to discourage Tribune from selling the Los Angeles Times to the conservative Koch brothers, and a big fundraiser for Garcetti.

The march of appointments by new Mayor Eric Garcetti continues. He names two city councilmen to the Metro board, plus activist "Jackie" Dupont-Walker.

Bryan Frank, who posts pics of the scene last night, regrets not being there when reporter Dave Bryan and photographer Scott Torrens were assaulted. Mayor Garcetti urges peaceful protest tonight.

Mayor Eric Garcetti's office announced this morning that the boss will be returning to Los Angeles several days early, "out of an abundance of caution." He also offers to help "resolve" a protest supporter's ticket.