On Jan. 1, LA Magazine ran a Q-and-A with City Council member and USC alumna Jan Perry conducted by journalism professor Gabriel Kahn. The article explores: "That Other Election: The race for for mayor is on. Three-term city councilperson Jan Perry makes her case for taking charge of City Hall." Kahn introduced Perry as someone who "has no illusions about how sausage gets made at City Hall." Kahn prompted Perry to evaluate Mayor Villaraigosa’s performance: "He opened up the dialogue on why the schools need to be better, and that’s a good thing. But he was coming from Sacramento, with its partisan perspective, so I would imagine that being here is very frustrating for him." Kahn asked Perry about the most important project the city can take on in the next two years. "The project that brings the greatest number of jobs to the city as quickly as possible," she answered. "That’s probably the stadium and the convention center expansion." Kahn wrote that it is "(n)o surprise then that Perry is a proponent of big development projects, such as the proposed Farmers Field next to the convention center, which she sees as the best hope for denting the city’s high unemployment rate." Read the full Q-and-A here