Double for Orlov

Rick Orlov's lead story in today's Daily News also tops the Daily Breeze that's on the street, if not on the website. It looks at Mayor Hahn's conundrum — he's an incumbent with a reputation for honesty and being a police reformer with good race relations, yet he's under fire for ethical questions about his administration and black community upset with the LAPD. It's a classic newspaper weekender at the end of a long holiday: light on actual news, but it reviews past stories with a dash of analysis and gives a "look ahead" to Hahn's coming battle to keep his job. In the piece, Hahn cracks off a decent if not very flattering (and possibly revealing?) sound bite: "I'm an ordinary man in an extraordinary job."

Also: The new guys at LAist signal that they'll be watching the race too.

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