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Changing of the glass
Edgy it's not, but the Times' not-quite-a-blog on inauguration week has had some
pretty good items. Today Steve Hymon went to Hahn's free exit lunch on the City Hall portico and Jessica Garrison chatted with Villaraigosa about tomorrow's speech ("I am going to ask people to dream and think big about Los Angeles....There won't be any surprises"). But Jeff Rabin posted the capper: minutes before 5 p.m., a City Hall worker struck the name of James K. Hahn from the third floor. The glass plate outside the door now reads "Office of the Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa."
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| Somehow the guy still manages to come off as being even more obnoxious than last we remember. He insists that he'll live forever.
| The MTA's Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library and Archive jumps into Web 2.0 with enthusiasm, with Flickr photos and YouTube clips.
| Chuck Todd and his goatee
| An appreciation
| New signs and meters are already up in Westwood Village.
City Controller Laura Chick is absolutely correct when she insists on the power to examine the performance of other elected officials.
At the top of Chicken Corner's wish list for quite some time has been a bookstore -- an independent shop...
It's my one-year anniversary of joining the LA Times. Sad note -- the job lasted just 10 months.
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