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• The Times takes a look at the all the traffic tunnel schemes being contemplated for Southern California. Some people still don't like to stop under freeway overpasses, fearing earthquake collapses. Can you imagine how nervous they'd be driving for thirty minutes under the seismically volatile San Gabriel Mountains?
• Nice LAT piece on sixth graders who wrote a booklet on the majestic churches of the Wilshire district. Expect to see a few more Wilshire Boulevard references around here in the next month or so. My book on the boulevard's history comes out in October, as Steve Rosen noted in a Daily News story Thursday about the Skirball Center exhibit of photos from L.A. churches by Robert Berger.
• A Calendar profile of Councilwoman Janice Hahn in the Times is headlined Last Hahn Standing.
• The Breeze raises doubts about L.A. Live's pretensions to be Times Square West, playing the Hollywood and Highland card.
• Piles of Katrina relief supplies are waiting at Van Nuys Airport for somebody to pick them up, the Daily News says.