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Charles Crumpley, Money Editor at the New Orleans Times Picayune since 2002, starts Jan. 1 as editor of the Los Angeles Business Journal, the staff has been told. LAO reported in October on Mark Lacter's step-aside. In case no one noticed, that means in less a than year the Times, Daily News, Daily Journal and LABJ will all have gotten new top dogs. Also:
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♦ The Times' Jeff Rabin parses why northbound Interstate 5 clogs up at the L.A. County border with OC. It's the difference between three lanes and five.
♦ The failure of LAX to be ready for the giant new Airbus A380 rated a big story in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal, available here for seven days.
♦ Credit where credit is due: the LATimes.com front page has deemphasized The Envelope by half, giving the upper part of the top-right display box to entertainment stories that aren't skewed to hype up awards shows.
♦ Mark Glaser's column today about NPR podcasts is his last for USC's Online Journalism Review. It's on to books and an unspecified project for PBS.
♦ Citybeat's Natalie Nichols went to check out the doomed murals in LACMA's parking garage and found a graffiti paradise—also doomed as of Thursday, apparently.
♦ With Wesson and Huizar in the house, Council President Alex Padilla has now served with thirty different colleagues.
♦ Correction o' the day, from the Daily News: "A story Friday misquoted Los Angeles school board member David Tokofsky in regard to a comment he made about Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's push for authority over local schools. Tokofsky referred to the mayor's growing up in the City Terrace neighborhood rather than calling him a city terrorista.
♦ Gregory Peck's star was swiped from the Hollywood Walk of Fame, which isn't easy to do.
♦ Bill O'Reilly has posted his enemies list of media that "distribute defamation and false information supplied by far left websites." On it: MSNBC, the New York Daily News and St. Petersburg Times. My reaction: Hahahahahahahaha.
♦ Vic Power, a former Angel known for his marvelous glove at first base and cinematic baseball name, died of cancer at age 78 in Puerto Rico.
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