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First thing Tuesday, 2.21.06
Would you believe Jackie Goldberg for school superintendent? Rampant talk of that, plus good press for Alan Rothenberg, the mystery ooze of Olive Street takes a toll, a fresh crop of national reporters at the L.A. Times and a website all about how Dallas Raines stands. If you took off for the holiday, you may have missed Eric Garcetti's future Navy adventure, Ray Richmond's E! Channel misadventure, some meaty President's Day notes and a big redesign at blogging.la. And there was some news of this here blog as well.
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♦ Soon-termed-out state Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg is getting talked up as the next LAUSD superintendent, the Daily News reports, but UTLA chief A. J. Duffy predicts the post will go to a Latino.
♦ Alan Rothenberg, president of the Airport Commission, is profiled in the LAT as a guy who can get things done. And H. David Nahai, veep of the DWP commission, also gets a friendly story.
♦ Attention City Hall: New York City is pondering whether to impose its most restrictive lobbyist rules ever.
♦ The mystery of the steaming Olive Street ooze has been solved—oil from a nearby extraction well—but now 130 low-income apartment tenants are out on the street.
♦ Three new national correspondents at the L.A. Times: assistant national editor Don Woutat goes to Las Vegas, former Nairobi bureau chief Ann Simmons goes to New Orleans and air-quality reporter Miguel Bustillo goes to Houston.
♦ The Department of Water and Power blames a false alarm for a blackout in the Hollywood Hills last night.
♦ Jessica Holmes, who won a contest to do the weather on KTLA for thirty days, is now the station's morning traffic reporter in the helicopter, says RonFineman.com.
♦ Crouching Dallas.com is a website devoted to the on-screen stylings of Channel 7 meteorologist Dallas Raines.
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