Friday desk clearing

♦ The Pasadena Star-News also has a story about the school superintendent and the "borrowed" sermon.
♦ In the San Gabriel Valley, public health officials are using helicopters to spy on backyards looking for poorly maintained swimming pools that might encourage the spread of West Nile virus. KPCC News report.
♦ The Recorder in San Francisco reports on how the Pellicano case is touching equity fund manager Alec Gores, a top client of Louis "Skip" Miller, the Los Angeles litigator "who's leaving the firm he founded, Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro, under Pellicano's sizeable cloud."
♦ Marc Haefele's cover story at the L.A. Alternative explores why City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo lags so far behind Jerry Brown: "Jerry’s thousands of ex-Brownies are out there in all walks of life, in appointed and elected offices all over the state, spreading the word. Hence, Rocky’s rough road. He’s the local boy who just can’t get un-local."
♦ KCAL's copter flew overhead this afternoon as a black bear scaled fences in an Arcadia neighborhood then high-tailed it back into the San Gabriel Mountains.
♦ Hollywood crew members across the city would agree, "let's hear it for seasonal unemployment."
♦ Former priest Michael Edwin Wempe received the maximum sentence of three years for oral copulation with a boy more than a decade ago.
♦ Uh, thanks for the praise coming in about the tag "No Choi in Mudville" I used in today's Morning Buzz. But it ain't original to me. I'm feel pretty sure I even heard Vin Scully purr it at least once.