Noam Levey was ensconced as a City Hall reporter for the Los Angeles Times until becoming an item with Leslie Pollner of Councilwoman Wendy Greuel's staff. Last October he moved to the county press room in the Hall of Administration, where nobody ever stays long for the Times. Levey is headed now to Washington to cover Congress. And a social note: as the following memo notes, Levey and Pollner were married this month in Switzerland. The newsroom memo:

June 22, 2006
To: The Staff
From: Doyle McManus, Washington Bureau Chief, and Scott Kraft, National Editor

We're very pleased to announce that Noam Levey from the Metro staff is joining the Washington bureau, where he will be part of our reporting team covering Congress.

Since 2003, Noam has been covering Los Angeles County and City government, with a couple of breaks for national and foreign stints. He came to the Times from the San Jose Mercury News, where he spent five years covering a variety of national and state political stories, working state and city government beats and writing investigative stories.

His previous career included a three-year stint as a reporter at the Duluth (Minn.) News-Tribune and summer internships at the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser and the Emirates News in Abu Dhabi.

Noam graduated with a bachelor's degree in history from Princeton. He was married earlier this month to Leslie Pollner, the deputy chief of staff for Los Angeles Councilwoman Wendy Greuel, in a small ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland.