credit• Protesters looked on as bulldozers began ripping out the South Los Angeles community garden where Mayor Villaraigosa couldn't broker a deal to mollify property owner Ralph Horowitz.

• Convicted Enron executive Ken Lay, whose fingerprints were all over California's electric power crisis of a few years ago, died of a massive coronary in Aspen. He was 64.

Metroblogging, the people behind Blogging.la, has added Rio de Janeiro as its 48th city.

Shalom TV plans to start airing games from the Israel Baseball League.

• Editors at the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal declined to join LAT editor Dean Baquet and NYT executive editor Bill Keller on that op-ed piece last weekend that defended publication of stories on the SWIFT program against the wishes of the White House. (E&P via Romenesko)

Updated 3:15 pm

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