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- Look who's sleeping at David Geffen's house. Nikki Finke has her take on why it might mean something for the LAT.
- Former USC quarterback Matt Leinart had his baby.
- KTLA translator Analia Sarno Riggle confirms to LA Observed she is being let go after 20 years for economic reasons.
- Belmont New Elementary School #6 will be renamed for the late Times editor Frank del Olmo in a ceremony on Nov. 1. The school is at 100 North New Hampshire Avenue.
- Democratic election night plans are starting to firm up: Feinstein, Angelides and Brown will all party (or weep) in Northern California.
- Peggy Lowe has gone fulltime on Total Buzz, the OC Register's politics blog, which has been enjoying a traffic surge from the Tan Nguyen scandal. I had previously listed Lowe as a contributor.
- The Times is sending staff writer Roy Rivenburg to blog from the AARP convention in Orange County. His first post explains how they came up with the name, Senior Moments.
- Former LAT reporter-turned-author Alicia Valdes-Rodriguez, a familiar figureto longtime LA Observed readers, is riling them up again with her young-adult novel Haters, set in Orange County.
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| Steve Jones, the self-proclaimed Sire of Wilshire (a nod to the physical address of his former home at Indie 103.1 FM), is back on the air!
| She gaped at me like I was living history -- Miss Jane Pittman come to put her withered lips to the "Young Only" fountain straw of ageism.
As newspapers and television pull back from investigative reporting, foundations and other organizations are beginning to fill the void. One of the most interesting is Accountable California, a project of Local 721 of the Service Employees International Union.
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