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If you need to catch up or just feel a hankering to review, these are some bests from the past week at LA Observed:
- Business, labor and the City Council all dodge one by agreeing to take the living wage referendum off the ballot.
- Gavin Newsom gets busted for schtupping his campaign manager's wife, and surprisingly comes clean. Villaraigosa then puts his ring back on.
- Crash course in Internet 101 for everybody at the Times, if it's not too late.
- Probation and house arrest for the first four Long Beach teenagers to be sentenced in the Halloween race beating.
- Michael Dukakis' crusade against driveway parking hasn't done much for Westwood, but our post on the ex-Massachusetts governor did inspire an email chiding our attitude.
- The county Board of Supes had their CAO on the hook, then lost him — and Boyarsky just has to shake his head.
- Laura Chick's re-interest in serving on the City Council.
- We listed every restaurant closure under the county's purview for three months.
- Dean Baquet surprised no one and took a job back at the New York Times, probably closing the era of big-name easterners jumping west. D.C. bureau chief Doyle McManus keeps a stiff upper lip for the troops, while new LAT editor Jim O'Shea realizes Los Angeles is big.
- Fleishman-Hillard's execs get the bad news from the judge: 42 months for Doug Dowie, 15 for John Stodder.
- The New Times team descended on the OC Weekly and lost themselves an editor and a columnist. Commie Girl's farewell.
- Wait until you see what LACMA wants to hang outside the front door.
Here's everything from the week in News & Chatter in one archive, the run at LA Biz Observed, or you can catch up on just the Morning Buzz entries.