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Friday desk clearing
- Rumors are rampant that Real Talk LA, Jay Levin's new magazine, missed payroll this week and has shut down after one issue that hasn't been widely seen. Queries are out. Those were some pricey billboards and bus ads.
- "60 Minutes" is doing homeless patient dumping on L.A.'s Skid Row on Sunday with Anderson Cooper along as the reporter. Perhaps not coincidentally, Hollywood Presbyterian announced today it will subscribe to the practices agreed to by Kaiser in a deal struck with City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo.
- Speaker Fabian Núñez and Republican political consultant Mike Murphy guest on KNBC's "News Conference" Sunday at 9 am.
- Sea Level Records in Echo Park to close at the end of June.
- Mayor Villaraigosa gave up on AB 1381, saying he won't appeal the court rulings striking down his measure to take limited control of the L.A. schools. Over the weekend Villaraigosa and other elected officials will announce the formation of a new SEIU-affiliated union for low-wage security guards.
- Unemployment in Los Angeles remained unchanged this month at 5%, hovering above the national rate.
- Reporter Rachael Myrow is leaving KPCC to host the statewide morning newscast at KQED in San Francisco.
- Gary Scott, political editor of LANG's San Gabriel Valley papers, is also going north to cover Sacramento for the L.A. Daily Journal.
- Six U-turn fatalities in two years on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu has spurred calls for barriers.
- The Downtown News updates the status of 170 developments.
- Douglas McGray of the New America Foundation won a Hillman award for his piece in West magazine on The Invisibles, "college students caught in a strange netherworld of statelessness...undocumented immigrant youths trapped between their illegal immigrant status since arriving in the U.S. as infants or small children and their thoroughly American lives."
- The San Francisco Chronicle staff was told the paper might cut 25% of the newsroom: 100 jobs.
9:13 PM Friday, May 18 2007 • Link
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