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Pacheco will lead Police Commission
Attorney Anthony Pacheco looks like the anointed one when John Mack steps down later this month, Rick Orlov says. Also: Rocky Delgadillo came out long enough to swear-in Tamar Galatzan to the school board and answer "no" to questions about whether he would resign, then vanished from the public eye again. DN
El Segundo blue butterfly shows up
Kind of a surprise. LAT
Padilla's DWP bill
Help for consumers or a gift to organized labor? LAT
Pressure on Archdiocese to settle
Financial day of reckoning for Cardinal Mahony, and possibly for insurers, as abuse cases near trial. LAT
Headline o' the day
'Police Hunt Chewbaca Impersonator' DN
Noted
Wow, pretty tough on Jack Weiss
Jon Regardie's funny fantasy about Antonio's email skewers City Councilman Jack Weiss but good.
Kamensky on 'Jeopardy'
Tonight is when the episode airs on Channel 7 at 7 pm featuring Josh Kamensky, deputy to Council President Eric Garcetti. Or is that first episode?
Golda Greuel, mother of councilwoman
Wendy Greuel's mother ran Frontier Building Supply and Trucking Co. She died last week at age 75. DN
Times editorializes in favor of Dutton's
Blogs in Santa Clarita
Connie Llanos rounds up the sites covering the area north of the Valley and quotes Robert Niles of the Online Journalism Review and myself, but under counts the daily traffic at LA Observed by, well, a lot.
Checking in on Tia Chucha
The bookstore-community hangout is doing OK at the new location. Valleynews.com
Manatt nuptials
Daniel Manatt, filmmaker and founder of PoliticsTV.com — and the son of former ambassador Chuck Manatt — married Senate staffer Nikole Burroughs in Vermont. NYT
