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Some items in the news:
- Sam Zell's offer to perhaps overpay at $34 a share for the Tribune Company was accepted today by shareholders in Chicago, but at the L.A. Times they're still talking about how many times Zell used the f-word in a talk to managers last week.
- Marilyn Thompson, the LAT's investigations editor in the Washington bureau, jumped over to the New York Times. Memos at Romenesko from her ex-bureau chief, Doyle McManus, and her new bureau chief, Dean Baquet.
- Councilman Bernard Parks formed a committee to let him raise money to run for the county Supervisor seat that Yvonne Brathwaite Burke is expected to leave next year.
- The arrest and deportation to Mexico of immigration activist Elvira Arellano was assailed, defended and noticed by other immigrants. LAT, DN
- Eagle Rock Plaza has become so central to the Filipino community that it is sometimes called the Mall of Manila.
- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is happy with interim Fire Chief Douglas L. Barry and offered him the job.
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| 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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