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Congestion pricing in diamond lanes
You know all those carpool lanes being built squeezed onto freeways, often requiring a year or two of construction traffic mess? MTA and Caltrans are discussing now making some of them toll lanes. Even carpoolers would have to pay. LAT
USC hospital gets $60 million gift
La Jolla philanthropist Jane Anne Nohl left the gift to the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center because of the good care given to a friend. LAT
Sunrise over Los Angeles
Nice pics from the Observatory by Mack Reed. Blogging.la
Have fun with this
Time.com has put up 50 top ten lists for 2007, from news stories and oddball stories to magazine covers and fashion trends.
Day for Ed Guthman
One of the 10 am presentations today at the City Council will be for retired USC journalism professor Ed Guthman, the former president of the City Ethics commission, ex-National Editor of the Times and long-ago press secretary to Robert F. Kennedy.
LA Observed on KCRW
Today's commentary airs at 4:44 pm on KCRW (89.9 FM) and looks forward to the race for the Yvonne Burke seat on the Board of Supervisors.