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.