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City Council steps in on LAPD financial disclosure
The Police Protective League gets through to council members with its protests over the rules for narcotics and gang cops. The Council will review the rules imposed in response to the consent decree judge, but Chief Bratton says, "In the end there is going to be financial disclosure. Nothing that is going to happen in [the City Council] is going to change the judge's decision, in my opinion." LAT, DN
'Atonement' leads BAFTA nominations
It shows up in 14 categories as the hometown favorite. Variety
Neighborhood councils get limited power
They would be allowed to introduce policy proposals at City Hall, but members would have to disclose income and potential conflicts of interest the way other city officials must. DN
MacArthur Park crime rising again
And those vaunted surveillance cameras? Many don't work any more. LAT
End of Cocoanut Grove saga
L.A. Conservancy agrees with LAUSD plans to raze what's left on the cleared Ambassador Hotel grounds, saying "We as an organization want to move on. What's left at the Ambassador site is not really historic preservation at this point." LAT
Directors urged to do the right thing
The Directors Guild has to insist on a deal the writers and actors can live with, even to the point of threatening a strike of their own, to avoid all-out civil war in Hollywood, Jonathan Handel argues. LAT Op-Ed
Axium fraud alleged
The largest creditor of Axium International Inc. sued the company's former principal owners, alleging massive fraud and theft by the Hollywood payroll service provider that filed for liquidation bankruptcy last week. LAT
Durazo to go with Obama
L.A. labor chief Maria Elena Durazo breaks with Mayor Villaraigosa and endorses Barack Obama for president. She will take a leave as executive-secretary of the County Federation of Labor to campaign. Top of the Ticket, Breeze
Nathanson gallery at LACMA to be announced
A $10 million gift from Jane and Marc Nathanson will get them a ground-floor gallery in the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA. The donation, to be announced today, "is earmarked for contemporary art programs and acquisitions," says Suzanne Muchnic. LAT
Three versions of Santa Susana lab news
You decide — or go to EnviroReporter.
Time to study Boeing lab is sought
State is considering whether to back bid for Superfund status
By Gregory W. Griggs, Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe state's top environmental officer Tuesday asked federal officials for more time to decide if California should back an effort to make Boeing's Santa Susana Field Laboratory a Superfund cleanup site. L.A. Times
Agreement reached on cleanup of Field Lab
Strictest federal standards approved in state, Simi deal
By Teresa RochesterA former rocket engine and nuclear test site south of Simi Valley will be cleaned to the strictest federal standards possible, following a deal reached between state officials and community members that was announced Tuesday and hailed as historic. Ventura County Star
Schwarzenegger vows state control of Santa Susana Field Laboratory
By Harrison Sheppard and Kerry CavanaughVowing to conduct a strict cleanup of the long-troubled Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday said the state wants to maintain authority over the site and won't seek federal Superfund status for the area. Daily News
Sam Zell visits one of his papers
He gets applause for telling staff at Newsday that Tribune wasn't run very well. Newsday
Where there's smoke there's fire
That was an apartment fire on 6th Street that sent a plume of smoke into the sky near Park LaBrea yesterday afternoon. LAT, LAist
Wind gusts today could hit 80 miles an hour
Santa Anas are back. Wires
More cuts in San Diego
Five in newsroom laid off at Union-Tribune, and the Copley CEO says, "Not since the merger of the Union and Tribune over 15 years ago have we faced such wrenching changes." Romenesko