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Turf fight over gangs
Controller Chick and Councilman Cardenas are still at odds over who should oversee the anti-gang funds available to the city. "I say to them -- because they have the potential to be great leaders -- 'Just get it done,' " said Connie Rice, a co-director of the Advancement Project. LAT
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L.A. has an anti-terrorism training academy
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will join LAPD Chief William Bratton to announce the opening of the National Counter-Terrorism
Academy at 10:30 am at the LAPD Ahmanson Recruit Training Center, 5651 W. Manchester Avenue. "The NCTA, a public-private partnership will bring world-class training to mid-level public safety professionals," says the flackage.
Antonio will keep campaigning for Hillary
Villaraigosa says he hears the critics objecting to him spending so much time on the Clinton campaign, but he says: "Look, if you're a big-city mayor and you want money from Washington, you have to get involved in these things...I would be criticized even more if I don't deliver for the city." Orlov/DN
Drugs in our drinking water
Traces of meprobamate and phenytoin, anti-epileptic and anti-anxiety medications, were found in the treated drinking water of Los Angeles and Long Beach. AP
LAX satisfaction
The city's department of airports is conducting an online survey. Breeze
Little Tokyo's Aoyama Tree could get status
The 90-year-old rubber tree near Central Avenue and First Street passed a first hurdle to becoming a Historic-Cultural Monument. Downtown News
Colbert remorse
Times columnist Gregory Rodriguez was warned that while hawking his book on The Colbert Report, don't try to be funny. The producer's advice: "Stephen's character will go after you. But be natural." LAT
Good stores that aren't Dutton's
Some local writers wax on their favorite independent booksellers other than the one in Brentwood. LAT Also, LA Observed contributor Denise Hamilton proposes an antidote to the fakery of "Love and Consequences" in Jervey Tervalon's "Understand This," which really is a novel.
Driver in illegal Soapbox Derby killed
He was riding down Reseda Boulevard in Tarzana when he hit a parked car. DN
More 'Citizen McCaw'
Not a word about the jam-packed premiere in the Santa Barbara News-Press, says Dave Freed, a former Times reporter who freelanced a story to the Calendar section. LAT
Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis’ proves to be non fiction
“The story is true. Kafka simply wrote a completely verifiable, journalistic account of a neighbor by the name of Gregor Samsa who, because of some bizarre medical condition, turned into a ‘monstrous vermin.’ Kafka assured us that he’d made the whole thing up," says Kafka's editor, known only as E. "We now know that to be completely false. The account is 100 percent true." NYT Op-Ed