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- Councilman Tony Cardenas told Controller Laura Chick Friday to "get out of my face." DN
- LAT reporter Martha Groves describes in first-person detail (plus slideshow) the ordeal of recovering from a serious knee injury she suffered on last summer's South America ski trip with ex-mayor Richard Riordan.
- New York Times shouldn't have been fooled, again, by "Love and Consequences," says the paper's public editor in a column.
- Steve Lopez discovers that the Craigslist free ads are a forum for prostitution. LAT
- Need a primer on the Las Lomas controversy that isn't too deep or challenging? Here it is.
- Robert C. J. Parry argues against the LAPD's plans to make the SWAT unit less of a brotherhood. LAT Opinion
- 36 hours in Pasadena with the bureau chief for the New York Times. NYT Travel
- Blogger Carolyn Kellogg in Istanbul. Pinky's Paperhaus
- Caitlin Flanagan says the trend of teenagers driving less and staying close to their parents more is a good one. NYT Op-Ed
- The newest Valley street is Costco Drive. Here in Van Nuys
- Enjoying an unexpected silence in the city, "Not absolute, deafening silence, but that the usual background urban noise orchestra took a tacet for a few measures and allowed the sound of a gentle breeze to take a solo." Militant Angeleno
- Shana Ting Lipton enlightens her blog readers on "the smell," that "perhaps thrice-in-a-lifetime sexual chemistry that is SO intense that you practically want to devour each other."
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| Bev Hills billionaire Ron Burkle has $56 million in loans against his two houses. The McCourts have borrowed $28 million on their properties.
| Advice for Greenies in a Complicated World
| Steve Jones, the self-proclaimed Sire of Wilshire (a nod to the physical address of his former home at Indie 103.1 FM), is back on the air!
| 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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