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Big plans to transform Dodger Stadium
McCourts intend to spend up to $500 million adding retail shops and restaurants, parking garages and team offices in the parking lots behind the outfield bleachers. In a letter to season ticket holders, the McCourts say the upgrades are needed: "The viability of a 50-year-old ballpark comes into question when you realize that, come next year, Dodger Stadium will be the third-oldest in baseball." LAT
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Possible fee hikes in one place
The listing of city revenue sources under discussion includes everything from a $2.25 fee on every phone line to posting no parking signs in areas that don't need them in hopes of enticing more Angelenos residents to get ticketed. DN
Related: Subsidy for Grand Avenue defended even in budget crisis DN
LA Weekly estimates 4,000 illegal billboards in the city
L.A. is an "unregulated, out-of-control playground for the illegal-billboard industry, second to no other urban area in America," says the story, which goes a little wild with New Times adjectives: incredibly inept, quaking workers, bizarre lawlessness. LAW
Board of Supervisors race
Are either Bernard Parks or Mark Ridley-Thomas up to the job? Alan Mittelstaedt asks the question and probes the answer. CityBeat
Pecking order at the Times
Today's story makes clear that the naming of Davan Maharaj as managing editor was bigger news than John Arthur shifting to executive editor, but the revised online masthead lists Arthur above Maharaj. Here's our post from yesterday with the news.
Congestion pricing gambit
The feds have offered the Los Angeles area $213 million to convert lanes on short stretches of three freeways into congestion pricing experiments — meaning tolls. The MTA board will consider agreeing today. LAT
Gypsy fortune teller feud
Violent dispute between families began with an act of disrespect, police say. LAT
Even justices promote books
A rare interview with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, conducted by NPR News Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg, will air Monday, April 28, on NPR's "Morning Edition." Scalia will discuss the release of his upcoming book, "Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges." Totenberg guests on "Airtalk with Larry Mantle" on KPCC at 11:50 am.