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It's May Day and you know what that means
Three separate immigrant marches through Downtown starting at 11 am are due to converge in the late afternoon at Broadway and 1st Street. A rally will also be held at MacArthur Park. Of course, those are just the scheduled marches. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce will join Mayor Villaraigosa and labor in calling for a moratorium on workplace raids, at a 9:30 presser. Villaraigosa is also scheduled to be at the Museum of Tolerance for Holocaust Remembrance Day but has nothing else on the calendar. The LAPD breaks out its phrasealator so it can actually communicate with protesters it orders around. LAT, La Opinión mainbar, Breeze wires, LAT map, DN map, Opinion LA, NBC4
Victims of last year's May Day Melee
Patricia Ballaz (KTTV Fox camerawoman), Raad Elias (Telemundo security guard), Ted Garcia (former KTLA TV news anchor) and Carl Stein (KCBS/KCAL TV cameraman) are listed as participants in a 10 am press conference by plaintiffs suing over the LAPD's actions in MacArthur Park a year ago.
Your Daily News may be extra thin
If it arrives at all. Not for the first time, the paper says "To our readers - Due to technical problems, some sections and regular features of the of the Daily News do not appear in today's paper and your edition may arrive late. We apologize for any inconvenience." DN
LAX contracts still reverberating
Controller Laura Chick will look into the deal that got DMJM a big contract over Bechtel, and the City Council was asked to review and take jurisdiction over a three-year, $41.5-million contract awarded Friday to Fentress Architects. Breeze, LAT
No ruling on Olympic-Pico
Superior Court Judge John Torribio said that he expects to issue a ruling Friday. LAT
Hollywood's Doomscraper
Plans for historic Columbia Square include, yes, a 40-story tower that would rise over Hollywood neighborhoods. LA Weekly
Wilshire Boulevard Temple razes apartments
For now the South Hobart site is a parking lot. CityBeat
Councilman Alarcón's son
The death of young Richie, then 3, in a traffic crash 21 years ago is behind Richard Alarcón's push for a pediatric trauma center in the Valley. Dennis McCarthy/DN
Plans for old NBC lot in Burbank
The first of four 14-story office buildings is under constructions. The offices and studios will be known collectively as The Pointe. LAT
Scully in New York
Vin Scully says it will be up to his wife whether he retires as the Dodgers broadcaster when his contract expires after this season. NYT