Chick and Delgadillo, the morning after

This morning's stories add some context to the fight that went public yesterday between the controller and city attorney. LAT, DN

History lesson on development of Downtown

The context is the possible sale of the Times building at 1st and Spring. Author Joan Didion once wrote in the New Yorker, as quoted by Cara Mia DiMassa, "a great deal of Los Angeles as it appears today derived from this impulse to improve Chandler property. . . . Union Station and the Los Angeles Civic Center and the curiosity known as Olvera Street are where they are because Harry Chandler wanted to develop the north end of downtown, where the Times building and many other of his downtown holdings lay." LAT

How to resign from the LAT In style

TellZell.com creates a form to tell the bosses what you really think on your way out the door. TZ hears, meanwhile, that the layoffs will be rolled out in phases to avoid the law requiring advance notification of mass layoffs, and hears that the business-side version of the LA Times Magazine was not killed and is moving to open offices in Santa Monica. TellZell.com

Villaraigosa fundraising

L.A. Now is making sport of following Mayor Villaraigosa's ongoing campaign fundraising flurry (with a little headline nod to LA Observed, I guess.) And today in Calendar, Tina Daunt talks up the mayor's cash standing among Hollywood chiefs and lets a Villaraigosa partisan say that Rick Caruso can't win should he decide to challenge the mayor. LAT

Checking in on Echo Park neighborhood council

Jenny Burman has been following the rancorous council election at Chicken Corner, and now the Times' Scott Gold takes a look. The story gives what I think is the LAT's first upper-case title of Councilman to a neighborhood council member. LAT

Runway incursion at LAX

An air traffic controller mistakenly directed an All Nippon Airways Boeing 777-300 onto a taxiway that was too short for its size, causing part of the plane to protrude into the safety zone of a landing flight. Breeze

TMZ sued over sex tape

Verne Troyer, who played Mini Me in the Austin Powers films, filed his lawsuit in U.S. District Court here over the showing of a tape he made with a girlfriend. Wires

Guest on the right

Today's Left, Right & Center on KCRW will be missing Tony Blankley, who is traveling. Filling his seat in the right chair will be Jim Antle, associate editor of The American Spectator magazine.

Web domain names to be opened up

ICANN, the group that oversees the registration of domains such as .com and .net, has agreed to take applications for all manner of new designations. LAT

Gay journalists to be honored at City Hall

Greg Hernandez, who writes the Daily News' Out in Hollywood blog, and Karen Ocamb of IN Los Angeles will be honored today at the City Council's 2nd Annual LGBT Pride Month Celebration.

Marilyn Ryan, former mayor and legislator was 75

The first mayor of Rancho Palos Verdes later became a Republican assemblywoman and director of the California Arts Council. She died Sunday. LAT

LA Observed on KCRW, 4:44 this afternoon at FM 89.9 or on the web here.