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Times acknowledges magazine plans
Unbylined story in Business quotes Publisher David Hiller calling Annie Gilbar the "leading candidate" to be editor of a renamed Sunday magazine that will report not to the paper but to Los Angeles Times Media Group, a unit that already oversees Hoy, MetroMix and the Times Community Newspapers. LAT (The Daily News put the wire story at the top of its website.)
Harold Meyerson adds his take on Zell
The Washington Post columnist and former LA Weekly editor rhetorically calls for a term in San Quentin for Sam Zell, likening him to James McNamara, who blew up the Los Angeles Times building in 1910. WP
Lopez revisits Jaime de la Vega
With gas well over $4, it does seem a good time for Steve Lopez to check in on the SUV-driving deputy mayor: "Not only is Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's transportation deputy shelling out a small fortune to fuel his Hummer, but he's got the added pressure of setting an embarrassingly bad example." LAT
Man bitten by rattlesnake...in Inglewood
The 22-year-old had been drinking and picked up the snake at Edward Vincent Park. After the bite, he put the snake in a bucket, the bucket in a bag, and the bag in the trunk of his car and tried to drive himself to a hospital. Eventually he pulled over, called 911 and went by ambulance. Breeze
Billboard Durazo wants moves ahead
Despite the city council's general policy against new billboards, a committee approved plans for a two-sided digital board to be erected on union-owned land beside the 110 freeway in Downtown. Labor fed chief Maria Elena Durazo wants the billboard. LAT
LAPD finally blogs about murders
Accounts of the bloody weekend started showing up on Tuesday, including a summary of the ten deaths in city territory. The department actually addressed the spike in a Monday afternoon news conference. LAPD blog
Gang violence in L.A.
Rachael Myrow (formerly of KPCC) and L.A. bureau chief Rob Schmitz have produced a radio series on Los Angeles gangs and street violence for The California Report. Summaries and audio
LAUSD to cut 500+ staff jobs
Teachers not laid off, but budget trouble also will force employees to take four days of unpaid leave. LAT
L.A. Sniper vs. David Nahai
Alan Mittelstaedt, filling in at Witness LA, is fixated on the DWP chief's water bill. Nahai claims harassment. WLA
New Hollywood celebrity column in Calendar
Times staff writer Rachel Abramowitz's Hollywood Brief will "give the town's culture, personalities and power players the close-up they deserve -- but may not always want." LAT
Clinton, Núñez bail on graduations
With a labor dispute still lingering, Bill Clinton won't deliver the commencement address at UCLA on Friday and former Speaker Fabian Núñez won't give the UC Davis speech. LAT, Sacto Bee
Monrovia police department allegations
Activist Robert C. J. Parry says issues of sexual assault, sexual harassment, police misconduct and failures of leadership and management are "roiling the already tense MPD." Foothill Cities blog
Art Center community not all for Gehry
Hundreds of students and alumni of Art Center College of Design are petitioning trustees to suspend plans for a $50-million building by Frank Gehry. LAT