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Morning Buzz: Wednesday 7.30.08
- L.A.-based NBC reporter George Lewis was on "Today" this morning and will be featured on the "Nightly News" reporting on his own treatment for prostate cancer at Loma Linda. NBC
- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger turns 61 today, and last night had a fundraising "party" at the home of developer Rick Caruso. Sacto Bee
- The City Council gave tentative approval to a hike in the trash collection fee to $36 a month, from $26. You already pay taxes for the service, but they want more revenue. LAT, DN
- The woman stabbed to death in a Century City parking garage was involved in a bitter divorce proceeding. LAT
- The City Council imposed a one-year moratorium on new fast food outlets in a 32-square-mile area that includes West Adams, Leimert Park, Baldwin Hills and South Los Angeles. LAT, DN
- A reporter from the Dallas Morning News here for the Dallas Cowboys training camp blogged about his first quake. First comment, maybe from his mother, cracks me up. DMN
- A Times sidebar on yesterday's quake mistakenly says Northridge was in 1992. The correct answer is '94 — and the Times won a Pulitzer for covering it. LAT
- Variety columnist Brian Lowry has an op-ed piece in the Times on the SAG feud. LAT Op-Ed
- Tony Pierce explains his note telling Times bloggers to avoid the John Edwards love child story. Bloggasm
- TellZell's anonymous blogger answers questions via email from Celeste Fremon. Witness LA
- Tribune chose Cushman & Wakefield as the real estate firm that will explore the possible sale of the Los Angeles Times property in Downtown. ChiTrib
- MetBlogs' Lucinda Michele Knapp didn't much care for the PBS' NewsHour show on the LAT Book Review. No she did not. MetBlogs
- Heal the Bay's Mark Gold did not care for LAT columnist David Lazarus's treatment of the plastic bag ban. No he did not. Spouting Off
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| The new owner is Minneapolis-based US Bancorp, which suddenly becomes a much bigger player in California and Arizona.
| Forget plastics, the real action these days is arranging going-out-of-business sales.
| Without referencing its recent layoff, the Ventura County Star's editor says the suburban LA paper is now "more streamlined and, in many ways, much more efficient."
| We stripped the Indians of their ponies, and now we're doing it to ourselves.
| When the sun looks like that, there's a big fire somewhere regardless of whether we see or smell smoke.
Lee Abrams, Tribune Company's chief innovation officer, doesn’t seem too impressed with the Los Angeles Times. That’s the feeling I got when he appeared at the Los Angeles Press Club.
Seven or fifteen minutes from now I can definitively say I didn't hear the sound of sirens.
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