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- Yeah, John McCain will attend tonight's debate in Mississippi after all. Politico
Also: Sarah Palin rally at the Home Depot Center in Carson Oct. 4. Breeze - Gov. Schwarzenegger signed a bill that will let Los Angeles County voters decide on a sales tax hike for transit. The new state budget, however, cuts the county by $129 million. LAT, DN
- State legislators get free gasoline credit cards and spent $220,000 of taxpayer money the first seven months of this year. AP
- Jim Hahn and Ron Kaye clash at L.A. Chamber event. LAT, Ron Kaye
- Patrick Goldstein opines that "film critics, like TV and theater critics, are especially well equipped to analyze today's politics...since our campaigns are -- as has surely been obvious for some time -- far more about theater and image creation than politics." LAT
- Former Times reporter and blogger Jesus Sanchez has launched The Eastsider LA, a blog about "scenes, sightings & stories from Echo Park and beyond."
- USC loses to Oregon State? LAT, DN
- Sun Yue, the Lakers' rookie from China, became ill after his first press conference, has mononucleosis and will miss the start of training camp. LAT
- Thomas "Bud" McDonald, who played "Buddy" in some of the Our Gang movies in the 30s, died at age 85. LAT
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As newspapers and television pull back from investigative reporting, foundations and other organizations are beginning to fill the void. One of the most interesting is Accountable California, a project of Local 721 of the Service Employees International Union.
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