• Gov. Schwarzenegger is quoted in Der Spiegel saying he has almost no relationship with "out there" California Republican leaders and praises the Obama campaign, and also has some comments about Sarah Palin. LAT
    Also: Similarities between his rise and the Palin strategy of maverick appeal, shunning hard questions and attacking media scrutiny. SF Chronicle
  • A City Council committee gave its OK to a measure to give neighborhood councils the ability to place agenda items. DN
  • Police announced a mysterious $200,000 reward for info on a suspicious art theft from an Encino home while the residents were in the house. LAT, DN
  • Lawyer, web publisher and sports blogger Rich Perelman has started WeAreNotCriminals.com "devoted to opposing a dangerous expansion of the anti-smoking code in Los Angeles," in particular the proposal by councilman Bernard Parks urging the county to ban smoking more widely.
  • Now AEG wants permission to mount signs all over the Convention Center aimed at freeway drivers. LAT plus Op-Ed by Dennis Hathaway
  • Josh Stephens covers the growing impetus for more subway in L.A. and the history of how we got the one we have. In Transition
  • Author, attorney and LAT book columnist Jonathan Kirsch guests on "Airtalk with Larry Mantle" at 11:30 to discuss his latest book, "The Grand Inquisitor’s Manual," which KPCC says "draws parallels between the Inquisition and modern persecutions like the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II, the McCarthy era blacklists, and the U.S military interrogations of prisoners in Abu Ghraib." 89.3 FM.
  • More: Morning Buzz
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