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- An internal LAPD report acknowledged that people have been falsely implicated in crimes because the department's fingerprint experts wrongly identified them as suspects. LAT
- Comparing Villaraigosa's spending and fiscal crisis to the Board of Supervisors, which has no crisis. LA Weekly
- Raul Macias, aka El Cardenal, has built a strong political base on the soccer fields of northeast Los Angeles. LAT
- The downtown ICE detention facility denies basic care to people in custody. LA Daily Journal (no link)
- The Planning Commission voted for a one-year moratorium on the conversion to digital billboards. LAT
- An L.A. sheriff's deputy is suspected of embezzling nearly half a million dollars in towing fees from the city of La Puente. SGV Tribune
- Councilman Tom LaBonge and neighborhood groups want to scale back the $800 million expansion of Universal City on MTA land outside the studio, but Mayor Villaraigosa is pushing the project. DN
- Tribune gives notice that it might drop out of Associated Press in two years. Negotiating ploy? LA Biz Observed
- Fox 11's John Schwada talks up his network's "Hannity and Colmes" show as a center of informed viewers. MyFoxLA
- Carl Kozlowski, Jake Belcher and Brant Thoman debut Saturday at 1 am on KABC 790 as "staunchly libertarian (yet funny) opponents of Obama" with a "funny and topically outrageous talk show about each week's news and politics." (Email)
- Amy Alkon fights back against intermittent Internet service from Time Warner. Advice Goddess
- If you left newspapers involuntarily, take the survey. American Journalism Review
- LAO contributor Erika Schickel is also contributing at The Daily Beast, Tina Brown's new website.
- Longtime TV game show host Jack Narz 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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