Morning Buzz

Morning Buzz: Friday 10.3.08

  • Another possible perfect storm of traffic Saturday with USC playing at the Coliseum at 5 pm, the Dodgers taking the field at 7 pm, UCLA at the Rose Bowl at 7:15 pm and Neil Diamond at Staples Center at 8 pm. Worse, it may rain. LAT
  • Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's school partnership is seeking exemptions from 86 state education laws, outraging employee unions. DN
  • Six weeks before Robert Aguallo Jr. retired as general manager of Los Angeles' largest city pension agency, he staged an elaborate send-off for himself at the California Club, with attendees paying $1,000 or more each — with some money going toward a scholarship fund in Aguallo's name. LAT
  • Councilmen Jose Huizar and Jack Weiss will call for a March ballot measure to hire an independent monitor to oversee the Los Angeles Fire Department. DN wires
  • Pavement along the new Orange Line in the Valley will be repaired after the MTA reached a $1.5 million settlement with its contractor. DN
  • Speaker Nancy Pelosi's PAC pays thousands of dollars to her husband's firm. AP
  • The Planning Report takes an online look at the infrastructure bond measures on the Nov. 4 ballot. TPR
  • One of five defendants admitted accidentally setting the Malibu fire that burned 53 homes last year. LAT
  • "Left, Right & Center" will air live from the new Broad Stage in Santa Monica on Nov. 9 from 5 to 7 pm, with the usual lineup of Arianna Huffington, Matt Miller, Robert Scheer and Tony Blankley in person. Tickets to meet the hosts and hear the show went on sale today. KCRW
  • People are wondering what's up with the website TellZell.com, which has posted twice since Sept. 9 and nothing since Sept. 19.
  • TreePeople opened a new four-acre Center for Community Forestry at Coldwater Canyon Park. LAT, DN

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