Kuehl lands cush job

Termed-out L.A. state Senator Sheila Kuehl hasn't lined up that next political gig yet so today she was appointed to a $132,178 per year post on the state's Integrated Waste Management Board. That's actually a raise from her Senate salary, compliments of outgoing President Pro Tem Don Perata. The board is one of the landing spots that Democrats (and Republicans when they are in power) use to keep out-of-work pols in spending cash.