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October 30, 2008
Barack Obama and John McCain? Feh. How about Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas. The L.A. Theatre Works production of "The Rivalry" by Norman Corwin, starring David Strathairn and Paul... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Board of Supes candidate Mark Ridley-Thomas doesn't wait until election day to vote with his family. He votes early with his family.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Longtime L.A. Unified school board member Julie Korenstein announced today she won't seek reelection, just days after her colleague Marlene Canter said the same thing. That's two open seats in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The guild at the Daily News says it's been told by the front office that there will be four newsroom layoffs, "possibly two today and two Friday." It was just... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
First the Los Angeles Times lays off its real estate editor and reporter, and now blogger Peter Viles posts that he is moving on to a corporate job. L.A. Land... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Sources at and around the LA Weekly confirmed that last night's staff cuts include long-time editor and columnist Marc Cooper, managing editor Sharan Street and copy chief David Caplan —... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
There had been speculation that Marjorie Miller might leave the Los Angeles Times after stepping down in June as Foreign Editor, but instead she's moving downstairs to be an editorial... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Now a McCain supporter has hung a Halloween effigy of a lynched Obama in Redondo Beach. Daily Breeze Proposition 8 leaves unclear what would happen to the estimated 16,000... $MTEntryExcerpt$>