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Afternoon news and notes

  • In a follow to her audit of City Hall gang programs a year ago, Controller Laura Chick says there is still a long ways to go. Report
  • Unlike in L.A., next Tuesday's election in the small city of Cudahy has no shortage of excitement: of the Molotov cocktail, hooded thug, FBI investigation sort. CityBeat
  • The past four years "are a litany of City Council failures at the most basic level," says the LA Weekly's new cover story, plus a history lesson on where the council's big salaries came from.
  • The L.A. Times posted stories on the Controller race between Wendy Greuel and Nick Patsaouras, and on City Attorney hopeful Carmen Trutanich.
  • The Center for Governmental Studies has posted another in its series of voter guides to the upcoming Los Angeles city election.
  • San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom is wading into Antonio Villaraigosa's turf with a March 19 event called a "Los Angeles Area Conversation about California's Future." Sausage Factory
  • Cardinal Roger Mahony and the archdiocese may not be named as defendants in a molestation lawsuit by an Iraq war veteran, but they are in the case nonetheless. CityBeat
  • The LA Weekly is marketing an event called Gold Standard in which food critic Jonathan Gold "presents 30 hand-picked restaurants" to purvey their food and wine to patrons who pony up $60 per ticket.
  • Councilwoman (and Controller candidate) Wendy Greuel will unveil a list of the city's most delinquent business tax non-payers at a presser on Friday morning.
  • The weekly LA Stage Times listing has a new look. LA Stage Blog
  • An octopus at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium opened a valve on its tank and flooded the place with seawater. L.A. Now
  • The L.A. Press Club is holding a panel tonight called "What to do After You Leave Your Job in Journalism,” moderated by Jill Stewart.


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