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- Bob Hope Airport's board wants Burbank to become the first airport with a 10 p.m. curfew for newer jets. DN, LAT
- Competing estimates of Measure B's cost. LAT, DN
Plus: Airtalk with Larry Mantle takes up the measure at 10:30 with S. David Freeman for the yes side and Noel Weiss for the no side. KPCC, 89.3 FM. - Octuplets mother Nadja Suleman hired Los Angeles publicists Michael Furtney and Joann Killeen to field offers. LAT
- If Roman Polanski wants to push for dismissal of his case, it has to be before a judge in L.A., a court rules. LAT
- Former LAT managing editor Doug Frantz talks about his new job as chief investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. NYT
- LAT reporter Stuart Pfeifer moves to the Business section staff. Readers' Rep
- San Francisco Chronicle editor Ward Bushee's note in the paper about changes and challenges — "losing large sums of money each week and has been for some time" — is drawing attention. Chronicle
- Salon's Glenn Greenwald takes issue with the recent Times article on rendition policy under the Obama Administration. Salon
- Defense lawyers Mark Geragos and Brian Kabateck have further real estate plans for Downtown. Eastside Living LA
- Steve Lambert moves from the San Bernardino Sun to become editor and general manager of LANG's San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group. SGV Tribune, Gary Scott
- Blogger Bill Pitkin won't give up his Times subscription: "it’s too important for helping my kids become literate, curious, and concerned members of our society." Poverty and Inequality
- What some departed mainstream journalists are doing after their jobs end, from new Entrepreneur staff writer Dennis Romero.
- Cause Celebre columnist Tina Daunt takes her mind off troubles at the Times with a personal style blog The English Muse.
- New blog The Irony Supplement analyzes happenings in the economy, politics and media, including some recent Times stories.
- A bronze plaque honoring ex-Lakers Elgin Baylor and Jerry West will be unveiled Wednesday at the Coliseum. DN wires
- Zagat is launching its first Dating (and Dumping) Guide in L.A. and New York.
- Lukas Foss, the composer, conductor and pianist who succeeded Arnold Schoenberg as head of composition at UCLA, died at age 86. LAT
Plus: Mark Lacter | Bill Boyarsky | Yesterday