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- Chief Bratton endorses another candidate — this time in New York City. L.A. Now
- KPFK suspends "anti-Semitic hatefest" show "La Causa" for six weeks; its followers blame the Jews. OC Weekly
- Mayor Villaraigosa buys two more months at the MTA for troubled Italian rail car builder AnsaldoBreda. L.A. Now, Streetsblog
- What's killing the storefronts along Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood. Frontiers
- Christopher Hawthorne pens a front-page critics notebook saying billboards and supergraphics aren't so bad, followed a few hours later by the city planning commission approving on a 6-3 vote its version of a new billboard law that would ban digital billboards in most parts of the city, place some restrictions on supergraphics and allow sign districts. LAT L.A. Now
- Now jurors have the Phil Spector homicide case, after closing arguments and instructions. L.A. Daily
- New political blogger in town: Brian Doherty, author and senior editor at the libertarian Reason Magazine, who will write about local politics for KCET as City of Angles (and push readers toward Reason, apparently.)
- Madeleine Brand, late of NPR's Day to Day, is also blogging for KCET Local for a month. KCET
- He was in a wheelchair, but Julius Shulman attended last night's party for the new Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City. Culture Monster
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| Bev Hills billionaire Ron Burkle has $56 million in loans against his two houses. The McCourts have borrowed $28 million on their properties.
| Advice for Greenies in a Complicated World
| Steve Jones, the self-proclaimed Sire of Wilshire (a nod to the physical address of his former home at Indie 103.1 FM), is back on the air!
| She gaped at me like I was living history -- Miss Jane Pittman come to put her withered lips to the "Young Only" fountain straw of ageism.
As newspapers and television pull back from investigative reporting, foundations and other organizations are beginning to fill the void. One of the most interesting is Accountable California, a project of Local 721 of the Service Employees International Union.
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