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- Mayor Villaraigosa plans to appear on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" at 1 p.m. PDT and make some kind of statement about his plans on running for governor. L.A. Now, DN wires
- Strategists for Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom are coveting the L.A. mayor’s political base in the event the Democratic primary race becomes a two-man contest. CalBuzz
- Villaraigosa is driving City Hall "crazy" trying to detect if he's running for governor, and his swearing in for the second term will be a low-key public event on July 1. Rick Orlov/DN
- An L.A. Times Poll found tepid good will for Villaraigosa or his possible run, more for the LAPD, and a sense among many that the city is headed the wrong way. LAT, LAT
- That gray whale hanging out in Marina Del Ray left after three weeks, accompanied by about 50 bottlenose dolphins. AP
- Add Jane Usher, the former Planning Commission president who played a major role in the Trutanich campaign, as a senior advisor on the incoming city attorney's staff. LAT
- Isaac Guillen was a reformed gangbanger who became an attorney, but federal prosecutors say he helped launder money between a set of the 18th Street Gang and the Mexican Mafia prison gang. LA Daily Journal (no link)
- Chris Brown's preliminary hearing in the Rihanna assault case is this afternoon. LAT
- Revisiting the history of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory in the Simi Hills, where rocket testing left a legacy of contamination and a nuclear reactor had a partial meltdown. DN
- Local churches facing foreclosure due to the recession. PBS
- Judy Chu's opponents in the San Gabriel Valley congressional race aren't going quietly. LAT
- Erika Schickel has an epiphany about Michael Douglas as Gordon Gecko. LAT Op-Ed
- Former state Senator Herschel Rosenthal died Friday of complications from pneumonia. He was 91. LAT, DN
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