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- The City Council cancelled its Wednesday session to allow members to attend the Lakers parade. City Clerk
- L.A., area designers took some big honors at last night's Council of Fashion Designers of America fashion awards last night in New York. Chic Leak, CFDA
- Rounding up local Iranian Jewish reaction to the Tehran situation. Jewish Journal
Plus: Borzou Daragahi, the LA Times reporter in Tehran, talks with Larry Mantle at 10:06 a.m. on KPCC's "Airtalk."
- Mayor Villaraigosa, Chief Bratton and Derek Fisher will give details of the Lakers' parade and economic impact to the city at a 1:30 p.m. press conference at the Lakers' training facility in El Segundo.
- Plus: Some money for the parade already raised from donors. LAT
- Villaraigosa's and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's "very charismatic presence [at the L.A. Price Parade] helped underscore the importance of marriage as a civil rights issue." Bilerico Project
- The partisan divide in Sacramento is, amazingly, widening not closing. Bee, LAT
- The Obama Administration rejected pleas for emergency aid to California. Wash Post
- U.S. District Judge Gary A. Feess delayed for two weeks a decision on whether to continue or drop federal oversight of the LAPD. LAT, DN
- Los Angeles County chief executive officer Bill Fujioka proposed "a radical overhaul of the welfare-to-work system that would drop requirements that low-income parents of young children have jobs." DN
- A Long Beach skateboard park is being held out as an example of wasteful federal stimulus spending. LB Report
- There are two competing proposals for a high speed train to Las Vegas, only one of them using maglev and neither of them perfect. LV Sun
- The Huffington Post is not profitable, still in "investment mode." Paid Content
- Former L.A. Times writers and editors are talking about launching an online news operation. Gary Scott
- Karen Young, former editor of the Sun Community Newspapers in the Valley, plans to launch next Monday an online community news magazine for the 818 area and a free daily newsletter with a designated "find" of the day at mydailyffind.com.
- Michael Fleming, executive director of the David Bohnett Foundation, was elected chairman of the board of directors of the KCRW Foundation. Philanthropy Journal
- The Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation said it has stepped up its tatcics aimed at preventing the spread of HIV in porn. LAT
- Martin Cox and Gordon Ghareeb, the authors of "Hollywood to Honolulu: The Los Angeles Steamship Company," will speak and show slides at the L.A. Maritime Museum on Saturday at 1 p.m. Maritime Matters
- Dethroned Miss California Carrie Prejean also lost a spokesmodeling gig with Sledge USA, a line of graphic T-shirts based in L.A., for not showing up. Chic Leak
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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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