Morning Buzz: Friday 9.18.09

I'm still catching up (with email and sleep), so just a quick run through this morning with some news and items from the past few days. Tucked after the jump.

Another city water main broke, this time on Topanga Canyon Blvd. in Canoga Park, amid growing political pressure.
City officials and the City Hall unions continued to negotiate over that early retirement plan and worker furloughs.
Detectives presented their evidence against former Building and Safety head Andrew Adelman to the DA's office, which is considering whether to file charges over the rape allegation.
Examining the overheated mailers flooding the 2nd council district as the race nears the first finish line.
The Convention Center wasted more than $1 million by failing to properly control employee overtime and lacks a system for keeping track of its fixed assets, according to the first audit released by Controller Wendy Greuel.
KCAL anchor Mia Lee has left the station after 12 years.
The House Ethics Committee is looking at ties between the husband of Rep. Maxine Waters and a bank.
Gloria Jeff was fired two years as head of the city's Department of Transportation because she fought racism at DOT, Betty Pleasant alleges in a long series in The Wave.
Former LAUSD superintendent Ruben Zacarias was accused of using a badge to try to pull over a female driver in Pomona.
Former L.A. city council member Nick Pacheco was named interim assistant city administrator in Montebello.
Radio reporter Ilsa Setziol is blogging at Rambling LA and has a post on blue whales at Chance of Rain.
Lake Sherwood security guards have been ordered to keep Lenny Dykstra out of the gated community where the bankrupt ex-baseball star owns two estates, including the one built by Wayne Gretzky.
Marriage equality activists need to look beyond 2010 or 2012, says Christopher Lisotta in The Advocate.
John Rabe has a new blog on the KPCC website.
Drex Heikes, the new LA Weekly editor, speaks at the L.A. Press Club on Sept. 24.