Morning Buzz: Friday 1.15.10

Villaraigosa, Garcetti, Cedillo, Greuel, even an appearance by Larry, Moe and Curly — and Lucille Ball.

  • State Sen. Gil Cedillo is expected to run for the Assembly seat being vacated by Kevin de Leon, who we reported yesterday is running for Cedillo's seat, in a term-limits inspired swap. Capitol Weekly
  • Mayor Villaraigosa will appear on an episode of "All My Children," which now shoots at the Andrita Media Center in Atwater Village, once the writers figure out how to write him in. City Council president Eric Garcetti also will appear. Company Town
  • The state's largest toxic waste dump refused to accept soil from the former nuclear reactor site in the Santa Susana Mountains. DN
  • Cleaning up the treated sewage dumped in Santa Monica Bay has allowed the return of some life on the sea floor, the new State of the Bay report found. LAT
  • Los Angeles taxpayers are paying nearly $3 million a year for nearly 12,000 municipal telephone lines that are no longer in use, an audit by Controller Wendy Greuel found. DN
  • The Downtown intersection of Sixth Street and Central Avenue has been dedicated as Officer Charles P. Williams Square, after an African American LAPD officer killed there in 1923. Downtown News
  • The Bay Guardian says it won anther legal round in the fight to collect $21 million in court-ordered damages (plus interest) from the parent company of the LA Weekly, BAG, Bloomberg
  • There's a fight over potential development of the Fairfax Theatre, which Laemmle abandoned in 2006 — and which was visible in a 1934 Three Stooges short, "Three Little Pigskins," starring the boys and Lucille Ball. LAT

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LA Times writers revisit their '92 riots observations
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