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A quickie roundup for Friday.
- City Council members each agreed to give up $800,000 from their office discretionary accounts to be put toward the city's reserve fund. LAT, DN
- Yesterday's political theater had Hahn strategist Garry South blasting former client Gavin Newsom, and a bunch of progressive Democrats calling in South to resign in shame. Newsom, meanwhile, still hasn't announced if he will be running for lieutenant governor. SF Chronicle, Calitics
- Layoffs and redeployments at the LAPD. LA Daily
- LAPD chief Beck gets applause after meeting with cyclists. Streetsblog, LAT
- The city is looking to increase the fees it collects from customers at LAX to pay for a consolidated rental car facility. LAT
- How closing arguments in the Prop. 8 trial may be televised after all. SF Chronicle
- Steve Greenberg explains doing a cartoon on his former employer, the Ventura County Star. Cagle.com