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New website for Sheriff Baca, boycotting Arizona, Jewish Journal up, Sarah Silverman down, and perhaps the last great newspaper novel.
- The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department unveiled a newly redesigned, more newsy and informative website at LASD.org.
- The City Council's budget committee forwarded a budget that calls for 1,000 more job cuts than the 761 included in Mayor Villaraigosa's proposed budget, based on a recommendation by Chief Legislative Analyst Gerry Miller. LAT, DN
- The council is expected today to consider whether it really does want to officially boycott Arizona, and how. LAT, AP
- United States Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that it has made major changes to the green card — starting with its color. KPCC News
- A Metro pedestrian symposium will talk about ways to make Los Angeles more walkable.
- The Jewish Journal has received $800,000 in donations from four local philanthropists and "by banking hard on two of the most robust growth trends in 21st century media — niche journalism and philanthropy — the Jewish Journal appears to have extended its life expectancy and expanded its coverage of Jewish life in Southern California," says James Rainey. LAT
- Comedy Central has canceled "The Sarah Silverman Program." Deadline Hollywood
- The Autry National Center said it acquired the Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Archive, materials from the performing couple's entertainment careers.
- Jacob Soboroff observes on Twitter that the New York Times and Los Angeles Times ran the same AFP/Getty Images photograph of British leader David Cameron and his wife Samantha, "but LAT cropped out her pregnant belly!" Twitter
- "The Imperfectionists," by Tom Rachman "may be the last great newspaper novel, celebrating a world that—as the book documents in its bittersweet way—is rapidly fading away," says Mark Potts. Recovering Journalist
- Last night on Which Way, L.A.?: Dan Schnur of the Unruh Institute of Politics and Michael Rothfeld of the L.A. Times on the Whitman-Poizner race for governor.
- Isabella Huffington, the daughter of Ariana Huffington, is having her first art exhibition at the William Turner Gallery in Bergamot Station.
- Artist Craig Kauffman, one of the original group of artists at the Ferus Gallery on La Cienega, died in the Philippines at 78. LAT