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- Mayor Villaraigosa will formally name chief zoning administrator Michael LoGrande to be city planning director on Monday morning. LAT, DN
Plus: The Daily News has some recommendations for LoGrande already. DN editorial - Villaraigosa accepts the Daily News' challenge to prove he's not disengaged as mayor and talks to Rick Orlov about it. DN
- An 11-year-old hanged himself just hours after L.A. County social workers came to check on reports he was suicidal. LAT
- New USC athletic director Pat Haden adds 2036, the year a website predicts he will die, to his email signatures. LAT
- The three Northridge neighborhood councils, Cal State Northridge, the Mulholland Institute and other groups have launched a major planning effort in the Valley community. Northridge Vision.org
Related: New Northridge South council and cellphone tower. DN - Google has missed its deadline to provide the city of Los Angeles with a new email system. MarketWatch, LA Weekly, LAT
- My favorite un-New York Times-ish paragraph in Jennifer Steinhauer's report on how Angelenos usually lord our weather over the rest of the country, but are feeling grumpy about this summer's coolness: "Ha, ha, ha, ha!" NYT
- As the National Journal tries to make its political coverage more timely and edgy, it offered buyouts to everybody on staff and likely will move Ron Brownstein to a new role as editorial director of the National Journal Group. NYT
- John Peterson has been polishing the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for 14 years. LAT
- L.A. Times readers are no clearer on where the Westside begins and ends than the Times itself. LAT
- Natasha Vargas-Cooper's blog Mad Men Unbuttoned is now a book, and a book party at the Formosa. Fishbowl LA
- Dan Haren, the front-line starting pitcher the Dodgers needed, was available after all — and went to the Angels Sunday in a four-player trade. The Dodgers got a nice 1-0 win today, though, over the Mets on pitching by Clayton Kershaw and rookie Kenley Jansen. Reuters, LAT
- Irvin R. Lai, a prominent Chinese American community leader in Los Angeles "at the forefront of virtually every civil rights issue in Southern California," died at age 83. LAT