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What's riding on Boxer-Fiorina, another Downtown developer wants a tax break, plus Dana Goodyear, Joel Kotkin, Stefano Tonchi, Gustavo Arellano and more.
- California voters may not know it yet, "but whether they give U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer a fourth term or elect Carly Fiorina could determine partisan control of the Senate and, therefore, the fate of Barack Obama's presidency," says Sacramento columnist Dan Walters. Bee
- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's staff has grown to 206 people, compared to 121 for James Hahn and 114 for Richard Riordan. DN
- Korean Air and Thomas Properties, the developers of a proposed $1 billion hotel and office tower to replace the Wilshire Grand Hotel, want a city deal :similar to the ones that gave tax breaks to the Convention Center hotel at L.A. Live and the hotel component of the stalled Grand Avenue project." Downtown News
- The L.A. Zoo is under pressure to charge for parking, even though it's located in Griffith Park and has a deal to provide parking for the Autry. Orlov/DN
- Joel Kotkin's latest argument that the California dream is evaporating says the problem "lies in a change in the nature of progressive politics in California. During the second half of the twentieth century, the state shifted from an older progressivism, which emphasized infrastructure investment and business growth, to a newer version, which views the private sector much the way the Huns viewed a city—as something to be sacked and plundered." New Geography
- Members of the West Hollywood wedding industry are pretty happy about the Prop. 8 decision, Dana Goodyear observes in a California Postcard piece. New Yorker
- Competition in the Hollywood club and bar scene is getting intense, says the L.A. Business Journal.
- Emergency sewer repairs under the intersection of Third Street and San Vicente Boulevard will make daytime traffic near the Beverly Center a bit of a headache for the next six weeks. LAist
- The mutilated Afghan woman on the current cover of Time magazine has been brought to L.A. for treatment by the Grossman Burn Center. LAT
- Conde Nast's W is "becoming a place that its new editor, Stefano Tonchi, hopes readers will go to not only for high-end fashion but for profiles on cultural figures, travel essays and appraisals of art." NYT
- Ask a Mexican columnist Gustavo Arellano was sent a bag of feces by an angry reader in Oregon. OC Weekly