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Debate roundup, Boxer-Fiorina today, higher fees to adopt a dog, and Angeleno editor Degen Pener signs on with Janice Min at the Hollywood Reporter. Plus more politics, media and news notes inside.
- Roundup of coverage of last night's Brown-Whitman debate. Rough & Tumble
- Gov. Schwarzenegger signed the bill that makes it an infraction for motorcyclists to boost the exhaust noise on their bikes. Bee.
- Boxer and Fiorina face off at 1 p.m. on the "Patt Morison" show on KPCC.
- Closing arguments begin today in the McCourt v. McCourt divorce trial.
- The City Council set the cost of adopting a dog at a city shelter at $117, raised other animal services fees and upped the charge for police response to a false burglar alarm by $13 to $149. DN
- The Downtown Art Walk's leadership situation and future is still murky. LAT
- Searchers are still looking in Joshua Tree National Park for Downtown broker Ed Rosenthal, missing since the weekend. LAT
- Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell didn't attend Claremont Graduate University as she claimed. Gary Scott
- USC Annenberg announced the launch of Alhambra Source, a trilingual hyper-local news site in the San Gabriel Valley city.
- Degen Pener, who was editor-in-chief of the recently sold Angeleno Magazine, is joining The Hollywood Reporter as culture editor. Among other additions, David Strick will be a contributing photographer. Keoith J. Kelly/NYDN, The Wrap
- Mary McNamara finds KCET's move of "Masterpiece Theatre" to Thursday nights to make way for old movies on Sunday disturbing on a couple of levels. LAT
- Richard Griffey, founder of the Los Angeles-based R&B record label Solar, died in Canoga Park at age 71. LAT