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Deasy hires a team and pays them well, Host International is back in the game at LAX, labor concessions at City Hall, plus Crenshaw rail, Vernon, Kelly Candaele and more.
New LAUSD Supt. John Deasy has added a team of top staff making from $139,000 a year (for new director of communications Tom Waldman) to $250,000. LAT, DN
The city of Los Angeles will not install pornography-filtering software on library computers, but instead will make the monitors more difficult to be seen by nearby children. DN
HMS Host International, Delaware North and CMS/Camacho Ventures were recommended for the food contracts at LAX terminals 4, 5, 7 and 8. Daily Breeze
Concessions agreed to by 18 bargaining units representing 19,000 Los Angeles city workers — including a plan to shut down city departments between Christmas and New Years — are expected to be approved today by the Los Angeles City Council, saving the city an estimated $191.2 million over the next three years. City Maven
The Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 to draft an ordinance requiring the Children and Family Services and Probation departments to report directly to the board instead of to CEO William Fujioka. DN
The City Council on Tuesday approved a contract extension for Los Angeles' red-light traffic cameras, giving proponents three more months to persuade officials to permanently continue the controversial program. DN
FixExpo Campaign argues for a mostly underground Crenshaw Light Rail line. FixExpo
More Latinos than ever voted in the November 2010 election as a relatively young population reached the voting age. AP
Critics cite the lifestyle of Vernon's elected city councilmen and other top officials as evidence that the city is a fiefdom run for the benefit of its ruling clique. LAT
Kelly Candaele, the filmmaker, writer and politician, blogs about the meaning of the movie "Limitless." Politics and Films
Diana Swartz is the new Westside L.A. editor for Patch.com and tweets: "We're looking for awesome bloggers in the Westside. Please pass it on!"
The Dodgers have hired ex-LAPD captain Rich Wemmer as security chief, or will if the team's Major League Baseball overseer lets them. LAT
The story behind the story of that awful car crash in La Habra. Celeste Fremon
The "Hollywoodland" plaques are disappearing from the canyon. LAT
The Los Angeles Zoo's male lion Lionel died this past weekend, believed to be 23. One female lion remains. LAT
"Marketplace Money" on Saturday will do a special report on the cost of owning and driving a car, focusing on Los Angeles. KPCC is partnering with the show.
Curators, scholars, and educators will set the stage for "Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980," with a one-day workshop at the Getty Center "addressing some of the myths and stereotypes that persist about Los Angeles art in the postwar period." May 13