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Three Al Jazeera English journalists have been sentenced to seven years in jail in Egypt. The Guardian
Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s role on immigration is debated in his Bakersfield district. NYT, KPCC
Sen. Kevin de Leon wants Gov. Brown to rethink the details of the high-speed train between LA and San Francisco. LAT
New vote tallies released Friday in the race for Los Angeles County sheriff show Long Beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell with 49.36 percent and not enough to win outright and aviud a runoff with Paul Tanaka, who has 15.09 percent. DN
Harold Meyerson says California's "new method for conducting primary elections is an asinine idea that can lead to perverse and anti-majoritarian consequences." LAT op-ed
The Sausage Factory blog at the Daily News has not been updated since June 8. SF
Michael Fleming says he made an overture to bring Nikki Finke back to Deadline, despite most of the staff not wanting her back, but it's not going to happen: "She got impatient with the progress of those negotiations and lit a match to the whole thing." Deadline
Michael Isikoff, the investigative reporter who recently left NBC News, is joining Yahoo News as its chief investigative correspondent. NYT
Columnist Larry Wilson on "KCRW’s and KPCC’s polite, intellectual on-air slugfest." Star-News
Amy Alkon's crusade against rudeness: Smart, articulate, kind and funny, or "on the edge of completely insane?" NYT
The first Bay Area Book Festival will be held next June in the East Bay, executive director Cheryl Parsons announced. SF Gate
.@usweekly It's only Monday, but surely this will be the worst tweet of the week.
— Kate Aurthur (@KateAurthur) June 23, 2014Last time I saw P.F. Sloan He was summer burned and winter blown...great piece on #songwriter #PFSloan in @LAObserved http://t.co/05PQ0CKBiA
— Anny Celsi (@annycelsi) June 20, 2014