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The San Diego Chargers and Oakland Raiders are jointly pursuing development of a shared, $1.7-billion NFL stadium near the 405 Freeway and Del Amo Boulevard in Carson but only as an alternative in case their negotiations for public stadium subsidies back home don't work out. LAT, UT San Diego, SF Chronicle, Daily News, LA Weekly
California political leaders voiced growing exasperation Thursday with a labor standoff that has clogged West Coast ports, as word spread that the main sticking point in negotiations has been the fate of a single, low-level official who rules on disputes involving Los Angeles and Long Beach dockworkers. LAT, SJ Mercury
Also: 100,000 bottles of soy sauce are languishing on freighters off California. NYT
Elliot Rodger, the loner at UCSB who went on a killing rampage in Isla Vista last year, planned his crimes for at least two years and searched the Internet for information about killing, terrorist attacks, weapons and Nazis. LA Times
The LA Times endorsed Sheila Irani in the wide-open race to succeed Tom LaBonge in the 4th council district. The paper's editorial board also liked, but did not endorse, Teddy Davis. LAT
Honesty, morality, sexism: 14th district council candidates get nasty. LAT
Will Gloria Molina topple Jose Huizar? LA Weekly
Dan Walters says the state’s second most important political duel in 2016 will be for the two open seats on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Bee
Earlier: Rep. Janice Hahn will give up her seat in Congress to run for Supervisor. LAT
With 16 months to go before California's presidential primary election, the state looks golden for Hillary Clinton -- but the race looks like a tossup on the Republican side, a new Field Poll shows. Scott Walker got 18% of likely voters, Jeb Bush 16%. SJ Mercury
Louis Caldera, the former assemblyman from LA who resigned as a top military aide in the Obama White House after a botched Air Force One photo-op, is considering a run for Barbara Boxer’s seat in the U.S. Senate. LAT
Harris Wittels, a comedian and the co-executive producer of "Parks and Recreation," was dead at his home on Hobart Boulevard and police suspect a drug overdose. Sarah Silverman on Twitter:
You should know that Harris was brilliant beyond compare. That his imagination was without limit. That he loved comedy more than anything.
— Sarah Silverman (@SarahKSilverman) February 20, 2015New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet adjusts the tradition of the page one meeting to be more digitally focused. The Awl, Poynter
The final season of "Mad Men" will be set in 1976, sixteen years after we first met the characters. BoingBoing
Henry (Hank) Scott, the publisher of WEHOville and a critic of sheriff's department practices in the city of West Hollywood, writes that he was pulled over by a plainclothes detective in an unmarked car who pulled her gun on him, and after some back and forth was booked for resisting arrest and treated roughly in custody. WEHOville
Since the Pulitzer Prizes changed the rules to allow online and print magazines, there has been a 50 percent jump in investigative entries this year. Poynter
More than one in five Metro passengers were subjected to unwanted sexual advances or behavior while riding Metro trains and buses in Los Angeles County during the first half of 2014, according to a new survey. LAT
Green sea turtles in the San Gabriel River? Scientists wonder why. KPCC
Raul Rodriguez, "undoubtedly the most famous of Rose Parade float designers," died at his home in Pasadena of cardiac arrest. He was 71. LAT
My dryer broke and the repairman who came and took it apart just handed me twenty guitar picks and a pair of earrings
— Liz Phair (@PhizLair) February 20, 2015Our national nightmare continues: A shortage of Girl Scout cookies. Coming up on @KTLAMorningNews
— David Lazarus (@Davidlaz) February 19, 2015