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Weekly archive
March 8 - March 14, 2015
March 8 - March 14, 2015
Friday, Mar. 13
McDonnell died today at Good Samaritan after a brief illness. He "worked at almost every sports outlet on the local radio dial," LA Radio's Don Barrett said.
The board of Metrolink announced today that Leahy will become CEO on April 20 -- soon after he steps down at Metro.
Hewitt is breaking stories, getting the GOP candidates on his radio show and filling the role of most respected pundit by the Republican establishment, a new profile says.
Martin J. Smith writes about a book tour through the West in twin mini-vans. Plus David Ulin on The Offing, a new literary magazine in Los Angeles.
Thursday, Mar. 12
Choose your poison: the Hullabaloo Dancers or the Gazzarri Dancers?
The Obamajam trope is old and tired, and even I'll admit it was kind of parochial to begin with. But today, the LA Times loves it.
McIlvain was the Troubleshooter on Channel 2 news in Los Angeles for many years. He died Monday.
There's been some shuffling in the lineup of political advisers to the stars and big donors. And a new candidate for the Board of Supervisors.
Starting at the top of the home page, I count 22 headlines from various sections before they start steering us to older stories and features deeper on the site.
The president arrives Thursday afternoon to do Jimmy Kimmel and a fundraiser, then stays overnight.
Wednesday, Mar. 11
Phil Washington is currently general manager of Denver's Regional Transportation District.
Tuesday, Mar. 10
The typewriter belonged to Samuel T. Cohen, inventor of the neutron bomb that could kill people but leave buildings unscathed.
And in California, the threat of a magnitude 8 quake, the Big One for us, has been raised by USGS.
The Orange County Register just announced that Aaron Kushner and Eric Spitz, the co-owners of Freedom Communications, have both resigned from all executive duties.
Bruce Feirstein, the Los Angeles-based contributor to Vanity Fair, devotes this month's investigative VF chart to a compare-and-contrast.
The mayor also filed the paperwork to begin raising money for 2017.
Plans for an Old Bank District museum, plus a big day of notes in politics, media and place. And tweets of the day.
Monday, Mar. 9
"Business, much like life, is not a movie and not everyone gets to have a story book ending," founder Om Malik posted.
The company told the LA Times that it's no longer pursuing the Farmers Field project.
The story of the LAPL map treasure collected by John Feathers is told in a video for the LA Review of Books.
Read the memo: Editors now meet at 7 a.m. and 9:30 a.m., with the focus the website more than the next day's front page.
Simon donated his fortune from "The Simpsons" to children, animals and other causes.
Sentence of ten years in a Georgia jail could result in about a year of time served and a lengthy ban on work as a director. Miller will be the first director to serve time for an on-set death.
The news doesn't really get better for fans of the Googie-style Norms coffee shop.
Sunday, Mar. 8
The son of the late Bud Furillo is transitioning to sports up in Sacramento.
Read the memo: The mayor's top spokesman is off "to pursue new opportunities."
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