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Weekly archive
March 15 - March 21, 2015
March 15 - March 21, 2015
Friday, Mar. 20
Angel Rodriguez is deputy editor for mobile innovation at the Washington Post. He had been in sports roles previously.
It's just the second time researchers have spotted a lion successfully crossing the freeway — and the first to leave the Santa Monicas.
Thursday, Mar. 19
Alejandra Campoverdi will be managing editor of #EmergingUS. She worked in the White House from 2009-2012 and has a media background.
The city's Board of Cultural Heritage Commissioners today voted unanimously to extend history-cultural monument status to the threatened Norms coffee shop on North La Cienega.
Roughly half of California's fresh water arrives in this quirkily engineered, mis-named place, writes Emily Green. 25 million Californians depend on freshwater from the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta.
Tobar writing for NYT opinion. Oreskes to run NPR news. KPCC adds veterans and military issues reporter. Plus more.
In an interview, former owner (who retains an interest in the parking lots) says "Chavez Ravine has always been a preferred location for the NFL."
Wednesday, Mar. 18
S. Mitra Kalita will be managing editor for editorial strategy. This year's addition from the NYT also gets a new title.
Catching up with a full day's worth of news and notes on politics, media and this crazy place we call LA.
Tuesday, Mar. 17
The traditional statement of total pages in each day's paper vanished last week from the printed LA Times front page.
With this drought year starting to look like the worst yet, the Metropolitan Water District is offering rich deals and Northern California rice farmers are selling.
Already, this year has seen the most stranding of emaciated sea lions in memory. Warmer waters driving away the food is suspected.
Monday, Mar. 16
The early 1960s neighborhood of homes designed by A. Quincy Jones and partners was the first postwar tract in the Valley to be given Los Angeles historic district status.
Kimmel's audience for Obama was up 30 percent over the previous Thursday and turned out to be the show's fourth highest rating ever.
Sunday, Mar. 15
This officer from Hollywood division was trying to smuggle somebody. Henry Solis is still at large.
She was hit and given a black eye by actor Scott Shepherd in London, and now leads an effort to make the theater a safer place for the people who on productions.
Wayne Ratkovich says that getting a historic designation on a building can be a good thing. He should know.
Sunday on Pico Boulevard in West Los Angeles. Also: the sidewalk outside downtown's venerable California Club.
On Hoffarth's annual opinionated lists of the top LA sports radio talkers, McDonnell was an easy number one.
Police are looking for probationary LAPD officer Henry Solis in connection with a fatal shooting outside a Pomona nightclub Friday morning.
HBO could not have gotten a luckier PR break with the final episode of "The Jinx" airing tonight.
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