Monday morning news and notes: May 11

Selected items from the media, our in box and other LA Observed sources. Posted occasionally — often in the morning.

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh reports based on intelligence sources that the official narrative of Osama bin Laden's killing has been wrong all along on several major counts — starting with he was actually a captive of Pakistan security, he had no more operational contact with Al Qaeda, no documents or computer files of any value were recovered at the scene, he was an invalid who did not shoot at the Americans that stormed his compound, and his body was not buried at sea. London Review of Books

Hersh's story "is amazing to read…but his allegations are largely supported only by two sources, neither of whom has direct knowledge of what happened, both of whom are retired, and one of whom is anonymous. The story is riven with internal contradictions and inconsistencies." Vox

The Anaheim Ducks advanced to the third round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, and the Clippers trounced Houston to take a 3-1 lead in the second round of the NBA playoffs.

Some small-business owners who backed Mayor Garcetti's campaign are having misgivings now that he is pushing to raise minimum wages to $13.25 an hour. LAT

Councilman Paul Krekorian is working behind the scenes on a minimum wage compromise. LAT

More workers suffered electric shocks or burns at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in 2014 than in any of the previous 10 years, and the public agency this year has already reached that decade’s average by May. DN

Fares will be one of the biggest deciders of whether anyone rides the California High Speed Rail trains should they ever be built. But it won't be cheap. "As a practical matter, no one can say how much an end-to-end ride on the bullet train would actually cost if and when the system becomes fully operational, a milestone the state expects to reach some time in 2028." LAT

The county Department of Children and Family Services did not hand out as much as $571,000 worth of MTA passes and tokens it was supposed to provide foster children in a four-month period, an audit found. Witness LA

David Ryu's City Council campaign energizes Korean American voters. LAT

Councilman Tom LaBonge supporters and insiders are at war over the runoff race between Ryu and longtime LaBonge aide Carolyn Ramsay. LA Weekly

Cathleen Decker on presidential candidates coming to California to raise money but not to campaign: "California isn't competitive in presidential contests, meaning that there's little incentive, particularly this far from election day, to campaign among the masses. Not to mention that campaigning here is a television sport, which requires money." LAT

What If the Key to Ending Homelessness Is Just That—a Key? Mike Kessler/TakePart

Los Angeles County unveiled an open data website last week that provides public access to millions of county records. Star-News, LA County Open Data

Director Erin Lee Carr writes about her dad, the late David Carr. Glamour

An ode to Tri-X: The Kodak film that has been capturing history for 61 years. Wired

Hans Laetz, a longtime LA media hand, created and operates KBUU-FM, the LA area's newest public radio station, out of his daughter's former bedroom in Malibu. It's 97.5 FM and has a news operation. LA Weekly

Janice Min on the future of the celebrity magazine cover. Huffington Post

Tad Friends's latest Letter from California: Marc Andreessen, the Netscape creator turned Silicon Valley venture capitalist. New Yorker

Longtime LA media hands Barbara and Joe Saltzman and the popular book their late son David wrote for child patients, "The Jester Has Lost His Jingle," was featured on CBS Sunday Morning.

Miriam Pawel's biography of Cesar Chavez won the RFK Book Award from the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. Facebook

Revisiting the Chuck Philips story, though it's not clear why (with an odd headline given that the former LAT reporter is alive.) Ratter

Mark Glaser's MediaShift has parted ways with PBS.org after nearly ten years. Romenesko, Poynter

Ghosts emerge in Vivian Gornick's memoir 'The Odd Woman and the City.' LAT

Robert Price, executive editor of The Bakersfield Californian, in the Zocalo green room.

Disneyland's semi-official cat population. LAT

Supersizing the Port of Long Beach: Big plans to streamline logistics, grow capacity, and switch to 'green' power. OC Register

With support from the South Korean government and venture capitalists on both sides of the Pacific, Los Angeles is emerging as a corner in a tech triangle connecting Seoul to Silicon Valley to Silicon Beach. LAT

Four of the nearly 50 self-driving cars now rolling around California have gotten into minor accidents since September, two of them when the cars were being self-driven. AP

The Ottoman Empire gave Mexico, and thus Southern California, tacos al pastor. PRI's The World

Photos of Expo Line trains being tested on the tracks on the Westside. The Source

The website LA Beat says it compiled a master list of the oldest still-active restaurants in the Los Angeles area. LA Beat

Running to First Base: A Little League story from El Monte. KCET Departures

Monday Morning With Jack Fujimoto, the first Asian American to serve as president of a major college or university in the mainland U.S. SawtelleJapantown.com

Is Haggen the Antidote to the Average L.A. Supermarket? Los Angeles Magazine

Guy Carawan, the Santa Monica native and UCLA graduate who helped turn "We Shall Overcome" into a civil rights era anthem, died at age 87. NYT

First tweet. More to come.

— Alan Alda (@alanalda) May 5, 2015

My thanks to those who pointed out I misspelled my name in my own profile. This is a great start.

— Alan Alda (@alanalda) May 11, 2015

So it turns out #MadMen IS the kind of show that saves a big soapy twist for the end. Wouldn't have predicted that.

— Matthew Belloni (@THRMattBelloni) May 11, 2015

Don Draper, Maverick Ad Man, Dead at 88 http://t.co/eiAJ0l4ZI6

— Kevin Roderick (@LAObserved) May 10, 2015