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Rep. Loretta Sanchez says she is in the Senate race to succeed Boxer after all. She'll give up her seat and go against Kamala Harris from the Democratic side. Sanchez made her announcement at the Santa Ana train station. Rep. Adam Schiff of Burbank said on Tuesday he won't run. Above, one of her famous Christmas cards. LAT, Bee, OC Register
Gov. Jerry Brown and University of California president Janet Napolitano are both declaring happiness over new money for UC in today's May budget revise. Tuition for California students won't rise for two years under a deal between Brown and Napolitano. LAT, Bee, AP, OC Register
Related: Why California needs a new higher education master plan. Daniel J. B. Mitchell at Zocalo
Smart California geography lesson from George Skelton: it takes about half as much water to grow an almond in the more northerly Sacramento Valley then in the hot, dry San Joaquin Valley that everyone is talking about. LAT column
Phil Washington, Metro’s new CEO, is bullish about building a transit and toll tunnel under the 405 freeway through Sepulveda Pass. Los Angeles Magazine
An LA City Council committee voted for the hotly contested plan to raise the citywide minimum wage to $15 by 2020, up from the current $9 an hour. LAT, DN
The population of homeless veterans in Los Angeles rose 6% in the last two years, at least the official one, and that "casts doubt on whether Mayor Eric Garcetti can meet his pledge to get every service member off the streets by year’s end." LAT
Marc Lifsher, the Sacramento-based Business section reporter for the Los Angeles Times, has moved to the staff of state Sen. Fran Pavley as communications director.
The daughter of late politician Mervyn M. Dymally has accused the mayor of Carson of sexually assaulting her in a Washington, D.C., hotel room and subjecting her to sexual harassment while both served on the board of the Water Replenishment District of Southern California, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday. LAT
Live Talks LA has scheduled a July 29 evening with Gary Hart, the former Senator and Democratic candidate for president. Info
Ann Shaw, a longtime civic leader in Los Angeles, died at age 93. LAT obit
California politics tweet of the day:
#tbt pic.twitter.com/ymdB3KdE3v
— Mark Z. Barabak (@markzbarabak) May 14, 2015