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Weekly archive
June 7 - June 13, 2015
June 7 - June 13, 2015
Friday, Jun. 12
A retired video technician is charged with steering $4 million in contracts to friends and back to himself.
After she takes her frustrations to social media, and Bill Plaschke takes up the cause, the Dodgers pledge more respect.
Thursday, Jun. 11
The mountain lions in the San Gabriels are untagged, uncollared and unnamed. But they are just as beautiful as the ones the National Park Service monitors in the Santa Monica Mountains.
Henry Weinstein is traveling in Vietnam and ran into the one LA media person you might hope to see in Hanoi.
Jim is not retiring exactly, but he's freeing up his mornings for other pursuits. It's an impulse I totally get.
Wednesday, Jun. 10
King had been reporter, columnist and city editor before leaving in 2009 for the University of California communications staff. He comes back to bolster California coverage.
Prepare to be laughed at if you ever refer to Microsoft Square in DTLA.
Sure, you don't care and nobody you know in LA cares, but Page Six and Politico do care what Finke thinks about the presidential derby and who she has voted for.
Tuesday, Jun. 9
The Emmy Award nominations will no longer be held at a ridiculous hour of the morning in Los Angeles (well, North Hollywood.)
Brandi Grissom was hailed as a big get from the Texas Tribune last summer. Today she announced she's going back to Texas.
The officers who shot and killed Ford in South LA were partly justified but also acted partly outside of department policy.
Vincent Musetto, a retired editor at the New York Post, "wrote the most anatomically evocative headline in the history of American journalism."
David Davis revisits when Brandi Chastain won the World Cup at the Rose Bowl and tore off her shirt.
Check out a headline that needed a copy editor.
Monday was the 43rd anniversary of the most iconic photograph of the Vietnam War. For the occasion, Nick posted on AP's Instagram account.
After convicting Charles Manson and followers, Bugliosi wrote "Helter Skelter" and a number of other books.
Monday, Jun. 8
A judge says the media can have the calendars of two suspended senators facing federal charges. Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon also halts late-night free rides.
Climate change, the drought and development pressure are all taking a toll on the symbolic succulents that grow only in the Mojave Desert.
Edward Snowden's chief journalistic collaborator says the LA Times runs sensitive leaked material all the time and only calls to punish whistleblowers who embarrass those in power.
Fairchild has been in LA Observed a few times, so let's see how he did at Sunday night's Tony Awards -- up for best actor in a musical.
Two lawyers have paid seven-figure settlements to Hollywood executives over bogus sexual abuse lawsuits.
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