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A Long Beach police officer was shot and suffered non-life threatening injuries after an encounter with a suspect at an apartment complex Sunday. ABC 7
The 15 favorite restaurants of IBEW Local 18 president Brian D'Arcy and his DWP friends, ranked by how much ratepayer money was spent at each establishment over a five-year period. LA Weekly
Why the DWP owns an empty, $150K a year lodge in the Mojave Desert of Nevada. DN
What happens when a random citizen becomes a state legislator?: "It’s hard to overstate how much Patty Lopez stands out from her colleagues in the motley California Assembly….Lopez is a rarity: a true amateur." LA Weekly
For some partisans on each side of LA's minimum wage debate, the historic moment has been tainted by labor leaders' last-minute push for an exemption for unionized workplaces. The request for a union waiver drew national attention, much of it negative, to the county Federation of Labor and its recently installed top executive, Rusty Hicks. LAT
Mayor Garcetti signed the minimum wage legislation on Saturday. DN, LAT
At a time when police killings of young black men have tested big-city mayors across the country, some question how well Eric Garcetti's low-key style can be adapted to the combustible politics of race and policing. LAT
Felicia Marcus, chairwoman of California’s Water Resources Control Board, has become the face of the state’s crackdown on water abusers. NYT
Hilary Clinton actually allowed herself to be interviewed by journalists on Sunday and gave Hollywood some of the credit for making it easier to run for president as a woman this time. LAT
Here’s how Bernie Sanders could win: The one issue where Hillary Clinton’s vulnerable, and where the Tea Party might be right. Salon
Governor Jerry Brown will be at the Natural History Museum today to welcome a top United Nations delegation to discuss the impacts of climate change. CBS LA
"Bridging the Divide," the new documentary on the late mayor Tom Bradley, was highlighted this weekend at the Los Angeles Film Festival. KPCC/Take Two, KCRW/Press Play
Bitter Lemons, the LA theater website, is asking theaters to pay $150 for its writers to come review a play. Not without controversy. LAT
Gawker founder Nick Denton bet $50 that the New York Times would not lead its profile with an anecdote of him smoking pot on the fire escape of his loft. He lost. NYT
Starting today, The New York Times will temporarily bar employees inside its Manhattan headquarters from accessing the desktop homepage in an effort to emphasize the importance of mobile devices. Poynter
"To Live and Dine in LA: Menus and the Making of the Modern City" by Josh Kun and Angel City Press is tied to an exhibition that opened Saturday at the Central Library. KCRW/Good Food
More than 400,000 people packed the streets of West Hollywood Sunday for the annual LA Pride Parade. ABC 7
An LA Times special report declares San Bernardino to be a "broken city." LAT
Will the new Blackbirds housing development change Echo Park? KPCC/Take Two
Silver Lake Reservoir will be temporarily drained this summer as part of a Department of Water and Power project to build a new pipeline beneath the lake. It will be refilled with non-potable water. LAT
The Fight for Frogtown: Development, Displacement, and Gentrification in Los Angeles. LA Review of Books
A rare visit inside the Eames House, hallowed ground for designers. KPCC/Off-Ramp
This day in 1940: The Cahuenga Pass Freeway opens to public traffic. Metro Primary Resources
El Sereno seems divided over the filming of a movie called "Lowriders." LAT
A chartered plane carrying the Dodgers from San Diego to Dallas made an emergency landing last night at LAX because of a mechanical issue. LAT, NBC 4
Problems with plane, switching planes!
— Adrian Gonzalez (@AdrianTitan23) June 15, 2015
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— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) June 11, 2015