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Weekly archive
August 30 - September 5, 2015
August 30 - September 5, 2015
Friday, Sep. 4
Media moves, crime politics, fires, LA bike gangs observed and much more.
Thursday, Sep. 3
Corey Seager, the system's top prospect, will wear number 5 and start over Jimmy Rollins at San Diego.
Assistant managing editor Kim Murphy says, given everything, "publishing the photo felt less like a gamble and more like an imperative."
The contest for dominance between LA's two main squirrel species is one of my favorite local wildlife situations.
Scott Glover will be a justice reporter based in Los Angeles. Everybody at the LAT seems to expect a new round of buyouts soon.
"This is as good as it gets," says real estate broker Jeff Hyland: 157 acres on the ridge line above Beverly Hills.
Wednesday, Sep. 2
The suddenly rising crime rate threatens to undo a lot of good trends in Los Angeles.
For some, "the area can be a way station to a better place. For others, it’s a place where survival means community, drugs, and a regular spot on the street."
Byers will be the senior reporter for media and politics at CNNMoney and CNN Politics.
The blogger at Here in Van Nuys visited with some of the homeless parked in 15 vans, campers and RVs at North Hollywood Park.
Tuesday, Sep. 1
The jail cells and other TV sets finally have to move out of the former home of the Los Angeles Examiner (and HerEx) at Broadway and 11th St.
The U.S. Olympic Committee designates LA after the City Council takes a 15-0 vote in support.
Carolina Garcia is the former editor of the Daily News and has been a managing editor for the LANG chain.
In early August we published a blogger piece about Williams, convicted in the murder of Los Angeles police officer Thomas Williams in 1985.
Mayor Garcetti and Council President Wesson will talk about the City Council's Olympics vote way out in Santa Monica.
Monday, Aug. 31
"One of the great news producers of all time, anywhere," says Bob Tarlau on Facebook.
In Topanga Canyon in 1963, even the doctors got stoned and took acid. Plus: Sacks in the most colorful green room in town.
The net loss to domestic migration is closer to one million. Which destination state was (again) the most popular?
Flush with new cash from NBC Universal, BuzzFeed is reported to be looking at the former Ford Model T factory across from Stumptown Coffee on Santa Fe Avenue.
Items include Donald Trump, Sarah Palin, Daniele Watts, Eric Garcetti, Frank Gehry, Aja Brown, Wes Craven, Serena Wlliams, Jessica Mendoza, Claudia Puig and more.
Sunday, Aug. 30
I'm always glad when Steve Lopez goes back and checks on the busboy who cradled Robert F. Kennedy as he lay wounded on election night in June 1968.
Sacks announced in a February Op-ed piece that he had spreading cancer and was detaching from big world concerns like the Middle East and global warming. "My generation is on the way out…"
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