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July 15, 2005
Gov. Schwarzenegger says he'll give up the millions he arranged for just days before taking office. His statement: Statement by Governor SchwarzeneggerRegarding American Media Governor... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Late entries are tacked on to the end... Wonkette Ana Marie Cox comes to town Tuesday to chat at 7 p.m. with Mickey Kaus at... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
No surprise, but word out of City Hall is that Larry Frank, staff director at the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education and a... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The L.A. Times' blog on the Supreme Court vacancy has drawn posts from law professors Eugene Volokh of UCLA, Erwin Chemerinsky of Duke, Orin S.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Looks like labor leader Julie Butcher's car was torched in her front driveway in Highland Park. The head of the Service Employees International Union local... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
July 14, 2005
Gov. Schwarzenegger's lucrative deal with the fitness magazines makes the front page of Friday's New York Times. Andrew Pollack goes with the $5 million figure,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Bobbi Murray does the honors for CityBeat. Ludlow's ascension to executive secretary of the County Federation of Labor is due to be voted on next... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Reader David Novak noticed that the Du-pars at Farmers Market has been closed a long time—not the sixty days promised last summer when the chain... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Joe Edmiston, the only executive director in the 25-year history of the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, might be the most powerful unelected official in California,... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tomorrow's Times runs a story by media reporter James Rainey on the paper's new ethics guidelines (the ones we reported Wednesday.) The story focuses mainly... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Former Times reporter Michael Krikorian goes deep in today's LA Weekly with two pieces on the bloody breakdown of a gang peace treaty in Watts:... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Geez, you try to skate by for a few hours and stuff starts to pile up in the in-box... Former Burbank mayor and current city... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Mayor Villaraigosa today named the police commissioners who will get to clean up the mess from the killing of Jose Raul Peņa and his nineteen-month-old... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Won't be posting anything in the morning on Thursday...... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
July 13, 2005
Times Editor John Carroll distributed new ethics guidelines for the paper last night. They spell out when Times reporters may use unnamed sources (and the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Today's L.A. Times fronts two staff stories about the London bombings. See below.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The comedian performed here at the Laugh Factory on Saturday night and was found dead the next morning at a friend's place. He was 35.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
LA Unified Supt. Roy Romer's Friends of L.A. Schools fund raised contributions mostly from construction firms, textbook publishers and other school contractors, the Daily News... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
"Past Sunset" will air from 7 to 9 p.m. on a pilot basis weeknights from July 25 through August 5. David Cruz of NBC4 will... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Dave Bullock is posting images and text from a 1906 driving guide to Los Angeles over at LAVoice.org. One of the first pages to be... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
July 12, 2005
Both today and yesterday, an email correspondent has found the LAT's lack of a front page story on the London terrorist bombings off-key. He notes... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
L.A. Times Editor John Carroll is directing the reporting staff to avoid identifying confidential sources in their written notes and emails on the company computers.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Police on Monday revised the facts in that fatal weekend shootout in South L.A. First, it was in Watts. The name of the dead father... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Actually it came in Monday afternoon, while I was otherwise occupied. It's an exit email from Edward Headington, leaving as communications director for State Sen.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
July 11, 2005
If you're coming to L.A. this summer, you probably don't want to stay at the new Hollywood Roosevelt.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
I'm late to catch on that there is a Los Angeles-based Institute for Figuring, started by author, science writer and PBS host Margaret Wertheim and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
An LAPD officer was wounded and a gun-wielding father and his toddler daughter died yesterday evening in a shootout with police at 104th Street and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
USA Today does the apparently obligatory feature story to accompany today's launch of its sudoku puzzle—and even spells it wrong in the URL. In the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Fox News crank Bill O'Reilly apparently is upset now with LAT rock critic Robert Hilburn. According to the conservative website Independent Sources, on his show... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Summer weekends when there is no fog at the beach are no time to be blogging. But here are some items that fought their way... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Getting hit with surprise audio when I click on web link is always a turnoff for me. It seems amateurish in an AOL kind of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>