The revenue split will be 50-50 - what owners had been offering for some weeks.

Villaraigosa's press conference was nearly taken over this afternoon by at least one bozo.

Really time to end this - now.

Well, at least going back to when the markets first closed for Thanksgiving in 1942.

Add Steven Cohen to the list of really rich guys interested in buying the team.

A small taste of what was happening at the malls, via ABC 7. I love the interview with Freddy and his grandmother....

Turns out that Black Friday doesn't even get you the best deals.

Good on the City Hall folks for finally deciding that enough is enough.

The Dow finished down 236 points.

Nearly three out of four employers are giving their folks a four-day holiday.

He'll be the first African American president in the council's 161-year history.

Romney is way out in front, with a 66.6 percent chance.

My suspicion is that dispensaries are simply not workable.

Holiday travel getting started, mayor wants protesters out by Monday, council considers banning all pot shops, and big year for visitors.

Wait, it gets better.

This should get your blood boiling.

Laurene Powell Jobs can save $867 million in capital gains taxes by dumping the shares of both companies.

The bipartisan Think Long Committee has come out with an well-considered set of proposals.

The 84-year-old billionaire boss has moved into more of an emeritus role.

Time for Occupy L.A. to break things up.

Employees were dressed as poor people whose homes had been foreclosed.

Economy revised downward, sizable drop in gas prices, Mattel's CEO to retire, and Occupy L.A. protesters might be moving.

Some suggestions on holiday shopping.

AA+ rating will remain in place despite failure to cut deficit deal.

Great financial success is not always a bad thing.

Not everyone in the party is a jerk and/or idiot.

The session started badly and never came close to recovering.

It feeds into negative perceptions of the entire Occupy movement.

You try figuring it out.

Long before Ed Leamer became head of UCLA's Anderson Forecast, he taught a remedial course in statistics at Harvard. As it happens, one of his students was Karl Case, who went on to become a renowned economics professor at Wellesley and helped create the widely followed S&P/Case-Shiller housing index. One of Case's students was NPR's Linda Wertheimer. WERTHEIMER: You've had a lot of kudos over the years. Is there anything that sort of stands out...

Bad day for stocks, deficit deal is dead, Brown prepping tax plan, and more folks leaving town for holiday.