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• Words of Chairman Sam *

RIP - Downey, PFF

The new owner is Minneapolis-based US Bancorp, which suddenly becomes a much bigger player in California and Arizona.

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Two words: Retail liquidators

Rags to riches to rags

Obama picks for Treasury

Jobless rate climbs

TJ Sullivan / Going through 'The Changes'

Without referencing its recent layoff, the Ventura County Star's editor says the suburban LA paper is now "more streamlined and, in many ways, much more efficient."

Deanne Stillman / Lost thunder: BLM preparing to execute 30,000 wild horses

We stripped the Indians of their ponies, and now we're doing it to ourselves.

TJ Sullivan / LA's fire-orange sun

When the sun looks like that, there's a big fire somewhere regardless of whether we see or smell smoke.

Phil Wallace / Elgin Baylor Leaves Clippers

After 22 years of loyalty, Baylor is unceremoniously shown the door.

Bill Boyarsky / Innovation chief Abrams not too impressed with Times

Lee Abrams, Tribune Company's chief innovation officer, doesn’t seem too impressed with the Los Angeles Times. That’s the feeling I got when he appeared at the Los Angeles Press Club.

Aural history

Seven or fifteen minutes from now I can definitively say I didn't hear the sound of sirens.

Coyote lovely

Talk about an off-topic post...