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Chock full of Monday observations on media and media people, politics, place and more. Plus a good week for selected tweets.

Our irregular compendium of media, police and place with selected tweets.

There will be yet another expensive and even smaller special election in Los Angeles later this year.

Our occasional roundup of news and observations from the media, politics and place. Plus selected tweets and more.

Walters says his politics column, around since 1981, will live on in a new home.

The total jumped 23 percent over last year despite many more homeless people being moved into housing. So it could have been even worse.

Our occasional roundup of news and observations from media, politics and place. With some selected tweets.

Our occasional roundup of news and notes on media, politics and place. Plus selected tweets.

A homeless encampment appears under a freeway or in a park near you. You’re a public spirited Angeleno. Who do you call?

Also: Monica Rodriguez elected to the Los Angeles City Council. Board of Education member Steve Zimmer lost.

Our occasional roundup of media, politics and place news and notes.

Take My Picture Gary Leonard is a weekly feature of LA Observed.

Our occasional roundup of news and observations on media, politics and place. Plus selected tweets.

Media and politics notes for the new week, plus selected tweets.

Challenger to Councilman Gil Cedillo says he remains in the race for May 16 runoff.

"As Mayor, there’s no issue I spend more time on," Garcetti says in his annual state of the city speech.

Take My Picture Gary Leonard runs each week at LA Observed.

You probably have heard of David Fahrenthold by now. Ex-LAT journalists re-uniting at CNN. Octavia Butler, Bob Miller, politics notes.

"He is not merely amusing. He is dangerous," Monday's editorial says. "He has made himself the stooge...for every crazy blogger, political quack, racial theorist, foreign leader or nutcase peddling a story."

"Nothing prepared us for the magnitude of this train wreck," the Los Angeles Times says of Donald Trump in a full-page editorial. Plus: Paul Magers, the Groundlings founder and more.

Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn says it’s “not the county sheriff’s job to be involved in immigration issues.”

After the surprising victory of Measure H, county and city officials and non-profit organizations are planning to move quickly to put its money to work.

Soon-Shiong looks to be moving on Ferro. Variety snags an editor. Another Los Angeles Magazine editor leaves.

He's under 50 percent in the final vote tally and becomes the first councilman since 1999 to face a reelection runoff.

Media and politics notes from all over, plus media people news, some place notes and selected tweets.

Take My Picture Gary Leonard appears weekly at LA Observed.

It’s something of a miracle that Measure H, the Los Angeles County tax increase to improve services for the homeless, may be near voter approval.

The county homeless measure and Gil Cedillo's reelection are too close to call, but there will be runoffs for the school board and in the Valley's council district 7.

Nick Ut's retirement. Key editors jump from the LA Times. Downtown News sold. Plus many more notes and observations.

Joel Bellman argues that Donald Trump is "emotionally unstable and dangerously unfit to hold the most powerful elected office in the world."

Keith Boyer, a veteran with the Whittier Police Department, was 53 and a father. He was shot by a recent parolee.

The conservative talk show host and Chapman law professor is on a roll with Trump.