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• WGA board approves deal, writers vote Tuesday

• Leo Greene, journalist with ALS was 62

• Catching up on City Hall move

• All in the family

• Words of Chairman Sam *

Will anyone pay attention to the new guy in the Controller's office?*

That would be attorney Ron Galperin, who easily defeated City Hall insider Dennis Zine for a job that reminds me a little of a newspaper ombudsman: Broad discretion in critiquing how the place is run, but little or no authority to force the real honchos to make changes.

More From Mark Lacter:

First order of business for Mayor-elect Garcetti

Words can speak volumes in describing social change

How did L.A.'s mayor's race get to be a punchline?

L.A. assessed valuations projected to jump in 2013

Gary Leonard / Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti

Gary Leonard's long-running series of Los Angeles photos appears on LA Observed on Thursdays.

TJ Sullivan / I left LA for Chicago because ...

In "Leaving Las Vegas," Hollywood screenwriter Ben leaves LA ... and then he dies, which was sort of what he wanted. Who better than a Hollywood screenwriter to figure out that the easiest way to kill yourself is to leave LA?

Iris Schneider / Valley Girl at 30

At LACMA on Thursday night, a packed and very excited audience, some dressed in 80's garb, watched a screening of "Valley Girl" as the the museum's Film Independent program celebrated the movie's 30th anniversary. "This film was well-researched and shot in Los Angeles. It is about our cultural history," director Martha Coolidge told the crowd.

Phil Wallace / Elgin Baylor Leaves Clippers

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

Chicken Corner is flying the coop

Dear Readers, it's true. Chicken Corner has decamped. Just a few months ago, I believed I might possibly never move from my house in Echo Park, and now here I am moved out of that house and on my way to Cincinnati, Ohio. (Via I-40.)

This morning at in the lake

Feeling the ick in ichthyology.

Bill Boyarsky / Feuer, Zine lead in poll that shows a discontented L.A.

The latest poll, which finds Dennis Zine ahead in the controller’s race and Mike Feuer leading for city attorney, also shows that half the voters don’t think Los Angeles is heading in the right direction.

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