aggregated from: LA Observed

Johnny Mountain retires as part of the KCBS/KCAL turnover, Trutanich won't cut pay, Speaker Perez's low district profile, a dirty trick aimed at Gavin Newsom, a Times arts hire and a birth in the media family. Plus more, after the jump. Varie...

topics: architecture, campaign, lapd, usc

aggregated from: Franklin Avenue

Back in November, the Blogger Kid and I took part in the Los Angeles Conservancy's It's a Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod City all-day driving tour of some memorable 1960s architecture in L.A.'s South Bay.The event was part of the Conservancy's The Sixties Turn...

topics: architecture, campaign, celebration, los-angeles, westchester

aggregated from: Orange Punch

The Washington Post says President Obama will immediate begin a PR blitz to change Americans opinion of the health-care bill. What happened to that old fashioned idea that elected officials should do what the people want them to do? Now instead, t...

topics: campaign, congress, elected, health-care, obama

aggregated from: LA Observed

A front-page story today in the L.A. Times on the opening of KPCC's new studios in Pasadena says that next up for the NPR station is a major expansion that its board of trustees hopes will make KPCC the hub of a regional constellation of public radi...

topics: campaign, government

aggregated from: LAist

Louie Lujan The former 33-year-old mayor of La Puente, Louie Lujan, was sentenced to three months probation, fined $1,000 and barred from holding elected office, a Superior Court Judge ruled today. Last month, Lujan pleaded guilty to one felony c...

topics: campaign, elected, mayor, politician, politics

aggregated from: LA Observed

Today's weekly commentary looks in on the election season gathering steam in California, with mentions of Meg Whitman, Steve Poizner, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom, Janice Hahn and Mickey Kaus. I'd hoped to work in Jamie McCourt's presidential aspiration...

topics: attorney-general, campaign, city-council, democrat, democrats

aggregated from: LA Now Blog

Two of the tallest and most controversial supergraphics in Los Angeles, standing 11 stories in Hollywood, are being removed by the sign company after City Atty. Carmen Trutanich issued a cease-and-desist letter to the advertising company affiliated w...

topics: cafe, campaign, development, hollywood, los-angeles

aggregated from: LA Now Blog

Two of the tallest and most controversial supergraphics in Los Angeles, standing 11 stories in Hollywood, are being removed by the sign company after City Atty. Carmen Trutanich issued a cease-and-desist letter to the advertising company affiliated w...

topics: cafe, campaign, development, hollywood, los-angeles

aggregated from: LA Now Blog

L.A. County public health officials are scheduled to announce Friday how much federal grant money they have been awarded to help fund local prevention and wellness initiatives.The announcement is part of a national kickoff event hosted in Washington...

topics: campaign, los-angeles, obama

aggregated from: MetroRider L.A.

Attention all working class heroes: Metro wants your business. The latest installment of the billboard ad campaign running in Hollywood features a world-weary cubicle slave proclaiming to the masses that he M s to the daily grind. The one bef...

topics: campaign, hollywood, running, transit