Weekly archive
March 13 - March 19, 2005
Saturday, Mar. 19
The Jewish Journal story about forged Hahn endorsement signatures has legs. The Times and the Daily Breeze picked it up in Saturday's paper after Rabbi Weil and two others held... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Friday, Mar. 18
Betty Pleasant is a contributing editor to the Los Angeles Wave and writes the paper's gossipy Soul Vine column, mostly about black community politics. In the run-up to the mayoral... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Joel Kotkin, still in disbelief about Bob Hertzberg's inability to make the runoff, writes in Friday's Jewish Journal that Jewish political clout in L.A. is on the wane and ain't... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Catching up with some reading and email after a slow online day: Venice gets the 36 Hours treatment in Friday's NYT Escapes. Janelle Brown has the gig and visits the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Thursday, Mar. 17
The city attorney just elected to a new term filed to run for state attorney general. Delgadillo says in the Times, "I've said all along I want to fight for... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Wednesday, Mar. 16
Well, you just never know. From AP via Yahoo News: LOS ANGELES - A jury acquitted tough-guy actor Robert Blake of murder Wednesday in the shooting death of his wife... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The Public Policy Institute of California is out today with a new survey of attitudes in Los Angeles County about life here. It's an annual event, and the bottom line... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Here's some stuff that piled up while I was off. Updated a couple of times: Gary Webb, the investigative reporter whose suicide has been partly blamed on his treatment in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Tuesday, Mar. 15
No blogging today. Back tonight.... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Monday, Mar. 14
In a column today about the discussion of why so few women writers run on op-ed pages, the New York Times' Maureen Dowd takes a whack at Susan Estrich—then agrees... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Some local blogs were honored with 2005 Bloggy Awards announced this afternoon at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin. Boing Boing won for weblog of the year and... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Seth Rosenfeld's Freedom of Information Act request for FBI documents was filed in 1981. The San Francisco Chronicle reporter is still waiting, after three lawsuits, orders to release the records... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
he Monterey Bay Aquarium's young great white shark, the only one in captivity, has started doing what they do best: killing other sharks. $MTEntryExcerpt$>
The mayor has to go negative to cut into Villaraigosa's vote, but by now his own numbers are so low he may not be believed, says a Times piece by... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Sunday, Mar. 13
Disney's board today named Bob Iger as the successor to Michael Eisner. Here's the Disney press release, reaction from dissidents Roy Disney and Stanley Gold, and staff coverage in the... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Updated occasionally, newest at the bottom. Bob Hertzberg tells the Daily News he's undecided about what the future holds for him. That Friday Times piece on Estrich v. Kinsley is... $MTEntryExcerpt$>