First thing Wednesday, 11.2.05

♦ A new network city blog launched here Tuesday. Curbed LA, an offshoot of New York's Curbed, says it will "look at the changing face of our fair city and its suburban extensions. Through you, the reader, and you, the blogger, and you, the disgruntled city staffer, we'll try to piece together a picture of a city changing faster than we can type."

Today's front pages

New York Times See/Read
Washington Post See/Read
LA Times See/Read
Daily News See/Read
Daily Breeze Read
Press-Telegram See/Read
Star-News Read
Register See/Read
Variety Read
Hwd Reporter Read
La Opini�n Read

♦ Councilman Zine's revelation about dormant red-light cameras drew him some flak. By the way, if you were thinking of going out and doing something stupid and violent like running a red light, I should point out the non-functioning cameras are only in Los Angeles. Culver City and other places can still flash you.

♦ The wandering statue of Haym Salomon, once in Hollenbeck Park, was relocated for the third time—to Pan Pacific Park. "I've joked with my Jewish friends that one day that statue will be out in Tarzana," City Councilman Tom LaBonge says.

♦ Reason associate editor and blogger Matt Welch argues in an LAT op-ed that Democrats in the Mountain West could win over libertarian-leaning Republicans and independents.

♦ Warner Bros. laid off 5% of the staff at the Burbank studio.

♦ Times food section staffers list their favorite cookbooks.

♦ Solomon Wolfson at the anti-Villaraigosa blog AntonioWatch says it appears that the tech police have blocked City Hall staffers from reading Mayor Sam's Sister City.

♦ The Dodgers lost two more coaches and their leading candidate to be GM: Pat Gillick appears headed for the Phillies.