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Expect something as soon as this week on the NFL-in-the-Coliseum front, the L.A. Business Journal says. Also, look what's in our drinking water, how's your algebra, Mike Piazza returns to Southern California and more after the jump. First, here are some of the more talked-about posts from the past week of LA Observed:
Joel Stein stirs up the rightosphere
Los Angeles Magazine looks at Pajamas Media
Hiring plans at LATimes.com
Times adds to editorial board
Inside a Villaraigosa press conference
Jack Abramoff talks to Jewish Journal
Tap dance legend Fayard Nicholas remembered
Chris Penn's death on Ocean Avenue
Million-dollar homes observed
Golden Mike winners
My personal L.A. traffic moment
Los Angeles Magazine looks at Pajamas Media
Hiring plans at LATimes.com
Times adds to editorial board
Inside a Villaraigosa press conference
Jack Abramoff talks to Jewish Journal
Tap dance legend Fayard Nicholas remembered
Chris Penn's death on Ocean Avenue
Million-dollar homes observed
Golden Mike winners
My personal L.A. traffic moment
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♦ Negotiators for the Coliseum and the NFL are "expected to finalize a lease deal this week to clear the way for a football team to return to L.A.," Howard Fine reports in the Los Angeles Business Journal. Mayor Villaraigosa also sits for an interview with LABJ staffers.
♦ Chew on this: traces of prescription drugs are getting into some SoCal drinking water supplies via recycled wastewater.
♦ Part 2 of the LAT dropout series: algebra is the deal-breaker for many kids.
♦ Rick Orlov's Daily News column follows last week's LA Observed item about Rocky Delgadillo aide Contessa Mankiewicz being turned away from a Laura Chick press conference.
♦ Delgadillo's lawsuit last week over hidden sexual material in the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas made the London papers.
♦ Ex-Dodger Mike Piazza, nearing the end, signed a one-year deal to play this season for the San Diego Padres.
♦ Two downtown gems from the 1920s—the Oviatt and Fine Arts buildings—are for sale. Pacific Center, even older and grander, sold last week.
♦ This week's Los Angeles Notebook in the Observer explores the continuing interest in theories about the Black Dahlia case.