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♦ Just how capriciously does the county apply its practice of releasing jail inmates early? Quite, according to DA Steve Cooley.
♦ The Daily News endorsed Cindy Montañez in the Valley Senate showdown (joining La Opinión.)
♦ CBS 2 reporter Paul Dandridge blogs about the celebs swarming the South-Central farm: "The actual farmers now are staying away."
♦ KNX Newsradio's Michael Linder blogs that even though some signs came down for Memorial Day, Venice Beach repair work has a long way to go.
♦ David Poland's The Hot Blog catches blogger Roger Friedman repeating Nikki Finke's box office error—but the post is really about both trying to win Drudge Report links.
♦ Mariel Garza's Daily News column on the LAPD press release blog attracts more idiot mail that she deftly handles.
♦ Upper and Lower Los Angeles explained, via the LAT's J.A. Adande.
♦ Kim Cooper blogs about the reappearance of old L.A. cobblestones and Yellow Train rails under the pavement on Avenue 20 in Lincoln Heights.
♦ Inside downtown's 1920's parking garages.
♦ In case you've skipped the Times' addition to Dodgers blogdom, this is what you've missed: "It's only fitting that we pay tribute to our fallen soldiers today, because Sunday in Washington, the boys from L.A. got killed in battle."
♦ If you were stalled on the northbound San Diego Freeway in Sepulveda Pass on Monday, here's why.
♦ Seventeen bucks to park at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.
♦ Councilman Bill Rosendahl blogs "some love and positive energy" for Nancy Daly Riordan, wife of the former mayor, who had a pancreatic tumor removed.
♦ The Mighty Ducks won't be playing for the Stanley Cup next month after all.