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Breeze chatter gets louder
Buzz within at least one L.A. Newspaper Group newsroom is that their boss Dean Singleton will announce soon that he has purchased the Daily Breeze from Copley.
He can go home again
Joachim Splichal is buying back the Patina Group of restaurants that he sold six years ago.
Brewer pays his respects
David Brewer, the newly designated LAUSD superintendent, went on a circuit of community meetings Monday: with Latino leaders at El Paseo on Olvera Street, southeast cities officials at Diana's Restaurant in Huntington Park and with black community leaders
at Eso Won Bookstore in Leimert Park. Times, Daily News
AFTER THE JUMP:An extra large helping of Buzz items this morning, after yesterday's fast. Gil Garcetti faces a fine, Warren Christopher comes out for Jim Newton's book, some Columbia Square buzz and a lot more.
Politics
Board fight
The Board of Supervisors will be asked today to reinstate Robert E. Nagle, the county's first independent litigation cost manager, who was abruptly fired last week by the County Counsel. Nagle's aggressive cost-saving measures did not endear him to county lawyers, today's Daily Journal reports.
Gil Garcetti's ethics fine
Recommendation is that the ethics commission president pay $1,500 for donating $500 to son Eric's campaign. Times
Nice company
Times City-County Bureau chief Jim Newton's book party at the home of Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall drew, among others, former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, Villaraigosa chief of staff Robin Kramer, Civic Alliance founder George Kieffer and LAT managing editor Leo Wolinsky.
Media
Columbia Square buzz
Hollywood Thoughts hears from inside KCBS/KCAL that the latest rumor has the historic Sunset/Gower facility being razed and rebuilt as a parking structure for whatever gets built at the Palladium.
Frank del Olmo lecture and school
USC Annenberg and the California Chicano News Media Association present the second annual Frank del Olmo legacy lecture series on Oct, 26. Also, the LAUSD is said to be planning to name an elementary school for the late Times columnist and editor, though apparently not in the Valley where he was from.
Malkin at E! Online
Gossip Marc Malkin now gossips at E!'s Planet Gossip.
There is a Los Angeles Project
It's not at the Times, but rather an undertaking of Stacy Dacheux and the Imaginative Action Regime. That's all I know: go there and figure it out.
Mobility
Santa Monica Boulevard almost ready
T.J. Sullivan blogs that the last cones are being removed from the over-budget and over-named Santa Monica Boulevard Transit Parkway Project near Century City. The art work catches his eye as well.
22 new red light cameras
Times graphic shows the intersections.
Noted
Worst fake PayPal spam ever?
I hate when incommodity happens.
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L.A. obit
Grace Quinn, 91
The widow of Joe Quinn, founder of City News Service and former deputy mayor, earned a law degree in the 1930s and helped start the non-profit Levitt and Quinn Family Law Center. One of her sons, Tom Quinn, is chairman of CNS. Grace Quinn died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai of pneumonia and congestive heard failure.