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Some of the more talked-about, linked-to or noteworthy exclusive posts from the past week here at LA Observed:
- Job openings in the mayor's press office — and here's why.
- LAFD Observed: Firehouse pranks have a long history and the fire chief resigns.
- Don't bet on the 2016 Olympics coming to Los Angeles.
- Los Angeles Archdiocese agrees to pay $60 million for sexual abuse — and it's only the beginning.
- Wonder how issues vanish in the abyss at City Hall? Ethics commissioner Bill Boyarsky explains.
- LAT loses its top baseball writer to Yahoo! and a New York bureau mainstay to the NYT, but hangs on to a film writer — and Eli Broad says what he thinks.
- LAPD versus Daily News again, and Mariel Garza's response.
- United States versus Ralphs: Mark Lacter looks into the federal case against L.A.'s food giant.
- Daily Trojan editor resigns in protest, ponders a re-run, finally yields to an ally.
- Jenny Price's popular LAO guide to hidden Malibu beaches returns for fall.
- New Dodger Juan Pierre meets the media and LA Observed's video camera.
- Denise Hamilton finally meets Ray Bradbury, now 86 and wheelchair-bound.
Plus: Veronique de Turenne in Malibu, Jenny Burman in Echo Park and the week's worth of Morning Buzz and politics posts.