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More Rapid Bus lines proposed
MTA wants to put the somewhat faster service on West Olympic Boulevard, Garvey and Cesar Chavez avenues, Manchester Boulevard, Atlantic Boulevard, San Fernando Road South, Sepulveda South and Central Avenue and in Torrance/Long Beach. LAT
Tribune execs make millions in stock sale
CEO Dennis FitzSimons raked in about $8.6 million by selling about 253,000 shares of Tribune stock in the company's tender offer. Publishing President Scott Smith made nearly $4 million. Crain's
Hertzberg rallies to Waldman's side
Former Speaker Bob Hertzberg blames politics for the firing of his former chief of staff, Stuart Waldman, by Assemblyman Lloyd Levine. DN, previously at LAO.
Reading Valenti's memoir
Stuff about Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam and parallels to Iraq are the most interesting part of Jack Valenti's book, says Variety's Ted Johnson.
Dinging Hugh Hewitt
Gustavo Arellano blogs that Hewitt should have disclosed a church relationship to a band he pushed.
Responding to Wendy McCaw
Both her target, Lou Cannon, and her former editor, Jerry Roberts, respond to the Santa Barbara News-Mess owner's odd online-only commentary in the L.A. Times. "What an amazing compendium of falsehoods and innuendos!," writes Cannon.
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What LANGians are worried about
As rumors swirl that the Daily News headquarters in Woodland Hills has been sold, I'm told that staffers at the far-flung papers in the Los Angeles Newspaper Group empire are concerned about their commutes if talk of a shared central newsroom take hold. At the Daily Breeze, the newest LANG paper, the travel section has already switched to the DN's and there's fear of the locally edited feature section going generic. The Breeze now picks up DN coverage from City Hall. Hardest for the Breeze folks, apparently, is trying to get along with the Singleton group's clunky computer system.
What Timesians are worried about
As rumors swirl of another round of cutbacks in September, the depleted Metro staff — which lost more bodies in the buyout than any news department — wonders how the paper will deal with a rash of maternity leaves this summer.
L.A.-connected journos inducted
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists is adding to its hall of fame Cecilia Alvear, a former president of the group who retired from NBC News in Los Angeles this year; George Ramos, formerly of the LAT and now chairman of the Cal Poly San Luis Obispo journalism department; and Rigo Chacón, formerly of KABC here.
Finke gets credit
TV Week says that Nikki Finke broke on her blog the news that Ben Silverman was taking over NBC programming.
