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Mayor Villaraigosa on forgiveness, up close and personal with school board prez Monica Garcia, and L.A.'s cheapest valet parking — plus more, of course.
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Antonio wants open-ended forgiveness
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Saturday to a crowd from Victory Outreach International, a church group that gathered on the south lawn at City Hall, reported by Tony Castro in the Daily News:
Someone asked me yesterday, `How many times should a sinner ask for forgiveness?' and I said, `As many times as he has to! God is a forgiving God'
Not just Marcus Allen
While Controller Laura Chick's image takes a beating for her re-hiring of Allen as a consultant — he also works with two of City Hall's biggest lobbyists — now Mayor Villaraigosa has brought in former Riordan aide Mike Keeley as a budget consultant. The mayor's staff is also hoping for an end to the questions about Mirthala Salinas. Orlov column
A look at Monica Garcia
Evan George in the Downtown News examines the new school board president.
Urbanizing L.A.
More density and the resulting traffic squeeze along Ventura Boulevard has some fans of Valley-style suburban living unhappy. LAT
More women entering Caltech
New record: 87 in a class of 206 freshmen. LAT
Turning off the voting machines
Secretary of State Debra Bowen's decision praised.
One Wilshire sold
The telecommunications hotel, and geographically first building on Wilshire Boulevard downtown, was sold for $287 million.
Noted
Slimmer New York Times
Pages are an inch and a half narrower starting today.
'Tis the season of...
Lazy filler columns by national political pundits who are at the beach, says Andy Borowitz.
The typical “filler” column is often a reprint of a previously published column, but the writer will later plug in one cursory reference to current events, such as the DUI arrest of actress Lindsay Lohan, to disguise this fact.
And in order to fill up space even faster, Crimmins says, the lazy beach-bound columnist will compose his summer “filler” columns with short paragraphs.
Many of these paragraphs will be as short as one sentence, he says.
“Or shorter,” he adds.
Cheapest valet parking in L.A.?
Yang Chow charges 75 cents, per the sign at LAist — and really, at that point why bother?
Riordan's tavern opens
The other half of the Original Pantry will serve you cocktails and crab cakes. DT News
Mixed messages
Stacey Grenrock Woods tongue-in-cheekily reported on herself [see below] in Sunday's New York Times fashion pages, while her new book was panned by Judith Lewis in the LAT. Byline corrected: It now shows she didn't write the NYT piece.
