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Toll carpool lanes are coming
Mayor Villaraigosa talks up the plan to charge for using the carpool lane on the 210 between Pasadena and the 605 Freeway, and on the 10 between downtown Los Angeles and the 605. It passed the MTA unanimously. LAT, DN
Ridley-Thomas and Parks trade shots
At the League of Conservation Voters and League of Women Voters debate. LAT, DN
No reprimands in tow-yard body
Shirley Williams is the woman who died in a crash in the Valley but whose body was not discovered until later under the air bags in her son's car. DN
Carolyn See writes about giving up driving
The author's macular degeneration led her to move near Santa Monica Promenade, where she could start walking to things. "Living without a car in L.A. is living by your wits," she says. LAT Op-Ed
Who were the former mayors of L.A.?
Times editorial writer Robert Greene guides a historical tour. Opinion Daily
747 area code kicks in next year
It will overlay the 818 in the Valley. LAT, DN
Think you're man enough to run a newspaper?
That's the headline on a craigslist posting for an editor in Sunland.
Where's Jeffrey Anderson?
The former LA Weekly writer is now investigating in Baltimore. Witness LA
Add WLA: Ex-mayor James Hahn posted a comment about gang intervention programs.
Willard Murray still in the news
A year after a state legal opinion said it was a conflict of interest to hold both posts, former state Assemblyman Willard Murray remains on the MWD board and the board of a local water district. SGV Tribune
Boyarsky on Yaroslavsky
With his recent public campaign about overbuilding and traffic, Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky "is taking on an issue that reaches to the heart of Los Angeles' ethnic, political and class divide," writes columnist Bill Boyarsky. Jewish Journal