Morning Buzz: Monday 2.9.09

KTLA has posted an interview with octuplets mom Nadya Suleman by former health reporter Marta Waller for a story on a fertility clinic back in 2006. Suleman also identifies her fertility clinic. Eric Spillman, AP
Downtown News owner Sue Laris, in an unusual piece in the new issue, rails about Sam Zell and writes it's "no longer possible to believe there will be any tolerable outcome from the ongoing reconfiguring of the Times under the current ownership. The truth must be faced before it is too late." DT News
Mayor Villaraigosa will call for a a bump up to drought-year water rates and use restrictions at a 10:15 press conference.
The Times editorial page made its endorsements for the school board and says "the one unopposed candidate is also the weakest -- incumbent board President Monica Garcia." But it endorses her. LAT
Councilman Bernard Parks said he gave up his seat on the MTA board because it was time-consuming and was not pushed. Rick Orlov/Tipoff
How state lawmakers use campaign cash for first-class travel abroad, expensive dinners, salon makeovers and visits to luxurious spas. LAT
Jane Usher distributed another letter to friends and contacts urging against participation in an "invitation only" focus group on the city's proposed billboard ordinance that is scheduled for today.
Some neighbors are fighting the proposed expansion of the Museum of Tolerance. LAT
Andrew Gumbel looked at the Motion Picture and Television Fund's tax returns and says something doesn't add up about the reasons given for closing the nursing facility at the country home in Woodland Hills. The Wrap
USC Annenberg this week will soft-launch Neontommy.com, a full-scale multi-media publication that will be the voice of Annenberg Digital News, directed by Marc Cooper with a staff of more than 35 grad students.
Inside the new USC School of Cinematic Arts quarters financed by George Lucas and others. NYT
Variety's Brian Lowry explains why Joel Stein's column in the L.A. Times annoys him — and observes that Hawaii TV news anchors remind him of Los Angeles in the 1990s. BLTV
The Times got a lot of reaction to its Column One last week on a UCLA freshman who is undocumented and travels by bus to campus. Readers' Rep blog
Twitter co-founder says journalists are getting carried away in their love affair with Twitter. New York [Error fixed...]
Former Times publisher Mark Willes was named president and CEO of Deseret Management Co., which oversees the Deseret News, KSL-TV and other for-profit businesses owned by the LDS Church. Salt Lake Tribune
Profiles in History will auction off the Forrest J Ackerman estate in April, according to the dealer's website.
KCRW's Matt Miller talks about his new book "The Tyranny of Dead Ideas" on KPCC's "Airtalk" at 11:30 a.m.

Mark Lacter's morning headlines