Morning Buzz: Tuesday 2.10.09

• Mayor Villaraigosa told the Daily News editorial board that the city is facing "layoffs in numbers we've never seen." DN
• The accidental release of a list of 900 allegations of racial profiling by LAPD officers provides an argument for more openness, an LAT editorial argues.
• KNBC threw out its 11 o'clock news last night to stay live with the slow-speed chase of a Bentley through parts of L.A., for the first time in several years — news director Bob Long has previously spoken out against covering chases. Also, LAist live-blogged the chase, which ended after midnight with a suicide in Universal City, and the false Twitter and Wikipedia rumors that DJ Khaled was the driver. LAist
• Two suspects were arrested for setting that exotic dancer on fire at a Tarzana strip club, and a fund has been set up for her children. LAT (link fixed), DN
• L.A. Times newsroom staffers will begin to get the layoff word on Monday, says blogger Joe Scott.
• City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo will announce the filing of criminal action against two Los Angeles car wash owners, a manager, and four car wash businesses for violations of labor and penal codes.
• Related Cos. has requested an extension of its deadline to start work on the Grand Avenue Project on Bunker Hill. L.A. Now
• Michael Kinsley discusses the future of micro-payments for news through his experience as editor of Slate when it wasn't free. NYT
• Josh Friedman, who used to write the weekly box office report for the L.A. Times Business section, is joining the Bloomberg News bureau here as Investing Editor.
• Exploring the Byzantine-Latino Quarter, "a corner of the Pico-Union district where Greeks, Mexicans and Central Americans have found vibrant synergy." LAT/The Guide
• Columnist Susan Goulding praises "The Oaks" by Rip Rense as "appalling, touching, universal, insightful, compassionate, surprising, tense, hopeful and complex." Daily Breeze

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