Morning Buzz: Wednesday 3.18.09

• Tickets went fast for President Obama's town hall in Orange County today. LAT, Register, Chronicle
• Former SLA member Sara Jane Olson/Kathleen Soliah was released from Chowchilla state prison to serve supervised parole in Minnesota over the objections of the LAPD union. LAT, AP
• Two of the Nadya Suleman octuplets went home to La Habra last night after Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Bellflower signed off on the home situation. LAT
• The DWP board approve a new, higher water rate structure that penalizes residents who don't cut their water use by 15% and leaves higher summer rates in effect year-round. LAT
• Various city offices spent $184,736 on bottled water last year, a rise over the last time Controller Laura Chick audited, despite a mayoral directive. DN
• With the demise of the Seattle Press-Intelligencer, the question had to be asked: what becomes of defunct newspaper's archives? Slate explainer
• KPCC head Bill Davis is looking for funding to produce a scaled-down version of "Day to Day," which goes off the air Friday along with NPR's "News & Notes." James Rainey/LAT
• The Los Angeles Conservancy launches a new bilingual self-guided walking tour of Pico-Union on Saturday. Info
• A quarter of the 3,700 U.S. Postal Service collection boxes in the Los Angeles area have been removed in recent weeks, and it's just the beginning. LAT
• Author Michael Gross has sold "Platinum Triangle" — "a social history that will uncover the lives and lifestyles of the owners of the most extravagant trophy homes in Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Holmby Hills" — for publication by Broadway. Publishers Lunch

Mark Lacter's morning headlines