Morning Buzz: Wednesday 6.17.09

Parade info from Lakers: Gates open at the Coliseum at 9:30 a.m. and "as space is limited to the first 95,000 fans, guests are encouraged to arrive early." Scheduled times: 11:20, parade begins on Figueroa Street near Staples Center; Noon, parade arrives at Coliseum for rally; 1 p.m, rally concludes. Some streets along the route are already closed, buses are delayed, but transit trains have been added.
Add Eli and Edythe Broad, Haim and Cheryl Saban, Joe and Sharon Hernandez, Ed and Gayle Roski and the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians to the roster of donors paying the city's tab on the Lakers parade. LAT , DN
Former LAPD official George Gascon was hired to be San Francisco's police chief, amid talk that he may someday want to return to L.A. "where his girlfriend is a Spanish-language television reporter." SF Chronicle

Writer Sandra Tsing Loh reports on her affair and breakup of her marriage in an Atlantic piece called "The Case Against Marriage," about which Jim Rainey says "I suspect I will not be the only Loh fan dismayed by a piece of work that simultaneously goes too far -- letting the "flaming jet fuselage" of her own wrecked relationship cloud all marriage -- and not far enough -- failing to address any of the specific details that sent her partnership into a tailspin." LAT
Fundraising letter from Jerry Brown hints strongly that he will run for governor and sounds some themes. SF Chronicle, Bee
Gov. Schwarzenegger set Sept. 1 for a special election to fill the 51st assembly seat to be vacated by Curren Price, who was elected to the state Senate. L.A. Now
County public health officials admitted they don't know if the 16 new unpublicized cases of HIV in the porn industry involved any performers. LAT
Mark Jacoby, the 26-year-old owner of signature-gathering firm Young Political Majors, pleaded guilty to voter registration fraud and was sentenced to three years probation and 30 days of highway work. LA Legal Pad
Retired LAPD cops at movie and TV locations will no longer be allowed to wear the uniform since they aren't actually officers. LAT, DN
The Hermosa Beach Police Department has "no comment" on a body being found in a burning house yesterday morning. Daily Breeze
Jet Blue's first LAX flight from New York lands this morning at 10:45. LAist, Breeze