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Steve Poizner is sure spending a lot his own money to run, spending remorse at the Police Protective League, and a new job for a laid-off journalist. More, much more, after the jump.
- Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Poizner is investing $15 million of his own money in his campaign. SF Chronicle, Bee
- Some members of the Police Protective League are wondering why they invested more than $400,000 in a special election in which they seemingly had little at stake and not much to gain by opposing the eventual winner, Assemblyman Paul Krekorian, says Rick Orlov. DN
- A day in the life of the LAPD bomb squad. ABC News
Plus:A team from the LAPD is in Mumbai studying up on counter-terrorism tactics in the wake of the big bombing there. Indian Express - Nearly three months after Mitrice Richardson walked out of a Los Angeles County Sheriff's station in Agoura Hills and vanished into the dark, authorities still don't know where she is or whether she is alive. But they now believe she had a major bipolar episode. LAT
- Columnist Doug McIntyre says newly elected city councilman Paul Krekorian "is the system every bit as much as Chris Essel. But he could be a Los Angeles legend if he has the guts to be an ingrate to the check writers while serving as a relentless advocate for the tax payers." DN
- Debra Wong Yang has worked with the Burbank Police Department befopre and is more insider than fresh outsider, says the blogger at Burbank, California.
- Up close with LAPD Inspector General Andrew Birotte, from CaribPress via LA Beez.
- Some of Downtown's most important building projects of the decade. Downtown News
- Laid-off former L.A. Times reporter-turned-blogger for Metro Steve Hymon says that now "I don't have to wait for doofus editors to give me a story on whatever they feel like...[the job is] about explaining what the agency is doing for better or worse." Neon Tommy
- Laid-off former Daily News baseball beat writer Tony Jackson will cover the Dodgers beat for the new ESPN web site in Los Angeles. Dodger Thoughts
- Former Los Angeles Times science reporter And Revkin talks about taking the New York Times buyout. CJR
- San Gabriel Valley Newspaper Group editor and publisher Steve Lambert wrote to readers asking them to send in suggestions for making the papers better.
- Channel 9 anchor Pat Harvey, former Channel 4 and 7 anchor Paul Moyer and San Diego sportscaster Jerry Coleman will get Lifetime Achievement awards at the 60th annual Golden Mike Awards, scheduled Jan. 23 by the Radio & Television News Assn. of Southern California.
- Univision's new telenovela production division hired Mexican actress Angélica Vale. Hispanic Media Moves
- Twyla Tharp, in Los Angeles to promote her new book, "The Collaborative Habit: Life Lessons for Working Together," at a breakfast sponsored by the Drucker School of Management. Val Zavala blog/KCET
- Culver City Gives is a new website by a city resident that ties together more than 50 non-profit organizations.