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Poizner-Whitman debate, how the Hoiles lost the Register, when Steve Glazer met Jerry Brown, Villaraigosa backs off his arts cuts and much more after the jump.
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- Steve Poizner took the strong attack route against Meg Whitman in their second and final scheduled debate. Bee, LAT, Chronicle, Capitol Weekly
- How the Hoiles family lost Freedom Communications: poor business decisions, slow adapting to newspaper industry changes, plus family power struggles, petty jealousies and personal vendettas, says Mary Ann Milbourn. OC Register
- Steven Glazer first met Jerry Brown, whose campaign for governor he is leading again after all these years. NYT
- Candidate and longtime blogger Mickey Kaus uses his given name (Robert) to sign an Op-Ed piece arguing that Democrats should stop loving labor unions. LAT Op-Ed
- That droning sound coming from City Hall these days can mean only one thing: the annual budget hearings are under way. Orlov/DN
- Mayor Villaraigosa has backed away from his controversial plan to cut the city’s arts grants by $415,000 and give the money to four other cultural organizations he picked himself. “We were overzealous,” Ben Ceja, deputy mayor for budget and finance, told a City Council committee. Culture Monster
- Five weeks before the June 8 election, backers of Measure E, a parcel tax to support Los Angeles Unified schools, have only raised $100,000 and acknowledge they face a tough fight. DN
- Supervisor Don Knabe, in Washington this week to urge the approval of a new Medicaid Waiver that will help Los Angeles County implement health care reform, will post updtaes on his Washington page. Knabe.com
- Rick Caruso's plan to build a major shopping mall at the Santa Anita racetrack may not be as dead as it seems. LABJ
- There were 12 homicides in L.A. County last week, making 211 for the year so far — down from the 240 at this time last year. LAT
- Crime novelist Michael Connelly drove around Los Angeles "to find a house for a kidnapping and an alley for a body drop," and Thomas Curwen went along for the ride. LAT
- "Days of Fear: A Firsthand Account of Captivity Under the New Taliban" by Italian newspaper journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo is "the most harrowing of memoirs, a tale of adventure and survival, and — above all — a first-hand account of the special terrors that he endured as a prisoner of the Taliban under the constant threat of death by decapitation," says Jonathan Kirsch. 12:12
- Media coverage of a new study raising doubts about cannibalism among the Donner Party decided to overlook the evidence. LAT Opinion