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More Arizona boycottishness, Trutanich wants his own grand jury, Cooley and the archdiocese, Villaraigosa's freebies and more.
- The county Board of Supervisors got on the Arizona boycott bandwagon, on a 3-2 vote, and the LAUSD board also slammed the Arizona laws aimed at illegal immigrants and ethnic studies. LAT, Press-Telegram, DN, KPCC News, LA Daily
- City Attorney Carmen Trutanich asked the legislature to make Los Angeles the only city in California with power to empanel a grand jury to investigate significant misdemeanor cases, and the state Senate on Tuesday voted to go along. LAT, Witness LA
- Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa "voluntarily initiated contact" with the city Ethics Commission and City Attorney for a possible review of the way the mayor accepted free tickets, his spokeswoman said. LAT
- In its eight-year investigation of sexual abuse by clergymen, Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley's office has found information suggesting possible "criminal culpability" by leaders of the Los Angeles Catholic Archdiocese, but lacks enough evidence to bring charges, according to a memorandum released Tuesday. LAT
- Tom Campbell, running low on money and trailing Carly Fiorina, pulls his TV ads and will rely on Internet appeals and phone calls in the closing week. LAT, Register
- Lieutenant governor hopefuls Janice Hahn and Gavin Newsom are bringing their SoCal vs. NorCal battle for the Democratic nomination for the post to the airwaves. Capitol Alert
- The state has proposed registering methyl iodide as a pesticide in California to the dismay of scientists and environmental groups, who say it is so toxic that even chemists are reluctant to handle it. SF Chronicle
- Bicycle activists were scheduled to meet last night in Hollywood about LAPD issues and the weekend incident in which an officer appeared to kick at a passing biker. LAist, Streetsblog
- DWP water rates could go up 8% in the coming year, Austin Beutner said Tuesday. LAT, DN
- The Compton City Council voted Tuesday night to reestablish the city’s police department, a decade after the force was disbanded. LAT
- The majority of homicides now go unsolved at dozens of big-city police departments, according to a Scripps Howard News Service study of crime records provided by the FBI. Nearly 185,000 U.S. killings went unsolved from 1980 to 2008. Scripps-Howard
- The House Judiciary Committee announced it will hold a public hearing on the proposed Comcast-NBC Universal merger on June 7 at 9 a.m. at the Donald P. Loker Conference Center.
- "Though virtually unknown to the general public," James Rainey says of Miller-McCune, "the 100,000-circulation magazine and a companion website have gained a toehold with academics, government officials and journalists." LAT
- "I don't want to see us descend into a nation of bloggers myself," Steve Jobs said at the All Things Digital conference in Palos Verdes. "Anything that we can do to help the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal find new ways of expression so they can afford to get paid, so they can afford to keep their editorial operations intact, I'm all for it." The Wrap