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What Maxine Waters had to say, what Jerry Brown did say, what legal analysts are saying about the Prop. 8 ruling, Jack Shafer's advice on what Sidney Harman shouldn't say — and Google says there are about 130 million books in the world. Inside...
- Rep. Maxine Waters said on "Which Way, L.A.?" that she's innocent of the ethics charges against her and called on the report to be released now, not after Congress returns from recess. LAT, KCRW
- Jerry Brown said in a Univision interview he would take away perks from the governor's office and Legislature, but he didn't say he would take away the private jet and mansion. SF Chronicle
- Dan Walters argues that Prop. 25 could remove the 2/3 requirement on the state budget and lessen Republican influence in the Legislature, but could also have "insidious and corrosive consequences." Bee
- At least some legal analysts believe that Prop. 8 judge Judge Vaughn Walker "fashioned his order to force judges on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court to confront the practical reality of gay unions, rather than treating them as a legal abstraction." LAT
- Community leaders in Councilman Richard Alarcon's San Fernando Valley district are rallying support for him against the DA's charges that he lied about his residency. LAT, DN Plus: Here's the booking information on the sheriff's website for Councilman Richard Alarcon. LAist
- Slate's Jack Shafer has a good piece of advice for rookie Newsweek owner Sidney Harman: "Things that important people tell you at cocktail parties are not news, so don't bother your editor with these tidbits." Slate
- Los Angeles police identified a suspect in the shooting death of Matthew Butcher, the son of labor leader Julie Butcher who was killed during a robbery at an Angeleno Heights pot shop. LA Weekly
- The adult staff at L.A. Youth has started a blog to talk about issues their student journalists encounter, starting with Proposition 8. Why LA Youth?
- New York media people with city permits to carry a gun include Roger Ailes, Sean Hannity, Howard Stern, Don Imus and Donald Trump. The Upshot
- Google estimates the number of printed books in the world as 129,864,880. Inside Google Books
- KCRW's August pledge drive: shorter and with fewer interruptions. Franklin Avenue
- Lorene Yarnell, a dancer born in Inglewood who was half of the Shields and Yarnall comedy team in the 1970s, died at home in Norway of a brain aneurysm at age 66. LAT