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Weekend campaigning in the state races, last day to register to vote, Yaroslavsky will only say he's thinking about a run for mayor, Neon Tommy on NPR and the new Hollywood Reporter website launches. Plus more, all inside.
- After leading a rally on Friday at UCLA, Bill Clinton campaigned for Jerry Brown over the weekend in Northern California. LAT, Capitol Alert, AP, Calbuzz
Plus: President Obama has begun the campaign trip that will lead him to L.A. on Friday. NYT, LAT
Plus: Sarah Palin and Andrew Breitbart in Anaheim. LAT - More bad news for the Democrats: Obama's winning coalition from 2008 has crumbled and his core backers are dispirited, plus more bad polls, bad fundraising numbers and dreary talk on the Sunday shows. AP, Politico
- A weekend L.A. Times story saying Meg Whitman has more law enforcement support than Brown is "utterly misleading and…well…..kinda false," says Celeste Fremon. Witness LA
- Neither side in the Prop. 19 marijuana debate has attracted the money to advertise on TV. LAT
- Ten drive-through locations across the county will be open for people to register to vote from 8 a.m. until tonight's midnight deadline. Neon Tommy
- Rick Orlov's Tip-offs: Police Protective League raises its profile with Jerry Brown "whore" remark, City Council punctuality, replacing LeeAnn Pelham at the ethics commission. DN
- Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky's latest comment on the possibility of running for mayor: "I’m going to think about it…. I’ll make a decision at an appropriate time.” Downtown News
- Columnist Doug McIntyre became disenchanted with City Attorney Carmen Trutanich over audits. DN
- The troubled small cities of L.A. County all suffer from very low voter turnout. LAT
- Sizing up Dr. Mitchell Katz, the San Francisco public health director who has been hired to run the Los Angeles County health department. LAT
- Neon Tommy, editor Callie Schweitzer and USC Annenberg more generally figure large in a piece on the future of journalism schools that aired today on NPR's "Morning Edition." Story
- The splashier new Hollywood Reporter website launched. THR
- There is just one last Boeing B-29 Superfortress from World War II still flying, and it's called FiFi, says Peter Sanders of the Wall Street Journal's Los Angeles bureau. WSJ
- A profile of UCLA professor Donald Shoup, the prophet of making drivers pay more for parking. LAT
- NPR has received a $1.8 million grant from the Open Society Foundations to begin a project called Impact of Government intended to add at least 100 journalists at NPR member radio stations over the next three years. The reporters, editors and analysts will cover state governments and how their actions affect people. NYT, Romenesko
- Sitrick And Company announced today that Glenn F. Bunting has been promoted to the newly created position of Executive Vice President and Vice Chairman of the firm’s Management Committee. Via release
- Barbara Billingsley, the actress who played the mother of Beaver Cleaver on 1950s and '60s television, died at 94. LAT