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Supervisors take up plastic bags, the City Council considers 13 ballot measures, the FPPC begins to investigate Cooley and more after the jump.
- The Board of Supervisors is expected to vote today to pass a ban on single-use plastic bags in county areas.
- Supervisors Zev Yaroslavsky and Mark Ridley-Thomas talked about the county's Department of Children and Family Services and the future of director Trish Ploehn on last night's "Which Way, L.A." KCRW
- The L.A. City Council is expected to vote today on which of 13 measures to put on next year's ballot. LAT
- The city of Beverly Hills has tallied its third homicide of the year, a found found shot to death in a car on sunset Boulevard. LAT, DN wires
- The state's campaign finance watchdog confirmed it has launched an investigation into DA Steve Cooley's gift-taking in recent years. SF Chronicle
- Illegal immigrants who graduated from state high schools can continue to receive lower, in-state tuition at California's public universities and colleges, the California Supreme Court decided unanimously Monday. LAT, DN
- Gov. Schwarzenegger on Monday launched his third Governors' Global Climate Summit by lauding the landslide defeat of Proposition 23. Sacto Bee
- A preliminary study by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has recommended that five new locations be explored in detail for the installation of high-occupancy toll lanes. or so-called HOT lanes where solo drivers can pay to drive. LAT
- DNA tests prove that the dead infants found in a Westlake area steamer trunk wrapped in newspaper from the 1930s were the children of the trunk's owner, Janet M. Barrie. LAT
- Legal clerk turned consumer advocate Erin Brockovich returned Monday to the Mojave Desert town of Hinkley and said she would conduct independent tests of groundwater after news surfaced that a chemically-laced plume had spread. San Bernardino Sun, LAT
- Tribune Co. Chairman Sam Zell said Monday that he doesn't see himself having an operating role in the media company after it exits bankruptcy. WSJ
- More than 100 crew members and labor officials picketed the Calabasas ranch where the show "The Biggest Loser" is filmed. LAT
- Google is preparing to enter the fashion business with a website called Boutiques.com. Guardian
- E! Entertainment Chelsea Lately host Chelsea Handler has been given her own book imprint by the Hachette Book Group USA division Grand Central Publishing. Deadline
- Pasadena author Greg Critser writes that it's been a good year for the A word: anthropomorphizing. Science
- An excerpt from L.A. Times Book Critic David L. Ulin's new "The Lost Art of Reading," on his discovery of a rare London bookstall by an author he reveres. The Faster Times
- Playboy founder Hugh Hefner guests with Patt Morrison in the one o'clock hour on KPCC.
- NPR chief Vivian Schiller speaks Thursday afternoon at USC's James L. Loper Lecture in Public Service Broadcasting.
- Hollywood Heritage's Evenings @ The Barn series will offer “A Tribute to Will Rogers” on Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 7:30 PM at the Hollywood Heritage Museum on Highland.
- The Dodgers re-signed pitcher Hiroki Kuroda to a one-year contract.