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Focus on Anne Gust Brown, is Jerry Brown really on vacation in Arizona?, the City Council to examine LAPD deployment, and the line forms for Jenny Oropeza's Senate seat. Plus: no more first-class travel requirement for actors?
- Anne Gust Brown, not Meg Whitman or Carly Fiorina, is California's most influential business women, says Joe Mathews. What effect will she have on husband Jerry Brown as governor? Daily Beast, Witness LA
- Brown wants to do away with the secretary of education position, a fixture in governors' cabinets since the early 1990s. California Watch
- Brown is vacationing in Arizona, but his campaign website has posted a link to apply for jobs within his administration. Capitol Alert
- Los Angeles City Council members Tuesday asked for a study of the LAPD's personnel deployment. DN
- Councilman Bernard Parks and the LAPD openly disagree over how many officers to deploy at Coliseum raves, with the LAPD official in charge saying "It’s been a long time since he’s [Parks] deployed officers.” ZevWeb
- Assemblyman Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) announced he's in the race to replace the late state Senator Jenny Oropeza, and Councilwoman Janice Hahn is looking at it. LAT
- The developer of the proposed Bundy Village medical complex has filed for bankruptcy court protection under Chapter 11. LAT
- Fee hikes proposed for UC and CSU campuses threaten to price the middle class out of California colleges, says an L.A. Times editorial. Plus: DN
- The Tribune Co. is asking a Delaware bankruptcy judge to approve up to $43 million in bonuses for top executives and managers this year. AP
- The new AFTRA and SAG contract drops the requirement that actors fly in first class. Variety
- Former Speaker Robert Hertzberg has become a venture partner at Pacific Capital Group, a Los Angeles investment firm.
- Sara Wilson, an associate editor at Los Angeles magazine, is leaving to be editor of the new divorce section at the Huffington Post.
- LAPD chief Charlie Beck will be a guest with KPCC's Patt Morrison from 2:10 to 2:40 p.m.
- Hollywood publicist Linda Dozoretz died Nov. 9 in Los Angeles of cancer. She was 62. Variety