Follow LA Observed on Twitter here
- LA Weekly has filled its web editor position: Keith Plocek, former social media manager for Village Voice Media.
- AEG wants the environmental review for its proposed NFL stadium in Downtown to focus on walkability and transit connections. "We know that people are not all going to park on-site. We don't intend them to—there aren't the spaces," says AEG's lawyer. Blogdowntown
- Casey Wasserman Q&A: why I want an NFL team in Los Angeles. Hollywood Reporter
- 2010 Census data for California is due to be released to the public Tuesday at about 12:30 p.m., including summaries of population totals and data on race and voting age. Capitol Alert
- Controller Wendy Greuel was the first to file to begin fundraising for the 2013 race for mayor, "as expected," says Rick Orlov. Sausage Factory
- Visiting Montreal train enthusiast tours the Expo Line route between Culver City and USC, on video. Curbed LA
- A little backstory on the top hat in LACMA's Fashioning Fashion exhibit on European clothing of the 1700s and 1800s. Unframed
- Ugliest intersection in Los Angeles? Not even close, but it gives people something to talk about. Talkback LA
Politics
Afternoon news and notes
More by Kevin Roderick:
Gustavo Arellano, many others join LA Times staffPower out Monday across Malibu
Put Jamal Khashoggi Square outside the Saudi consulate on Sawtelle
Here's who the LA Times has newly hired*
LA Observed Notes: Clippers hire big-time writer, unfunny Emmys, editor memo at the Times and more
Recent Politics stories on LA Observed:
Cheers for Gov. Brown and his pardon of Rod WrightMaria Elena Durazo
A serious night at Central Library
Put Jamal Khashoggi Square outside the Saudi consulate on Sawtelle
Can talk therapy cure LA's civic malaise?
Ryu says Korean Americans must step up
UCLA study calls for rent control tightening
Their most frightening experience