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Sherman wins a round against Berman, what sets the two congressmen apart besides their backers, Jim Newton on Herb Wesson, Channel 4 rebrands news, and more.
The consultant that the Los Angeles Community College District relied on to supervise the $450-million rebuilding of Mission College in Sylmar also "collected consulting fees from one of the main contractors it was overseeing." LAT
In the Sherman-Berman showdown in the Valley, Calbuzz says "Who defines the race, wins the seat." Also this arch observation: "There are clear differences, between the two congressmen: Berman is a member of Adat Ari El and Sherman attends Valley Beth Shalom." Calbuzz
California Democrats' local "pre-endorsement" meetings around the state this past weekend could "decide who wins races for the Legislature or Congress come November" under California's new primary election rules. KQED Capital Notes
Note: Sherman beat Berman over the weekend. DN
Jim Newton considers Herb Wesson as City Council president. LAT op-ed
City Council redistricting maps start to make the rounds publicly. Rick Orlov Tipoff/DN
Candidate Austin Beutner's anti-City Hall offensive. Downtown News
ABC News and Yahoo! News are jointly launching a daily politics video series they are calling Power Players, with contributions from ABC's George Stephanopoulos, Jake Tapper, Jonathan Karl, John Berman, Amy Walter and Rick Klein, and Yahoo!’s Washington Bureau Chief David Chalian. Where to find it
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky has riled up the county gadflies with a proposal to reduce the amount of time they can speak at Board of Supervisors meetings. LAT
The nomination of Fred Pickel as a watchdog over the Department of Water and Power clears the way for the agency to once again push for a series of steep rate hikes. DN
Josh Post, a California Department of Justice lawyer who lives in Echo Park and worked for the Hahn Administration at City Hall, announced he's running for City Council in the Garcetii district.
Jim Clarke, who heads Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s Office of Grants, is running for the city council in Culver City. City Maven
Channel 4 rebrands today as NBC4 Southern California and will "unveil a larger set with a separate weather station, large monitors behind the anchor desk and state-of-the-art graphics." The station also says it will enhance the investigative unit in the newsroom and has upgraded its news trucks. LAT, DN
Ugly: the new owner of UT-San Diego (the former Union-Tribune) runs a big front-page editorial pushing his proposal to build hotels along the San Diego waterfront —' already rejected by the state Coastal Commission. Romenesko
David Carr on how Esquire magazine has managed to thrive in tough times. NYT
Ex-LAPD chief William Bratton joins Larry Mantle on KPCC's "Airtalk" at 11:30 a.m. to talk about his new book, "Collaborate or Perish: Reaching Across Boundaries in a Networked World."
Los Angeles police were involved in traffic accidents more than 1,250 times in the last three years — an average of about one a day — and are trying to do better. LAT
Some residents of a Tarzana neighborhood are fighting plans for an elder-care facility by arguing it hurts the area's agricultural character. LAT
Topanga celebrated the opening of its new county library. Witness LA