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More backlash to bad LAFD response data, downtown lobbyist types raise money for Janice Hahn, GOP's Jon Fleischman featured, a "downtown" condo that isn't, NBC 4's annoying news crawl during "SNL" and the NYT does Long Beach State.
City Council members say they are upset that they approved LAFD cuts based on inaccurate response time data from the department. LAT
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and fire chief Brian Cummings will hold a media availability to talk about response times at 11 a.m. at Fire Station 3, 108 N. Fremont Ave.
Villaraigosa declined to back any of the three income tax initiatives for the November ballot, "saying that efforts to raise taxes on top earners lead to too much volatility in state revenue and compound California's budget problems." PolitiCal
Downtown lawyers and machers with business at City Hall through the years such as Arnie Bergoff, John Ek, Jerry Neuman and Ken Spiker are co-hosting a "birthday party" fundraiser for Rep. Janice Hahn on Wednesday at Perch.
Jim Rainey does a feature on the power of Republican consultant and activist Jon Fleischman and his Flash Report politics website. LAT
It was mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel's turn to talk to the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects. City Maven
The 22-year prison sentence for Al Qaeda-trained terrorist Ahmed Ressam, who intended to bomb LAX, was unreasonably lenient under federal guidelines, the U.S. th Circuit appeals court ruled Monday. LAT
Long before Richard Nixon rose to power and fell from grace, he was just another man in love. AP, LAT
NBC 4 ran a news crawl through the first hour of last week's "Saturday Night Live," even though there was no breaking news to announce. "We are trying to determine the root
cause...but please accept our apologies," a news manager emailed a viewer who complained. "We are working to make sure it doesn't happen again."
Another NBC viewer complains that a $144,000 condo highlighted on Monday's "Today" show as a great buy in "Downtown Los Angeles" is actually out in the MacArthur Park area.
Things come around: sports public relations executives Steve Brener and Toby Zwikel, who each left the Dodgers staff at the end of the O'Malley family ownership in 1988, are back handling some contract PR work for the team this spring. Their firm is BZA.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced that Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, the NPR foreign correspondent, will receive the Edward R. Murrow Award, which recognizes individuals for their outstanding contribution to public radio.
The L.A. Theatre Works’ weekly radio theater series is moving to KPFK and into a regular Sunday 8 p.m. time slot. Up first on March 25: "Dinah Was."
Time.com is launching a sports blog, Keeping Score. Jim Romenesko
The former hilltop home and ranch of actor Francis Lederer in West Hills might become an assisted living facility. DN [* Fix: Commenter at the Daily News site says the Lederer home is not part of the plan, only undeveloped land across the street.]
Up close with the Long Beach State basketball team as it closed in on an NCAA tournament spot. NYT
The question of what happened at Staples Center on Feb. 1 when the game clock appeared to add time to benefit the home team at the end of a Kings game remains a mystery, the Wall Street Journal says in a story titled "Is This the NHL's Zapruder Film?" WSJ
