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Slate V distills the first four seasons (it's a very long 7 minutes). Season 5 premieres Sunday.
More by Mark Lacter:
American-US Air settlement with DOJ includes small tweak at LAXSocal housing market going nowhere fast
Amazon keeps pushing for faster L.A. delivery
Another rugged quarter for Tribune Co. papers
How does Stanford compete with the big boys?
Those awful infographics that promise to explain and only distort
Best to low-ball today's employment report
Further fallout from airport shootings
Crazy opening for Twitter*
Should Twitter be valued at $18 billion?
Recent Television stories:
Lucy Noland leaves NBC4, Chang has her surgeryABC7 adds 8 pm news hour -- on Orange County channel
PBS SoCal drops its Orange County news show
Still smoking the cannibus at KCAL, I see
Fox 11's Julie Chang announces she has a brain tumor
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Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted
until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.