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The OC Register has the story today of
Orange County assemblyman Mike Duvall, R-Yorba Linda, who resigned yesterday after he was caught bragging to a colleague about two affairs he had into an open microphone and a rolling camera. Whoops.
KCAL 9 has video and a transcript of Duvall's comments. R. Scott Moxley wrote on an OC Weekly blog that one of the affairs was with a lobbyist for Sempra, an energy company that had issues before the state legislature and made campaign donations to Duvall, who was vice-chair of the Committee on Utilities & Commerce.
Speaker of the Assembly Karen Bass has launched an ethics investigation. Capitol Weekly has a nice break down of Sempra's lobbying activity.
Duvall's former campaign website denies the affair, but fesses up to his being a great story teller.
L.A. City Council Hard At Work Keeping Us Dry After two separate major water lines burst early this week leaving different parts of the city wet and sinking a fire engine, the L.A. Times wrote that city council vowed Wednesday to look a little harder at the city's leaky water system.
Deadly Metrolink Train Crash, One Year Later The L.A. Daily News has a collection today of personal stories recalling the deadly Metrolink train crash that happened a year ago on a Friday. It killed 25 people and injured about 130. Check out the sidebar on the story for safety updates since the crash.
Two New Arts Schools Compete For Attention Mitchell Landsberg wrote an interesting story in the Times today about two new arts high schools that opened this week in L.A. in very different accommodations and to very different fanfares.
LAUSD Opens First Single Gender School KPCC has a short piece on the opening of LAUSD's first single gender school. The basic gist: boys in class with boys and girls in class with girls to help each learn better. Hmmm, the name Lawrence Summers is echoing in my head.
Four Fuji Apples in A Plastic Box, Trader Joe's Aisle 3 If you've ever shopped at a Trader Joe's, you just can't pass up this bit of delightful digital flotsam. LAist has posted a video about shopping at Trader Joe's that's sure to warm your heart...or make you gag a little.
L.A. City Council Hard At Work Keeping Us Dry After two separate major water lines burst early this week leaving different parts of the city wet and sinking a fire engine, the L.A. Times wrote that city council vowed Wednesday to look a little harder at the city's leaky water system.
Deadly Metrolink Train Crash, One Year Later The L.A. Daily News has a collection today of personal stories recalling the deadly Metrolink train crash that happened a year ago on a Friday. It killed 25 people and injured about 130. Check out the sidebar on the story for safety updates since the crash.
Two New Arts Schools Compete For Attention Mitchell Landsberg wrote an interesting story in the Times today about two new arts high schools that opened this week in L.A. in very different accommodations and to very different fanfares.
LAUSD Opens First Single Gender School KPCC has a short piece on the opening of LAUSD's first single gender school. The basic gist: boys in class with boys and girls in class with girls to help each learn better. Hmmm, the name Lawrence Summers is echoing in my head.
Four Fuji Apples in A Plastic Box, Trader Joe's Aisle 3 If you've ever shopped at a Trader Joe's, you just can't pass up this bit of delightful digital flotsam. LAist has posted a video about shopping at Trader Joe's that's sure to warm your heart...or make you gag a little.
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