In an editorial yesterday, the Daily News let its readers know that the Department of Power and Water's union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 18, failed to sue the paper twice and agreed to pay $17,213 for legal fees. Why? Because they wanted to stop the Daily News from publishing the names, positions and salaries of department employees. Why publish this info anyway? They found that DWP workers earn an average of......

The LA Times business section has a nice little basic primer on one of LA's favorite pastimes, finding an apartment in Los Angeles. It includes one of the best and overlooked tips ever:You'll want to find a place where you feel safe and at ease. [Mark] Verge [owner of Westside Rentals] recommends driving by a potential apartment multiple times -- on different days, at different hours -- to scope out the neighborhood. "That is one......

At the LA Times building this morning, we were invited to speak to a group of arts organizations on Web 2.0, which, of course, includes blogging (this was not a Times sponsored event, rather they gave the use of their community room). It was fun and dandy and lots of people were still getting accustomed to the world of blogging. However, we found it funny and odd that internet access in the building was hard......

Monday Barney Hoskyns presents Hotel California 7pm @ Book Soup Christopher Nyerges discusses How To Survive Anywhere 7pm @ Vroman’s Robert Crais signs The Watchman 7pm @ Borders Torrance Dennis Cooper in discussion with the writers of Userlands 7:30pm @ Skylight Books Tuesday Chad Kultgen presents Average American Male 7pm @ Book Soup Jane Smiley discusses Ten Days in the Hills 7pm @ Vroman’s Allison L. Bailey, Frances A. Butler, Margaret Heritage, and Norma......

Today is the Times LA Times publisher, David Hiller, will engage in a discussion with journalism professor Bryce Nelson about the changes at the newspaper. It's a lunchtime affair at USC, but if you can make it, they say lunch will be served. More... Tomorrow is Yesterday's Earthquakes Harbinger We love this slogan: Shift Happens – Secure Your Space. So the question is if you dare to prepare. "There are actions we all can......

- Man killed when two trucks collide in a firey crash on the 5 - CBS2 - Pomona man shot in the chest as he was attacking a security guard with a chair - SB Sun - Days after LAist asks if Bush is an Idiot, the Washington Post asks the same question. - Washington Post - Americans more opposed to Iraq War than ever before: poll - CNN Think Progress has video and......

The Believer's April 2006 issue and web site have several articles about LA and/or by LA writers. As we've mentioned, in Thirteen Ways of Seeing Nature in L.A." , Jenny Price takes the facetious response she gets when she tells people at cocktail parties that she is a Los Angeles-based nature writer, --"Is there nature in LA?" --as the starting point for her meditation on the natural world in the city, or the city......