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- Tomorrow: there's a big, big, big animal adoption event throughout the city and county. Found Animals' "Better with a Buddy" event will be simultaneously be held at 14 shelters and will pay for half of adoption fees when you adopt and 100% of them if you adopt two pets.
- James Rojas, known for making cityscape models from "blocks, legos and other odds and ends," presented his latest vision of L.A.'s transportation future yesterday.
- In the media: The trial for three journalists taken down by the LAPD during the May Day melee began today.
- Student fees for CSU undergraduates are going up -- 5% up.
- An anniversary of sorts: "Friday was the final furlough day for California state workers who were forced to take unpaid days off each month over the last two years."
- Phil Jackson Free Agent: Will The Zen Master Return?
- All about the great Santa Monica taxi crackdown.
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