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- According to L.A.'s City Attorney, Los Angeles needs "a FEMA-director style" senior-level official to address the city's homelessness crisis.
- Take a peek at plans for a long-in-the-works Culver City food hall.
- Wendy Carrillo and Luis Lopez, the two candidates in a run-off for the 51st Assembly District,will square off at a debate hosted by LA Weekly's Hillel Aron on Tuesday in Highland Park.
- Michael Bay is producing a Dora the Explorer movie.
- Metta World Peace is returning to the Lakers, sort of. World Peace has been hired as a player development coach for the South Bay Lakers, the L.A. Lakers' El Segundo-based G-League affiliate.
- California Senate President Pro Tem (and Senate candidate) Kevin de León announced that he has hired an outside law firm and an outside consulting firm to investigate allegations of widespread sexual harassment at the Capitol.
- Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D - Dodgers/Los Angeles) challenged Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D - Astros/Houston) to "a friendly wager." With both their constituent teams in the World Series, the Members of Congress agreed that the representative of the losing team would "deliver a congratulatory statement on the floor of the House while wearing the winning team's colors." The loser will also have to bring "an iconic product from their district to share."
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