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Garcetti Ripe for GOP Grilling | Irvine Company Innuendo Costs Attorney $2,000 | Mottek’s Big Move | Red Flag on UCI’s Flattery | LAX Hotel Deal Suggests Dip for Local Sector

It looks as though Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti finally got his ticket out of town—a nomination as ambassador to India that comes amid …

Bargain Basement for DTLA High Rise? | Gehry’s Roman Road Should Lead to LA River Park | Kim’s Ambition | City Hall Hate Speech | SCNG’s Tardy Solidarity | About HK

Informed sources tell me that Downtown LA could soon get some help for its gap-toothed skyline, with talks about a bargain-basement deal for the …

About That Asian Crime Ring in Santa Ana: An Incomplete, Imperfect—and Honest—First Draft of History

Here’s a fact that appears to be lost in SoCal these days: You can condemn “Anti-Asian Hate” and also oppose Asian-American criminals. You can …

OC Signals Trump is Fading | Berggruen Fellow’s Ambitious Brief | Dr. Kim Leans Into Inclusion | IMC Doubles Up for Disaster Relief | Doti’s Dart | Soon-Shiong’s $7B Slide

There’s a lot of back and forth about whether the Republican Party is in thrall to Donald Trump, but recent signals from Orange County …

LA City Hall Silent on Paloma Street ‘Optics’ as 1,000 Homeless Drop Dead | Legacy Media Blackout on Amgen Cancer Pill | Gross in OC-FT Rotation

U.S. District Judge David O. Carter is taking on the muddled mess of accounting that offers the latest indicators of public corruption in homelessness …

Bren’s Monopoly Board | Mussallem, Mazzo Meet Santana | Sonenshein’s Story | Soon-Shiong Shuffle Set Up on Printing Plant | Buchan Latest OC-FT Link | Kudos to Cuniff

Hold off a week or two if you’ve picked up word on the streets around Newport Center that Irvine Company boss Donald Bren plans …

Hats Off! | Di Bella, Musco on Mission | Memo to Greater LA: Lose the Loopy Language | LA CAN’s Significant Show & Tell | About SullivanSays YouTube Edition

A trio of SoCal vignettes, offered with a tip of the cap to the ones who insist on engaging our community’s biggest challenges. *  …

Garcetti’s Machiavellian Nonprofit | AEG Vet to LA Magazine, Orange Coast | Doti’s Dilemma | Zocalo’s Bren Link | DTSA’s Diversity

Here is the headline from a story about LA Mayor Eric Garcetti’s so-called nonprofit organization in the May 13 print edition of the LA …

Garcetti’s Scramble | National Media’s Miss | LA Times’ Lipstick | City of Hope’s Bertell | F&M’s PPP Perspective | Metchek’s Suggestion | Andy’s Apples

My scoop last week on LA Mayor Eric Garcetti’s bid to get a ticket out of SoCal with some second-tier job in the Biden …

Sources Say Garcetti to Quit | ‘Horrible’ Good Enough on Paloma Street | South Coast Metro’s Luckey Streak | Dulce’s Definition | Various Views on Armenian Genocide

Reliable sources say Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti will announce his resignation this week as part of plans to take a second-tier job in …