PolitiCal Roundup

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Gov. Jerry Brown makes his first major budget concession -- he agrees to scale back a plan to make local authorities responsible for some prisoners and parolees.

-- A Bell city administrator testified in a corruption hearing Monday that she didn’t know that taking personal loans from the city was illegal.

-- The freshman class of the Republican-led Congress includes some true believers. The Times profiles one exemplar -- an Arizona dentist so passionate about his ‘less government’ creed that he sleeps in his office and won’t sign up for congressional health insurance.

-- And finally, thank a Democratic congressman for finally putting that upstart robot in its place. Rep. Rush Holt of New Jersey beat IBM’s Watson computer in a demonstration ‘Jeopardy’ match.