Good morning -- here's what's happening 9.16.08
Exile on Wall Street -- stocks are tumbling, companies are teetering and laid-off employees are boxing up their coffee mugs and Dilbert calendars. Experts say more bad news is on the way.
The Governator makes threats but legislators pass the state budget anyway.
Some of the commuters in Friday's deadly Metrolink crash were survivors of the crash in Glendale in 2005. Richard Myles survived both crashes. Gregory Lintner walked away from the first but died this week in the second.
A fatal crash on the eastbound 210 Freeway has all but one of the lanes closed in Arcadia.
Another day, another few hundred tomatoes in Bill Anderson's Winnetka garden.
Cab drivers in Burbank love their hybrid rides. (pictured at right.)
An agriculture instructor in Tulare was gored to death by a bull.
Monday was Day One of the O.J. Simpson trial, where he's facing more than a dozen charges, including kidnapping.
Today's "Politics of Culture" on KCRW looks at the life and work of David Foster Wallace, who took his own life Friday. Our book editor, David Ulin, has an appreciation of Wallace. Another lovely article about Wallace, from Laura Miller, in Salon.
How do the UCLA Bruins feel after losing 59-0 (ouch) to BYU on Saturday? About how you would imagine.
--Veronique de Turenne
Photo: Nancy Pastor / Los Angeles Times
