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Uh oh! Looks like Grandpa Governor Brown got out again...

And yep! You guessed it! John and Ken take issue with some Brown's "arguments."

Today, Los Cerritos Community Newspaper has published hundreds of internal emails between embattled Los Angeles County Assessor John R. Noguez and controversial Arizona tax agent Ramin Salari.

Both Noguez and Salari are the focus of a wide ranging investigation by members of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office of Public Integrity over “influence peddling” and other “pay to play practices.”

If you want to take a look at the documents, all 132 pages are uploaded here.

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Randy Economy, staff reporter at Los Cerritos Community News Group, will be on the show at 4 PM to discuss the developments in the story.

The $19 Billion Dollar Man

After all that hype, Facebook (FB) shares were up only modestly in the first few hours of trading. The biggest ever initial public offering by an Internet company was delayed for half an hour due to a glitch at the Nasdaq exchange, while eager crowds of gawkers outside the exchange's Times Square storefront waited for the open.

With Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg ceremoniously -- and virtually -- "ringing" the bell on the Nasdaq Stock Market from the company's Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters, Facebook's stock opened around $43 and quickly slipped to under $39, after pricing on Thursday at $38 a share.

The offering, which raised $16 billion for Facebook, caps a meteoric ascent for the company, which Zuckerberg famously launched from his Harvard University dorm only eight years ago. Since then, and despite its fair share of hiccups and persistent questions about the company's long-term growth prospects, Facebook has grown into a global communications platform with more than 900 million users, or roughly 1 in 8 people on Earth.

More details here.

LA Times analysis of more than 1 million dispatches from the department's database found that the Fire Department falls far short of the standard that rescue units be alerted within one minute on 90% of 911 calls. And average call processing time has increased, most notably for medical calls, which account for the overwhelming majority of responses.

Five years ago firefighters were dispatched to medical calls within a minute 38% of time, the analysis found. By 2011, that number dropped to only 15%.

The Times also found that in the more than 250,000 medical dispatches last year, the department took 75% longer, on average, than the national standard.

Seconds are critical in medical emergencies. That is particularly true in cases of cardiac arrest. Potentially irreversible damage can begin after four minutes.

Read the full story here.

Hoping to generate revenue (i.e., steal money from you) during a city budget crisis, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has pitched his idea to boost by 50 the number of parking enforcement officers across the city.

Last year, city officials said they raised $9 million with 100 part time parking enforcement officers. Under the Mayor’s plan, the city hopes to raise $4 million with 50 part-time hires next year.

But that could cause problems for people living in some high-density, apartment-heavy Los Angeles neighborhoods.

Many less-wealthy drivers may feel the pinch in a bigger way, according to Larry Gross of the "Coalition for Economic survival" if the council approves the hike.

CBS has more here.

We will have California State Senator Doug LaMalfa on the show today at 3:00pm!

From KFSN...

FRESNO, California (KFSN) -- The Secretary of State announced, proponents of a new initiative can start gathering signatures in hopes of stopping the project from breaking ground.

State Senator Doug LaMalfa and former Valley Congressman George Radanovich are backing the initiative. They have about 5 months to gather more than 500-thousand signatures, in order for voters to decide.

For the first time in US history, a majority of babies are members of minority ethnic groups, according to new census figures. Of the roughly 4 million born between July 2010 and July 2011, 50.4% belonged to minority groups. The data show that the huge demographic shift under way has as much to do with the aging of the white population as it does with the growth in other groups, the Wall Street Journal notes. Births among the non-Hispanic white population dropped a full 10% in that 12-month period.

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