Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Tuesday

Crime is down in the Valley but still up overall citywide. Despite a "moratorium" on murder called for by members of the City Council, a significant wave of murder and violence swept across LA this weekend. One thing city leaders could to make a big dent in gang violence is to support Jamiel's Law and at least give the Police the opportunity to thin out criminal illegal aliens from Los Angeles. The parents of Jamiel Shaw II - a young, innocent high school student allegedly shot by an illegal alien who had been released from jail hours before - are going to City Hall Tuesday morning to support the overturning of Special Order 40 for criminal illegal alien gangs.

I guess folks who work for doctors, hospitals, lawyers and accounts that have celebrity clients think it's an employee benefit to search through stars' personal records. Previously, over a dozen workers at UCLA Medical Center were busted for snooping through the medical files of Britney Spears. A new report says that months before that several others at UCLA browsed records for actress Farrah Fawcett, who has been battling cancer. Particularly troubling for Fawcett was that news of her illness was covered by tabloids before she could inform her family. UPDATE: The KENNEDY REPUBLICAN's medical records were also snooped in!

A few years back, editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez was dropped by the Fishwrap of Record and moved onto Investors Business Daily. Now he gets the last laugh - he's won a Pulitzer Prize. And yes unlike some others who claim the journalism award, Mike has his name on the trophy.

I'm not sure if anyone even is paying attention, but the Mayor's State of the City speech is coming up next Monday. Rick Orlov is saying its going to be nothing more than a repeat of last year's speech. So I suggest you tune in instead to the latest episode of "Big Bang Theory," when Leonard and Sheldon meet a 15-year-old physics prodigy, Sheldon is distraught that this boy genius is younger and smarter, so in an attempt to restore his sense of purpose, the boys come up with a solution to derail Dennis ' research.


Zero tolerance and political correctness have rum amok at a Colorado elementary school. An eight year old boy was suspended for coloring a part of his sleeve with a Sharpie and then apparently smelling the ink. However, you can't get high from sniffing a Sharpie.

Foothill Cities Blog snared an interview with California State Senate Candidate Carol Liu. If you read the interview you'll walk away with gems like one of Liu's qualities of an effective legislator: "the rise to a position (or positions) of power within the institution." Yea, that's exactly what we want is legislators spending their time jockeying for personal power instead of solving problems, or even better, get out of the way.

Last week we were treated to a David Markland April Fools' joke that he was really - as Zuma Dogg refers to him - my new friend Eric Garcetti. But the real CityNerd is apparently back online at his invitation only blog. So who is CityNerd? I don't know for sure but my money is on this guy.

Big battle between charter schools, regular schools and the LAUSD over classroom space. A recent court order forced the District to offer up the most amount space ever. Still many charter schools may have to split between multiple campuses and some traditional campuses feel squeezed by sharing facilities with the semi-autonomous schools.

We missed it, but Monday was Jerry Brown's 70th birthday. How did the former and possibly once again Governor Moonbeam spend his special day? With his wife at a trappist monastery. Ah, some things never change! Should we have bought him a Plymouth?