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After a 21 month layoff from the sport, one of boxing's biggest names (and mouths) made a triumphant return to the ring Saturday night in Las Vegas as Floyd "Money" Mayweather easily defeated Juan Manuel Marquez in a one-sided welterweight bout by unanimous decision.

In a press conference held shortly after 8 this morning at the command center in Hansen Dam, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mayor Villaraigosa spoke of the current data regarding the massive Station Fire, the heroism of the firefighters, and the assistance available to the victims.

At around 10:40 a.m. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger held a press conference at Hansen Dam regarding the Station Fire, and other fires currently affecting the state. Just home to California following yesterday's funeral services for his wife's uncle, Sen. Edward Kennedy, Schwarzenegger spoke immediately of his wish to continue to work to ensure the safety of lives, property, and memories.

These days not much in the State of California is surplus, except, well, people who would like to work and get paid for it. But if you happen to be one of the 20,000 workers employed by the state destined to be shown the door, LAist's sister-site SFist shared the official layoff notice that made its debut yesterday, destined for the mailboxes of those "identified as one of the least senior in [their] department" who now "face layoff, demotion in lieu of layoff, or transfer."

The Flat Stanley project was started in 1995 by Dale Hubert, a Canadian schoolteacher. The project is based on the title character in Flat Stanley, a 1964 children's book. In the book, Stanley Lambchop is squished flat, which gives him unique abilities, like being able to slide under doors and travel in envelopes. The project is intended to increase literacy and educate children about geography.

See the 1995 60 Minutes segment about the horrendous Red Line subway construction. Apparently, in democracy you cannot run against your boss' political allies without getting fired. That's what happened when city councilman Ed Reyes fired his office manager after she lost the 2005 election to Jose Huizar. She sued. She won. All the Wilshire Blvd. bus lane info you could want. The Zaca wildfire has been going for a month and now Governor...

While Sacramento scrambles to cut hundreds of millions of dollars of funding for public transportation and other programs around the state, a serious group of underground marijuana professionals are offering to pay at least a billion dollars in taxes, if only California would legalize pot. A coalition of California marijuana growers and dealers has offered Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger one billion dollars to solve the current state budget crisis. The group, calling itself Let Us...

- City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo vs. District Attorney Steve Cooley. Ehhhh, both are whiners.

We may have naysayed in the past, but it looks like the Olympic movement for LA is finally coming together -- with some help from the movie industry. Apparently, the 18-34 demographic is losing interest in the games -- so LA is committing to bringing it back, by presenting us with this video produced by Dave Stewart (of The Eurythmics) called Battle Olympia:

Do you have State Farm Insurance? Your rates might be finally going down. (SFV Biz Journal, Registration Required [but worth it, it's free])

By now you surely know that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was in a motorcycle accident this weekend while tooling around Brentwood with his son tucked into a sidecar. You probably also know that he doesn't have a motorcycle license, and hasn't thought about getting one in the last 37 years. But if the idea of an unlicensed Governor bothers you, why worry? Spokeswoman Margita Thompson says that since the motorcycle had a sidecar, it counts as a 3-wheeled vehicle, and was technically not illegal for Schwartzie to drive. Maybe she's hoping nobody has spotted him riding a sidecar-free motorcycle.

This is California's execution chamber. Our taxes pay for it, so in some sense it's our responsibility. But right now there's not a darn thing we can do to prevent Stan Tookie Williams from walking in there at 12:01am next Tuesday to die.

Candidates are going to need full coffers in order to pay for the heavy TV advertising necessary to compete in this spring's election.

LAist would like to localize a few rules on their list:

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, proving once again that he never met a photo-op he didn't like, tooled up to the brand new BP station just down the road from LAX and topped off his Hummer's tank the other day.

LAist was intrigued this morning to find out (via the Los Angeles Times) that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has decided to back a $3 billion stem cell initiative which totally goes against the current administration's position on such scientific research.