Ready, set, go! Local politicos have already begun to maneuver after Jane Harman announced her resignation from Congress Monday in an email to constituents. Tuesday she and her new employer,  the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars,  made it official, the L.A. Times reports.

L.A. City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who represents a portion of Harman’s district on the council, already has a website dedicated to her congressional run.

Other possible candidates are California’s Secretary of State Debra Bowen and the progressive Marcy Winograd, who attempted to unseat Harman during last year’s Democratic primary.

Both the Daily Breeze and the Times breakdown the possible contenders.  The special election will be the first test of the state’s new open primary system, and whoever wins will have to contend with a less gerrymandered district in the future once the process is taken over by a citizen's commission.

An L.A. City Council committee will consider incorporating the city of Vernon today. The industrial fiefdom has been rocked by allegations of corruption by officials and the subject of several L.A. Times investigations.

After ejecting the L.A. Times’ food critic last year, Red Medicine gets reviewed by L.A. Weekly’s Jonathan Gold. 

It appears the restaurant had little to fear. Gold gives the modern Vietnamese establishment a glowing review, writing, “there is too much to love here, and too many reasons to return ...”

 

Reach reporter Andrew Khouri here.