Cheer: To the Long Beach Press-Telegram's Kristopher Hanson for nailing the newsworthiness of the ATA taking legal action against the weakened model Long Beach rushed through to appease this industry that still won't live with any clean-air standards, regardless of an employee proviso, in "Trucking Assoc. to fight L.B. Port plan."

Here's the no-bones-about-it lede: Saying a Port of Long Beach truck concession plan violates federal law, the American Trucking Association has filed a petition with the federal government seeking significant changes in the program.

Jeer: To the Los Angeles Times for ignoring it.

As if the ATA had never even filed the petition appealing to the FMC to strike down any concession model, as if said petition was never discussed at the industry conference that Times journalist David Zahniser covered, and as if everything was hunky-dory in the eyes of the trucking lobby with the Long Beach plan (approval of which prompted the ATA taking legal action in the first place), the Times merely had this to report this morning:

A trucking industry representative...warned that his organization would sue Los Angeles if it followed follows through with Villaraigosa's plans for requiring that truck drivers be employees.