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U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the media after meeting with Congressional leaders at the White House, March 1, 2013 in Washington, DC.

The sequester: it arrives with something of a whimper. The LA mayoral race has become kind of a slug-fest, and linking together ... rats' brains?

We'll talk about the week that was with our regular roundtables. On tap this week, James Rainey of the L.A. Times and Marketplace reporter David Gura.