Morning Wrap: 4/23/12

News and notes:

• Researchers today will place ID bands on those four baby falcon chicks nesting on the roof of PG&E's 33-story headquarters downtown. Examiner
• Suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi’s hearing before the Ethics Commission officially begins this afternoon, although job one will be to hash out procedures for a process that’s essentially uncharted. Chronicle
• PG&E is aggressively fighting the hundreds of lawsuits against it related to the San Bruno pipeline disaster. Mercury News
• Columnist Scott Herhold says it’s time for Rep. Pete Stark, whose latest outburst was accusing his Democratic challenger of bribery and then apologizing, to go. Mercury News
• How AT&T’s army of lobbyists has become a dominate force in state politics. LA Times
• Even though millions of dollars were embezzled from her campaign coffers, U. S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein appears to be coasting toward re-election. Contra Costa Times
• A longtime Santa Clara County prosecutor was fired after being accused of abuse of power by pressuring police to arrest her husband’s ex-wife. Mercury News