Morning jolt: insurance, Slake, crime

• Beth Capell in the California Progress Report looks at new laws getting rid of "junk health insurance," citing the case of Altadena's Susan Braig,
  whose breast cancer apparently wasn't catastrophic ENOUGH for her insurance company.
• Slake is a new LA quarterly creating some buzz in literary circles.  Brand X Daily includes a selection by Alta-novelist Michelle Huneven that appears in the magazine. (Jervey Tervalon, another Altadena writer, also appears in the magazine).
• Nancy Diaz, 18, will face a misdemeanor charge of furnishing alcohol to a minor.  Diaz hosted a party on Dec. 12, 2009, on the 500 block of W. Mariposa where a 17-year-old South Pasadena senior high school student who attended later died of alcohol poisoning.  Diaz will face at most a $1,000 fine and at least 24 hours of community service, says this PSN story by Brian Day.