FERRARO: The Post Office is fighting City...

FERRARO: The Post Office is fighting City Hall. Or, to be more exact, City Councilman John Ferraro. It turns out that Ferraro, who leases a Woodland Hills building to the U.S. Postal Service, hasn’t made quake repairs, and the postal workers are pretty perturbed (B1). . . . Ferraro says he’s been slowed by a new seismic retrofitting law.

BUEN PROVECHO: So what if scientists say Mexican food is bad for you? Times staffer Jeannette Regalado, an experienced Mexican food eater, went out and did her own informal study (B5). . . . And while she agrees it ain’t exactly health food, it has cultural significance. Not only that: It’s what a lot of people love to eat.

PROTEST: Proposition 187 found more controversy Wednesday when protesters confronted former INS Regional Director Harold W. Ezell (above) at the Sportsmen’s Lodge before he spoke to a Republican women’s group (B1). . . . Ezell, co-author of the proposal that would restrict services for illegal immigrants, said he would keep mum till election night: “They don’t pay me enough to be the issue.”

TOUGH CUT: Nothing personal, the San Francisco Giants say about the firing of their longtime Valley-based scout George Genovese. Baseball is a business, and the team had to “operate leaner and meaner” (C10). . . . Genovese played one season in the big leagues, with the Washington Senators in 1950. In 1952, he was hired as a minor league coach in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization by Branch Rickey.

BENEFIT: Speaking of hard times in the national pastime, baseball players didn’t always make big money, and now many older ex-players have big money problems. So, on Wednesday, a softball game was played in Burbank to help out ex-major leaguers. . . . A $5,000 check was presented to the Baseball Assistance Team by Disney on behalf of the Fox Television show “Hardball,” which played a team of Playboy Playmates. The Playmates won, 14-13.