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    Jun 8, 2013 |Story| Glendale News Press

  1. Ron Kaye: Working for the union or fighting it

    In Glendale, utility workers found their paychecks a little smaller last week — the price of the inability of their union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 18, to negotiate an initial contract two years after winning the right to represent them.
    In Glendale, utility workers found their paychecks a little smaller last week — the price of the inability of their union, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 18, to negotiate an initial contract two years after winning the...

    Tags: Investments, Unions, Labor Legislation, Collective Contract, Wendy Greuel

    2. Jun 5, 2013 |Story| Glendale News Press

  2. A journal in a Glendale thrift store, a glimpse into a more politically conscious youth

    The spring and summer of 1968 were an agony for the United States, especially for young Americans and black Americans.
    The spring and summer of 1968 were an agony for the United States, especially for young Americans and black Americans. In April, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. In June, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, here in Los Angeles, in the...

    Tags: Assassinations, Martin Luther King Jr., Vietnam War (1955-1975)

    3. May 17, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Op-Ed, explained

    TO SOME READERS, the Op-Ed page is a bit mysterious. I'll be at a cocktail party, or in the bleachers at a Little League game, and the guy next to me will begin asking questions about just what it is we're trying to do, and how we get it done. Who are...

    Tags: Meghan Daum, Authors, Doyle McManus, Nicholas Goldberg, Periodicals

    4. Apr 8, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Did Margaret Thatcher diss Sarah Palin?

    The death of any iconic global figure is often the occasion for colorful anecdotes, but the one that has been repeated Monday in the wake of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s death—that she snubbed former Alaska Gov. Sarah...

    Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Israel, Elections, Government, Political Candidates

    5. Mar 20, 2013 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  5. The Magic Castle's Milt Larsen: Why humans need magic

    Milt Larsen is a master of two kinds of magic. There's the abracadabra kind that his magician parents brought him up on, and the sort he began practicing with his late brother, Bill — the magic of preserving buildings, including the Variety Arts Theater downtown and the Mayfair Music Hall in Santa Monica. The capper is the Magic Castle. Here, 50 years ago, the Larsens — presto-changeo — turned a banker's home into a members-only clubhouse for grown-up magicians and their fans. Larsen has three cable radio shows (old comedy and even older music), but his passion for magic has made his Castle his home.
    Milt Larsen is a master of two kinds of magic. There's the abracadabra kind that his magician parents brought him up on, and the sort he began practicing with his late brother, Bill — the magic of preserving buildings, including the Variety Arts...

    Tags: Halloween, Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Richard M. Sherman, Los Angeles Times Columnists, Milt Larsen

    6. Jun 20, 2012 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  6. Patt Morrison Asks: Norman Lear, TV's seriously funny icon

    Television comedy can probably be divided into two eras: B.L. and A.L. — Before Lear and After Lear. Norman Lear's seminal 1970s sitcoms —"All in the Family" and its offspring, from"Maude" to "The Jeffersons" — used the laissez-passer of comedy to bring politics, race, abortion and sexism into the nation's living rooms, and made Archie Bunker a virtual member of all of the nation's families. Then in 1981, Lear founded People For the American Way. In Washington, on Thursday night, the organization celebrates the upcoming 90th birthday of the man who pushed the TV definition of family and praises his own wife and six kids as "the greatest family in the history of families."
    Television comedy can probably be divided into two eras: B.L. and A.L. — Before Lear and After Lear. Norman Lear's seminal 1970s sitcoms —"All in the Family" and its offspring, from"Maude" to "The Jeffersons" — used the laissez-passer of...

    Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Maude (tv program), Norman Lear, South Park (tv program)

    7. May 16, 2012 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  7. The National Teacher of the Year on what makes a great teacher

    The class clown from Mr. Gadberry's high school art class has made good — and how. Rebecca Mieliwocki teaches seventh-grade English at Luther Burbank Middle School in Burbank — but not next year. Instead, she'll be on the road as the National Teacher of the Year. It took her a long time to get to the classroom — she once worked as a floral designer, doing the flowers for Elizabeth Taylor's private jet — and eventually to the White House, where a fellow teacher, President Obama, crowned her as a national teaching treasure. Before she takes off, Mieliwocki is speaking at commencement at her teaching alma mater, Cal State Northridge — and right here.
    The class clown from Mr. Gadberry's high school art class has made good — and how. Rebecca Mieliwocki teaches seventh-grade English at Luther Burbank Middle School in Burbank — but not next year. Instead, she'll be on the road as the...

    Tags: Elizabeth Taylor, Teachers, Health, California State University, Northridge, Barack Obama

    8. May 2, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  8. L.A. riots: Readers respond to 20th anniversary coverage

    Readers' Representative Journal
    Readers by the dozens have shared their memories of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, which erupted 20 years ago....
    9. Apr 28, 2012 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  9. Nathan Fletcher, San Diego's renegade ex-Republican

    A computer programmed to design a promising young Republican politician would probably spit out Nathan Fletcher. Marine; Iraq combat veteran in Iraq; smart; athletic; married to a well-situated Republican; two little boys, adopted; two dogs, ditto....

    Tags: Local Elections, Parties and Movements, Nathan Fletcher, Republican Party, Government

    10. Apr 21, 2012 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  10. Rodney King, 20 years after L.A.'s riots

    In 21 years, his name has appeared in the Los Angeles Times on more than 7,000 occasions. Sometimes it's as himself, Rodney King, the victim of now-fabled LAPD abuse the world got to see, the plaintiff in a civil lawsuit, the hapless guy getting stopped yet again on some speeding or DUI beef, the man on the celebrity rehab show. And sometimes it's as "Rodney King," the accidental symbol and the rallying cry on police abuse issues. Some of the biggest institutions in Southern California — the Los Angeles Police Department, the city itself — were changed because of the beating King took in 1991 and the beating the city took in 1992 in the riots that followed the acquittal of the officers charged in his beating. Has the man himself changed? On the 20th anniversary of the riots, his book, "The Riot Within,"' written with Lawrence J. Spagnola, is letting us, and King himself, find out.
    In 21 years, his name has appeared in the Los Angeles Times on more than 7,000 occasions. Sometimes it's as himself, Rodney King, the victim of now-fabled LAPD abuse the world got to see, the plaintiff in a civil lawsuit, the hapless guy getting stopped...

    Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture, Justice System, Lawyers, Los Angeles Police Department

    11. Apr 14, 2012 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  11. Patt Morrison Asks: James Cameron, a man overboard

    The Challenger Deep, a fissure in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, lies farther below the Earth's surface than Mt. Everest reaches above it. And James Cameron, the science-enthralled director and underwater explorer, made it his Lindbergh moment, soloing humankind's deepest-ever plunge last month in a purpose-made submarine fitted out — natch — with 3D cameras. One hundred years ago today, the world's most famous accidental deep dive took the ocean liner Titanic to the bottom of the Atlantic. Cameron made that story into the film "Titanic." I spoke with him just before his epic descent, and asked him to ruminate on the ship that disappeared in 1912 and his own disappearing act into the ocean depths. You know what they say — whatever floats your boat.
    The Challenger Deep, a fissure in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, lies farther below the Earth's surface than Mt. Everest reaches above it. And James Cameron, the science-enthralled director and underwater explorer, made it his Lindbergh moment,...

    Tags: Pacific Ocean, Human Interest, James Cameron, The Pentagon, World War I (1914-1918)

    12. Apr 7, 2012 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  12. Patt Morrison Asks: Blue blood, Peter O'Malley

    In 1938, after voters recalled L.A.'s crooked mayor, Frank Shaw, it's said that someone planted a sign on the City Hall lawn: "Under new management." The new ownership of the Dodgers needs no sign. The purchase, by a Chicago financial service company at a record price, has been heralded in every way but skywriting.
    In 1938, after voters recalled L.A.'s crooked mayor, Frank Shaw, it's said that someone planted a sign on the City Hall lawn: "Under new management." The new ownership of the Dodgers needs no sign. The purchase, by a Chicago financial service company at a...

    Tags: Chicago City Hall, Sports, Fox Broadcasting Company, Magic Johnson, Companies and Corporations

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