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Ex-Rep. David Dreier finds a new role with Annenberg group
WASHINGTON -- As a member of Congress, the ever polite House Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-San Dimas) helped promote the idea of a bipartisan retreat to teach lawmakers how to be more civil to one another. Though congressional...Tags: U.S. Congress, Jon Huntsman, Jr., U.S. House Committee on Rules, Barack Obama, Politics
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Dave Spence: A 20-year incumbent seeks reelection to La Cañada City Council
Dave Spence has sat behind the City Council dais for more than 20 years. At 75, he is the oldest elected official in the city, with five terms as mayor under his belt. Spence says his breadth of experience will help the council maintain the city's...
Tags: Highway Transportation, California Department of Transportation, Adam Schiff, Wesleyan University, Media Industry
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Obama and Congress, where's your grand bargain?
Our divided, gridlocked political system seems incapable of resolving the government's long-term deficit problem. Sometimes members of Congress sound like they're still in a political science class, rather than the real political world. "This shouldn'...Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Democratic Party, Parties and Movements, U.S. Congress, Public Finance
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'Fiscal cliff': Thanks for very little, readers say
Uncle Sam won't take a bigger chunk out of most Americans' paychecks in 2013, thanks to the House's vote Tuesday to pass a bill averting the "fiscal cliff." The reaction so far from readers? Calling it mixed would be generous. The responses sent so...Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Democratic Party, U.S. Congress, Republican Party, Politics
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An exit interview with Rep. David Dreier
David Dreier was 26, still living in a dorm at Claremont McKenna College and working as a college administrator, when he ran for Congress the first time, in 1978. He lost then but never thereafter. Sixteen times, Dreier was elected to the House of...Tags: Dance, Republican Party, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Lugar, Budgets and Budgeting
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How She Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The O-bomb-a
So Rep. Jeff Landry is running for re-election and the Times Picayune’s constitutionally-hapless doyenne has a deadline for her editorial, mix the two and voila! Say hello to Stephanie Grace’s, graceless embrace1 of President Obama’s...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Christopher Stevens, Libya, John McCain, Chicago Housing Authority
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Schiff lambastes Congress for lack of compromise
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) came to La Cañada Flintridge on Wednesday to decry the partisan division in Congress and warn that it could lead to economic devastation. “This is a terrible way to run a government. It is a byproduct, I think, of an...
Tags: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Finance, NASA, U.S. Senate, Adam Schiff
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Reactions to healthcare ruling toe party lines
Among the area's congressional representatives, reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling Thursday on President Obama's healthcare overhaul were diametrically opposed, mirroring their respective parties and the dialogue on Capitol Hill. On one side,...
Tags: Republican Party, Adam Schiff, U.S. Senate, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
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Rep. Dreier joins call for repeal and replacement of Obama healthcare law
Rep. David Dreier (R-San Dimas) had a much different take on the U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold President Obama’s healthcare law than his Democratic colleague, Adam Schiff. Dreier, whose district includes La Crescenta and La Canada...Tags: Republican Party, U.S. Supreme Court, Crime, Law and Justice, Health, Healthcare Laws
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Hospitals react to 'Obamacare' ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Thursday to uphold President Obama's health insurance mandate will expand coverage to many uninsured Americans, but its effect on area hospitals remains unclear. Len LaBella, president of Verdugo Hills Hospital, is...
Tags: Prescription Drugs, Insurance, Hospitals and Clinics, Adam Schiff, U.S. Supreme Court
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Storm barriers must remain in hillside neighborhoods
La Cañada Flintridge homeowners may hate them, but the barriers that have lined hillside streets since the 2009 Station fire aren't going away any time soon. Scientists with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service...
Tags: Environmental Issues, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ocean View, Conservation
Feb 20, 2013
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Oct 10, 2012
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Sep 18, 2012
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Aug 22, 2012
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Jun 28, 2012
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Jun 28, 2012
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Jun 30, 2012
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May 16, 2012
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May 23, 2012
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