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DWP watchdog warns high cost comes with L.A.'s coal-free plan
Weeks after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa celebrated his plan to move the city off of coal-fired energy, a city watchdog has attached a giant price tag to the initiative. Fred Pickel, the ratepayer advocate at the Department of Water and Power,...
Tags: Unemployment, Coal, Career and Workplace, Antonio Villaraigosa, Energy Resources
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$600-million price tag projected for Villaraigosa's coal plan
Weeks after Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa celebrated his plan to speed up the end of the city's reliance on coal-powered energy, a city watchdog has attached a giant price tag to the initiative. Fred Pickel, the ratepayer advocate at the...
Tags: Coal, Antonio Villaraigosa, Energy Resources, Electricity Production and Distribution
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As Senate acts, trying to figure out why Americans love their guns
The Senate voted Thursday morning to allow the gun debate to go forward. Looks as if this pistol-packin’ nation may end up with a background check requirement after all -- though there’s no guarantee that even that modest measure will...
Tags: Adam B. Schiff, Laws, Politics, Interior Policy, Lindsay Lohan
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Bush's presidency is looking better compared to Obama
In regards to "Misoverestimating Bush" (April 25), it's surprising that this complete nincompoop could somehow manipulate not only the intelligence community in this country but even our allies into reporting that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. The...Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush
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Barry Diller talks up Aereo on first day of Milken conference
The three-day Milken Institute Global Conference kicked off Monday in Beverly Hills, with media moguls Barry Diller and Rupert Murdoch among the hundreds of business leaders and politicians slated to speak. The annual event, run by financier and...
Tags: Apple iPhone, CBS Corp., Samsung Group, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Apple Inc.
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Al Jazeera not interested in playing ball with Tennis Channel
Cross Al Jazeera off the list of potential suitors for the Tennis Channel. The Qatar-based media giant was mentioned by the New York Post in a story last week as wanting to buy the Tennis Channel. However, a senior executive with knowledge of Al...Tags: Tennis Channel (tv network), Tennis, Al Jazeera (tv network), Current TV (tv network), Media Industry
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Bush library events cast sights toward 2016
DALLAS — A day of festivities leading up to Thursday's dedication of the George W. Bush presidential library cast attention back to his tumultuous presidency and ahead — perhaps — to the next presidential contest. Former Secretary of...
Tags: White House, Politics, Stephen Hadley, Jeb Bush, Arts and Culture
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Laura Bush reflects at presidential library: 9/11 is touchstone
DALLAS -- Former First Lady Laura Bush spoke Wednesday during a preview tour of the new George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum at her alma mater, Southern Methodist University in Dallas. President Obama is expected to join the Bushes, George H....
Tags: White House, Iraq, Arts and Culture, Jeb Bush, Stephen Hadley
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It's Earth Day! Here are 7 ways to honor the planet
Happy Earth Day! It’s been 43 years since Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson celebrated the very first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. It’s not yet a federal holiday, but Earth Day is celebrated by schoolkids from coast to coast (along with many...
Tags: Weather, Environmental Politics, Entertainment Events, Google Inc., Conservation
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Reader Panel: Rating winter response
Today’s question: How would you rate local and/or state response to the long winter? What more could have been done? I don’t enjoy cleaning my sidewalk before and after the plows are done, I stay away and not do the curb, especially this time... -
Senate poised to debate gun control measure
WASHINGTON — Gun control efforts in Congress cleared a significant hurdle Wednesday as the Senate prepared to open what could be a weeks-long debate, even as opponents plotted a shift in strategy aimed at undermining a comprehensive package of...Tags: Barack Obama, Chris Murphy, U.S. Congress, Politics, Mark Kirk
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For Democrats in 2016, it's all about Hillary Clinton — so far
WASHINGTON — It sounds like a bad joke from an old comedy routine. Question: How do you take on Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination? Answer: Very carefully. Clinton is almost universally popular among Democrats as...
Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Department of State, John Edwards, Politics, Polls
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