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A long, expensive (and distinctive) race nears the finish line
A two-year campaign that has drawn record spending will see either the first woman or the first Jew elected as Los Angeles mayor. But despite those milestones, candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti sped around the city Sunday trying to avoid another...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Barack Obama, Magic Johnson, Judaism, Eric Garcetti
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Garcetti, Greuel fight for African American votes in final hours
A two-year-long campaign that has drawn record spending will put either the first woman or the first elected Jewish leader in the Los Angeles mayor’s office. But despite those milestones, candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti sped around the...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Magic Johnson, Judaism, Eric Garcetti, Maxine Waters
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L.A. Votes: Mayoral candidates skip overt attacks, focus on education
After months of slashing at each other's integrity and trustworthiness, mayoral candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti largely put aside their differences with one week left before the May 21 election as they supported non-controversial education...
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Local Elections, Politics, AEG, Wendy Greuel
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Lacey backs Feuer; Perry, Parks go for Trutanich in city attorney race
In the final days of the contentious contest for Los Angeles city attorney, some of the area’s political leaders, once reticent to make endorsements, are choosing sides. Former lawmaker Mike Feuer picked up a big endorsement Tuesday from Los...
Tags: Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Local Elections, Carmen Trutanich
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L.A. Votes: Mayoral candidates clash over minimum wage, attack ads
A proposal to raise the minimum wage for hotel workers to $15 per hour became an issue in the mayoral contest over the weekend, with Wendy Greuel supporting it as labor activists backing her used the proposal to urge voters to support her. Rival Eric...
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Local Elections, Politics, Wendy Greuel, Carmen Trutanich
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Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel have spirited debate at Cal State L.A.
Wendy Greuel called on Eric Garcetti on Friday night to stop all negative advertising in the last 11 days of the Los Angeles mayor's race, a challenge that her rival dismissed as "disingenuous" for a candidate whose campaign is effectively "bankrupt."...
Tags: Bankruptcy, Eric Garcetti, Advertising, Politics, Wendy Greuel
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Trutanich wages an uphill battle to be 'rehired' as city attorney
All he asks, Los Angeles City Atty. Carmen Trutanich frequently says, is that voters judge him on his record. As he wages an uphill battle to hang onto to his job in the May 21 election, Trutanich rattles off a list of reasons he should be "rehired"...
Tags: Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Labor Legislation, Entertainment Events, Jose Huizar
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Despite economic woes, 9th District a hot spot for contributions
L.A.'s 9th City Council District is among the poorest in the city, taking in a stretch of South Los Angeles where the median household income is less than $30,000 per year. Yet despite persistent economic woes, the district has become a hot spot for...
Tags: Healthcare Industry, Gloria Molina, Gil Cedillo, Public Officials, Labor Legislation
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Greuel's campaign of 'gotchas' conveys desperation
It's beginning to look like there's nothing Wendy Greuel wouldn't do to become the next mayor of Los Angeles. Her boatload of big-money backers seems fond of trash-talking gibes so slimy, they're apt to backfire and turn voters off. -------------------...
Tags: Barack Obama, Eric Garcetti, Online Advertising, Local Elections, Media Industry
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L.A. full of roads to ruin for cars
A drive along Angus Street in hilly Silver Lake requires navigating a gantlet of buckled concrete slabs and dirt-filled cracks. But on South Seabluff Drive in Playa Vista the ride is smooth, the pavement is black and you can smell the fresh asphalt....
Tags: Barack Obama, Tom LaBonge, Structural Failures, Science and Technology, FBI
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Leaders of DWP union launch TV ads in support of Greuel candidacy
The alliance between Los Angeles mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel and the Department of Water and Power workforce strengthened Wednesday as a committee run by leaders of the utility's main union launched TV advertising to buttress her candidacy just as...
Tags: Kevin James, Illegal Immigrants, Dancing With the Stars (tv program), Eric Garcetti, Political Fundraising
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Council OKs moving LAX runway as part of $4.76-billion upgrade
The ongoing modernization of Los Angeles International Airport gained momentum Tuesday when the City Council approved $4.76 billion in additional improvements, including a controversial plan to move the northernmost runway closer to homes in Westchester...
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Bill Rosendahl, Richard Riordan, Environmental Pollution, Environmental Issues
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