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Brown seeks to rewrite toxins law
SACRAMENTO — Responding to complaints from businesses, Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing an overhaul of California's 26-year-old landmark clean water and anti-toxins law that he said is being misused by "unscrupulous lawyers" filing lawsuits. At issue...
Tags: Laws, Business, Lawyers, Executive Branch, Trials
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Turkish scholar talks policy at Glendale's Armenian genocide event
For the first time, a Turkish scholar addressed a crowd of more than 1,400 people at the city's annual event to commemorate the genocide of about 1.5 million people in 1915 by Ottoman Turks, a tragedy still denied by modern-day Turkey 98 years later....
Tags: Washington, DC, U.S. House of Representatives, Adam B. Schiff, Massacres, Adam Schiff
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New low for L.A.: Ticketing cars at broken parking meters
What gets me mad about driving in Los Angeles? Traffic, of course. That’s a given. The many public officials who have done nothing or obstructed efforts to improve it deserve to spend a few years of their lives immobilized at dusk on the eastbound...
Tags: Public Officials, Politics, Government
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Stop dissing the humanities
If any line item in the state or federal budgets cries out for more resources, or even just a little more respect, it's the arts and humanities. Never mind that many writers, artists and scholars have the fresh ideas that our times so desperately need....
Tags: Land Price, Public Officials, Authors, Nelson Algren, Arts and Culture
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Bill deterring business shakedowns passes state Assembly panel
A bill that would deter small-business shakedowns for Proposition 65 signage violations has been approved by a state Assembly committee. AB 227 would give business owners who violate the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act 14 days to comply...
Tags: Laws, NASA, Business, Lawyers, Trials
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Retired athletes to protest workers' compensation bill
SACRAMENTO — Let the political games begin. A battle between professional athletes and owners of football, baseball, basketball, hockey and soccer teams starts Monday. Dozens of retired athletes plan a news conference on the steps of the state...
Tags: Social Security, Sports, National Football League Players Association, J. J. Stokes, Business
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Solo drivers could use carpool lanes on off-hours under proposal
A bill by Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Sliver Lake) that would allow solo drivers to use carpool lanes during non-peak hours on the 134 Freeway in Glendale and Burbank has been amended to possibly include other local freeways. Gatto’s bill, AB 405,...
Tags: California Department of Transportation
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Gatto bill to expand solo use of carpool lanes is expanded
A bill by Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Sliver Lake) that would allow solo drivers to use carpool lanes during non-peak hours on the Ventura (134) Freeway in Glendale and Burbank has been amended to possibly include other local freeways. Gatto’s bill,...
Tags: Google+, California Department of Transportation
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Los Angeles to consider crackdown on celebrity 'swatting'
The Los Angeles City Council is expected to consider a motion Tuesday to crack down on “swatting” incidents, in which police are dispatched to celebrities’ homes on false crime reports. Councilman Paul Koretz will ask the council to...
Tags: Prisons, Racism, Celebrities, Paul Koretz, Shootings
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Ron Kaye: Getting along to run the city
Everybody loves cops and firefighters who protect our lives and property so when you get a slate mailer in the middle of a heated election campaign that looks like these public servants are supporting candidates based on their personal merits, you...
Tags: Political Fundraising, Local Elections, Chicago Elections, Voting, Politics
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