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The decline of political competition
IN AN ELECTION YEAR IN WHICH grumpy voters from coast to coast are gunning for the scalps of doddering Republicans, Rep. Gary Miller (R-Diamond Bar) would seem a vulnerable target. Named this summer by a nonprofit watchdog group as one of the "20 most...Tags: Conservation, Career and Workplace, Nature, Jimmy Carter, Endangered Species
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Let Black Los Angeles Decide Williams' Fate
Ted Hayes is the founder and executive director of Dome Village, a residential program that helps homeless people find employment.I PROPOSE that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, rather than unequivocally deciding to save Stanley Tookie Williams or send the convicted murderer to his death next week, instead conditionally postpone his execution. The governor should then immediately...Tags: Local Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Regional Authority, Murder, Juvenile Delinquency
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Iran sounds an awful lot like Iraq
Jon Sawyer is director of the Washington-based Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. He has reported from Iran and throughout the Middle East.AN EMBATTLED president, a Congress distracted by a sex scandal, looming midterm elections — and yet overwhelming agreement, with scant debate or publicity, on fateful legislation that set the nation on a path to war. It happened eight autumns ago,...Tags: National Security, Lawyers, Ruhollah Khomeini, Crime, Law and Justice, Saddam Hussein
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'60s still alive on a corner in Echo Park
POINTS WESTA spirited Art Goldberg was up in his shabby Echo Park office Monday afternoon, above the Vietnamese bakery with the moon cakes he loves, counting votes for the antiwar resolution he's been touting since August. "I think we've got 10," said the lanky,...Tags: Phil Spector, Social Issues, Law Enforcement, Echo Park, Prostitution
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Passport problems? Call your congressman
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIf you need help with your passport, do not e-mail your congressional representative's office. Call. This list of California House members (with their district number) was compiled using the contact information on each representative's website. --------...Tags: Concord (Contra Costa, California), Sam Farr, Dana Rohrabacher, Napa (Napa, California), Bodies of Water
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Villaraigosa meets with Jordan Downs community group
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa answered questions from the Jordan Downs Community Advisory Committee on Wednesday about the proposed $1-billion redevelopment of the housing project in Watts. "I just want to say how important it is for me to hear from you,...Tags: Minority Groups, Interior Policy, Housing and Urban Planning, Antonio Villaraigosa, Politics
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The Latino vote is pro-Clinton, not anti-Obama
The results of Tuesday's primaries brought a renewed and vigorous debate about the Latino vote and the "Latino gap" for Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). States such as California, Illinois, New York, Arizona and New Mexico have very large Latino electorates...Tags: Arizona, U.S. Senate, NPR, Social Sciences, Crime, Law and Justice
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A choice, for a change
Like popes, Los Angeles County supervisors have to win an election to land the job, but once in, they're sitting pretty. The last time there was a contested supervisor election, George Bush was president -- the Bush who didn't send U.S. forces into...Tags: Minority Groups, Don Knabe, Civil Rights, Los Angeles Police Department, Local Elections
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For Gertrude Baines, reaching 115 isn't old hat
Through it all, she smiled.
Gertrude Baines, who holds the record as the world's oldest living person, celebrated her 115th birthday Monday, as a crowd of well-wishers that included President Obama and the Dodgers sent their regards.
Plaques,...Tags: Social Issues, Dianne Feinstein, Health, Grover Cleveland, Death
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Towers of Power
Sara Catania last wrote for the magazine on L.A.'s mayoral blues.Watts towers did not begin with a tower at all. It began with a ship, or an utterly immobile rendition of one. Three thousand miles from the ocean that carried him to the United States from Italy 26 years before, Simon Rodia dug a boat-shaped trench at...Tags: Minority Groups, Willis Tower, Transportation, Sculpture, Crime, Law and Justice
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The Bradley Effect is still in effect
Times columnist Gregory Rodriguez and University of Washington political scientist Matt Barreto step out to combat comments by Clinton staffer Sergio Bendixen about Latino voters not being overly friendly toward black candidates. They are wrong,...Tags: Minority Groups, Local Elections, New York City, San Francisco, Washington (U.S. state)
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When it comes to race, Obama makes his point--with subtlety
Tribune national correspondentThe night before the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum was dedicated, Barack Obama sat awake in his room at the Renaissance Hotel, agonizing over a speech he would deliver about a man he calls his political hero. As midnight approached, after...Tags: Democratic National Conventions, U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Crime, Law and Justice
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