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Former Mayor Riordan OK After Hospital Stay for Chest Pain
Los Angeles TimesLOS ANGELES -- Former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan, back in the spotlight with a plan to scale back city employee pensions, was hospitalized briefly earlier this week with chest pain, a local news blog reported Saturday. Riordan, 82, who previously had a...Tags: Symptoms, Hospitals and Clinics, Chest Pains, St. John's Health Center, Los Angeles Times
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Wilbur K. Woo dies at 96; a leader of L.A.'s Chinese community
Wilbur K. Woo, a banker and produce merchant who first immigrated to Los Angeles in 1921, when he was 5, and decades later became an influential leader of the city's Chinese American community, has died. He was 96. Woo, who also worked to strengthen...Tags: Pneumonia, Banking, Politics, China, World War II (1939-1945)
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L.A. Moves Ahead with Plan for Half-Cent Sales Tax Hike
Los Angeles TimesLOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles City Council agreed to place a half-cent sales tax hike on the March 5 ballot to avert new cuts in city services, drawing immediate opposition from critics in and outside city government. Voters would decide the measure,...Tags: Taxation, Antonio Villaraigosa, Politics, Job Layoffs, Career and Workplace
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California's fiscal troubles are far from resolved
Last week, Proposition 30 sailed to victory, and $6-billion worth of nasty budget cuts were avoided. Problem solved? Guess again, Goldilocks. K-12 schools and community colleges, in particular, won a temporary reprieve, but they're still wobbly...
Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Politics, 401K, Credit and Debt, Tea Party Movement
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For the record
L.A. pension reforms: An article in the Nov. 9 LATExtra section about Los Angeles mayoral candidate and Councilwoman Jan Perry's plan to reform the city's pension system referred to a plan by former Mayor Richard Riordan to cut retirement costs by...Tags: Basketball, Sports, Employees, Jan Perry, Career and Workplace
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Newton: Jan Perry's path to power
An essential element of a successful political campaign, whether for U.S. president or mayor of Los Angeles, is that it identifies a path to victory. Candidates have to differentiate themselves from competitors and appeal to constituencies sympathetic...
Tags: Politics, Rick Caruso, White House, Voting, Media Industry
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Jackie Lacey Makes History In L.A. County District Attorney Race
Los Angeles Times/KTLALOS ANGELES -- Veteran prosecutor Jackie Lacey was successful in her bid to become Los Angeles County's first African American and first female district attorney, building a commanding advantage over her rival, Deputy Dist. Atty. Alan Jackson. Lacey...Tags: Antonio Villaraigosa, Justice System, Politics, Music Industry, Macy Gray
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L.A.'s mayoral race just got more complicated
With the first round of the Los Angeles mayoral election still more than four months away, the race has taken shape in recent weeks, largely because of two developments that have scrambled the handicapping of the contest. First, it became clear that...
Tags: Public Employees, Government, Antonio Villaraigosa, Politics, 401K
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Newton: L.A.'s pension peril
There are a couple of assumptions guiding much of the civic conversation about public employee pension reform: first, that organized labor would fight any reform tooth and nail; and second, that labor's strong presence in Los Angeles would doom such...
Tags: Antonio Villaraigosa, Government, Public Employees, Politics, Jim Newton
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For Zev Yaroslavsky, a familiar end to a familiar saga
It was more than 20 years ago that I covered my first meeting of the Los Angeles City Council. As I headed to the chambers, a colleague advised me to take special note of two members: Richard Alatorre, he said, understood city politics better than anyone,...
Tags: Antonio Villaraigosa, Politics, Local Government, Elections, Zev Yaroslavsky
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Robert J. Kelleher dies at 99; pivotal tennis official became federal judge
Robert J. Kelleher, who helped lead tennis into the modern open era while serving as president of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Assn. and who later became a U.S. District Court judge based in Los Angeles, has died. He was 99.
Kelleher, who was also captain of the...Tags: Australian Open, Laws, U.S. Supreme Court, Richard Nixon, French Open
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The Valley Line: Event proves to have animal magnetism
Yay! Summer is here, and that means the outdoor music venues are tuning up. The peacocks are vocalizing with the Pasadena Pops orchestra in their new home at the Los Angeles Arboretum in Arcadia with programs in July, August and September; Music at the L....
Tags: Breads, Conservation, Endangered Species, Mashed Potatoes, Animals
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