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For state GOP, November may be the cruelest month
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIn a city where House Speaker Nancy Pelosi faces criticism for not being liberal enough, California Republicans gathered this weekend to repair deep divides over how to appeal to an electorate that continues to trend away from the steady diet of...Tags: California, Washington (U.S. state), Migration, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barack Obama
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Kaiser to push for standards on health plans
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterKaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. said Tuesday that it was working with state regulators to develop standards to protect its members from unfair cancellations of health insurance, a move that the state's largest HMO hopes could lead to industrywide...Tags: California, Insurance, Seizures, Science and Technology, Alameda (Alameda, California)
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What kind of prison relief does Prop. 5 promise?
![<i>Today's question: California's prisons and jails are chronically overcrowded; how much of that is related to drug offenses? How much prison and jail overcrowding, if any, would be relieved by Proposition 5? Previously, Kreit and Cooley <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-cooley-kreit30-2008oct30%2C0%2C4998160.story">debated</a> whether Proposition 5 would make it too easy for offenders whose crimes were loosely related to drug abuse to escape punishment.</i>](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-10/43135571-31115537.jpg "<i>Today's question: California's prisons and jails are chronically overcrowded; how much of that is related to drug offenses? How much prison and jail overcrowding, if any, would be relieved by Proposition 5? Previously, Kreit and Cooley <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-cooley-kreit30-2008oct30%2C0%2C4998160.story\">debated</a> whether Proposition 5 would make it too easy for offenders whose crimes were loosely related to drug abuse to escape punishment.</i>")
Today's question: California's prisons and jails are chronically overcrowded; how much of that is related to drug offenses? How much prison and jail overcrowding, if any, would be relieved by Proposition 5? Previously, Kreit and Cooley debated whether...Tags: California, Theft, Addiction, Drugs and Medicines, Los Angeles
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Closing cop conduct hearings
Today, Wilkinson and Sager debate several cities' decisions to close police conduct hearings. Later in the week, Wilkinson and Sager will discuss reopening disciplinary hearings, allowing public access to use-of-force records, and Los Angeles police...Tags: Berkeley (Alameda, California), California, Local Government, Prosecution, Alameda (Alameda, California)
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Suit seeks to restore funds for treatment of homeless mentally ill
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersAdvocates for the mentally ill filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger subverted the will of voters when he eliminated a $55-million program for the homeless mentally ill -- a program he himself had touted as a success. The suit...Tags: California, Sacramento, Illnesses, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Los Angeles
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Pirkle Jones, California photographer, dies at 95
Pirkle Jones, a California photographer admired for his stirring images of migrant workers, endangered landscapes and social movements, including a controversial series on the Black Panthers at the height of their activism in the late 1960s, died March 15...Tags: California, Sacramento, Arts and Culture, Health and Safety at School, Napa (Napa, California)
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Berkeley's new cause: Make homeless behave
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterEven this college town, traditionally the defender of the downtrodden, protector of the left and arbiter of political correctness, has had enough -- enough of the homeless. After months of hand-wringing, the Berkeley City Council this week passed a law...Tags: Berkeley (Alameda, California), Social Issues, Travel, Seizures, Society
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Massive overhaul of ailing hospital urged
Times Staff WritersIf Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center is to survive, let alone thrive, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors needs to get out of the way. That's an opinion shared by most of the two dozen healthcare experts The Times asked for solutions...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, California, University of California, Navigant Consulting Incorporated, Health and Safety at School
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Doctor found liable in suit over pain
Times Staff WriterIn a decision that could improve how seriously ill Americans are treated for pain, an Alameda County jury ruled that a physician was guilty of elder abuse for failing to give a dying man sufficient medication to relieve his suffering. The Hayward jury...Tags: California, Nursing, Wisconsin, Diseases and Illnesses, Pharmaceuticals
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Calif. recall may get second hearing
Times Staff WritersThe turmoil and uncertainty surrounding California's recall election appears likely to last at least a week, legal observers said Tuesday, as the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sought arguments on whether it should reconsider an order postponing the...Tags: California, Sacramento, U.S. Elections, University of California, Kevin Shelley
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Jackson Defense on Attack
Times Staff WritersSANTA MARIA, Calif. — Under tough questioning in court Monday, Michael Jackson's 15-year-old accuser acknowledged telling a school administrator that the pop star had not molested him. The surprise blow came after Jeffrey Alpert, the former dean of...Tags: Sexual Assault, University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, California), Hospitals and Clinics, Prosecution
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Shifting Gears in Bid to Halt Recklessness
Times Staff WriterOakland Mayor Jerry Brown proposed tougher laws Friday to curb nightly displays of reckless driving called "sideshow" that have resulted in eight deaths and hundreds of arrests over the last year. At a news conference, Brown said he had introduced a...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Assault, Jerry Brown, Alameda (Alameda, California), Lawyers
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