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Measure to limit medicinal pot shops in L.A. is leading
After years of futile attempts by lawmakers to regulate the medical marijuana industry in Los Angeles, a ballot measure to sharply limit the number of pot dispensaries in the city was leading in early returns Tuesday. Proposition D would reduce the...
Tags: Jose Huizar, Politics, Trials, Elections, Bill Rosendahl
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Savings from Senate pension plan cut by half
— Senate President John Cullerton's pension reform proposal would slice only about half of what he estimated it would immediately cut from the state's nearly $100 billion retirement system debt, a development that could boost chances for the rival...
Tags: Politics, Pension and Welfare, Elaine Nekritz, Career and Workplace, John J Cullerton
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Hagerstown budget approved with no change in tax rates
davem@herald-mail.comHagerstown City Council members passed a $133.1 million budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year Tuesday night, but not without a lot of wrangling. Among the items discussed were financial issues facing the city and whether enough is being done for city...Tags: Politics, Government, Career and Workplace, Public Employees, Finance
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Ex-executives of Ford's Argentina subsidiary charged in torture of workers during dictatorship
Associated PressBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Three former Ford Motor Co. executives were charged Tuesday with crimes against humanity for allegedly targeting Argentine union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 1976 military coup. All three men...Tags: Politics, Judges, Prosecution, Unions, Argentina
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Contract approved to start paperwork for stained-glass window fix
Brown County has taken the first step in restoring the large stained-glass window on the second floor of the courthouse. Commissioners, during their Tuesday meeting, approved a contract with Ciavarella Design of Mitchell. It will pay the company $4,200...Tags: Career and Workplace, Highway Transportation, Dwayne Johnson, Credit and Debt
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FACTBOX - Draft EU rules to cap bankers' bonuses
ReutersMay 21 (Reuters) - The European Banking Authority (EBA) on Tuesday published draft rules on how national regulators in the European Union must decide which bankers will have their bonus capped from 2014. The EBA launched a public consultation until Aug....Tags: Career and Workplace, European Union, Banking
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Payroll meltdown keeps costing California
SACRAMENTO -- California officials are still cleaning up the mess after halting an expensive and troubled overhaul of the payroll system for public employees earlier this year. Roughly two dozen workers are responsible for sifting through the rubble...Tags: Politics, Government, Career and Workplace, Medical Procedures and Tests, Jerry Brown
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ESPN Begins Major Layoffs
ReutersMay 21 (TheWrap.com) - ESPN is laying off a large number of employees, but won't say how many. The sports site Deadspin reported the layoffs to be in the hundreds. An insider at ESPN told TheWrap that Deadspin's early report of more than 400 people being...Tags: ABC (tv network), Job Layoffs, Layoffs and Downsizing, Career and Workplace, Television Industry
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The DWP: Time for a postelection makeover
The Department of Water and Power has been taking it in the shorts during the mayoral campaign -- some casual visitor might assume that the DWP is on the ballot. Wendy Greuel’s single biggest source of campaign support has been nearly $1.5 million...Tags: Politics, Eric Garcetti, Career and Workplace, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance
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Oklahoma's tornado and political cheap shots
It's as predictable as it is disheartening: A red state gets hit hard by a tornado outbreak -- in this case killing at least 24 people, many of them children attending school -- and the first batch of letters from readers (most of them from Southern...
Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Ron Paul, Manhattan (New York City), Mitch McConnell
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Money, items to be collected for Oklahoma tornado victims
WSBT-TVST. JOSEPH, BERRIEN COUNTIES--The Red Cross says monetary donations are best but people in and around Moore, Okla. need food and water, and people in our area are eager to help. An employee stays busy using a forklift to stack pallets of packaged...Tags: Waterway and Maritime Transportation Industry, Human Interest, Career and Workplace, American Red Cross
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Roanoke is ready to help Oklahoma tornado survivors
ReporterOklahoma is more than a thousand miles away and here in Roanoke many are doing what they can to help. Outside of radio station K92, there were truck loads of water brought in by listeners. “We really didn't expect this much of a turnout but as...Tags: Career and Workplace, Radio Industry, The Salvation Army, Labor Legislation, American Red Cross
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