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News Corp. tries to build good will in wake of hacking scandal
Company TownLooking to build some good will with British lawmakers, News Corp. said it would no longer pay legal bills for Glenn Mulcaire, the private investigator that was convicted in 2007 of hacking into phones for the media giant's now shuttered...... -
Backgrounder: The Inspector General and the Mayor
Change of SubjectFrom a December 2010 campaign release: Rahm Emanuel announces his plan to reform city government....Empower the Inspector General to root out waste and corruption A strong and independent Inspector General (IG) who roots out waste, fraud and abuse in... -
The Morning Fix: Is 'Moneyball' money? More woes for Rupert.
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A loss for Illinois voters
![Putting its best face forward, the coalition of government watchdogs that signed off on Phony Campaign Finance Fix 2.0 said the deal struck Thursday with Democratic legislators "puts Illinois on the road to reform."](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/alternatethumbnails/story/2007-10/33546774.jpg "Putting its best face forward, the coalition of government watchdogs that signed off on Phony Campaign Finance Fix 2.0 said the deal struck Thursday with Democratic legislators "puts Illinois on the road to reform.\"")
Putting its best face forward, the coalition of government watchdogs that signed off on Phony Campaign Finance Fix 2.0 said the deal struck Thursday with Democratic legislators "puts Illinois on the road to reform."
With four flat tires and an empty...Tags: Pat Quinn, Elections, Political Fundraising, Primaries, Government
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Condo financing in Florida to get boost from Fannie Mae
Only about 40 of the 253 condominiums at Regent Park in downtown Hollywood are occupied by people who own them.
The rest are vacant or being rented by investors to tenants. They don't have a stake in the pet-friendly development, so keeping it clean...Tags: Rentals, Finance, Financial and Business Services, Clubs and Associations, Economy, Business and Finance
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Junk-food tax idea is gaining weight
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"Sin taxes" on cigarettes have turned out to be the most effective weapon in the campaign to reduce smoking. Why not try it on Flamin' Hot Cheetos, vanilla Coke and Twinkies? With increasing vigor, public health experts and think tanks are calling for...Tags: Los Angeles Times, State Budgets, Services and Shopping, Tobacco Products, Yale University
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State panel vote paves way for sale of Thomson Correctional Center to federal government
Tribune reporterA panel of state lawmakers recommended closing a little-used prison in northwest Illinois on Wednesday, giving Gov. Pat Quinn political cover to sell the facility to the Obama administration to house terrorism suspects now held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Executive Branch, Regional Authority, White House, Democratic Party
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Food politics in L.A.: Hungry for change
The business of government often has been conducted over a meal, but these days it's food itself that's on the public agenda: how to get more and better food to poor people, how to improve what children eat at school, how to encourage access to farmers'...Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Services and Shopping, Los Angeles County, White House
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Unfairly throwing the book at the 'Irvine 11'
![The 11 students who each briefly disrupted Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren's speech last week at UC Irvine have no 1st Amendment protection for their actions and deserve to be punished, writes my colleague, law school Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, in his Feb. 17 Times Op-Ed article. Reading Chemerinsky's piece, you'd think a group of hysterically angry Muslim men prevented Oren from speaking at all. But the situation, as a look at a <a href="http://bit.ly/d7Japk">video recording</a> of the event makes clear, was much more complicated.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-02/52374802-22150618.jpg "The 11 students who each briefly disrupted Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren's speech last week at UC Irvine have no 1st Amendment protection for their actions and deserve to be punished, writes my colleague, law school Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, in his Feb. 17 Times Op-Ed article. Reading Chemerinsky's piece, you'd think a group of hysterically angry Muslim men prevented Oren from speaking at all. But the situation, as a look at a <a href="http://bit.ly/d7Japk\">video recording</a> of the event makes clear, was much more complicated.")
The 11 students who each briefly disrupted Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren's speech last week at UC Irvine have no 1st Amendment protection for their actions and deserve to be punished, writes my colleague, law school Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, in his Feb....Tags: Teaching and Learning, Islam, University of California, Irvine, Crimes, Jerusalem (Israel)
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Calista Corp.'s long road to financial success
Staff WriterIn about a week, Calista Native Corp. shareholders will be getting their dividend checks for the third year in a row. That's significant, considering that the regional corporation has only paid dividends five times in its history. Calista is one of...Tags: Shareholders, Economy, Business and Finance, Alaska, Business, Employees
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Obama administration adopts get-tough stance on mortgage bias
A new Obama administration get-tough policy on home mortgage discrimination is drawing kudos from consumer advocates, along with expressions of serious concern from lawyers who represent lenders and brokers.
In a settlement last month with two...Tags: Prices, Lawyers, National or Ethnic Minorities, Services and Shopping, Florida
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U.S. offers special homeowner benefits to military personnel
The United States tries to take care of its warriors, a tradition that Congress has continued in little-known sections of the latest home buyer tax credit legislation and one of the government's main programs to help military owners who must sell their...Tags: Sacramento, U.S. Department of Defense, Credit and Debt, State Budgets, Washington (U.S. state)
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