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Rangel's plea irks even Democrats
The Swampby Mike Memoli Frustrated that his case will not be heard by the ethics committee until September, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) took to the floor of the House Tuesday for an extraordinary personal appeal to expedite the process, saying he......Tags: Democratic Party, Charles B. Rangel, Politics, Local Government
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Magic Johnson drives to the hoop in support of Comcast and NBC marriage
Company TownThe Lakers aren't the only team Earvin "Magic" Johnson is rooting for. The former basketball star is also throwing his weight behind cable powerhouse Comcast's proposed $30-billion deal to take control of General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal. In a letter.... -
Feds Asked to Investigate Disappearance of Cal State Grad
KTLA NewsLOS ANGELES -- U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters has asked the Department of Justice to investigate the disappearance of a Cal State Fullerton graduate who disappeared after being released from custody of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. In a letter dated May...Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Lee Baca, Los Angeles, Death, Health
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Comcast-NBC Universal hearing offers civics lessons, but not always the right ones
Company TownC-SPAN didn't cover Monday's nearly four-hour House Judiciary Committee "field hearing" on Comcast's proposed deal to take control of NBC Universal. But if it had, viewers accustomed to the network's trademark colorless coverage would have been treated to... -
My mother and sister, prisoners of China's Communist Party
![China's leaders meant for the celebrations on Oct. 1 to remind the world of their country's growing power and importance. But the 60th anniversary of the communist revolution, which Nina Hachigian wrote about in her Sept. 30 Times <a href="http://bit.ly/26To3N">Op-Ed article,</a> should also remind us of something else: The Chinese Communist Party is still very much an authoritarian regime whose nature remains quite the same as when Mao Tse-tung brutalized the nation.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2009-10/49835294-13164530.jpg "China's leaders meant for the celebrations on Oct. 1 to remind the world of their country's growing power and importance. But the 60th anniversary of the communist revolution, which Nina Hachigian wrote about in her Sept. 30 Times <a href="http://bit.ly/26To3N\">Op-Ed article,</a> should also remind us of something else: The Chinese Communist Party is still very much an authoritarian regime whose nature remains quite the same as when Mao Tse-tung brutalized the nation.")
China's leaders meant for the celebrations on Oct. 1 to remind the world of their country's growing power and importance. But the 60th anniversary of the communist revolution, which Nina Hachigian wrote about in her Sept. 30 Times Op-Ed article, should...Tags: Human Rights, Values, University of California, Los Angeles, United Nations, California
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Congresswoman Maxine Waters rips into NBC Universal's Jeff Zucker over lack of diversity
Company TownFiery Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles) took NBC Universal Chief Executive Jeff Zucker to task for the lack of African American actors and shows on NBC. In a hearing held by the House Judiciary Committee on the proposed $30-billion marriage...... -
The Morning Fix: Loving 'Modern Family.' MGM keeps head down. Labor pains brewing. Comcast and NBC endure marathon hearing.
Company TownAfter the coffee. Before remembering rain beats snow. Final four? While the financially troubled MGM awaits to learn of its future and who its next owner might be, staffers there are just trying to focus on the four movies it...... -
Father of missing woman files claim against L.A. County
L.A. NOWThe father of a woman missing for six months since being released from the sheriff's station in Calabasas filed a claim for damages Tuesday against Los Angeles County, alleging that deputies were negligent in their care of her. Michael Richardson’s........ -
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: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), California, Jimmy Carter, Republican Party
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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: Juvenile Delinquency, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Los Angeles, Death, Government
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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, Economic Sanctions, Foreign Aid, Iraq War (2003-2011), Central Intelligence Agency
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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: Jackie Goldberg, Los Angeles, Government, Phil Spector, Social Issues
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