crossposted at project votes blog voting matters weekly voting rights news update by erin ferns following an historic turnout in the 2008 election comes a flurry of election reform agendas from both sides of the battle over voting rights. since november 4 some state lawmakers have seized on the success of early voting and election day registration edr as models for faci......
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source l.a. now when we last checked in on the carlyle the upscale westside condo tower project was promoting all the antipaparrazi features it was including in the development. now the developers have decided to make some units available for the nanny very small units. curbed l.a. found this l.a. business journal story with the scoop the tower will include 20 nanny condosqu......
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source l.a. now during the 2007 fires in orange county local firefighters came under harsh criticism for for a lack of resources and an inability to get help from other agencies in a timely fashion. it appears the orange county fire authority did better this time. the o.c. register reports more firefighters organized more quickly recent changes to the states mutual aid system p......
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alexander mcpherson professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at uc irvine is not the worlds biggest fan of ab 1825 the 2004 california bill signed into law by cough arnold schwarzenegger forcing any state employer with more than 50 workers to subject its supervisors to sexual harassment training. so when mcpherson continued to tell uci that he refused on principlequo......
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thousands have lived without love not one without water w.h. auden i had the opportunity to see a great documentary this week called flow that was a real eyeopener. the director covers so many water related issues that plague us today and most likely will in the future. she doesnt delve deeply into each issue but covers them enough to raise awareness. no doubt t......
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2006 blev l.a times journalistena michael hiltzik avstangd far att ha publicerat poster och kommentarera under annat namn. hur passar etik in pa bloggar och andra sociala medier ar det egentligen ok far offentliga personligh eterorgan isationer att spakskriva bloggar eller konstruera fantomidentiteter inom sociala medier sociala medier ar ju transparenta mediekanaler dar ide......
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with all of california facing a budget crunch the city of la is facing difficult cutbacks. the first round of funding cuts has been proposed recommended by the citys top budget official and will be considered by the la city council on monday. on the chopping block 1.45 million from the 79million library budget 800000 from the citys treetrimming progra......
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yes but only if you dont have sex. since the passage of californias proposition 8 which repealed the rights of gays and lesbians to marry the mormon church has been dealing with widespread protests of its support for the measure. what is the official mormon policy on homosexuality that orientation is distinct from practice. the church of jesus christ of latterday saints......
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over at the next right jon henke takes aim at mike huckabee so let me boil down my problems with mike huckabee. huckabee is a rawlsian liberal social conservative mike huckabee describes his political philosophy as a the golden rule do unto others as you would have them do unto to you and b a passage from the bible 822 1inasmuch ......
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when erin brockovichstyle movie gets thrown around in a news piece you know sights are set on big leads a big story and of course big critical success or at least an oscar in the mix. the hollywood reporter posts that collene campbells fight for the victims bill of rights is about to become a feature film. but this story is a heck of a lot eerier than brokovich......
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a lot of what we hear in relation to teens and social media is about how permanent and persistent it is. ill never forget the google engineer who attended one of my first talks at codys bookstore in berkeley telling me your stuff really is online forever. but what if its not or if you suddenly cant find it i know my friends at alloy might be bummed that irsqu......
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for more info manny pacquiao will hand out free turkeys noon sunday at the community center outside los angeles lake street park in historic filipinotown 227 n. lake st. just west of alvarado street. lance pugmires los angeles times blog discuss this topic in the forum......
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its official conrad black has recently submitted legal bills to suntimes media group inc . some of which referred to work done in pursuit of a clemency plea according to sources familiar with the matter. presidential pardon watch list p.s. ruckman jr. clarence aaron......
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this 2 part series will cover recent market developments about berkshire hathaway points to a strategy on how you may benefit more on the same trades he did recently and an option trading strategy that probably berkshire uses for maximizing it returns on the underlying they find worth investing. adon821 7t forget to read the big picture of us stock markets . markets are behaving pretty much th.....
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for someone who doesnt seem to get much traction within her own administration sheila bair at the fdic seems to be having more influence than anyone else in washington over how to respond to the subprime meltdown and the resulting wave of foreclosures. bair started calling last year for lenders to rework potentially troubled mortgages en masse by converting adjustable rate loans into ......
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interesting piece at kausfiles.com.a excerpt real estate prices started to plummet just as expectations of imminent semiamnesty were turning into the reality of harsher enforcement. schools in immigrant heavy areas of l.a. for examplea reported declining enrollments in 2006 .a thea nationwide character of the gran salida abecame apparenta even to the press aby early 2008. it see......
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obamas new white house deputy chief of staff is mona sutphen who works for stonebridge international the big consulting firm that does a rousing business with china. here is an article she cowrote from a year ago in the la times. it gives a good idea of how the us foreign policy establishment views china and probably the major premises of an obama foreign policy. an excerpt embrace......
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apic is dedicated to promoting the collection preservation and study of materials relating to political campaigns and the u.s. presidency . while this sites appearance may not be some peoples collections and knowledge are impressive. if youre an obama fan the impressive link is well impressive.......
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if ever you wanted to see the inner workings of an unfocused mind particularly one plugged into the zeitgeist of the countrys momentarily dominant political ethos you could do worse than reading the output of californias most overrated columnist the l.a. times steve lopez. here lopez makes the following assertions about national service apparently without irony f......
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hey everyone as you know ive been a vocal supporter and cheerleader of the writers guild s efforts to organize reality and unscripted ha tv . this isnt a cause that concerns only reality writers... its a fight for the rights of writers in all mediums. so... ......
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on april 2 2001 lisa richardson of the los angeles times a piece entitled a prisoners please to a president. a portion of the article reads if viewed favorably by the pardon attorney applications moved up to former deputy atty. gen. eric holders office and then to the white house. thats the theory. margaret love the nations pardon attorney from 1990 to 1997......
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its been a nice change of pace to hear stories about somalia leading newscasts the last couple of days. the audacious hijack of a massive oil tanker has helped call attention to the phenomenon of piracy in the gulf of aden and the conversion of fishing villages in somalia and puntland into pirate villages. todays headlines include an update that the saudi owners of the tanker are no......
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