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Artwork, fraud victims sought
Crime and Safety - Sun-SentinelMatthew Taylor, 43, Vero Beach. Photo: U.S. Department of Justice, courtesy Federal investigators and the Los Angeles Police Department are seeking information about the man picured above: Matthew Taylor, 43, an art dealer from Vero Beach, Florida....Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Fine Arts, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Crimes
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Obama's police report: Reassessment
The Swampby Peter Wallsten, Peter Nicholas and Richard Simon A day after saying that police "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard University professor in his own home, President Obama appeared to soften his stance Thursday, spreading the blame more...Tags: Politics, Juvenile Delinquency, Government, Crimes, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Newton: Decision time for L.A.
As the campaign for mayor of Los Angeles has played out over the last two years, the complaints I've heard most often are that none of the candidates has reached for big ideas, that the field has lacked big personalities and that the two finalists are...
Tags: Politics, Wendy Greuel, Eric Garcetti, Richard Riordan, Antonio Villaraigosa
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Newton: Some questions for Greuel and Garcetti
There was plenty to grouse about in the first round of the Los Angeles mayor's race. Instead of real discussion of the city's issues, the candidates offered evasive cliches. A deluge of debates reduced almost every serious policy position to a sound bite....
Tags: Politics, Wendy Greuel, Eric Garcetti, Port of Los Angeles, Environmental Issues
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Mixed signals on city budget give voters more reason for cynicism
When I scolded deadbeat Angelenos for blowing off Tuesday's election, some of them had just enough energy to return fire. "I chose not to spit into the wind anymore," wrote Lou. "It is not an embarrassment to shun an embarrassment like L.A....
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Career and Workplace, Religion and Belief, Antonio Villaraigosa
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Newton: Decision time in the L.A. mayor's race
The candidates for mayor of Los Angeles have been at it for more than a year, some much longer than that. Together, they have spent nearly $15 million. They've participated in so many debates that they can now address just about any topic — from...
Tags: Politics, Wendy Greuel, Kevin James, Eric Garcetti, Richard Riordan
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LAPD Chief Charlie Beck's side
In the three-plus years since Charlie Beck put on the chief's badge at the LAPD, his goal has been to consolidate a modern, multiethnic, publicly responsible 10,000-officer department, as envisioned in the rattling reforms of 15 and 20 years ago. The...
Tags: Politics, Sundance Film Festival, Butch Cassidy, Rodney King, Christopher Dorner
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Newton: Labor's agendas
This has been a complicated season for organized labor in Los Angeles. On the one hand, labor got the mayor's race it wanted: Controller Wendy Greuel and Councilman Eric Garcetti both have a long history of supporting, and being supported by, unions....
Tags: Politics, Wendy Greuel, Eric Garcetti, Career and Workplace, Unions
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Dorner and the LAPD legacy
I expected fireworks in South Los Angeles this week, when LAPD Chief Charlie Beck showed up at a community meeting to talk about Christopher Dorner, the ex-cop turned killer whose manifesto cast the department in an ugly light, resurrecting decades of...
Tags: Minority Groups, Racism, Rodney King, Christopher Dorner
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Mayor leaves L.A. in better shape than he found it
I couldn't have imagined saying this a few years ago, but I wish Antonio Villaraigosa could run again for mayor of Los Angeles. You can look at broken promises and judge the mayor a flop: too many potholes, and not enough cops. But I think his...
Tags: Politics, United Negro College Fund, Antonio Villaraigosa, Elections, CicLAvia
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Responses to Dorner case contain surprises
A Christopher Dorner sighting was reported Sunday in my Northridge neighborhood. Helicopters swarmed, patrol cars roared up. The hardware store was evacuated and my favorite bakery roped off. It turned out to be a false alarm — just some random...
Tags: Politics, James Holmes, Jared Lee Loughner, Charlie Sheen, Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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Landscaping fiasco at LAPD headquarters not over yet
If the penal code had a section on landscaping crimes, the Los Angeles Police Department would need a full-time squad to go after everyone responsible for the ongoing fiasco on its own property. It's been 3 1/2 years since the new headquarters opened at...
Tags: Culture, Arts and Culture, Ceremonies
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