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SAG-AFTRA announces plan to cut 60 jobs
This post was updated at 5:50 p.m.SAG-AFTRA, the union representing Hollywood actors and other performers, said Sunday it is eliminating 60 positions from the organization as part of plan to balance its budget. The layoffs, about 10% of the jobs at the union, represent the second wave...Tags: Collective Contract, Layoffs and Downsizing, Unemployment, Career and Workplace, Wage Contract Issues
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For whom the tolls toll
Angelenos like their freeways to be free (although they differ on what it means for highway access to be free). That's the sentiment expressed by the half a dozen reader responses to USC public policy professor Peter Gordon's letter last Saturday urging...
Tags: Highway Transportation, Symptoms, Prices, Travel, Transportation
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Katy Perry's Hollywood Hills West home for sale at $6.925 million
Singer Katy Perry's fortress-like compound in Hollywood Hills West is for sale at $6.925 million. The double-gated Mediterranean-style house, built in 1925, sits on nearly 3 acres with a caretaker's apartment/carriage house and a guesthouse. Called...
Tags: Katy Perry, Park Hill, Desperate Housewives (tv program), Doubt (movie), Television Industry
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A trio of L.A. newsmen making real estate news
In a week when newsmen were making news, how appropriate that three Los Angeles newsmen are making real estate news. Remember when anchor Kent Shocknek got under his desk during a live report as aftershocks from the 1987 Whittier Narrows quake rocked...
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Toyota will build Lexus sedans at Kentucky plant, adding 750 jobs
Toyota Motor Co. plans to build Lexus cars in the U.S. when it completes an expansion of the factory in Kentucky where it makes the Camry and Avalon sedans. Toyota said Friday it will shift production of the Lexus ES 350 from a factory in Kyushu, Japan,...
Tags: Toyota Recalls, Plant Openings, Japan, Toyota Motor Corp., Economy, Business and Finance
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California unemployment drops to 9.4%, lowest in more than 4 years
California's labor market picked up steam last month, according to figures released Friday, as the state's unemployment rate fell to 9.4% and employers added a net 25,500 jobs in March. The March rate was the lowest in California since Dec. 2008, when...
Tags: Unemployment, Career and Workplace, Labor Markets, Employment, Unemployment Rate
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Online advertising grows up: Marketers to spend more on brand ads
Marketers say they plan to increase spending on online brand advertising in a new report that comes just weeks before the major digital distributors are preparing to woo Madison Avenue in a series of advertising presentations. The new 2013 Online...
Tags: Advertising, Media Industry, Online Advertising, AOL LLC
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Lawsuit over GET-THIN ads is settled
A company behind the 1-800-GET-THIN billboard ads has reached a $1.3-million settlement of a false-advertising lawsuit, with a twist: Some of the money will be spent on billboards warning the public about the risks of weight-loss surgery. It's a...
Tags: Politics, Allergan Inc., Trials, Hospitals and Clinics, Justice System
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Customers more satisfied with big banks, J.D. Power survey says
Megabanks still lag behind their smaller brethren in customer satisfaction, but the goliaths are catching up, according to a national survey that ranked JPMorgan Chase Bank highest among the big dogs and Bank of America lowest. The J.D. Power and...
Tags: City National Corporation, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., Citigroup Incorporated, Banking
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Stock spotlight: Mattel toys with ways to sell more products
Barbie is vacating her pink Malibu mansion and hunting for international digs. Thomas the Tank Engine is being revamped as an even livelier locomotive. Max Steel, the new kid on the block, is marketed as a "modern day tech superhero." The toy brands,...
Tags: Consumers, Toy Industry, Consumer Confidence, Entertainment, Prices
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To cheers and jeers, Margaret Thatcher is laid to rest
LONDON -- A gun boomed once a minute, like one of her thunderous speeches in Parliament. Gray skies slowly turned blue, the color of her Conservative Party. And even Big Ben fell quiet, in tribute to a woman who loved nothing more than silencing her foes....
Tags: United Kingdom, Human Interest, Politics, Mining, David Cameron
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Dreamliner is declared safe; flights resumed
Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner jet, which resumed flights after a more than three-month hiatus, is safe even though the cause of a battery defect remains uncertain, the aircraft manufacturer said. Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise on Saturday made the first...
Tags: National Transportation Safety Board, Japan, Boeing Co., Federal Aviation Administration, Ethiopia
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