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L.A.'s budget chief returns to work after nearly three weeks of rehab
L.A. NOWThe top budget advisor at Los Angeles City Hall returned to his post Thursday morning, nearly three weeks after he was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving. City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana was back in his office one day after...... -
In L.A., the driving becomes electric
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhen Lefteris, a professional photographer in Los Angeles, says his other car is a gas guzzler, he's talking about the icon of environmentalists, the Toyota Prius. Lefteris is part of a grass-roots movement of people who are fed up with the auto industry...Tags: Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Automotive Equipment, Arts and Culture, Trips and Vacations, Photography
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Ban Mylar balloons
In "What’s helium-filled, foil — and harmless?" Terri Adishian says it's unnecessary to ban helium-filled foil balloons. Tell that to 2,000 residents of Menlo Park. On March 24, they came home to find no power. Why? Because a Mylar balloon...Tags: John Muir, Sales, Economy, Business and Finance, Southern California Edison Company, Father's Day
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Blind pedestrians may not hear hybrid cars
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAre hybrid cars too quiet for their own good? Jana Littrell certainly thinks so. Littrell, who is blind, was walking through a bank parking lot in the East Bay town of Albany a year ago when her foot was run over by a Toyota Prius backing out of a...Tags: Alternative Energy, Hybrid Vehicles, Environmental Issues, Car Guides and Reviews, Death
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Solar power incentives make it easier to switch
Like most Angelenos in this fragile and declining housing market, I won't be buying a different home any time soon. I want to make the most of the property I've got. I want to turn it into the most efficient, self-sustaining and worry-free space I...Tags: Alternative Energy, Tax Credits, Credit and Debt, Southern California Edison Company, Death
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Hotels hop on the 'green' bandwagon
Special to the Chicago TribuneIn case you haven't noticed, hotels are going green, doing their part to be ecologically friendly. You might call it the Al Gore effect, although the movement began before "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Academy Award this year. The green efforts go...Tags: Allergies, Global Warming, Trips and Vacations, Personal Service, Chicago Hotels
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Justices examine energy crunch
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSupreme Court justices on Tuesday heard a recounting of what lawyers called "the worst electricity market crisis in history." And they heard the story of how Enron Corp. and others helped create the spike in electricity prices in California and the West...Tags: John Paul Stevens, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Gray Davis, Sempra Energy, Lawyers
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Despite break, crisis builds in Gaza
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMalah abu Lashin lay in the intensive care unit of Nasser Children's Hospital here Sunday, her frail 20-month-old body attached to a ventilator, an oxygenator and an intravenous pump. The lifeline that kept those devices functioning was equally fragile:...Tags: Economic Sanctions, Ehud Olmert, Medical Services, Children, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Is T. Boone Pickens right?
Today's question: Oil giant T. Boone Pickens wants to turn much of the Great Plains into a wind-power farm. How practical is his plan? Should we do it? Previously, White and Taylor discussed offshore drilling. Half right is a good place to start Point:...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Travel, Environmental Issues
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Nature in the Nixon era
As The Times prepares to endorse a presidential candidate for the first time in more than 35 years, the editorial board will examine the candidates' stances on issues through our own sense of the meaning of some essential American values. How much have...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Exports, Trade Balance, U.S. House of Representatives, Plant Openings
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A renovated Huntington Art Gallery
Times Art CriticTHE PAVED terrace behind the Huntington Art Gallery is 80 paces wide. By my stride, that's more than 165 feet. Stand at the center and look south, with the imposing Beaux-Arts mansion and its striped green awnings at your back, and infinity rolls out...Tags: Arts and Culture, John Constable, Sculpture, Robert Rauschenberg, Arts
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Collision on coal is coming
AN OMINOUS collision is approaching between Washington's legislative and regulatory agenda and the investment plans of the nation's largest utilities. Unless these blueprints are aligned, meaningful progress against global warming could be foreclosed...Tags: Global Warming, Plant Openings, Barbara Boxer, Environmental Politics, Environmental Issues
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