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Global Entry: Help may be at hand for those who wait to get OK'd
Los Angeles Times Travel editorIf you’re waiting…and waiting…for an interview appointment to complete your application for the Global Entry fast-pass-through-customs program, help may be at hand. In a blog post Monday, I explained that I had been conditionally...Tags: Agriculture, Layoffs and Downsizing, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air Transportation Industry
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Best of the Web
FrameworkContinuing along the path of “big-picture” story telling, this week’s selections look at projects that are built out of collaboration. It is the combination of individual experiences and stories, that when told together give a wider... -
PBS SoCal, home of 'Downton Abbey,' hires veteran network exec
PBS SoCal, the local home of "Downton Abbey," is bringing in a network veteran to help beef up operations. The former KOCE-TV - which became Southern California's leading PBS outlet after KCET-TV left the network more than two years ago - has tapped...
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Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, to retire from Senate
WASHINGTON -- Facing the prospect of a tough reelection fight, veteran West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller, 75, announced Friday that he will leave the Senate when his current term ends. His decision makes him the first senator in either party whose term...Tags: Republican Party, Greenbrier, Scott P. Brown, John D. Rockefeller IV, Parties and Movements
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Tom Petty on lending a hand to underdog radio station KCSN-FM* [Updated]
Pop & HissTom Petty discusses lending a hand to radio station KCSN-FM (88.5) at Cal State Northridge, where he and his band the Heartbreakers will play at an Oct. 29 benefit.... -
Mitt Romney would cut federal cultural agencies by half
Culture MonsterMitt Romney says he would cut funding in half for the NEA and NEH if elected. He also sought to restrain cultural spending as Massachusetts governor.... -
Kansas governor eliminates state's arts funding
Culture MonsterKansas has become the first state to eliminate funding for its state arts agency, pushing for privatization.... -
NPR president's resignation fuels foes of public broadcasting funding
— Vivian Schiller's resignation as president and chief executive of National Public Radio comes at a perilous time for the public broadcaster, as Republicans in Congress press ahead with plans to slice its federal lifeline.
Schiller's exit on...Tags: Vivian Schiller, Entertainment, Doug Lamborn, Tea Party Movement, Media Industry
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Book review: 'Reality Is Broken'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesReality Is Broken Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World Jane McGonigal Penguin Press: 388 pp., $26.95 As a nongamer, avowed Luddite and mother of a 7-year-old who is mesmerically attracted to anything with a screen, I was...Tags: Charter Schools, Soccer, Entertainment, Science and Technology, Education
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Writers Guild worries about news degradation under Comcast-NBC Universal
Company TownThe quality of television news could deteriorate further under a Comcast-controlled NBC Universal, the Writers Guild of America East warned Wednesday in letters to key Washington officials overseeing the government's review of the proposed merger. "True... -
Jay Carney approves of Jay Carney's first briefing as Obama White House press secretary
Top of the TicketJay Carney, Obama's new spokesman, makes his first solo PR foray and gives himself a good grade....
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