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Buffett company purchase gives solar industry big boost
Money & CompanyWarren Buffett’s MidAmerican Energy Holdings company has agreed to buy a giant, 550-megawatt photovoltaic farm currently under construction in San Luis Obispo county for $2 billion, giving a huge boost to the solar industry that could spur... -
Wind industry says jobs will be lost if tax credits expire
Money & CompanyA new study released by the American Wind Energy Association today said that 54,000 jobs can be created and maintained if the Congress acts to extend the Production Tax Credit, which is currently set to expire in 2012.... -
King/Drew Fails Final U.S. Test
Times Staff WritersFederal regulators notified Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center late Friday that it had failed what was billed as a "make or break" inspection and would lose annual funding of about $200 million — more than half the hospital's budget —...Tags: Plastic Surgeons, University of California, Los Angeles, Hospitals and Clinics, Career and Workplace, Medicare
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Site touts expert advice on airfare deals
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFarecast, a Web site that uses science to find air deals, has launched new features that one analyst called "a very big leap for consumers" -- with a caveat. Using the key feature, Fare Alerts, deal shoppers can get free daily e-mails that advise them to...Tags: Travel, Companies and Corporations, Corporate Officers, Trips and Vacations, Consumers
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Letters to the editor
The attacks of 9/11 Re "Adjusting to 9/11," editorial, Sept. 11 The Times writes: "As just one example, is the degree of danger posed by the theoretical possibility that terrorists might put a 'dirty bomb' in a shipping container really great enough...Tags: Criminals, Children, Entertainment, Regional Authority, Sex Crimes
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Hospital Backers Concede Choices Tough
Times Staff WritersA day after Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center resoundingly failed a "make or break" federal inspection, some of the iconic public hospital's most vocal supporters conceded that it may not be fixable — at least not by the county. Supervisor...Tags: Surgery, Juanita Millender-McDonald, Hospitals and Clinics, Assault, Zev Yaroslavsky
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Massive overhaul of ailing hospital urged
Times Staff WritersIf Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center is to survive, let alone thrive, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors needs to get out of the way. That's an opinion shared by most of the two dozen healthcare experts The Times asked for solutions...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Colleges and Universities, Book, Mayo Clinic, University of California, Los Angeles
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3 King/Drew Deaths Blamed on Lapses
Times Staff WritersOver the course of four days late last month, three more patients died at the beleaguered Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center after what officials believe were critical lapses in care. A Los Angeles County coroner's report attributes the death...Tags: Family, Plastic Surgeons, Trials, Hospitals and Clinics, Pharmaceuticals
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County Health Chief Is Rebuked
Times Staff WritersLos Angeles County supervisors sharply rebuked their health department chief during a rancorous public debate Tuesday and ordered him to physically move his office to Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center. "Park yourself there," Supervisor Gloria...Tags: Employers, Career and Workplace, Hospitals and Clinics, Zev Yaroslavsky, Employment
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Another Fatal Failure at King/Drew
Times Staff WritersAnother patient hooked up to a cardiac monitor died at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center recently after nurses failed to notice the patient's deteriorating vital signs, Los Angeles County health officials reported in a confidential memo late...Tags: Science, Health and Safety at School, Colleges and Universities, Hospitals and Clinics, Steve Cooley
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Emanuel parking meter deal changes get nod
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's top City Council ally on Monday predicted approval of the mayor's plan to revise the city's much-reviled, long-term parking meter lease after it easily cleared its initial hurdle. The Finance Committee voted 15-6 to advance Emanuel'...
Tags: Public Officials, Scott Waguespack, Patrick J. O'Connor, Local Government, Politics
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Siemens laying off nearly half of its Hutchinson workforce
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsEmployees at the Siemens plant in Hutchinson learned Tuesday nearly half of them will lose their jobs. “Certainly this is not only a blow to the Hutchinson community, but to the region and to the state of Kansas,” said Hutchinson City Manager...Tags: Jerry Moran, Wind Power, Mike Pompeo, Layoffs and Downsizing, Siemens
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