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Bullet train agency names new chief executive
The California High-Speed Rail Authority on Tuesday named Jeff Morales, an executive for a contractor working on the bullet train project, as its chief executive, filling a position that has been vacant since early January.
Morales, a former Caltrans...Tags: Politics, General Contracting, Mark DeSaulnier, Doug LaMalfa, Science and Technology
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Cal State Chancellor Charles B. Reed to retire
California State University Chancellor Charles B. Reed announced Thursday that he is retiring after 14 years of leading one of the largest public university systems in the nation through a tumultuous period of cutbacks, spiraling tuition and controversy...
Tags: Education, Politics, Florida State University, Career and Workplace, Strikes
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Polls: Obama, Romney neck and neck six months ahead of election
WASHINGTON -- With six months until election day, the race between President Obama and Mitt Romney has tightened into a statistical dead heat. Two new polls find that although the candidates are tied for overall support, Obama remains the more well-liked...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Voting, Democratic Party, David Axelrod
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Charles Colson dies at 80; Watergate felon and prison reformer
WASHINGTON — Watergate felon and prison reformer Charles W. Colson, who died Saturday at age 80 in northern Virginia, was two people.
He was Richard Nixon's "hatchet man," the president's "evil genius," who by his own admission was "ruthless in...Tags: Protestant Convention, Prisons, Religious Events, Pentagon Papers Release (2011), Wars and Interventions
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Leading Fed critic Peter Schiff to counter Bernanke lectures
It's the monetary policy version of "Point/Counterpoint." Leading Federal Reserve critic Peter Schiff will give his own lecture Thursday in Washington to counter a four-lecture series on the financial crisis by Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke that wraps...
Tags: Federal Reserve, Money and Monetary Policy
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Should we evaluate teachers outside of the classroom too?
Should teachers have the freedom to lead private lives we may not all agree with? And should they be able to post controversial tidbits on social networking sites? Jonathan Turley, a professor of public interest law at George Washington University,...
Tags: Values, Politics, Career and Workplace, Employment Opportunities, Ethics
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Charles T. Manatt dies at 75; Democratic Party leader and diplomat
Charles T. Manatt, who founded one of the biggest and most influential law firms in Los Angeles and then became a political power as chairman of the state and national Democratic parties, died Friday night. He was 75.
Manatt died at Kindred Hospital in...Tags: Time Warner Inc., Des Moines Register, Walter Mondale, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Democratic Party
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The other healthcare lawsuit: California Medicaid (aka Medi-Cal) case headed to Supreme Court
SANTA ROSA, Calif. – With valet parking for patients, video-conferencing for parents of premature babies and a healing garden abloom with azaleas, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital tries to maintain the amenities of a thriving community hospital. But...Tags: Lawyers, News Media, Diseases and Illnesses, Medicaid, U.S. Department of Justice
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Violent video games: What's your take on the Supreme Court's decision? [Reader poll]
Opinion L.A.The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday overturned California's law banning retailers from selling or renting violent video games to people under 18 without parental consent. It was a highly contested issue because on one side, people saw the law as...... -
Gen. John M. Shalikashvili dies at 75; former Joint Chiefs chairman
Retired Army Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, who became the first foreign-born chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and guided military and humanitarian efforts in the post-Cold War era of the 1990s, has died. He was 75.
Shalikashvili died Saturday...Tags: John Wayne, U.S. Army, U.S. Military, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Science and Technology
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PASSINGS: James McLure, Joseph Flom, Harry Fogle, Tommy Bell, John Robinson
James McLure
Playwright who wrote 'Lone Star'
James McLure, 59, a playwright and actor best known for his two one-act plays that reached Broadway, died Feb. 17 from cancer at his home in Marina del Rey, said his sister, Jenny Schroeder.
McLure's...Tags: Engineering, Obituaries, Space Programs, Science and Technology, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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