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Letters: A sad move in Santa Monica
Re "Planned demolition stirs fears," Nov. 25 Thank you for your thoughtful article, in which I was quoted, on the misguided decision by the Santa Monica City Council to allow a developer to eliminate the lovely, leafy neighborhood of seniors at the...Tags: Traffic
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Obama and family arrive in Hawaii for Christmas holiday
KANEOHE, Hawaii -- President Obama began the holiday weekend as far removed as one could be from the stalled "fiscal cliff" talks in Washington: on a golf course in his native Hawaii. The first family arrived here just after midnight Saturday for...
Tags: John Boehner, Fiscal Cliff, Democratic Party, Holidays, U.S. Congress
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'Fiscal cliff' to bring President Obama back early from Hawaii
HONOLULU – President Obama will leave for Washington on Wednesday evening to restart talks on averting the "fiscal cliff," the White House said Tuesday, interrupting and perhaps cutting short altogether his traditional holiday visit to his birth...
Tags: Condos and Houses, John Boehner, Fiscal Cliff, U.S. Congress, Rentals
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Letters: Praise for Medicare Part D
Re "A Plan B for Part D," Editorial, Dec. 21 Rational observers recognize that the Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit is the rare government program that has consistently come in under budget and helped hold Medicare costs and beneficiary...Tags: Drugs and Medicines, Chemical Industry, Science and Technology, Prescription Drugs, Medicare
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Letters: Too much trash, too many people
Re "A toxic battleground," Nov. 25 Residents of Kettleman City, Calif., claim that toxic waste dumped into a nearby landfill is responsible for illnesses, birth defects and even some children's deaths. Consider India, where crowding in parts of the...Tags: Birth Defects
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Letters: Don't call it 'marriage' for anyone
Re "Court weighs timing on gay marriage," Nov. 25 Government at all levels should get out of the business of defining marriage. The only involvement of the state in marriages or civil unions involves contract enforcement; this has nothing to do with the...
Tags: Freedom of the Press, Family, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage, Politics
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Obama 'modestly optimistic' that 'fiscal cliff' can be avoided
WASHINGTON – President Obama said he was “modestly optimistic” that Senate leaders could reach an agreement to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, but he said that if the effort fails, he’ll demand a vote on his basic proposal to...
Tags: Productivity, White House, Fiscal Cliff, Republican Party, Unemployment Benefits
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Letters: Get it together, Republicans
Re “McConnell lies low as ‘cliff' nears,” Dec. 27 My-way-or-the-highway is no way to run a country, fellas. Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell “lies low” while House Speaker John A. Boehner won't even call members back to...Tags: John Boehner, Leon Panetta, Fiscal Cliff, Republican Party, Wayne LaPierre
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Obama calls congressional leaders as 'fiscal cliff' optimism fades
WASHINGTON -- President Obama and lawmakers returned to Washington on Thursday to try to jump-start the stalled “fiscal cliff” talks, even as optimism that there would be a deal before the year-end deadline remained in short supply. Obama...
Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, John Boehner, Fiscal Cliff, Republican Party, Democratic Party
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House returning to work on 'fiscal cliff' Sunday
WASHINGTON -- House members are being called back to the capital by Sunday evening in a move that could be more symbolism than substance, as House Speaker John A. Boehner again pressured the Senate to send his chamber a bill to avert the New Year’...
Tags: John Boehner, Fiscal Cliff, Republican Party, Unemployment Benefits, Democratic Party
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The ABCs of college financial aid
If you have a child heading to college in the next few years — or even in college now — there are a few things you ought to keep in mind this holiday season. That's because parents of college-bound seniors will be facing complicated...
Tags: Homes, Financial Aid, Schools, Students, Awards and Prizes
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Letters: Political donors and the law
Re "States press groups to list donors," Nov. 26 The argument by nonprofit groups resisting disclosure of donors described in this article — that they are "caught between conflicting state and federal regulations" — is a specious one....Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Bob Dylan, U.S. Supreme Court
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