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McManus: Mother knows best
There are two things you can do for your mother on Mother's Day. One is to say "thank you." (Over lunch, with flowers.) The other is to ask her for advice — even if she's not convinced you really want it. "I don't think kids take any advice from...
Tags: Barack Obama, Periodicals, Sarah Palin, Voting, Ronald Reagan
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Hollywood Park's ghost of a chance casts pall on Southland racing
With its announcement Thursday, Hollywood Park did little to refute the theory that horse racing is a sport in need of hospice. They raced at the Inglewood track Friday, but it wasn't business as usual. Nor will it be the rest of this meeting and the...
Tags: Horse and Harness Racing, Michael Jackson, Los Angeles International Airport, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Breeders' Cup
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‘Independence Day’: Emmerich, Goldblum, Devlin talk sequel
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesEarth’s victory over alien invaders in “Independence Day” may have been but the first battle in a war. The film’s […]... -
Savvy politicos block the shot
SACRAMENTO — There's an emotional risk to falling in love with a local pro sports team, because it can cheat on you. It can walk out and take up with another city. An owner sees greener pastures — more dollars — and jumps the fence....
Tags: Government, Kevin Johnson, Los Angeles Lakers, Sports, Los Angeles Kings
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(Small) body of presidential knowledge
FrameworkFive-year-old Arden Hayes loves Legos. And presidents. He's been reading up on history and can name the chief executives in order and tell you a little — OK, a lot — about them. When he found out that he shared a birthday with FDR, he... -
McManus: Obama's war on red tape
Here are three things the Obama administration has done that you probably didn't know about: Ever struggle with those accordion-style rubber sleeves on nozzles at the gas station? The sleeve — technically a "vapor recovery nozzle" — was...
Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Federal Trade Commission, Health Care Reform (2009), Sylvia Mathews Burwell
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McManus: Obama plays for time to avoid 'red line'
Barack Obama really, really does not want to get tangled up in Syria. For almost a year, Obama's secretaries of State — first Hillary Rodham Clinton, now John Kerry — have pressed the president for more aid to the insurgents who are fighting...
Tags: George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), White House, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
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Greuel's campaign of 'gotchas' conveys desperation
It's beginning to look like there's nothing Wendy Greuel wouldn't do to become the next mayor of Los Angeles. Her boatload of big-money backers seems fond of trash-talking gibes so slimy, they're apt to backfire and turn voters off. -------------------...
Tags: Barack Obama, Advertising, Eric Garcetti, Jan Perry, Media Industry
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McManus: Obama's plan to avoid lame-duckery
For the last two months, President Obama has been mired in Washington's inside game, caught up in backroom congressional politics as he tried unsuccessfully to pass a bill on gun control and nudge Republican senators toward compromise on the budget. But...
Tags: Barack Obama, White House, Lyndon B. Johnson, Interior Policy, U.S. Senate
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Labor has helped L.A., but tweaks are still needed
I think it's fair to say that the men sitting across the table from me Monday afternoon were not terribly happy with my recent work. Bob Schoonover, president of Service Employees International Union, Local 721, and Art Sweatman, a shop steward and tree...
Tags: Government, Public Employees, Health Insurance Cost, Interior Policy, Pension and Welfare
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Gov. Brown as Robin Hood
Now we know what Gov. Jerry Brown really cares about — what gets him riled and raring to rumble. "The battle of their lives," he promises opponents. "This is a cause." When a governor bares his soul like that, not only is he waving a nasty...
Tags: Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Students, Joan Buchanan, Jerry Brown
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Newton: What about the Port of Los Angeles?
It's fun for mayoral candidates to imagine eliminating potholes or building new trains to link the Valley to the Westside. It's not hard to support a spiffed-up LAX (really, what's hard to believe is that it's taken this long) or legions of new police...
Tags: Suez Canal, Panama, Port of Los Angeles, Political Candidates, Eric Garcetti
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