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Spending in L.A. mayor's race breaks records
Spending in the hotly contested two-year race for Los Angeles mayor exceeded $33 million on Saturday, breaking previous records as unlimited outside money continued to play a dominant role in Tuesday's contest. Candidate super PACs and so-called...
Tags: Eli Broad, Eric Garcetti, Local Elections, AEG, Los Angeles International Airport
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Newton: Decision time for L.A.
As the campaign for mayor of Los Angeles has played out over the last two years, the complaints I've heard most often are that none of the candidates has reached for big ideas, that the field has lacked big personalities and that the two finalists are...
Tags: Local Elections, Los Angeles Police Department, Eric Garcetti, National Government, Human Interest
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Forecast for L.A.'s mayor race: paltry turnout
More than 2 million people can vote for mayor of Los Angeles. But if history is a reliable guide, as many as 1.6 million of them will skip Tuesday's election. That low turnout could mean that the winner will garner fewer votes than any newly elected...
Tags: Primaries, Barack Obama, Racism, Local Elections, Voting
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Choi and O'Farrell in contentious battle for council seat
Mitch O'Farrell is probably the only candidate running for Los Angeles City Council who can do a backward handspring, no problem. Before taking a job a decade ago as a field deputy in the office of Councilman Eric Garcetti, O'Farrell, 52, spent years as a...
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Local Elections, Colleges and Universities, Political Fundraising, University of California, Los Angeles
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Garcetti's lead over Greuel at 7 percentage points in mayoral race
Eric Garcetti's lead in the Los Angeles mayor's race has narrowed to seven percentage points, but his strength among conservatives has blocked rival Wendy Greuel from securing a San Fernando Valley base that is vital to her chances, according to a new USC...
Tags: Minority Groups, Polls, Parties and Movements, Eric Garcetti, Social Issues
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Labor group won't back away from campaign mailer
The most powerful labor organization in Los Angeles refused Friday to back away from a campaign mailer in which it urges voters to support Wendy Greuel for mayor because she "will raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour." Even though Greuel has said she...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Herb Wesson, Minority Groups, Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles International Airport
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LAPD reformed as federal oversight lifted, city leaders say
Los Angeles leaders say the Los Angeles Police Department has undergone a dramatic transformation since federal oversight of the agency was ordered 12 years ago. The dismissal Wednesday of the so-called consent decree, which arose largely out of the...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Los Angeles Police Department, AEG, U.S. Department of Justice, Justice System
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Federal judge lifts LAPD consent decree
The federal judge who oversaw a dramatic, forced transformation of the Los Angeles Police Department has freed the department from the final vestiges of federal oversight. In a brief, three-line order Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Gary Feess formally...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Los Angeles Police Department, U.S. Department of Justice, American Civil Liberties Union, Justice System
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Villaraigosa denounces mayoral ads aimed at Latinos
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Thursday waded into the heated contest to choose his successor, calling for two ads aimed at Latino voters that attack candidates Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel to be taken off the airwaves. Both were financed...
Tags: Barack Obama, Eric Garcetti, Labor Legislation, Social Issues, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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In L.A. council race, rivals still battling over failed sales tax hike
Los Angeles voters rejected a plan to hike the city's sales tax two months ago, but the battle over that measure lives on in a hotly contested City Council race. In multiple mailers sent to voters in the 13th council district, candidate John Choi and...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Voting, Local Elections, Eric Garcetti, Paul Koretz
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L.A. Votes: Villaraigosa weighs in; final vote tally may take weeks
The election to select Los Angeles' next mayor is Tuesday. But a combination of factors – the large number of Angelenos voting by mail, the apparent tightness of the race and the city clerk’s ballot-counting process – means that the...
Tags: Barack Obama, Eric Garcetti, Voting, Political Fundraising, Politics
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Spanish book festival LéaLA aims to further cultural communication
When Carmen Cervantes was growing up in the 1960s in East Los Angeles, it would've been nearly as surprising to find a Spanish-language bookstore in her neighborhood as it would be to unearth an Aztec pyramid in the middle of Beverly Hills. The...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Literature, Colleges and Universities, Authors, Book
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