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House panel presses for answers on Station fire
Los Angeles TimesUnder intense questioning by House members, the former U.S. Forest Service commander who led the initial attack on last year's Station fire conceded Tuesday that a "window of opportunity" to contain the flames was lost when aircraft arrived two hours late...Tags: Judy Chu, Adam Schiff, Forests, Fires, Forestry and Timber
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Wayne Grisham dies at 88; two-term GOP member of Congress
Wayne Grisham, a two-term Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from La Mirada who later served in the state Assembly, has died. He was 88.
Grisham died Wednesday at Dove House, a hospice in Whittier, of respiratory failure stemming from...Tags: Morningstar Incorporated, Real Estate, Republican Party, Elections, Hospitals and Clinics
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Calling Big Bird: Public TV and Radio fight for taxpayer support
The Big PictureNPR and PBS could lose their federal funding from Congress. Following an earlier snit about the firing of NPR commentator Juan Williams, public radio was back in the news this week when an NPR executive slammed conservatives.... -
Opening day at Santa Anita
All The RageNearly 35,000 people turned up for the opening of Santa Anita Park, filling the grandstands and packing the popular Front Runner restaurant. Still others watched from the exclusive Director's Room, which is reserved for invited guests and where the dress.... -
Mayor's effort to fast-track Westside subway faces challenge
L.A. NOWMayor Antonio Villaraigosa???s efforts to fast-track the long-stalled Westside subway faced a challenge Tuesday when a bipartisan group of congressional representatives said the current plan is unlikely to get immediate federal funding. Villaraigosa has... -
Religious group pushes to protect San Gabriel Mountains
GreenspaceAn activist religious group has joined the effort to designate the San Gabriel Mountains as a national recreational area eligible for additional federal resources including law enforcement personnel, interpretive signs and hiking trails. The group,... -
Supervisor calls for federal probe of Station fire operations after Times report raises questions
L.A. NOWLos Angeles County Supervisor Michael Antonovich has called for a congressional inquiry into the U.S. Forest Serviceâs response to the Station fire in the wake of a Times report that a heavy attack with water-dropping aircraft was canceled on the...... -
A Schwarzenegger retort to California's congressional delegation
L.A. NOWGov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, in a tiff with the stateâs congressional delegation over his request for more federal aid, threw the lawmakers' own words back at them in a letter today â though some of the words were uttered seven years...... -
A new push to preserve more of the San Gabriel Mountains
L.A. NOWThe river ripples cold around his waders as Bill Reeves casts a dry fly onto a pool edged with alders on the bottom of a canyon deep in the San Gabriel Mountains. Reeves, 69, who first fished this stretch of...... -
A political lesson from the fire lines
Fire exploded last week across Southern California, from the apple orchards of Oak Glen to the enclaves of Tujunga. As fire does, it ravaged acreage -- more than 154,000 acres in Los Angeles County alone by early Saturday -- and lives. Two firefighters...Tags: Private Health Care, Elections, Disasters and Accidents, Medical Services, Government
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Prayer and the San Gabriel Mountains
GreenspaceThe idyllic sounds of rustling leaves and cascading snowmelt mixed with Scripture readings Saturday morning during a pre-Easter service held in a shady Angeles National Forest glen overlooking the east fork of the San Gabriel River. About 35 worshipers... -
Capitol Hill Eats Own Pork
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE, Jefferson Smith, now that we need you? A naïf sent to the U.S. Senate on a fluke in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," Smith (played by Jimmy Stewart) discovered that his mentor had slipped a provision into a "deficiency bill" to...Tags: U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Property, Political Corruption, Harry Reid
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