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Payroll meltdown keeps costing California
SACRAMENTO -- California officials are still cleaning up the mess after halting an expensive and troubled overhaul of the payroll system for public employees earlier this year. Roughly two dozen workers are responsible for sifting through the rubble...Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees, Jerry Brown, Politics, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Greek government orders teachers not to strike
ATHENS -- Greece’s ruling coalition threatened Monday to arrest public high school teachers if they walk off work later this week, a strike that would potentially disrupt university-entrance exams for thousands of students. But the government's...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Job Layoffs, Teachers, National Government, Layoffs and Downsizing
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How same-sex marriage could affect health benefits
An unintended consequence of same-sex marriage could hearten wedding traditionalists by making marriage more attractive to all couples. It’s all about the health benefits — and what isn’t these days? In Maryland, where voters...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage, Social Issues, Family, Politics
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L.A. County officials unveil campaign to reduce infant deaths
Hoping to reduce the number of infant deaths, Los Angeles County officials unveiled a campaign Wednesday to educate parents about how to safely put their babies to bed. Over the last four years, 278 babies in the county have died from suffocating...Tags: Radio, Entertainment, Politics, Elections, Abusive Behavior
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Stakes are huge in Malaysian election
NEW DELHI — Malaysia faces its most significant election in decades Sunday, as voters choose between the longtime ruling coalition touting its steady hand and an untested opposition alliance promising economic and political reforms. The stakes are...
Tags: Southeast Asia, Arts and Culture, Najib Razak, Social Sciences, Colleges and Universities
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Letters: Failing an elderly homeowner
Re "Woman, 78, could lose home," April 27 Your article about the Highland Park woman whose home will be auctioned off because the county claims she is delinquent on her property taxes should bring outrage to residents of Los Angeles County. Whether...Tags: Auction Service, Politics, Government
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The ex-presidents club
As former President George W. Bush, joined by President Obama and three living former presidents, dedicates his library this week in Dallas, it's important to remember that presidential libraries are relatively new. In 1941, while he was still in office,...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Arts and Culture, Barack Obama, Libraries
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Margaret Thatcher dies at 87; Britain's first female prime minister
LONDON -- Margaret Thatcher, the grocer's daughter who punched through an old-boy political network to become Britain's first female prime minister, stamping her personality indelibly on the nation and pursuing policies that reverberate decades later, has...
Tags: Margaret Thatcher, Somerville, Voting, BBC, Human Interest
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Greece qualifies for new bailout funds but must impose mass layoffs
ATHENS – With a critical monitoring mission completed, international debt inspectors gave Greece the nod Monday for an additional $13 billion in rescue aid but insisted that it had to ax thousands of civil servants as part of efforts to slash the...
Tags: Job Layoffs, Career and Workplace, Unemployment, Layoffs and Downsizing, Alexis Tsipras
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Greece to get $13 billion in rescue funds
ATHENS — International debt inspectors gave conditional approval Monday to an additional $13 billion in rescue aid for the beleaguered Greek government, but insisted that it cut thousands of civil service jobs as part of an effort to slash...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Job Layoffs, Unemployment, Layoffs and Downsizing, Antonis Samaras
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South Florida Sun Sentinel wins Pulitzer
The South Florida Sun Sentinel was awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for public service journalism Monday for its investigation of off-duty police officers who endangered the lives of citizens by speeding. The newspaper, owned by Tribune Co.,...
Tags: Arts, Tribune Company, Human Interest, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal
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IRS 'Star Trek' parody: It's politics, Jim, but exactly as we know it
In attacking the Internal Revenue Service for a training video parodying the TV show “Star Trek,” critics have not very boldly gone where many have gone before -- to a political universe in which government employees are pilloried for...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Employees, William Shatner, Business Enterprises, Internal Revenue Service
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