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L.A. County officials to stop sending children to foster agency
Responding to new allegations of financial malfeasance and abuse, Los Angeles County officials have decided to stop sending children to a private foster care agency that has been responsible for more than 1,100 youths in recent years. The action was...
Tags: Child Abuse, Satellite Technology, Zev Yaroslavsky, Accounting and Auditing, Abusive Behavior
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L.A. worries about immigration reform's cost to taxpayers
As Congress takes up immigration reform, Los Angeles County officials are voicing concerns that local taxpayers will be "left holding the bag" to pay for the brunt of healthcare and other services for the multitudes of immigrants who apply for...
Tags: Don Knabe, Jeff Sessions, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Zev Yaroslavsky, Migration
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L.A. County officials worried about costs of immigration overhaul
WASHINGTON — Few regions will absorb the impact of future immigration reforms more than Los Angeles County, home to an estimated 1.1 million people in the country illegally, one-tenth of the nation's total. As the Senate Judiciary Committee...
Tags: Government, Jeff Sessions, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Barack Obama, Punishment
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Healthcare puts Jerry Brown, Capitol Democrats on different sides
SACRAMENTO — With California's deficit wiped out and its economy starting to hum, this was to be a year when Gov. Jerry Brown was free of the budget logjams that have paralyzed the Capitol. But instead, the governor has a fight on his hands...
Tags: Government, Jerry Brown, Hospitals and Clinics, Barack Obama, Healthcare Policies
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Police testing in Mexico inspires little confidence
GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Guadalajara police commander Juan Carlos Martinez took Mexico's national police vetting exam in April 2012. He failed. But no one in government would tell him why. A few months later, he received a phone call from a man...
Tags: Government, Human Rights, Blackmail and Extortion, U.S. Congress, Organized Crime
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Bill would ban junk food from vending machines at state offices
Proposed legislation to remove junk food and sugar-loaded drinks from vending machines at California state office buildings and on government property is intensifying debate about when the battle against obesity becomes a gateway to "nanny state" tactics....
Tags: Government, Heart Disease, Health Insurance Cost, Diabetes, Nutrition
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Posting calories: 'So yesterday' already?
At chain restaurants across the country, the ink is scarcely dry on new menus posting the calorie counts of food and beverage options. But already, public health experts are debating whether there might be better ways to influence Americans' nutritional...
Tags: Weight, Johns Hopkins University, Obesity, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Betrayed? Citizen soldiers lose jobs; U.S. government biggest offender
The jobs of the nation's citizen soldiers are supposed to be safe while they are serving their country: Federal law does not allow employers to penalize service members because of their military duties. Yet every year, thousands of National Guard and...
Tags: Walmart, Laws, Career and Workplace, Labor Disputes, Defense
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California Supreme Court upholds pot dispensary bans
SAN FRANCISCO — The California Supreme Court gave local governments the power Monday to zone medical marijuana dispensaries out of existence, a decision that upholds bans in about 200 cities but does little to solve Los Angeles' years-long...
Tags: Trials, Elections, Medical Procedures and Tests, Lawyers, Tom Ammiano
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Senate OKs Internet sales tax
WASHINGTON — The Senate gave strong bipartisan approval to landmark legislation that could largely lead to the end of the nation's decades-long Internet sales tax holiday. Now the issue shifts to the more skeptical, Republican-controlled House,...
Tags: Republican Party, Dick Durbin, E-Commerce Industry, Amazon.com Inc., Consumer Goods Industries
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Court: California cities can ban pot shops
Local governments in California's have legal authority to ban storefront pot shops within their borders, California's highest court ruled on Monday in an opinion likely to further diminish the state's once-robust medical marijuana industry. Nearly 17...Tags: Health Treatments, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, Medical Marijuana Therapy
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Another kind of gun control
Supporters of a measure that would have expanded background checks for firearm purchases decried the bill's death in the Senate last month. But was the defeat really such a bad thing? Had it passed, the new law would have been hailed as a historic...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Murder, Criminals, Firearms
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