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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: Bob Goodlatte, Crime, Law and Justice, Consumer Goods Industries, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Justice System
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Justice System, Health Treatments, 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, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Firearms, Culture
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DWP union is a big donor in mayor's race, its members get big pay
Employees at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, whose union is the single biggest contributor in the current mayoral race, earned average total pay of nearly $100,000 in 2011, according to a Times analysis of the most recent publicly available...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, Career and Workplace, Eric Garcetti, Lima (Peru), Government
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Chinese carmaker to open first U.S. plant in Lancaster in October
Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris is determined to make his desert town a hub for Chinese companies specializing in alternative energy. That dream came a little closer at the public unveiling Wednesday of the plug-in electric bus factory owned by Build Your...
Tags: China, Plant Openings, Government, KB Home, Politics
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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: Labor Legislation, Don Knabe, Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice, Immigration
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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: Holly J. Mitchell, Budgets and Budgeting, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Edward P. Hernandez
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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: Mexico, Drug Trafficking, Mexico City, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights
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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: Labor Legislation, Employment, Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws
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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: Holly J. Mitchell, Weight, Career and Workplace, Overweight, Vegetarian Diet
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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, Restaurants, Johns Hopkins University, Obesity, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Darrell Steinberg, Trials, Lawyers
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