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Ratliff holding slim lead in LAUSD race
The race for an open seat on the Los Angeles Board of Education was close in early returns with Monica Ratliff ahead despite financial support and union backing that made her opponent, Antonio Sanchez, a heavy favorite. In the Los Angeles Community...Tags: Michelle Rhee, Voting, Eli Broad, Antonio Villaraigosa, Teachers
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Oklahoma's tornado and political cheap shots
It's as predictable as it is disheartening: A red state gets hit hard by a tornado outbreak -- in this case killing at least 24 people, many of them children attending school -- and the first batch of letters from readers (most of them from Southern...
Tags: Barack Obama, American Red Cross, Tea Party Movement, Natural Disasters, Bonds
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L.A.'s Mid-Wilshire neighborhood could be election bellwether
It's a small swath of Los Angeles, near the city's heart, that hasn't received much attention from the mayoral candidates. But a Times analysis shows that a 2.8-square-mile, Mid-Wilshire neighborhood has had an unmatched record of picking mayors in both...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Eric Garcetti, Local Elections, NPR
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Political savvy vs. education skills in L.A. school board runoff
The race for a seat on the Los Angeles Board of Education pits the political savvy of Antonio Sanchez against the education skills of Monica Ratliff. And when it comes to campaign resources, politics trumps all. Sanchez, 31, has used his background in...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, University of California, Los Angeles, Eli Broad, Teachers, Justice System
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Jonathan Fielding, the public's MD
If you've got your health, the cliche goes, you've got just about everything. If you've got public health duties, you're responsible for just about everything from mosquitoes (West Nile carriers) to hygiene (wash your hands for as long as it takes to sing...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Health Organizations, Listeria Outbreak (2011), AIDS, Disease Prevention
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Bloomberg in damage-control mode over client snooping
Officials at Bloomberg, the New York financial news and information service, scrambled to deal with an unfolding customer privacy scandal after admitting its journalists had snooped on business clients for years through its network of terminals ubiquitous...
Tags: Journalism, Bloomberg L.P., U.S. Department of the Treasury, Economy, Business and Finance, Thomson Corporation
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Barbara Walters retiring but 'not walking into the sunset'
Barbara Walters made it official on "The View" on Monday morning: after the summer of 2014, she won't be appearing on TV anymore. During lengthy remarks at the top of Monday's program, Walters addressed the issue, which has been following her for...
Tags: Chickenpox, Ben Sherwood, Heart Surgery, ABC (tv network), The View (tv program)
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Gun control backers turn up heat on selected senators
WASHINGTON — First came the letter-writing campaigns, then the protests at town hall meetings and now the television ads. The last several weeks in New Hampshire have had the feel of a heated electoral season — but the target of this siege,...
Tags: Barack Obama, Organizing for Action, Personal Weapon Control, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Jeff Flake
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Villaraigosa-backed school board candidate leads money race
The money race among two remaining candidates for the Los Angeles Board of Education is competitive, but outside spending has skewed resources decidedly toward the one backed by L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Antonio Sanchez has collected more than...Tags: Environmental Issues, Bank Robbery, Politics, Elections, Conservation
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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: California Public Employees' Retirement System, Public Employees, Heart Disease, Gavin Newsom, Vegetarian Diet
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Jon Stewart accuses NRA of fear-mongering at convention
The National Rifle Assn. held its annual convention last weekend in Houston, where conservative pundits like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck railed at efforts to enact tighter gun control measures -- and, as Jon Stewart pointed out Monday on "The Daily Show,"...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Conservative Political Action Conference, Glenn Beck, Gun Control
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Sarah Palin, NRA's backward view of guns, 'politics of emotion'
It’s been kind of entertaining to see the world-class sophistry on display in Houston at the NRA’s annual convention. The message is: If you feel devastated about the slaughters of Sandy Hook, or Aurora, or Tucson, instead of trying to...
Tags: Barack Obama, Personal Weapon Control, Interior Policy, Gun Control, Politics
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