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Newton R. Russell dies at 85; veteran California legislator
Newton R. Russell, a veteran state senator known as an expert on California's complex public pension system and a stickler for upholding legislative rules, died Saturday of lung cancer at his La CaƱada Flintridge home, his family said. He was 85. A...
Tags: Health and Safety at Work, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Republican Party, Politics, Career and Workplace
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Melissa Joan Hart says Kickstarter failure 'started out wrong'
Not every Kickstarter film-funding effort ends in multimillion-dollar success, a la actor-writer-director Zach Braff's recent campaign or that achieved by the cast and creators of the canceled CW show "Veronica Mars." Just ask actress Melissa Joan Hart,...
Tags: The CW (tv network), Movies, Kickstarter, Nickelodeon (tv network), ABC Family (tv network)
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Reagan the Berkeley basher
Responding to Seth Rosenfeld's May 10 Op-Ed article linking then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan's harsh condemnation of student protests in the 1960s to the eventual decline of the University of California system, reader Bruce Bates wrote in a letter...
Tags: FBI, Colleges and Universities, Teaching and Learning, University of California, Berkeley, Education
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'The Roberts Court' captures an important transformation
At his confirmation hearings for the position of chief justice of the United States, John G. Roberts Jr. parried skeptics with a reassuring metaphor: "Judges are like umpires," he memorably testified. "Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them. The...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Healthcare Laws, Judges
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McManus: The second-term scandal plague
What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...
Tags: George W. Bush, Tea Party Movement, Justice System, Elections, Christopher Stevens
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John Carpenter: ‘They Live’ was about ‘giving the finger to Reagan’
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesThe Hero Complex Film Festival kicked off Friday evening with a 25th anniversary screening of “They Live,” a 35th anniversary […]... -
Herald Examiner photographers reflect on the good ol' days
Nick Souza doesn't remember developing the film of what he considers his most noteworthy front-page photo. He doesn't even recall printing the image. What he does remember is "standing on a giant ladder in the middle of Broadway" to photograph co-...
Tags: Nikon Corp, Bill Walton, Arts, Academy Awards, Rob Brown
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L.A. Votes: Greuel halts ads, DWP becomes central issue in race
With less than two weeks to go until election day, mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel’s campaign has suspended television advertising, a move that reflects her continuing struggle to raise enough money to compete head-to-head on the airwaves with...
Tags: Television Industry, Robert J. Lopez, Wendy Greuel, Politics, Political Fundraising
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Don't dilute CEQA, improve it
I remember life before the California Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA. I grew up in Altadena and Pasadena during the late 1930s and '40s. All too often I awoke to thick smog and air quality warnings. I watched as segments of the San Gabriel Valley...
Tags: Laws, Air Pollution, Environmental Issues, Judges, Port of Los Angeles
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Flip Wilson: The Persistence of Geraldine Jones
Los Angeles Times Television CriticIn Sunday's Calendar (and online here), I review "Flip: The Inside Story of TV's First Black Superstar," a worthwhile new biography of the late comedian by Kevin Cook ("The Last Headbangers," "Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything"). The...Tags: Magic Johnson, Seinfeld (tv program), Liver Cancer, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Eddie Murphy
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Letters: Reagan and a radicalizing UC
Re "Reagan and the fall of UC," Opinion, May 10 Seth Rosenfeld argues that then-Gov. Ronald Reagan's opposition to the 1960s radicalization of the University of California campuses — Berkeley in particular — was the main driver in the...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Indiana University, Politics, Government, Education
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L.A. Now Live: Amnesty debate looms over immigration bill
Four times as many people are potentially eligible for legal residency under a current bill proposing mass legalization. The specifics of the current proposal are different from President Ronald Reagan’s in 1986. Join us at 9 a.m. as we discuss...
Tags: Migration, Politics, Immigration
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