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First Lady Michelle Obama's State of the Union guests -- list here
Top of the TicketEvery president since Ronald Reagan has used the State of the Union address to showcase heroes of the past year -- and convey a sense that they are still connected to the voters and the issues that propelled them to...... -
Home sweet homestead: A green path to freedom
Brand XFirst, there is the study in opposites: the sprawl of concrete meeting a spread of fecund growth, white picket fence lining city street, the roar of freeway competing with the screech of a hen celebrating the laying of the morning's first egg. Path to... -
San Francisco International Airport takes video jab at LAX. Or not.
L.A. NOWSan Francisco International Airport has taken a not-so-subtle jab at LAX in a new YouTube marketing video "I Wanna Go Through SFO." The video, which has gotten over 20,000 views, is an effort to attract people flying to the United...... -
FBI probes L.A. Housing Department’s actions in apartment project for homeless seniors
L.A. NOWThe FBI is investigating an affordable-housing deal in which Los Angeles officials channeled $26 million to a developer who they knew was under criminal investigation for alleged misuse of public funds, city officials said Thursday. The developer, David... -
Next up for the financial-meltdown panel: Face time with Greenspan, Prince, Rubin and Mudd
Money & CompanyIn the search for who to blame for the financial-system meltdown, some names show up on any short list more often than others. Some of those individuals will be testifying in Washington over the next three days at hearings called...... -
Wells Fargo agrees to work with NAACP, settling accusation of lending bias
Money & CompanyThe NAACP said Thursday it has settled a lawsuit that accused Wells Fargo & Co. of steering African American borrowers unfairly into costly subprime mortgages while providing loans with lower fees and interest rates to white borrowers in similar... -
Nightmares come true for the neediest
Jean called the other day from her desert condo near Palm Springs. She'd been notified that the state was cutting back again on aid for the disabled and she was worried.
Yep, I said, and the cut most likely will be even sharper than she was figuring....Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Diseases and Illnesses, Democratic Party, State Budgets, Regional Authority
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Utopia is a hard sell in Jordan Downs
Ronald Perkins and his neighbors were nearly outnumbered by the consultants and architects who showed up at the Jordan Downs community center.
For three hours, they listened as a procession of planners depicted their home as an "island of poverty," and...Tags: Maxine Waters, Minority Groups, Jordan, Arts and Culture, Personal Service
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HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan wants mortgage incentives for energy-efficient homes
Picture this: You're shopping for a larger home, dropping by open houses on a weekend. Each house you visit has an easy-to-understand disclosure about something that's typically unknown today -- its energy-guzzling costs per year.
The Obama...Tags: Renewable Energy, Energy Saving, Mortgages, Freddie Mac, State Budgets
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Housing Homeless Families
CHristine elks, a mother of three young children, has lived in so many places in the last four years that she must stop to count them on her hand. There was a friend's couch in North Hollywood. A shelter on skid row so dangerous they spent their days in a...Tags: Crimes, Assault, Crime, Law and Justice, Los Angeles Unified School District, Family
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Old city revels in a new spirit of innovation
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's difficult to nail down the last time this antique city was considered cutting edge. Was it the 1850s, when a coffeehouse owner created the Sazerac cocktail? Or perhaps the 1940s, when a teenager named J.M. Lapeyre invented the automatic shrimp...Tags: Floods, Justice System, Meteorological Disasters, Health and Safety at School, Clubs and Associations
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Obama delves into Kansas family roots
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe candidate was at a loss for words Tuesday, which in this campaign is a rare occurrence. Standing in a packed gym in wind-swept Midwest oil country, Barack Obama was trying to explain how he and the 72-year-old white woman in the audience, with her...Tags: Values, Family, Government, Barack Obama, Madelyn Dunham
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