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Federal panel unveils report on causes of financial crisis; Republicans dissent
Money & CompanyAfter 19 lengthy hearings and testimony from more than 700 witnesses, the federal commission charged with finding the causes of the financial crisis released its report Thursday. But rather than resolving the issue, the work of the Financial Crisis... -
Obama's State of the Union: 'We do big things'
Top of the TicketDemocrat Obama says this is the nation's next Sputnik moment.... -
Bell's Velez takes stand in colleagues' preliminary hearing on corruption charges
L.A. NOWBell City Councilman Lorenzo Velez testified Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court that he had no knowledge of his colleagues' near-$100,000 salaries, nor of the city commissions they had been paid to sit on. Velez, the lone council member...... -
At an impoverished housing complex, a reflection of South L.A.
Los Angeles Police Sgt. Alex Vargas sprinted across the grass to the front of an apartment. He leaned ever so gently against the door. "It's open," he said, and his breath quickened. He locked eyes with another officer who was standing across the stoop,...Tags: Minority Groups, Game Playing, Death, Los Angeles Police Department, Firearms
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Seed balls, the weapons of the guerrilla gardener
L.A. at HomeMark your calendar: Descanso Gardens display horticulturist Rachel Young will lead a class on how to make seed balls using clay and compost. Seed balls are an easy way to plant wildflowers. The class runs from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Sept. 26 at Descanso,... -
Obama New Orleans town hall: Boos for Bobby Jindal
Top of the TicketFull text of president's remarks and his Q&A with local citizens.... -
Campaign against loan modification scams launches in L.A.
L.A. LandA national housing nonprofit has launched an education campaign in Southern California to combat fraud targeting homeowners in peril of foreclosure. Loan modification scams are on the rise, charging troubled homeowners thousands of dollars up front for... -
L.A. mayor selects new housing chief from Chicago
L.A. NOWLos Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa today announced his selection of Douglas Guthrie to become the new general manager of the cityâs Housing Department. Guthrie, a former top official at the Chicago Housing Authority, most recently worked with... -
Giving tourists a look at gang culture
A group of civic activists, united by faith and a belief that the poor economy in the interior of Los Angeles is a social injustice, is preparing to offer bus tours of some of the grittiest pockets of the city, including decayed public housing, sites of...Tags: Minority Groups, Public Employees, Drug Trafficking, Interior Policy, Racism
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Homes for the hardest of the hard-core homeless
The searchers carved skid row into quadrants and advanced in small groups, aiming flashlights into the cold.
They moved between nylon tents and cardboard lean-tos in the Toy District, where junkies had stripped the streetlights and left whole blocks in...Tags: Mental Illness, Hotels and Accommodations, Substance Abuse, Public Employees, Depression
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Hefty workforces
Large world employers 2.3 million Chinese People's Liberation Army 2.0 million Wal-Mart 1.8 million U.S. Federal Government* 1.5 million British National Health Service 1.4 million Indian Railways *Civilian employees, excluding USPS...Tags: Politics, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., U.S. Postal Service, Health, Interior Policy
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Anne Wexler dies at 79; political power broker and influential Washington lobbyist
Anne Wexler, a well-connected political power broker who founded the first major Washington lobbying firm to be led by a woman and who was considered one of the capital's most influential lobbyists, died Friday of cancer at her home in Washington. She was...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Trade Policy, Colleges and Universities, U.S. Senate
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