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Who will be L.A.'s next mayor?
Los Angeles' mayoral election is still nearly two years away, but the field of candidates already is taking shape. And the race is certain to present voters with starkly different choices about who should run Los Angeles next. More contenders...Tags: Jan Perry, Sacramento, Office and Retail Spaces, Politics, Staples Center
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California can't go it alone on guns
SACRAMENTO — California's gun controls are among the toughest in the nation, but they're severely weakened by Washington's failure to pass strong national laws. It's sort of like the chain analogy — a chain being only as strong as its...
Tags: Laws, Weaponry, Lifestyle and Leisure, Firearms, Newspaper and Magazine
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Tackling religion at the DNC
"They booed putting God back!" read a Drudge Report headline earlier this week. The reference was to the dismayed reaction from some Democratic National Convention delegates after two amendments were inserted into the 2012 platform, one of which declared...
Tags: Jerusalem (Israel), Paul Ryan, Politics, Barack Obama, Republican Party
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Wanted: A mayor worthy of L.A.
Since my knee replacement surgery less than two weeks ago, I've been popping narcotic painkillers that come with long lists of potential side effects. Among them are vomiting, hallucinating and impaired thinking. It is perhaps that third one that made...
Tags: Jan Perry, Politics, Kevin James, Local Elections, Chicago Elections
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Democrats split over party platform in rare display of division during convention
In a rare display of just how quickly a tightly scripted national political convention can unwind, Democrats on Wednesday struggled to complete a voice vote amending their party platform to include language referring to Jerusalem and God. It took three...
Tags: George W. Bush, Elections, CNN (tv network), White House, Politics
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Obama to speak after forceful Clinton endorsement
Article Highlights: - NEW: Campaign official says Obama will talk about "decisions we need to make as a country" - President Obama concludes the Democratic convention on Thursday night - Bill Clinton cites similarities between his presidency and...
Tags: Israel, Randy Johnson, Politics, Government Health Care, Barack Obama
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Things get a little foggy for Democrats in Charlotte
When President Barack Obama asked stoners Harold & Kumar to help with his message, the inevitable was bound to happen. And it did, dude. The first two days at the Democratic National Convention have been a disaster of biblical proportions as far as...
Tags: National Government, Rahm Emanuel, Monica Lewinsky, Politics, Barack Obama
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Newton: Villaraigosa's numbers game
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has every reason to be proud of his public safety record. He worked well with Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton, who had been hired by the mayor's predecessor, James Hahn. When Bratton left, Villaraigosa oversaw a...
Tags: Safety of Citizens, Health and Safety at Work, Politics, Government, Beck
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Liberals Nip at Obama as He Battles Republicans
You can already hear the rumbling in the distance -- a train of noisy liberal Democrats barreling straight for the White House. They should arrive just in time for President Barack Obama’s second inauguration. The president already has his hands...
Tags: Jerusalem (Israel), Public Finance, Politics, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate
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For Zev Yaroslavsky, a familiar end to a familiar saga
It was more than 20 years ago that I covered my first meeting of the Los Angeles City Council. As I headed to the chambers, a colleague advised me to take special note of two members: Richard Alatorre, he said, understood city politics better than anyone,...
Tags: Elections, Politics, Zev Yaroslavsky, Richard Riordan, Local Government
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Romney arrives at condensed GOP convention
Mitt Romney arrived Tuesday at the condensed Republican National Convention in Tampa as organizers kept a nervous eye on Hurricane Isaac churning toward Louisiana's coast. The storm caused a one-day delay in the convention agenda, but Republican...
Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Hurricanes, Natural Disasters
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Rodriguez: Demographics isn't destiny
Eight years ago, after former California Assembly Speaker Bob Hertzberg was knocked out of the L.A. mayor's race in the primary, urban critic Joel Kotkin and political consultant Arnie Steinberg bravely predicted that the chances of a Jew ever being...
Tags: Jan Perry, Demographics, Elections, Social Issues, Politics
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