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For those of you who get frustrated by the delays and hassles that come with President Obama's fundraising trips, I believe your anger is best directed to the majority of the Supreme Court who, in 1976, essentially found that money is speech.
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Green should mean good for cyclists. Hollywood disagrees.
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The ruling steered clear of broader issues surrounding gay marriage, specifically noting that it need not, and would not, rule on whether marriage is a fundamental right. Instead, the court's analysis focused on a narrower question that is likely to arise infrequently at best.
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What happens in Glendale isn't staying in Glendale. In fact, it's happening in every L.A. County city.
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The Berman-Sherman matchup is expected to be one of the most expensive Congressional races this year, but savvy voters must ask themselves an important question: Will such a matchup ever occur with a relatively new open primary law?
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But wait! There's more: the high cost of crumbling sidewalks and the low cost of the Orange Line extension.
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You can bet the that word gerrymandering will often be heard throughout Los Angeles over the next month and a half.
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L.A. has a legacy of decentralized city government. It's also a holdover from an era when the city didn't have to be nimble. That time, at least, is long gone.
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Judging by his travel schedule, Brown thinks Los Angeles is an important part of the debate on fixing California's budget woes.
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With just 14 days to go, city officials have no clear idea of what will happen following the February 1 deadline that pulls the plug on California's 400 redevelopment agencies.
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The City Council faces a difficult decision. Taking responsibility for its redevelopment agency could place a $100 million burden on the already cash-strapped city.
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The talk about L.A. is caustic more often than not.
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A redistricting fight is brewing on the local level of Los Angeles.
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Annual roundups have a common theme - it's always "the worst of times and the best of times." And that certainly is true of downtown at the end of 2011 and the start of 2012:...
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The creation of a micro city on the lawn outside of City Hall will cost the city.
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Too many of the dozen or so surveillance cameras on downtown streets are failing to deter crime.
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The protest known as Occupy L.A. will cost our budget-strapped city.
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More than $600,000 was spent by billboard lobbyists in 2011. It's a sign of the times. The humorist Ogden Nash famously rhymed I think I shall never see, / a billboard as lovely as a tree. / In fact...
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This week brings yet another -- in a seemingly endless series of examples -- of a public official behaving badly.
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Apparently, a plague of institutional ignorance is sweeping though the city's troubled bureaucracies. Recent cases in point...
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