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Decades long low-income subsidy in peril after Burbank voters reject measure
A decades-long program that subsidizes trash and sewer bills for low-income seniors and disabled people is at risk of being cut after Burbank voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a special tax to continue its funding source. Roughly 1,900 out of...Tags: Personal Income, Elections, Voting, Politics, Google+
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State lawmakers won't fix Stand Your Ground, so let the voters do it by the ballot initiative
Dear Sen. Chris L. Smith: It was a long shot at best. Your attempt to tweak Florida's infamous Stand Your Ground law had about as much chance in the Florida Legislature as expanding Medicaid, imposing new taxes or paying teachers their true worth....Tags: Laws, Justice System, Kendrick B. Meek, Elections, Labor Legislation
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Insurers eager to maintain authority over healthcare premiums
While most of us face uncertainty with the rollout of healthcare reform, some insurance companies in California have been feeling their oats lately. Here's how they're responding to Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones' warnings that their latest rate...
Tags: Health Net Inc., Health Insurance Cost, Andrew Cuomo, Health Care Reform (2009), Prices
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California insurance commissioner chides Blue Shield over rates
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.For the second time in two days, a state regulator criticized Blue Shield of California for an "unreasonable" rate hike affecting tens of thousands of individual policyholders. California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said Thursday that the...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Health Insurance, Elections, Insurance, CEO Pay
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Bringing California back
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- The state governor who once was America's youngest showed up at the National Governors Association meeting here this week as its oldest. Jerry Brown, who first served at age 38 as California's chief executive (1976-83), returned at age 74 in...Tags: U.S. Senate, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Barack Obama, Jules Witcover
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GOP governors take a pragmatic turn
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Republican governors who worked to thwart much of President Barack Obama's first-term agenda are shifting gears and softening their rhetoric now that his run was extended for four more years and they're facing their own re-...
Tags: Bobby Jindal, Rick Snyder, Barack Obama, Scott Walker, Parties and Movements
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Obama's State of the Union address as prepared for delivery [Text]
Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, fellow citizens: Fifty-one years ago, John F. Kennedy declared to this Chamber that “the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress…It is my task,” he...
Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Terrorism, Migration, Standards, Brooklyn (New York City)
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Tamarac recall committee to BSO: Our signs are free speech
My colleague Lisa J. Huriash reports: The recall committee trying to oust a city commissioner has some words for the Broward Sheriff's Office: hands off the political signs. Click here to read it. Click here to read the recall petition. Click here...Tags: Broward County Sheriff's Office, Tamarac, Politics
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Opponents of Delta Thermo waste-to-energy proposal to organize ballot question
Valley 610Opponents of a proposed waste-to-energy plant that would burn Allentown's trash and sewer sludge to create electricity are organizing a ballot initiative in hopes of stopping the plant from being built. Mike Ewall, an attorney with the Philadelphia-... -
Third medical pot measure moves toward L.A. ballot
L.A. NOWThe Los Angeles City Council moved forward with its own medical marijuana ballot measure Wednesday, increasing the chances voters could face three pot initiatives on the May ballot. On an 11-1 vote, the council instructed city lawyers to draw up...... -
A City Hall fight in Newport Beach
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNearly everyone in Newport Beach thinks they need a new City Hall. Getting them to agree on where to put it is another story. On Tuesday, voters will decide whether to locate a new civic center on a 12-acre site in Newport Center that was slated to...Tags: Road Transportation, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Travel, Elections, Demonstration
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Recall effort of Righeimer moves forward
It was a small beginning for a large, uphill effort to recall Costa Mesa Mayor Jim Righeimer. The door was open at Chris McEvoy's Westside house on Wednesday night for the dozen or so supporters who came in to join or inquire about his endeavor to...Tags: Elections, Career and Workplace, Employees, Politics, Local Elections
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