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Three More Rell Administration Appointees Get The Ax
The Hartford CourantThere were three more firings this week of Rell-administration political appointees -- both high-level and low -- who landed on the permanent state civil-service payroll during the waning months of Republican M. Jodi Rell's governorship. Officials in...Tags: Philip Smith, Connecticut, Dannel P. Malloy , Executive Branch, M. Jodi Rell
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DP Buzz: Citizen input on Facebook "likes"
Editors' Note: "DP Buzz" is an interactive feature of the Daily Press Opinion Page. We email weekly questions on issues and topics affecting Peninsula-area citizens. Each week, subscribers can choose whether to weigh in or not with a short answer. Here is...Tags: Social Media, Employment, Career and Workplace, Human Rights, Employees
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Garcetti's advantage
As Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti assembles his new administration, it is interesting, and encouraging, to note the odd confluence of circumstances that will leave him beholden less to factions or special interests and more to the people of Los Angeles....
Tags: Wendy Greuel, Eric Garcetti, Local Elections, Politics, Government
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City Council approves final Villaraigosa budget of $7.7 billion
The Los Angeles City Council on Thursday unanimously approved Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s final budget, expanding key services as several members acknowledged that many city workers will likely get a 5.5% raise in eight months. Councilman Eric...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Collective Contract, Antonio Villaraigosa, Government, Politics
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Elections deal a blow to L.A. unions
Some of the most powerful labor organizations in Los Angeles placed huge bets on mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel that went bust. All their spending and prodigious organization failed to ignite Greuel's campaign and allowed her opponent, Eric Garcetti, to...
Tags: Los Angeles Hotels, Politics, Advertising, Government, Finance
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L.A. City Council OKs Villaraigosa's final, $7.7-billion budget
The Los Angeles City Council on Thursday signed off on Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's final $7.7-billion budget, setting the stage, as several members acknowledged, for many city workers to get a 5.5% raise in eight months. Council members did not vote to...
Tags: Los Angeles Police Department, Economy, Business and Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Antonio Villaraigosa, Wendy Greuel
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Business briefs: Frontier expands Kanawha broadband
Charleston Daily Mail, W.Va.Frontier Communications announced it has expanded broadband access to hundreds of homes and businesses in the Kanawha Valley. The company said landline broadband service is now available in the Amma Road, Charleston Road and Cottontree Road areas of...Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Telecommunication Service, Employees, Marketing, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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Council to consider mayor's proposed pension changes
With the city retirement system short hundreds of millions of dollars in unfunded liabilities, officials say they are likely to begin requiring municipal employees to contribute to their pensions. "Pretty much everyone is in agreement that it's fair,"...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Montgomery County (Maryland), Mary Pat Clarke, Howard County, Health and Safety at Work
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Los Angeles mayor-elect vows to put recession in rear-view mirror
ReutersLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles Councilman Eric Garcetti declared victory Wednesday in his bid to become the next mayor and vowed to put the city's economic slump "in the rear-view mirror," capping a race shaped by dire fiscal forecasts and...Tags: Government, Bill Clinton, Values, Labor Legislation, Carmen Trutanich
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Hagerstown budget approved with no change in tax rates
davem@herald-mail.comHagerstown City Council members passed a $133.1 million budget for the 2013-14 fiscal year Tuesday night, but not without a lot of wrangling. Among the items discussed were financial issues facing the city and whether enough is being done for city...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, AFSCME, Career and Workplace, Employees
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JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon survives vote to strip him of chairmanship
A JPMorgan Chase & Co. shareholder proposal to split the bank's chairman and chief executive roles -- now both held by Jamie Dimon -- failed to win a majority's support Tuesday. The proposal to split Dimon's jobs at the nation's largest bank won only...
Tags: Boeing Co., Tampa, Shareholders, Annual and Special Corporate Meetings, Finance
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CORRECTED-Los Angeles mayoral race between two former allies nears climax
Reuters(Corrects mayor's first name to Antonio from Anthony in paragraph 6) By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, May 21 (Reuters) - Voters head to the polls on Tuesday to choose between two longtime fixtures of Los Angeles politics in a mayoral election shaped by...Tags: Antonio Villaraigosa, Local Government, Wendy Greuel, Eric Garcetti, Voting
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