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Northrop move worsens Southern California's Fortune-500 brain drain
Money & CompanySouthern California is losing its third-largest Fortune 500 company headquarters with Northrop Grumman Corp.’s decision to move to the Washington, D.C., area. That leaves 19 of the Fortune 500 firms based in the Southland. As recently as 2006 there... -
Will a ballot initiative overturn California's climate law?
GreenspaceThe battle to delay enforcement of California's sweeping global warming law, the toughest in the nation, is heating up. Oil companies -- along with an obscure Missouri conservative action group -- injected a new infusion of cash into signature gathering..... -
Terminate the ballot initiative to terminate the climate law?
GreenspaceHe may be a lame duck, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave notice Wednesday that he's going out fighting -- battling the alliance of oil companies, conservative activists and fellow Republicans who are gathering signatures for a November ballot initiative... -
Wall Street Roundup: Jobless claims down. Strong earnings.
Money & CompanyJobless claims down. The number of people filing for unemployment benefits was 11,000 lower last week than the week before, but still slightly higher than analysts had expected. Goldman may settle. Goldman Sachs may be looking to settle with the...... -
Crisis fears ease in Europe, and Wall Street parties on
Money & CompanyEurope’s debt crisis may not be over, but for a day at least it didn't getting worse. And on Wall Street, the bulls again are asking why they should care about the Old World’s problems. Yields on Greek, Portuguese and...... -
Michael Hiltzik: Industry tries to buy a California election (part 23)
Money & CompanyYou would think that big corporations had learned a lesson from the slapdown delivered by California voters in June to two industry-sponsored ballot initiatives (PG&E's Proposition 18 and Mercury Insurance's Proposition 17): Corporation sponsorship can be... -
Oil runs deep in L.A. history
As those doomed fiberglass mammoths in the bubbling ooze at La Brea Tar Pits attest, oil in Los Angeles is an old story. But how much of that story do you know?
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FOR THE RECORD
Oil in Los Angeles: An earlier version of this...Tags: Santa Clara, Road Transportation, Echo Park, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Ventura (Ventura, California)
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Michael Hiltzik: Adam Smith Foundation, meet Adam Smith
Money & CompanyIn the Woody Allen movie "Hannah and her Sisters," the dour character played by Max von Sydow remarks, "If Jesus Christ ever came back and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up." You could...... -
The week ahead
Chicago TribuneMonday: -- Earnings: Commerce Bancorp Inc.; Eaton Corp.; W.W. Grainger Inc.; Marshall & Ilsley Corp.; Mattel Inc.; Pharmaceutical Product Development Inc.; Sonic Corp.; Wachovia Corp. Tuesday: -- September producer price index -- September industrial...Tags: Coca-Cola Co., Broadcom Corp., Sovereign Bancorp Incorporated, CSX Corporation, Eaton Corporation
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McCain wrapping up Latin America trip
The Swampby Katie Fretland Sen. John McCain is in Mexico's capital today to meet with President Felipe Calderon. The presumptive Republican nominee for president planned to highlight immigration and trade issues during the meeting. First, he planned to visit the...Tags: Government, The New York Times, Civil Rights, Economic Organization, Crime, Law and Justice
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Part 2 of 2: Preservation vs. profit
Tribune staff reporterThe news stunned Lily Rodriguez. The Peruvian ecologist and her colleagues had just celebrated their success in getting Peru to create the world's largest privately managed national park, the Cordillera Azul, or Blue Mountains. The park designation, an...Tags: Weather Reports, Plant Openings, Conservation, Peru, Crime, Law and Justice
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Part 1 of 2: Rescuing a jewel in Peru
Tribune staff reporterIn all of his years wandering through Amazonian rain forests, Marcos Perez had never seen anything like the Cordillera Azul, a stunningly remote, mountainous world that had taken him days of river journeys and weeks of climbing to enter. A logger in...Tags: Weather Reports, Office and Retail Spaces, Conservation, Trips and Vacations, Peru
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