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Mail Call - July 11
“I just saw where the tax rate went up from 6 to 9 percent on beer. It’s just like cigarettes; it could be $9 for a bottle of beer, but people will still keep drinking it. Same thing as cigarettes; $7 a pack, and people are still buying...Tags: Entertainment, California, Treaties, Washington (U.S. state), Waynesboro (Waynesboro, Virginia)
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Out of the Blue: Speak up against San Onofre
Amid a spate of promising economic news, home values are climbing. Now for the bad news. For the first time in human history, the concentration of climate-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is nearing the milestone level of 400 parts per million....Tags: Regulatory Policy and Organizations, U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Henry A Waxman, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited, Southern California Edison Company
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Obama Cabinet picks advance after party-line votes
WASHINGTON – Two of President Obama’s second-term Cabinet nominees inched forward Thursday, while another was poised to win final confirmation by the Senate. Thomas E. Perez, Obama’s choice to lead the Labor Department, and EPA nominee...
Tags: Memorial Day, Gina McCarthy, Career and Workplace, David Vitter, Republican Party
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Senate approves bill that would benefit L.A. port
WASHINGTON--The Senate approved a bill Wednesday that would increase funding for port projects in Los Angeles and elsewhere, shore up defenses against Sandy-like superstorms and study ways to better prepare the country for more extreme weather events....
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Conservation, Politics, Etan Patz, Beaches
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Legislation Would Ground Recalled Rental Cars
KickingTiresA bipartisan group of U.S. senators last week introduced a bill that would prohibit rental-car companies from renting or selling vehicles with an open manufacturer's recall. The legislation, the Raechel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act of 2013,...Tags: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Rentals, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Congress, Claire McCaskill
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Vets At Risk Of Suicide Not Getting Adequate Post-Discharge Care: Report
The Hartford CourantNearly a third of veterans deemed at high risk for suicide don't receive the recommended follow-up care after they've been discharged from Veterans Health Administration inpatient mental health facilities, according to a new report from the VA inspector...Tags: West Haven, Behavioral Conditions, Veterans Affairs, Suicide, Mental Health
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Republican senators boycott vote on EPA nominee
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans boycotted a committee vote Thursday on President Obama's nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, drawing accusations of obstructionism from Democrats. Republicans on the Senate...
Tags: George W. Bush, White House, Environmental Politics, Environmental Pollution, Gina McCarthy
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Poll finds Garcetti, Greuel in dead heat
A poll released Thursday shows City Controller Wendy Greuel and City Councilman Eric Garcetti in a virtual dead heat in the campaign to be the next mayor of Los Angeles. The poll, by the Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute of Public Affairs at Cal State L....
Tags: Magic Johnson, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Eric Garcetti, Politics, Polls
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Save public input to help save the environment
When first proposed about a decade ago, it seemed like a promising means to revive the Chesapeake Bay's devastated oyster crop: Bring in Chinese oysters, which are impervious to the diseases killing the native stock and also grow faster. If successful,...
Tags: Government, Environmental Politics, U.S. Army, Science and Technology, Richard Nixon
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Senate Republicans stonewall Obama's EPA nominee
WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans boycotted a committee vote Thursday morning on President Obama’s nomination of Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, prompting accusations of obstructionism from Democrats and calls to...
Tags: Republican Party, David Vitter, Environmental Politics, Politics, Environmental Pollution
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L.A. mayor's race is virtual dead heat with 12 days to go, poll says
A new poll shows City Controller Wendy Greuel and City Councilman Eric Garcetti in a virtual dead heat in the campaign to be the next mayor of Los Angeles. The poll by the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs at Cal State Los Angeles shows Greuel...
Tags: Michael Jackson, Eric Garcetti, Politics, Polls, Elections
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Debating Israeli airport security and racial profiling
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.More than 40 readers sent letters to the editor in response to George Bisharat's April 28 Op-Ed article on a bill to include Israel in the U.S. visa waiver program. Bisharat, an American law professor and a pro-Palestinian activist who has traveled...Tags: Religion and Belief, Islam, Personal Data Collection, Social Issues, Ben Gurion International Airport
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