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Metro board approves Crenshaw Line's Leimert Park Village station
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority on Thursday approved $80 million for an underground train station in Leimert Park Village along the Crenshaw Line, ending two years of uncertainty over the station's future. The motion, sponsored by L.A....
Tags: Eric Garcetti, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles International Airport
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L.A. County keeps troubled foster care contractor
Los Angeles County Supervisors Michael D. Antonovich and Gloria Molina were unable to win majority support for their push to sever all ties to a foster care contractor with a history of substantiated child abuse and financial malfeasance. Under the...
Tags: Google+, Gloria Molina, Abusive Behavior, Juvenile Delinquency, Michael Antonovich
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A long, expensive (and distinctive) race nears the finish line
A two-year campaign that has drawn record spending will see either the first woman or the first Jew elected as Los Angeles mayor. But despite those milestones, candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti sped around the city Sunday trying to avoid another...
Tags: Politics, Judaism, Jan Perry, Polls, Wendy Greuel
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Garcetti, Greuel fight for African American votes in final hours
A two-year-long campaign that has drawn record spending will put either the first woman or the first elected Jewish leader in the Los Angeles mayor’s office. But despite those milestones, candidates Wendy Greuel and Eric Garcetti sped around the...
Tags: Politics, Judaism, Jan Perry, Polls, Wendy Greuel
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Judge says L.A. should end contract with private foster agency
The presiding judge of L.A. County's Juvenile Court and the head of a court-appointed law firm representing foster children have called on Los Angeles county supervisors to sever the county’s contract with Teens Happy Homes. Starr Heimov, who...
Tags: Zev Yaroslavsky, Gloria Molina, Juvenile Delinquency, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice
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L.A. County officials to stop sending children to foster agency
Responding to new allegations of financial malfeasance and abuse, Los Angeles County officials have decided to stop sending children to a private foster care agency that has been responsible for more than 1,100 youths in recent years. The action was...
Tags: Zev Yaroslavsky, Gloria Molina, Accounting and Auditing, Satellite Technology, Juvenile Delinquency
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Feuer touts his ability to work cooperatively
In his campaign to become Los Angeles city attorney, Mike Feuer has touted himself as someone who will work cooperatively with the mayor and City Council and avoid the squabbles that have marked the incumbent's tenure. During previous stints on the...
Tags: Interior Policy, Politics, Finance, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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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: Eric Garcetti, Politics, Wendy Greuel, Polls, Magic Johnson
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L.A. County supervisors weigh dropping foster-care contractor
Los Angeles County supervisors reported no action after a closed-door meeting to consider terminating the county's decades-long relationship with Teens Happy Homes, a private foster care provider that officials say repeatedly misused funds and placed...
Tags: Zev Yaroslavsky, Gloria Molina, Starbucks Corp., Abusive Behavior
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Council OKs moving LAX runway as part of $4.76-billion upgrade
The ongoing modernization of Los Angeles International Airport gained momentum Tuesday when the City Council approved $4.76 billion in additional improvements, including a controversial plan to move the northernmost runway closer to homes in Westchester...
Tags: Car Safety Tips and Advice, Trials, Politics, Richard Riordan, Jan Perry
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L.A. County supervisors discuss troubled foster care contractor
Los Angeles County supervisors met behind closed doors Tuesday to consider terminating their decades-long relationship with Teens Happy Homes, a private foster care provider found by officials to have repeatedly misused funds and placed children in...
Tags: Zev Yaroslavsky, Gloria Molina, Accounting and Auditing, Juvenile Delinquency, Abusive Behavior
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L.A. County rejects school districts' bid to avoid voting rights suits
Los Angeles County officials rejected a bid Tuesday from several Santa Clarita Valley school districts and a water district hoping to consolidate elections and avoid the kind of voting rights lawsuits that other local governments have been hit with. The...
Tags: Politics, Michael Jackson, Crime, Law and Justice, AEG, Elections
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