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Those bright green bike lanes meant to increase safety for cyclists on downtown's Spring Street are a bright red flag for the film industry, which uses it as "Any City, USA."
You might think that local elected officials are responsible for your city's future. A state report on redevelopment's end shows how much you're wrong.
U.S. President Barack Obama greets guests after arriving on Air Force One at Los Angeles International Airport on February 15, 2012. | Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
For those of you who get frustrated by the delays and hassles that come with President Obama's fundraising trips, I believe your anger is best directed to the majority of the Supreme Court who, in 1976, essentially found that money is speech.
Green should mean good for cyclists. Hollywood disagrees.
Bob Sodervick demonstrates outside of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on February 7 in San Francisco before a three-judge panel made its ruling on Proposition 8 |Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
The ruling steered clear of broader issues surrounding gay marriage, specifically noting that it need not, and would not, rule on whether marriage is a fundamental right. Instead, the court's analysis focused on a narrower question that is likely to ar...
What happens in Glendale isn't staying in Glendale. In fact, it's happening in every L.A. County city.
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The Berman-Sherman matchup is expected to be one of the most expensive Congressional races this year, but savvy voters must ask themselves an important question: Will such a matchup ever occur with a relatively new open primary law?
But wait! There's more: the high cost of crumbling sidewalks and the low cost of the Orange Line extension.
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You can bet the that word gerrymandering will often be heard throughout Los Angeles over the next month and a half.
L.A. has a legacy of decentralized city government. It's also a holdover from an era when the city didn't have to be nimble. That time, at least, is long gone.
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Judging by his travel schedule, Brown thinks Los Angeles is an important part of the debate on fixing California's budget woes.
With just 14 days to go, city officials have no clear idea of what will happen following the February 1 deadline that pulls the plug on California's 400 redevelopment agencies.
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