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Glendale mulls April ballot issues
Several measures, including one that could make the city treasurer an appointed rather than elected position, have moved closer to being placed on an upcoming ballot. On Tuesday, Glendale City Council members directed the city attorney to bring back...Tags: Google Inc., Politics, Elections
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Small Wonders: Thoughts on politics and religion
Writing about my summer vacation or the random thoughts on being human that cross my mind each week doesn't always generate a lot of feedback. But open a debate on religion and politics and the flood gates open. Last week I posed a sensitive question:...Tags: Politics, Separation of Church and State, Belief and Faith, Elections, Clint Eastwood
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Christian Right aligns with Mitt Romney
Re: “A marriage of doctrine, politics,” Patrick Caneday’s column, Sept. 8: I don’t seem to recall that we are voting on the head of the Christian Church this November, I thought it was for the head of our country, a political...Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Elections, Mitt Romney, Parties and Movements
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Assemblymen follow divergent paths
In politics, the trajectory of an elected official can depend on not only how they interact with their constituents, but how they get along with their peers. And perhaps nowhere is that more apparent than the paths taken by two local assemblymen —...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Finance, Anthony J. Portantino, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (tv program), Mike Gatto
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Start the Presses: Testing the Tampa waters at RNC
It's hard to be a member of the Republican Party in Los Angeles County. However, it's not difficult to get elected — as long as that office is nonpartisan. No Republican in California holds statewide office, and GOP'ers in Sacramento are so...Tags: Politics, Democratic Party, 2012 Democratic National Convention, Tampa, Elections
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Ron Kaye: The trouble with Harry
Let's have a big round of applause for retired law professor Harry Zavos. Citing the state Constitution and a lawsuit won by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Assn. against the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, he got Glendale officials three years...Tags: Politics, Public Officials, Finance, Elections, Economy, Business and Finance
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Suit challenges voting system
A group of voters who claim Armenian Americans have become so “politically sophisticated and well-financed” that they’ve monopolized the Glendale Community College Board of Trustees has filed a lawsuit seeking a change in how elections...Tags: Politics, Minority Groups, Colleges and Universities, Elections, Justice System
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Council calls for update to Glendale's Charter
City officials on Tuesday said they want to tweak language in Glendale's Charter to reflect modern financial accounting practices and streamline the annual transfer of millions of dollars each year in utility revenues to pay for public services. Any...Tags: Politics, Google Inc., Public Officials, Judges, Finance
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Glendale Unified wades into review of district-based elections
Glendale Unified officials have initiated an examination into the possibility of moving from an at-large process for electing school board members to a district system. “We just want to make sure we are doing our due diligence,” school board...Tags: Politics, Colleges and Universities, Minority Groups, Separation of Church and State, Elections
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Antonovich's term-limit measure is put on hold by county supervisors
Los Angeles County supervisors postponed a vote Tuesday on a ballot measure that would let voters decide whether to extend their term limits. Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky criticized the proposed measure and pointed out that voters approved term limits...Tags: Politics, Elections, Jason Song, Los Angeles Times, Zev Yaroslavsky
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Metro officials endorse measure to extend half-cent sales tax
Los Angeles County transportation officials on Thursday endorsed a proposed ballot measure that would extend a half-cent sales tax for transportation projects by 30 years. Measure R, which was passed by voters in 2008, currently ends in 2039. If voters...
Tags: Politics, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Ari Bloomekatz, Don Knabe, Elections
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Gatto approves bill that bans hunting of bears, bobcats
The Sacramento office of Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Silver Lake) received a petition last Monday morning signed by 2,000 residents in his district urging him to support a bill that would ban the use of hounds in the hunting of bears and bobcats after he...
Tags: Politics, Hunting, Elections, Rentals, Lifestyle and Leisure
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