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Los Angeles city councilman opens lead in race for mayor
ReutersLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles City Councilman Eric Garcetti opened a convincing election-night lead in his bid to become mayor of America's second-largest city as it faces an increasingly gloomy financial outlook, returns showed late on Tuesday....Tags: Parties and Movements, Government Debt, Carmen Trutanich, Lawyers, Government
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Big questions await Charlotte's next mayor
The Charlotte ObserverWhen voters elect a new Charlotte mayor this fall, they will be handing him or her a long list of tough questions to confront. How do you build consensus in an increasingly diverse community that tends to segregate by race and income? How do you...Tags: Parties and Movements, Transportation, Corporate Officers, Business Enterprises, Government
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Greuel cites high-profile role as an executive at DreamWorks SKG
Wendy Greuel's resume is dotted with the political accomplishments of a politician on the rise. But there was an unconventional detour: her stint as an executive at DreamWorks SKG, working alongside Hollywood titans Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg...
Tags: The Amistad, Steven Spielberg, Eric Garcetti, White House, U.S. Congress
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Editorial: Obama and overreach
•Multiple White House claims about Washington's handling of the murderous raid in Benghazi stand exposed as false. •Internal Revenue Service officials admit a worse-by-the-day scandal that appalls fair-minded Americans. •The U.S....
Tags: U.S. Department of State, National Government, Al-Qaeda, Benghazi, Lawyers
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Editorial: Make uncovering Benghazi truth a bipartisan mission
"A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al-Qaida is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead." —President Barack Obama to the Democratic National Convention, Sept. 6, 2012. Five nights after that speech, scores of attackers...
Tags: U.S. Department of State, Al-Qaeda, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011), Benghazi, United Nations
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No quit in community betterment for 'Miss Albany'
St. Joseph News-Press, Mo.In the basement of the local Carnegie Public Library, Avis Parman walks toward shelves and randomly pulls out a thick scrapbook of newspaper clippings of events in Albany, Mo., during 1984.She casually leafs through the plastic-covered articles from the...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Libraries
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Mike Gray dies at 77; co-wrote 'China Syndrome' screenplay
Mike Gray, an author, activist and documentarian who co-wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for "The China Syndrome," the provocative 1979 film about a cover-up at a nuclear power plant, died Tuesday of heart failure at his Hollywood Hills home, his...
Tags: Movies, Nuclear Power, Heavy Engineering, Three Mile Island Accident (1979), China
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Arts lover a strong advocate of equal rights
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewGloria McDermott Hickton spoke about equality and lived by that tenet. The mother of five tried to make life better for those around her, especially women, those who knew her said. One of the first members of the Pittsburgh chapter of the National...Tags: Feminism, Real Estate, Lebanon, Pittsburgh
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Speed Street will test city's safety planning
The Charlotte ObserverCharlotte-Mecklenburg police have "strengthened and tweaked" their security surrounding Food Lion Speed Street, the NASCAR-themed festival, following bombings at the Boston Marathon that killed three and left dozens injured. An estimated 300,000...Tags: Churchill Downs, NASCAR, Coca-Cola Co., Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Kentucky Derby
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Charlotte, N.C., mayor expected to be nominated for Cabinet
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON -- President Obama will nominate Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx as the new secretary of Transportation on Monday, a White House official said. If confirmed, Foxx would take charge of a department that has been in the spotlight of late...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Air Transportation Delays, Eric Holder, Ray LaHood
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Reelected Democratic Party leader was asked to leave '12 convention
A Democrat elected Sunday to a leadership post in the California Democratic Party was asked last summer to leave the Democratic National Convention, where he was a delegate, after falsely claiming that he was a member of Congress and being threatened with...Tags: U.S. Congress, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Government, Elections, Charlotte
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Fluke greets California Democratic activists
SACRAMENTO — Sandra Fluke, the law school graduate who became famous after Rush Limbaugh called her a "slut" for demanding that health insurers be required to pay for contraception, made the rounds at the California Democratic Party on Saturday....
Tags: Labor Legislation, Barack Obama, Rush Limbaugh
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