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Los Angeles' new mayor: hipster, Rhodes Scholar, budget fixer?
ReutersLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Rhodes Scholar and urban planning wonk in a city that generally prefers its politicians to be less eclectic, Los Angeles mayor-elect Eric Garcetti will take the reins as the nation's second-largest city teeters between recovery...Tags: Bill Clinton, Finance, Health and Safety at Work, Music, Elections
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Eric Garcetti faces tough tests when he takes office as mayor
In the campaign for mayor, Eric Garcetti spoke grandly about a city with plentiful summer jobs for low-income teens, a tunnel under the traffic-clogged Sepulveda Pass and even an end to homelessness. But a day after winning office, the mayor-elect faced...
Tags: Finance, Elections, Herb Wesson, Paul Koretz, Budgets and Budgeting
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Sri Lanka opposition says government threatened to sack strikers
ReutersCOLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's opposition parties and trade unions accused the government on Tuesday of threatening state employees with the sack if they took part in planned street protests against a sharp rise in electricity prices. Only a few hundred...Tags: Parliament, Government, Colombo (Sri Lanka), Sri Lanka, Employees
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Council to consider mayor's proposed pension changes
With the city retirement system short hundreds of millions of dollars in unfunded liabilities, officials say they are likely to begin requiring municipal employees to contribute to their pensions. "Pretty much everyone is in agreement that it's fair,"...
Tags: Pension and Welfare, Finance, Health and Safety at Work, Mary Pat Clarke, Labor Legislation
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Aegis takes top honors for public service reporting, photo and video coverage
A series of articles and editorials written by members of The Aegis staff about the alarming rise in traffic deaths in Harford County last year - and how law enforcement rushed to address the situation - has been named the best public service journalism...
Tags: BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Lacrosse, Highway Transportation, Newspapers, Newspaper and Magazine
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PRESS DIGEST - Ireland - May 21
ReutersThese are some of the leading stories in Ireland's newspapers on Tuesday. Reuters has not verified these stories and cannot vouch for their accuracy: THE IRISH TIMES - Apple has used a complex web of offshore entities, including two Irish...Tags: Government, Republic of Ireland
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Factbox: Four key questions in the unfolding IRS scandal
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional and Justice Department investigators are examining the Internal Revenue Service over its inappropriate scrutiny of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. President Barack Obama, seeking to contain the...Tags: Eric Holder, U.S. House of Representatives, White House, Denis R. McDonough, Darrell E Issa
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Payroll meltdown keeps costing California
SACRAMENTO -- California officials are still cleaning up the mess after halting an expensive and troubled overhaul of the payroll system for public employees earlier this year. Roughly two dozen workers are responsible for sifting through the rubble...Tags: Government, Medical Procedures and Tests, Employees, Jerry Brown
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Factbox: Treasury acts to avoid hitting debt limit
Reuters(Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Monday said the Obama administration was suspending investments in the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund, a government employee pension fund, to help the nation keep paying its bills now that a...Tags: Finance, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Congressional Budget Office, G7, Government
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The cost of BGE reliability
Baltimore Gas & Electric certainly isn't likely to win any popularity contests. It secured a rate increase from the Public Service Commission in February — its second in the last three years — and turned around and filed a request for...
Tags: Government, Martin O'Malley, Consumers, Pikesville, Global Change
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OPINION: Ethics reform: At a crossroads
The StateA YEAR AFTER political scandals launched a cluster of competing study panels and catapulted ethics reform to the top of the 2012 campaign agenda, the Legislature has reached a critical crossroads. What happens in the Senate will determine how strong we...Tags: Joint Ventures, Values, Labor Legislation, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Criminals
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PSD negotiating sale with Beckley Water Company
The Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va.Efforts are progressing in negotiating a buyout of the Cool Ridge-Flat Top Public Service District by the Beckley Water Company. According to PSD board member Bill Baldwin, the Cool Ridge-Flat Top PSD is suffering from financial difficulties that have...Tags: Government, Leveraged Buyouts, Raleigh
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