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Ask the L.A. mayor candidates: What about helping the homeless who live on our streets?
During separate video interviews with the Los Angeles Times last month, candidates for L.A. mayor Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel responded to questions from individual voters. Among them is Mollie Lowrey, who asked: What will the candidates do to help...Tags: Local Government, Eric Garcetti, Elections, Wendy Greuel, Politics
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Council to consider funding housing for homeless
The Costa Mesa City Council on Tuesday is scheduled to consider approving a loan of up to $500,000 to help pay for permanent housing for the city's homeless population. If approved by the council and the city's Housing Authority, which replaced the...Tags: Personal Income, Interior Policy, Politics, Housing and Urban Planning
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Suspicions fire racial tensions
Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...Tags: Hurricanes, Disasters and Accidents, Interior Policy, Politics, Media Industry
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Same speculation, different styles for O'Malley, Cuomo
By the time Gov. Martin O'Malley left the Democratic convention last fall, he had schmoozed with party leaders from Iowa, spoken to potential donors and hosted swanky parties that kept delegates entertained into the next morning — efforts that...
Tags: Barack Obama, Democratic Governors Association, Eliot Spitzer, Interior Policy, Andrew Cuomo
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HUD to shut down offices as a result of sequester
Across-the-board cuts in the federal budget will force the Department of Housing and Urban Development to close its offices on May 24 and possibly six other days. HUD, which provides assistance programs for low-income and homeless people, said Friday...Tags: U.S. Congress, Jerry Brown, Shaun Donovan, Unemployment, Career and Workplace
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Deal bolsters prospects for stalled marina project
A stalled residential marina development in Blue Island has been purchased by a south suburban company that built its name rehabbing foreclosed homes. Tinley Park-based Mack Cos. acquired 27 acres at Fay's Point, on a peninsula between the Cal-Sag...
Tags: Condos and Houses, MB Financial Inc., Federal Housing Administration, Services and Shopping, Finance
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Veterans, advocates brace for cutbacks
The Maryland Center for Veterans Education and Training's Baltimore complex is full of neatly made beds and shining-clean floors, a military-like environment for homeless former service members working to get their lives back on track. Its executive...Tags: Consumer Confidence, U.S. Department of Defense, Shaun Donovan, Social Security, Rentals
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City to lose federal housing workers
Nearly three dozen workers at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development office in Baltimore — roughly a third of the agency's workforce in Maryland — are being forced to transfer out of state or take a buyout. The choice, which...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Employees
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Federal innovation a matter of perspective
The federal government has an innovation problem — or does it? The answer depends on whom you ask. Federal employees surveyed over the past three years have had a declining view of government innovation. But that doesn't mean Uncle Sam doesn't...Tags: Space Programs, Environmental Issues, Politics, Public Employees, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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BofA settles another mortgage lawsuit but is facing a new one
NEW YORK — As Bank of America Corp. pulls itself free from a swamp of mortgage liabilities, new troubles keep threatening to suck it back under. BofA agreed to settle a big insurer's claims over faulty mortgage bonds for $1.7 billion Monday. But...Tags: Kamala D. Harris, MBIA Incorporated, Lobbying, Justice System, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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Community Development Block Grant funding expected to drop for third year
Hagerstown’s federal Community Development Block Grant entitlement is expected to decline for fiscal 2014, a trend that has been ongoing for about three years, according to Jonathan Kerns, the city’s Community Development manager. CDBG is...Tags: Interior Policy, Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Housing and Urban Planning
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Reibman wants Callahan investigated
Valley 610Northampton County executive candidate Glenn Reibman said he wants Mayor John Callahan investigated further for using federal grant dollars to balance Bethlehem's 2010 and 2011 budgets. Reibman, a former two-term county executive, is in a three-way race...
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