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Experts seek better health outcomes for homeless
Years after facing patient dumping allegations and hefty legal settlements, Southern California hospital executives have begun working with advocates for the homeless to improve the health of homeless patients and to reduce their use of area hospitals....
Tags: Health, Laws, Hospitals and Clinics, Healthcare Laws, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Metro recommends contractor (and $160 million more) for Crenshaw Line
Transportation officials are seeking an additional $160 million for the Crenshaw Line light-rail construction budget, bringing the project’s estimated cost to more than $2 billion, according to a staff report issued Friday by the Los Angeles...Tags: Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles International Airport
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Coliseum deal: USC to cash in on turnover
About five years ago, County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky denounced USC's proposal to take control of the taxpayer-owned Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and its revenue. "Some people on the board of trustees of the University of Southern California...
Tags: Luxury Vehicles, St. Louis Rams, Major League Soccer, National Football League, Sports
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L.A. County to try again to cut troubled foster care contractor
Los Angeles County Supervisors Gloria Molina and Michael D. Antonovich will make another attempt to cut a troubled foster care contractor with a history of misused money and child abuse. Under the supervisors' proposal, the county board has once again...
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Theft, Abusive Behavior, Zev Yaroslavsky, Google+
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Compton's mayoral choice: old guard or new blood?
Poised and polished in an electric-blue blazer, 31-year-old urban planner Aja Brown prepared to make her case to an audience full of voters — many of them skeptics — that if elected mayor she could be the new face of Compton. With her...
Tags: Primaries, Local Elections, Prosecution, Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice
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Nick Gabaldon Day celebrates surfing pioneer today in Santa Monica
Nick Gabaldon, a Santa Monica High School student who in the 1940s became the first documented surfer of African American and Mexican descent, is being celebrated Saturday with a number of activities at Santa Monica Beach. Sponsored by Heal the Bay, the...
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Charles R. Drew University receives $1-million donation
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science has received a $1-million donation — the largest one-time individual gift in the school’s history — from the longtime manager of Ray Charles. The money will be used to fund student...
Tags: Morehouse College, Colleges and Universities, Television Industry, Radio, Entertainment
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L.A. County officials to stop sending children to foster agency
Responding to new allegations of financial malfeasance and abuse, Los Angeles County officials have decided to stop sending children to a private foster care agency that has been responsible for more than 1,100 youths in recent years. The action was...
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Accounting and Auditing, Local Government, Credit and Debt, Satellite Technology
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Feuer touts his ability to work cooperatively
In his campaign to become Los Angeles city attorney, Mike Feuer has touted himself as someone who will work cooperatively with the mayor and City Council and avoid the squabbles that have marked the incumbent's tenure. During previous stints on the...
Tags: Local Elections, Prisons, Finance, Greig Smith, Interior Policy
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Poll finds Garcetti, Greuel in dead heat
A poll released Thursday shows City Controller Wendy Greuel and City Councilman Eric Garcetti in a virtual dead heat in the campaign to be the next mayor of Los Angeles. The poll, by the Edmund G. "Pat" Brown Institute of Public Affairs at Cal State L....
Tags: Barbara Boxer, Elections, Wendy Greuel, Eric Garcetti, Antonio Villaraigosa
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L.A. County supervisors fail to win support for cutting ties to foster agency
Los Angeles County Supervisors Michael D. Antonovich and Gloria Molina this week were unable to win majority support for their push to sever all ties to a foster care contractor with a history of substantiated child abuse and financial malfeasance....
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Michael Antonovich , Theft, Abusive Behavior, Gloria Molina
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Leimert Park Village hails victory on Crenshaw Line station
South Los Angeles residents gathered Friday to celebrate a future that many thought would never happen. At a park in tree-lined Leimert Park Village, dozens of community members cheered their victory: approval for a light-rail station on the Crenshaw...
Tags: Antonio Villaraigosa, Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Herb Wesson
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