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Gov. Brown targets enterprise-zone tax credits
SACRAMENTO — A battle is raging over a California program that grants businesses tax breaks for creating jobs but prevents the public from knowing who got them and why. At issue are enterprise zones, which were established to boost employment in...
Tags: Taxation, Career and Workplace, Labor Markets, Regional Authority, Business
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Residents have Garcetti's ear before he takes office
Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti is preaching a gospel of civic rebirth in appearances across Los Angeles while gently lowering expectations about how much City Hall, and he himself, can do to bring about change. In a city of 4 million, "I can't be everywhere,...
Tags: Wendy Greuel, Media Industry, Local Elections, Corporate Officers, Eric Garcetti
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L.A. Now Live: Garcetti hears from residents before taking office
Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti is preaching a gospel of civic rebirth in appearances across Los Angeles while gently lowering expectations about how much City Hall, and he himself, can do to bring about change. Join us at 9 a.m. when we talk with Times...Tags: Eric Garcetti
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L.A. City Council and film industry again clash over green bike lanes
The L.A. City Council and the film industry are once again on a collision course over a green-colored bike lane downtown. City officials painted a 1.5-mile strip of Spring Street neon green in 2011 for a bike lane as part of a larger effort pushed by...
Tags: Cinema Industry, Rupert Murdoch, Screen Actors Guild
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Group urges teachers' raises based on student achievement
A local advocacy group is pushing for teachers' raises and bonuses based on whether instructors are willing to take on difficult assignments and on whether they deliver measurable student achievement gains. The proposals are part of two policy papers...Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning, School Examinations, Academic Progress, Eric Garcetti
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How money twists L.A.'s elections
Often, by the end of an election, the weaknesses of the existing campaign finance laws have become evident, and the need to update them has been made clear by the ways those weaknesses have been exploited. That is certainly the case with Los Angeles' most...
Tags: Political Fundraising, Eric Garcetti, Elections, Politics, Richard Riordan
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Los Angeles ranks fourth in national clean tech leadership index
Los Angeles ranked fourth among U.S. cities leading clean technology growth, according to research firm Clean Edge’s annual index. Based on activity across 22 green-infused indicators, L.A. jumped from seventh place last year, still coming in...Tags: Patents, Copyrights and Trademarks, Investments, Invention and Innovation
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L.A. mayoral runoff another low mark in voter turnout: 23.3%
Eric Garcetti, Los Angeles' incoming mayor, won the office with fewer votes than any newly elected mayor since the 1930s, when the city population was less than half its current size, according to a Times analysis of final results. Garcetti's complete...
Tags: Wendy Greuel, Local Elections, Racism, Voting, Elections
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Westside development fuels debate over growth -- smart or otherwise
The corner of Pico and Sepulveda boulevards is your standard Westside traffic nightmare, with rush hour commuters inching along at discouraging speeds just blocks from an even more congested 405 Freeway. The intersection, already a subject of bitter...
Tags: Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Services and Shopping, Vehicles, Target, Paul Koretz
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Donate LED bulbs for the Coliseum sign? Watt a bright idea
He was headed downtown, traveling along the 110 when — just like in the cartoons — a light popped on over Pervaiz Lodhie's head. If this city truly wants to improve the look of the busy industrial landscape, he decided, it should at least...
Tags: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Human Interest
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U.S. businessman held in China allowed to return home
The last time Victoria Hu saw her father at her family's home, she was 16, still a student at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School. As the years have flown by, she has gone on to study at UC Berkeley, become an adept illustrator, and launched a passionate...
Tags: Xi Jinping, China, Barack Obama
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Gritty wharf at Port of L.A. will become marine research center
On a recent weekday morning, Daniel Pondella strode along a century-old stretch of concrete pylons and shabby warehouses in San Pedro. As kelp swayed in the waves and terns circled overheard, Pondella recalled an elementary school field trip he took...
Tags: Science, Environmental Issues, California State University, Long Beach, Conservation, Marine Science
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