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Credit unions remake themselves in image of payday lenders

By Ben Hallman

Credit unions remake themselves in image of payday lenders

Excerpts from this story referencing "Los Angeles":

"… Park, a middle-class Mexican-American neighborhood just north of downtown Los Angeles. Heredia had come for the Nix standard payday loan offer: a $400, 14-day …"

"… ighborhoods, Nix Check Cashing is one of the largest payday lenders in the Los Angeles area. The Nix chain was acquired four years ago by Kinecta Federal Credit …"

New Dem group aims for $100 million plus

By Peter H. Stone

Former Obama administration officials attempting to raise more than $100 million to underwrite an outside group to help the president win se

Excerpts from this story referencing "Los Angeles":

"… Burton and Sean Sweeney, who will be leading the new group, made trips to Los Angeles and New York last month to meet with prospective donors for the new indepe …"

"… a few of whom were pitched in Hollywood last month. To help woo donors in Los Angeles, Burton and Sweeney were accompanied by veteran Democratic pollster Geoff …"

Back to school for the billionaires

By Rita Beamish

Business titans find reforming schools much harder than just writing checks

Excerpts from this story referencing "Townview High School":

"… Gwen, a straight-A student, was on track for admission to the prestigious Townview High School for the talented and gifted. Edgar monitored Gwen’s school work through …"

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Romney corrals hundreds of fundraisers to dial-for-dollars from Las Vegas

By Peter H. Stone

Fundraisers for Mitt Romney hope to raise up to $3 million in a one-day money marathon

Excerpts from this story referencing "Los Angeles":

"… to several traditional fundraising havens such as New York, Washington and Los Angeles to meet with small groups of bundlers and rev them up.In 2007, when he beg …"

Memo suggests FBI had mole inside ABC News in 1990s

By John Solomon and Aaron Mehta

Agents treated reporter like informant, raising question: Who else?

Excerpts from this story referencing "Los Angeles":

"… her bombing incidents planned” soon at government offices in Houston and Los Angeles.The journalist agreed to be interviewed by counterterrorism agents again t …"

Use of toxic acid puts millions at risk

By Jim Morris and Chris Hamby

A 2009 explosion in Corpus Christ sheds light on danger of toxic acid cloud

Excerpts from this story referencing "Los Angeles":

"… ion people.Refineries with HF also are located in or near cities including Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia, as well as in rural parts of Oklahoma, Wyoming, …"

"… artment at the time. “They knew that they had to do something.”Another Los Angeles-area refinery wasn’t ready to follow suit. Despite prodding from the Sou …"

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Homeland Security marked by waste, lack of oversight

By G.W. Schulz

Records show that communities across California had difficulty managing millions in anti-terrorism grants handed out by Congress after Sept.

Excerpts from this story referencing "Los Angeles":

"… size and top attractions, from the Golden Gate Bridge to Disneyland to the Los Angeles International Airport. California has taken in at least $1.9 billion betwe …"

"… ons center so his staff can watch CNN and other newscasts during disasters.Los Angeles County didn't follow rulesQuestionable and improper spending wasn’t limi …"

"… ave lacked the sophistication needed to manage federal grants.Officials in Los Angeles County spent $20,000 on a Chevrolet Monte Carlo, $1,500 on a shotgun safe …"

"… to spend it on something else that is allowable.”The mayor’s office in Los Angeles transferred $661,439 worth of grant funds to the county sheriff during 200 …"

Developers in the driver's seat on transportation

By Matthew Lewis

Unfocused transport policy leaves real estate industry eager to give Congress directions

Excerpts from this story referencing "Los Angeles":

"… ents served.Former congressmen work on behalf of some of these developers. Los Angeles home builder Pardee, for instance, contracts with former California c …"

Democrats desperately seek their own Rove

By Peter H. Stone

For chastened Democrats, ‘a lesson and a beating’; Republicans hone tactics that brought in secretive millions last year...

Excerpts from this story referencing "Los Angeles":

"… rt of a choreographed effort in several big money centers such as Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco to improve the president’s standing.Bundlers suggest t …"

Democratic donors and operatives talk money at posh Laguna Beach resort

By Peter H. Stone

Democratic donors and consultants talk money for the 2012 campaigns at exclusive Laguna Beach hotel

Excerpts from this story referencing "Los Angeles":

"… ouse. Sweeney and Burton have met in recent weeks with potential donors in Los Angeles and New York and have had some early success: Hollywood producer Jeffrey K …"

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