Grading the billionaires on education reform

Billionaires deliver B-minus to C-minus grades on education reform

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"… dythe Broad Foundation Grade: B- Amount Spent: $440 million Where Started: Los Angeles in 1999 Goals: To further urban education by focusing on leadership traini …"

Separation of earmark powers

By Matthew Lewis

As both parties in the House attempt to get the upper hand on earmark repudiation, Florida Republican John Mica also tossed a curve ball to

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"… ring a Senate Public Works hearing last week. Responding to testimony from Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Whitehouse asked if local governments could cr …"

Eastern Shore homebuilder investigated for storm water runoff

By Joe Eaton

Eastern Shore homebuilder investigated for storm water runoff

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"… rginia. The builders are Centex Homes, based in Dallas; KB Homes, based in Los Angeles; Pulte Homes, based in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and Richmond American H …"

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When the Democrats wined and dined, here's who paid the piper

By Josey Ballenger

WASHINGTON, September 14, 2000 — Anyone who thought the Democratic National Convention was only about presidential nominee Al Gore must have

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"… is a compilation of the many private, invitation-only parties held in the Los Angeles area from before the convention gavel officially opened the proceedings Au …"

"… ided information to The Public i, and the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today and the Associated Press reported much of the event infor …"

"… /party promoter)United Food and Commercial Workers UnionWestfield Corp. (a Los Angeles-based real estate development firm)Northrop Grumman Corp. ($285,000, 42 pe …"

"… or services to the convention worth at least $1 million, according to the Los Angeles Times.)Walt Disney Co. (876,000, 53 percent to Democrats)WebMD (a health w …"

The millionaire's media megaphone

By Alicia C. Shepard

Rich people live lives that most everyone else can only imagine. They can buy the nicest cars, drink the finest wines, afford the best docto

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"… iner as a gift from his father, he opened newspapers in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Boston to further his political pursuits.It is what the Reverend Sun …"

The Republican convention: The party begins in New York City, paid for by special interests

By Meredith O'Brien

WASHINGTON, August 20, 2004 — President Bush will accept his party's nomination in New York City at the Republican National Convention, an e

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"… sentiments were uttered four years ago after the Democratic convention in Los Angeles wrapped up. “We ought to consider the possibility of shortening it,” t …"

"… y, the American Gas Association’s government relations director told the Los Angeles Times. “It gives us exposure, and we get to be involved in the biggest p …"

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Howard "Buck" McKeon — Armed Services Committee

By Amy Biegelsen

Rep. Howard McKeon (R-Calif.) answers to the nickname “Buck,” an appropriate moniker for the man about to help oversee one of the biggest ch

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"… litary policy.McKeon’s southern California district lies nestled between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. It is home to a number of military installations, including …"

"… 2006. When asked about the arrangement in 2005, he told the Daily News of Los Angeles that after learning that fundraising consultants take a cut for themselves …"

"… ir of the House Education Committee in 2006, McKeon told the Daily News of Los Angeles “I’ve found, much like joining a fraternity, there are certain things …"

Arrested Italian cell sheds light on Bin Laden's European network

By Leo Sisti and Maud S. Beelman

WASHINGTON, October 3, 2001 — On a cold winter night last January, on the outskirts of Milan, Italian anti-terrorist police intercepted a fr

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"… he was a key figure in Bin Ladens network and one of the plotters to bomb Los Angeles International Airport on New Years Eve 1999. Abu Doha also was implicated …"

"… gerian loyalist of Bin Ladens who was convicted in the plot to blow up the Los Angeles airport, Canadian investigators found two key telephone numbers. One belon …"

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.: A remembrance

By Charles Lewis

WASHINGTON, March 26, 2007 — In the last hours of February, at the age of 89, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. passed from this world. Not only did

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"… ff and interns at our office in Washington. In 1996 he very kindly flew to Los Angeles to speak at a public forum with me and others at UCLA to discuss the state …"

Tobacco settlement helps everyone but smokers

By John Dunbar

WASHINGTON, December 8, 2000 — Two years after cigarette makers reached a landmark settlement with the states over costs associated with tr

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"… e and smoking cessation, some proposals have nothing to do with tobacco.In Los Angeles, for example, a city in the midst of its worst police corruption scandal, …"

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