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24
Apr 2010
The city's grand experiment in neighborhood activism is about to take a big hit this year, and some advocates are worried if its spirit will survive.
Under Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's latest budget plan, the Department of Neighborhood...
23
Apr 2010
Republican candidate for governor Meg Whitman on Thursday proposed a major restructuring of state worker pensions that she said would dramatically lessen the billions of dollars that cash-strapped California would be required to pay out in...
23
Apr 2010
Across California, state and local leaders are moving to confront the cost of public employee retirement packages - an escalating financial burden that threatens to choke off funding for other government services.
Legislation now being...
23
Apr 2010
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer on Friday signed the toughest law against illegal immigration in the country, shrugging aside warnings from religious and civil rights leaders - and President Obama - that it would lead to widespread racial...