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Voice: Don't sell Valley down the river
El CentroIn 1906 when the Los Angeles Aqueduct was being constructed, the Los Angeles Times boasted by printing “The Victory for Los Angeles is complete.” By November 1913, water was flowing away from the Owens Valley and into Los Angeles by virtue...Tags: Steve Benson, Theft, Los Angeles Times
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Letters to the Editor - May 25
Today’s GOP leaders offer no future at all To the editor: I’m sick of hearing Pennsylvania’s Republican legislators brag that they haven’t raised taxes and rant about cutting spending. Because of them, property taxes have risen...Tags: Teaching and Learning, World War II (1939-1945), Republican Party, Government, Culture
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H.H. Brookins dies at 86; pastor was influential black leader
The Rev. Hamel Hartford Brookins, an influential bishop and former pastor of the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles who became a political power broker, civil rights leader and mentor to former Mayor Tom Bradley, the Rev. Jesse...Tags: Christianity, Bill Clinton, Government, Maxine Waters, Local Elections
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Petoskey council OKs updates for fireworks rules
PETOSKEY — An update to Petoskey’s city rules concerning fireworks use and sales received unanimous approval Monday from the city council. Officials pursued the ordinance change to bring the local rules into compliance with recently changed...
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Gays may have the fastest of all civil rights movements
SAN FRANCISCO — In 1958, the Gallup Poll asked Americans whether they approved or disapproved of marriage between blacks and whites. The response was overwhelming: 94% were opposed, a sentiment that held for decades. It took nearly 40 years until...
Tags: Social Movements, AIDS, Social Issues, Justice System, Parties and Movements
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San Francisco street to be renamed for Nancy Pelosi
L.A. NOWHouse Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will join the likes of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. after a San Francisco street is named in her honor.... -
Several Indy Parks pools to open this weekend
Nine Indy Parks pools and aquatic centers will open this Saturday with 10 others opening on June 9. "These are great way for families to spend time together especially this summer where we are offering new evening hours you have daylight that extends...
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Protest groups move into place as G-8 Summit begins
andrews@herald-mail.comWith world leaders on their way to Camp David for a Group of Eight summit, protesters trickled into nearby Thurmont to speak their minds. The movement started slowly Friday morning, with just two representatives of the Larouche Political Action Committee...Tags: Protest, NATO Summit, NATO, Camp David, Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Gayle on the Go: Southland Events for May 19 & 20
KTLA NewsSouthland Events for May 19 & 20, 2012 Saturday @ 8am to 2pm Western Costume Company's Centennial Spring Cleaning Sale 11041 Vanowen Street North Hollywood 818 760 0900 www.westerncostume.com Costumes and accessories from 50-cent to 300-dollars are...Tags: Radio, Companies and Corporations, Boeing Co., Christianity, Entertainment
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Romney's Prep School Memories Unforgettable
The Hartford CourantIt is possible, although just barely, that Mitt Romney cannot conjure up the memory of youthful actions that today would be considered borderline felonious. Such, however, was the gist of his comment on a story in the Washington Post that he, as a...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Lifestyle and Leisure, Windsor (Hartford, Connecticut), The Washington Post, Farmington (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Rev. Marion Bascom, civil rights activist and pastor, dies
The Rev. Marion C. Bascom, a leading Baltimore civil rights activist remembered for his lifetime quest for social justice, died of a heart attack Thursday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. He was 87 and lived in Reservoir Hill.
"A giant has...Tags: Baltimore County, Carroll County (Maryland), Howard University, Local Government, Annapolis
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Chuck Brown dies: King of D.C. go-go music, influential sample source
Pop & HissChuck Brown, the "king of go-go music," has died in Washington D.C. The musician, whose work with big band funk in the 1970s and '80s was influential both as a bandleader and as inspiration on early electronic dance music. Times pop music critic Randall...
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