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Timothy Geithner

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    December 27, 2012

    10 Best L.A. Restaurants That Closed in 2012: An Elegy in 10 Parts

    The conclusion of every year is a time to catalog both beginnings and endings, to look back over what exactly happened in the twelve months now drawing to a close. Which means that we're getting a lot of lists -- thank you, David Letterman -- as we calibrate and recalibrate, and remember, or try to, ... More >>

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    October 11, 2011

    Occupy L.A. Graphic Design: Six Awesome Signs From the Downtown Protest

    Last weekend, along with thousands of other cyclists, I clambered off my bicycle at the intersection of 1st and Main, and joined the crowds surging through the Occupy Los Angeles campsite in a public park off City Hall. Occupy L.A. was just one stop on the CicLAvia route, so demonstrators, perhaps ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    Members Of Congress Ask Treasury Secretary To Let Pot Shops Open Bank Accounts

    ​Fifteen members of congress, including a few from Southern California, recently wrote a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner requesting that he tell banks to lay off the accounts of medical marijuana dispensaries that operate in states where the drug is legal, the group American ... More >>

  • News

    November 13, 2009

    Hollywood's Catered Stimulus

    Why $23 million creates just 21 jobs

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    Eddie Haskell, We Hardly Knew Ye

    Wikipedia​Those of us of a certain age can never get enough of Eddie Haskell -- even if, as Ralph Keyes wrote earlier this year in Editor & Publisher, "Journalists who lace their copy with such retro terms or names risk alienating those who are too young to get the allusions." (Keyes was refer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    Hilda Solis' Husband Has Tax Problems

    Now it's Hilda Solis' turn. According to the Associated Press, Barack Obama's nomination to be be Labor Secretary has had her confirmation hearings put on hold because facts have emerged about her husband's tax payments -- or lack of them. Yesterday Solis' husband, Sam Sayyad, got around to paying $ ... More >>

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