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Gulf Oil Spill Prompts Guv to Drop Offshore Plan

Gene Maddaus
For the last couple years, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has lobbied to boost state revenues by allowing expanded drilling off Santa Barbara.The Tranquillon Ridge plan accounted for $100 million in the governor's proposed budget.Well, so much for that. In view of the vast and growing ecological disaster in the Gulf, the......
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Will the Dodgers Boycott Arizona? No Se Puede.

Gene Maddaus
On Which Way L.A. the other night, L.A. Councilwoman Janice Hahn suggested that the Dodgers should join the city's protest of Arizona's strict new immigration law:"I'm going to be asking the L.A. Dodgers to consider moving their training facility from Arizona," Hahn said.It was only a year ago that the......
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Castaic Jail Escapees Found (Updated)

Gene Maddaus
(Updated: The pair was reportedly found in the area shortly after 5 p.m. after a resident reported they asked him for clothes). Sheriff's deputies are searching the Castaic area for two inmates who escaped overnight from the North County Correctional Facility.Winder Barrios (left) and Jose Aldana (right), both 24, were due......
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Times Endorses Newsom in Lt. Gov.'s Race (UPDATE)

Gene Maddaus
Not a great day for Janice Hahn, the L.A. councilwoman who hopes to be the state's next lieutenant governor. This afternoon her hometown paper endorsed her rival, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom.UPDATE: Hahn canceled her subscription to the Times."I don't want the L.A. Times on my doorstep ever again," she......
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Cooper on Daryl Gates Funeral: Who Paid For This?

Gene Maddaus
In stark contrast to the tone of most of the coverage of Daryl Gates' funeral, blogger and USC journalism professor Marc Cooper wants to know how much it cost and who's paying for it:You all might remember there was a big stink raised here a year ago around how much......
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Manny Goes Down With Calf Injury

Gene Maddaus
Well, this is no good. The Dodgers put Manny Ramirez on the disabled list today due to a strained right calf. In 13 games this year, Ramirez has looked like the Manny who dazzled the Dodger faithful when he first came over in 2008, putting up some sizzling stats --......
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Usher E-mail Excoriates Mayor

Gene Maddaus
By Tibby RothmanClearly Special Assistant City Attorney Jane Usher has not received Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's memo on insubordination.Today, the woman who as the chair of the City Planning Commission urged residents to sue the city over an unpopular development policy, issued a scathing e-mail to community activists slamming Villaraigosa for......
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Trial Opens in Clean Trucks Case

Gene Maddaus
While Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was giving his State of the City address at the Police Administration Building yesterday, a federal trial was getting underway a couple blocks north. The trial will determine the fate of one of the mayor's most ambitious initiatives: the Port of L.A.'s Clean Trucks Program.As Art......
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Caruso's Racetrack Mall May Be Pulling Up Lame

Gene Maddaus
Rick Caruso, the shopping mall impresario and maybe-someday mayor of L.A., has been trying for a few years to build a shopping center next to the ailing Santa Anita racetrack in Arcadia.The project has faced bitter opposition from rival mall owner Westfield Group, which has sued over the project and......