Mar 02 2009
Voters in the city of Los Angeles will be heading to the polls tomorrow to decide on a number of important positions of governance. Most notably, incumbent Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will be seeking re-election to a second term in office. The mayor is running on a record that he claims has made progress on issues …
Mar 02 2009
Alongside voting for members of the city council, mayor and controller, Los Angelinos will be asked tomorrow to vote on 5 ballot measures, the most prominent one among them, Measure B, the Green Energy and Good Jobs for LA Program which aims to make Los Angeles the national capital of solar power. If passed, …
Mar 02 2009
Twenty three million young people, a record high, voted in the historic election last November. More than 10,000 of them are participating today in the largest mass civil disobedience on climate change in U.S. history. The target of their action, the Capitol Power Plant, sits just blocks from Capitol Hill, which according to …
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Mar 02 2009
Empire Notes are weekly commentaries filed by Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade. Today’s commentary is about the end of the Iraq War.
GUEST: Rahul Mahajan, author of Full Spectrum Dominance and The New Crusade.
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Mar 02 2009
The Dubious Election of Rutherford B. Hayes
Back in the day on March 2nd, 1877, Republican Presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of a controversial election in which his opponent won the popular vote. As with all presidential contests, the Electoral College system determines the winner, and prior to a bi-partisan commission, Hayes …
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Mar 02 2009
“People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can feel in the course of their daily lives, it will be too late to prevent much larger, potentially catastrophic changes.” — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker
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Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis Is Coming To Los Angeles!
Come and hear Varoufakis speak in person on Saturday April 23rd in Pasadena, California, at his ONLY Los Angeles-area event!
WHEN: Saturday April 23rd, Reception at 12 noon, Event at 1 pm
WHERE: Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church, 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91103
Yanis Varoufakis of the Syriza Party took the European political establishment by storm a year ago when he was appointed Finance Minister of Greece by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Varoufakis is an ……
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