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News-Press Editorial: Lack of genocide recognition is a disgrace
On a Saturday night some 98 years ago this week, more than 200 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders living in Constantinople, today's Istanbul, were rounded up by the government. The political party in power, the "Young Turks," did not want...Tags: Politics, Massacres, Hate Crimes, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Genocide
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Start the Presses: Remembering the Armenian Genocide
Each year Armenians worldwide commemorate the murder of 1.5 million of their ancestors by what was then the Ottoman Empire in the time around World War I. Each year, the United States government – fearing the backlash of Turkish rulers – fails...
Tags: Politics, Massacres, Hate Crimes, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Genocide
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Ron Kaye: Glendale seeks straight story
Twenty months after Gov. Jerry Brown and the state Legislature abolished community redevelopment agencies statewide, local officials have gone through all the stages of grief — from horror to anger to confusion. Now they have reached the point...Tags: Carol Liu, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Finance, Justice System
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Schiff says he is 'deeply disturbed' by brutal attack on U.S. embassy in Libya
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) on Wednesday said he was “deeply saddened and disturbed” by news that a mob angry over an anti-Muslim video had sacked the U.S. Consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi and killed the American ambassador...
Tags: Politics, Religion and Belief, Google+, NATO, Libya
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Supreme Court upholds healthcare law as tax measure
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of President Obama’s healthcare law Thursday, ruling the government may impose tax penalties on persons who do not have health insurance. The court’s long-awaited ruling...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Los Angeles Times, U.S. Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer
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Education Matters: Helping to dissolve cyber bullying
Editor's Note: Numerous instances of plagiarism have been discovered in Dan Kimber’s “Education Matters” column, which ran in the News- Press from September 2003 to September 2011. In those columns where plagiarism has been found, a...Tags: File Sharing, Politics, Suicide, Arts and Culture, Health and Safety at School
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Think Again: Identifying legitimate democracies
Some news in the last few weeks has demonstrated the fragile nature of our freedoms. As riots in Great Britain spread, on Aug. 11 the British prime minister’s reaction was to begin an assault on freedom of speech and assembly by attempting to ban...Tags: United Kingdom, Democracy, Constitutional Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture
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Think Again: The French turn the leadership tables
The French often are the butt of jokes here, but last month they turned the tables and are teaching our elected officials about leadership. With the support of President Nicolas Sarkozy, the lower house of the French parliament and the French Senate...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Arts and Culture, Nicolas Sarkozy, Human Rights, Massacres
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Ron Kaye: L.A. County is too big not to fail
The walls of L.A. County's Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration are so thick and shielding of public scrutiny that even the old-line Commies in charge of the Kremlin in Moscow would be envious. The city's newspapers have assigned teams of reporters over...Tags: Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Crime, Law and Justice, Steve Cooley, Prisons
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In Theory: Reflections on 9/11
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. What are your thoughts on this day? I am yearning for the goodness of humanity. I long to stand soft together in silence with people of many nations, our hats in our hands and...Tags: Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, New York City, Israel, Human Rights
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Krikorian goes after Gatto's Assembly seat
Longtime Glendale Unified school board member Greg Krikorian is throwing his hat in the ring to run in the redrawn 43rd state Assembly District against incumbent Mike Gatto (D-Silver Lake), who has already raised nearly $500,000 for his reelection...Tags: Mike Gatto, Politics, Elections, Culture, Government
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Schiff meets with aspiring public servants
In a meeting of present-day and future leaders, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) made a pit stop at Burroughs High School in Burbank on Thursday where he debriefed students on the federal deficit, Afghanistan and the political climate in Washington D.C....Tags: Public Finance, Afghanistan, Teaching and Learning, Massacres, Hate Crimes
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