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Robinwood continues to roll in Little League All-Star play
In postseason All-Star play, there has been no stopping the Robinwood express. Tuesday in south Mission Viejo, the Robinwood 9/10 team put the exclamation point on an overpowering run through its most recent journey by winning the Little League Section...
Tags: College Baseball, Henry Rodriguez, Sports, Baseball
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Locals on verge of advancing
The Ocean View Little League Majors All-Star team followed its gameplan to near perfection Monday.
In a Southern California Sub-Division tournament game at Mile Square Park in Fountain Valley, Ocean View worked though six innings as if it were involved...Tags: All Stars, Sports, Little League Baseball, Baseball
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Highland Park, Deerfield differ on approaches to affordable housing
Six months ago, Jose Rodriguez's cramped one-bedroom apartment had three beds in it. He and his wife shared one, and their two daughters bunked in the others. Today, thanks to Highland Park's affordable housing program, the family has room to grow...
Tags: Foreclosures, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Homes
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You say Los Feliz, I say Los Feliz
It's a timeless — by L.A. standards — dispute: What's the right way to pronounce "Los Feliz"? In response to Tuesday's Column One on Anglicized versions of place names in Los Angeles reverting to their original Spanish pronunciations, more...
Tags: Rodeo
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Mossburg misrepresents research on housing vouchers
In her April 23 column, “Forcing landlords to accept vouchers won't help the poor,” Marta H. Mossburg quoted me as saying that laws prohibiting landlords to accept Section 8 vouchers “exacerbate” the problem of finding housing...Tags: Poverty, Norwalk (Fairfield, Connecticut), Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Johns Hopkins University
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Mossburg wrong on housing vouchers
As the legislative chair of the Maryland Association of Housing and Redevelopment Agencies, which represents the agencies that actually administer the Section 8 rental assistance program, it was disturbing to read the distortions in Marta Mossburg's...Tags: Social Issues, Rentals, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Condos and Houses, Annapolis
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Section 8 housing is a nightmare for landlords
In a recent letter to the editor, Johns Hopkins professor Stefanie DeLuca recently suggested that many landlords refuse to rent to people with Section 8 housing vouchers because they are unfairly prejudiced against those prospective tenants ("Mossburg...Tags: Section 8 (housing), Public Housing
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State shouldn't let landlords discriminate
As we recently celebrated the 45th anniversary of the federal Fair Housing Act, it is significant to note that the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. metropolitan regions are among the most segregated in America. Last month, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil...Tags: Rentals, Crime, Law and Justice, Minority Groups, Justice and Rights, Separation of Church and State
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Housing growth slowing around CTA, Metra rail stations, researchers say
Despite the high-selling prices of residences located near public transit, the creation of new housing has lagged in sections of the Chicago area near CTA and Metra rail stations, compared with more robust development in transit zones in New York,...
Tags: Chicago Transit Authority, Social Issues, Metra, Politics, Interior Policy
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Chicago's black legal community meets to stem youth violence
Herschella Conyers is an attorney who, along with several judges, recently invited a bunch of people to the University of Chicago to talk about violence and the growing number of teens getting entangled in the criminal justice system. Typically, these...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Crime, Law and Justice, Teachers, Justice System, Criminals
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The red herring of human gene patents
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. — Louis D. Brandeis Just a few words and little thought separate yet another stronghold of the American economy from ruin....
Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Biotechnology, Science and Technology, Herring, Biology
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Forcing landlords to accept vouchers won't help the poor
Human nature frequently disproves theories. Conventional wisdom, for example, says that open office space plans with workers grouped like cattle encourage creativity and collaboration. But study after study shows that people are more inventive, productive...Tags: Poverty, Rentals, Crime, Law and Justice, Medicaid, Johns Hopkins University
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May 13, 2013
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Apr 28, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
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