Wages and Pensions

Patt Morrison Asks: U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis

2011-09-03 00:00:00

Ahigh school counselor in La Puente once told Hilda Solis' mother that the girl really ought to forget about college and become a secretary. Well, so she has. Hilda Solis is the U.S. secretary of Labor. The daughter of factory workers and ardent union...

Newton: It's legacy time for Villaraigosa

2011-08-29 00:00:00

First of two parts | Part two Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa doesn't like to talk about his legacy. He's still moving forward, plowing through the work that is left for him to accomplish with two years remaining. Like it or not, though, this is what faces...

Republican candidates spent money to make money

2011-07-17 00:00:00

The huge infrastructure that President Obama is putting together for his reelection effort was already visible in the first few months of spending by his campaign, which doled out $10.5 million for a massive bricks-and-mortar operation based in Chicago....

McManus: A two-man GOP presidential race?

2011-08-28 00:00:00

Until a few weeks ago, the race for the Republican presidential nomination seemed wide open. There was a presumptive front-runner, Mitt Romney, but he held first place mostly because he was a familiar face; his support among Republican voters appeared...

Some Gov. Jerry Brown appointees get pension and paycheck

2011-09-29 00:00:00

Reporting from Sacramento -- Every month, Ann Ravel gets a paycheck from her salary as chairwoman of California's ethics watchdog agency and a second, bigger check from her public pension as a retiree. The double payments, which total more than $305,...

Patt Morrison Asks: Benefit buster Lanny Ebenstein

2011-10-15 00:00:00

Lanny Ebenstein wants you to vote to kneecap the state's public workers unions by banning their right to collective bargaining. Other measures scrambling to qualify for the November 2012 ballot would drop the hammer specifically on public employees'...

Patt Morrison Asks: Memorial man Peter Walker

2011-09-10 00:00:00

Berkeley landscape architect Peter Walker has designed bigger projects than the 9/11 memorial in New York, but probably none has carried more weight. The opening of the eight-acre plaza Sunday marks 10 years since the terrorist attacks, and almost as many...

McManus: Touching the 'third rail'

2011-09-15 00:00:00

"We have not had the courage to stand up and look Americans in the face," Texas Gov. Rick Perry said when he was asked about Social Security at the Republican presidential candidates' debate this week. "It has been called a Ponzi scheme by many people...

A vicious cycle in the used-car business

2011-10-30 00:00:00

First of three parts Tiffany Lee wanted a car. She was weary of the two-hour bus ride to her job at a UCLA Health System clinic. She hated having to ask friends to drive her 7-year-old son to his asthma treatments. But as a single mother with three...

Newton: A meeting of California minds

2011-10-17 00:00:00

They loped in like a pair of old lions, one a bit stooped, both proud to a fault. On the left, sipping from his bottled water, was Gov. Jerry Brown. On the right, fidgeting with note cards, was Michael Milken. The occasion was last week's State of the...

Some up-and-coming chefs are skipping culinary school

2011-07-28 00:00:00

Cole Dickinson, the chef de cuisine at Michael Voltaggio's soon-to-open West Hollywood restaurant, Ink, got his culinary education the old-fashioned way: in the kitchen. That might sound obvious, but it makes him something of an anomaly as the number...

McManus: One good debt debate deserves another

2011-07-14 00:00:00

Republican leaders blinked this week in their standoff with President Obama over raising the nation's debt ceiling. That means we're unlikely to face a financial crisis next month, when the Treasury said it would run short of money to pay the federal...

How the company did in 2009: Earnings for the year declined 50.9 percent to $1.31 billion due to a combined $3.58 per share impact from previously announced 787 and 747 delays. Revenues were up 12 percent to $68.28 billion.

2013-03-28 06:13:00

How the company did in 2009: ADM profit fell 5.3 percent to 1.7 billion for the 12 months ending in June 2009. Revenues were essentially flat at $69.2 billion. ADM stock decreased in value by 19.6 percent to $26.77 for the 12 months ending in June 2009.

2013-03-27 12:29:00

After weeks of discussion, Meyersdale Borough Council on Tuesday approved an earned income tax resolution for all local and out-of-state residents working within the borough.

2011-10-12 20:17:28