About a century ago, Willa and Charles Bruce were forced to sell a small strip of beach property that they had developed a few miles south of Los Angeles. The municipal authorities claimed they wanted to develop a park on the land, but the real reason they forced the sale is that the Bruces were ...continue reading "Reparations hit a road bump in Southern California"
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Slurping a bowl of Ajiaco Chicken Soup at Maize and Wheat on Brentwood. My dining out has picked up this year. As I look back on 2022, I recall a number of noteworthy dishes around town from restaurants new and old. As it turned out, I selected mostly Asian and Mediterranean fare. Perhaps that’s because...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The idea for raising salaries of top Illinois state government officials, which culminated this weekend with the House voting lawmakers an 18% pay hike, began with Gov. J.B. Pritzker. But the Democratic governor said he originally requested that the General Assembly increase pay for his administration's agency directors to recruit and [...]
Missouri’s social services department will resume conducting Medicaid eligibility renewals on April 1 — allowing the state to once again remove people from its rolls after a three-year pause during the COVID-19 state of emergency. Since March 2020, states have been barred from removing enrollees from Medicaid during the federally-declared public health emergency in exchange [...]