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May 10, 2005 | Michael Finnegan, Times Staff Writer
With the Los Angeles mayoral election a week away, incumbent James K. Hahn has made large gains among major voting blocs, but still trails challenger Antonio Villaraigosa by 11 points, a Los Angeles Times poll has found. Hahn's improved standing with such pivotal groups as San Fernando Valley whites and South Los Angeles blacks has cut into the 18-point lead that Villaraigosa held in a Times poll last month. But the new survey still reflects pervasive trouble for Hahn.
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October 17, 2005 | Jenifer Warren, Times Staff Writer
James E. Holman makes his living in the world of alternative newspapers. For 33 years, his irreverent and wildly successful weekly, the San Diego Reader, has needled the city's captains of commerce, government and society. But Holman has also pursued a passion unusual among his brethren in the left-leaning alternative press: a quiet crusade against abortion.
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April 30, 2005 | Jessica Garrison and Patrick McGreevy, Times Staff Writers
Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley opened a preliminary investigation Friday into thousands of dollars in contributions to mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa from employees at two Florida firms. "There may be money-laundering issues," Cooley said, citing media reports. "Sometimes information from an investigation opens a criminal filing, sometimes it doesn't. But we still have to do the investigation to gather the facts." Villaraigosa said he welcomed the inquiry.
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April 1, 2005 | Patrick McGreevy and Jeffrey L. Rabin, Times Staff Writers
Mayoral candidate Antonio Villaraigosa released a plan Thursday to protect Los Angeles from terrorists, including an expansion of police intelligence units, and accused Mayor James K. Hahn of failing to do enough to make the city's airports and harbor secure. Hahn, in turn, called Villaraigosa's opposition to an $11-billion modernization of Los Angeles International Airport shortsighted, saying it was essential to improve security.
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March 19, 2005 | Patrick McGreevy and Jessica Garrison, Times Staff Writers
Three Jewish civic leaders charged Friday that their signatures were forged on cards indicating they support Mayor James K. Hahn for reelection when they do not. The leaders, including Rabbi Steven Weil of Beth Jacob Congregation in Beverly Hills, joined Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss to denounce the campaign's use of those cards to justify listing their names in Hahn-for-mayor advertisements in Jewish newspapers. "It's dishonest and manipulative," Weil said.
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September 26, 2004 | Patrick McGreevy, Times Staff Writer
One by one, Mayor James K. Hahn and his challengers have appeared before Los Angeles business groups in recent weeks, and each time, they have been confronted with the same vexing question. Why, the candidates are asked, has so little been done to reform the city's byzantine tax system for businesses? Tired of hearing promises of reform in the last two mayoral elections but seeing scant change, the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, the Valley Industry and Commerce Assn.