Friday, July 27, 2012

July auto sales look strong despite economic jitters

The economic news remains mixed, but that hasn't slowed car buyers down in July.


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Bankrupt cities? Don't blame unions

Stockton and San Bernardino were brought down by the most severe housing busts in the nation, and by banks peddling subprime mortgages to poorly paid workers.

The reporting and commentary on the bankruptcies of California cities over the last month haven't been journalism's finest hour. From reading the voluminous accounts of the fiscal woes of Stockton and San Bernardino, you'd think that municipal unions and feckless city officials are primarily what led these cities down the path to fiscal ruin.


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Founder of Cudahy activist group says she was threatened

Blanca Ramos, founder of a group that has been a vocal critic of officials in scandal-plagued Cudahy, says a pair told her that if she didn't back down, 'people in the neighborhood would take care of her.'

The founder of an activist group that has been a vocal critic of city officials in Cudahy, where federal investigators are engaged in a wide-ranging corruption probe, said Thursday that a man and a woman came to her house and said people wanted her to back off.


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Lynn gets prison sentence of three to six years

Msgr. William J. Lynn was sentenced Tuesday to three to six years in state prison by a judge who said he turned a blind eye while "monsters in clerical garb" sexually abused children, devastating families and shaking the Catholic Church across Philadelphia and beyond.

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Syria says chemical arms only for use on foreign attackers

The embattled government says the weapons are secure and that it will not utilize them against domestic rebels, but only in the case of 'external aggression.' Western nations condemn the threat.

BEIRUT — With mounting international alarm about Syria's cache of chemical and biological weapons, the embattled government in Damascus said Monday that its "unconventional" arms stockpiles were secure and vowed not to use them — unless provoked by an outside attack.


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