Senator Price, Assemblyman Cedillo win City Council seats
City News Service
May 22 2013

Cindy Montanez, Nury Martinez face runoff

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The political road between Sacramento and Los Angeles City Hall was being well-traveled today, with Sen. Curren Price, D-Los Angeles, and former Assemblyman Gil Cedillo claiming City Council seats and another former assemblywoman advancing to a runoff election in hopes of representing another council district.

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Strike at UC hospitals enters day two
City News Service
May 22 2013

Technical workers include technicians for ultrasounds, X-rays, MRIs, mammograms

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — A strike by thousands of health care workers at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UC Irvine Medical Center and University of California hospitals across the state went into its second and final day today.

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 announced earlier this month that its roughly 13,000 patient care technical workers planned to begin a two-day strike at 6 a.m. Tuesday.

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Ratliff defeats Sanchez for LAUSD board seat
City News Service
May 22 2013

Nancy Pearlman re-elected to LACCD board

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — An educator/attorney narrowly defeated a former assistant to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to win a seat on the Los Angeles Unified School District board, according to unofficial election results released today.

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Monica Ratliff had 51.9 percent of the vote, giving her a 1,464-vote advantage over former Villaraigosa aide Antonio Sanchez, 31.

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Garcetti victorious over Greuel as new mayor of Los Angeles
City News Service
May 22 2013

Received 54 percent of the vote

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — City Councilman Eric Garcetti emerged victorious today in the race to become the next mayor of Los Angeles, ending a nearly two-year campaign that saw record-breaking spending and was punctuated by a spate of attack ads in the waning weeks of the race.

With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Garcetti had 54 percent of the vote, compared to 46 percent for City Controller Wendy Greuel.

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Motivated Men of Dorsey to hold ‘Afternoon of Excellence’
Juliana D. Norwood  |   OW Staff Writer
May 9 2013

Working to get others involved in educating young Black men

The Motivated Men of Dorsey High School is a nonprofit organization committed to community collaboration and social responsibility through its efforts to prepare the young men at Dorsey High School to be effective communicators, critical thinkers and life-long learners. As a collaborative of alumni, parents, faculty, staff and community members, the organization’s objective is to foster positive relationships with the young men in an effort to close the achievement gap, increase test scores, and lead them to a successful high school experience.

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