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Presidential Politics, the Writers’ Strike and LA’s Economy
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Presidential Politics, the Writers’ Strike and LA’s Economy

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Forget about the current TV season. Even next year’s season’s in trouble as TV studios cancel sixty-five contracts and threaten to cancel more. With the California primary three weeks away, Clinton’s ahead and four Republicans are all within the margin of error, but those who are undecided could change things in both parties.

Making News

Los Angeles Times Poll ()

With the California primary three weeks away, Clinton’s ahead and four Republicans are all within the margin of error—but the undecideds could change things in both parties. 

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Writers Strike and Its Impact on Local Economy ()

The Golden Globes show was reduced to a press conference and late night TV hosts are limping along without writers. Now, 20th Century Fox, CBS Paramount, NBC Universal and Warner Brothers have canceled sixty-five development and production agreements worth as much as two million dollars apiece. 

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  • Michael Speier: Executive Editor, Daily Variety
  • Jack Kyser: Chief Economist at the LA Economic Development Corporation

Reporter's Notebook

Prop 93 ()

Proposition 93 on next month's state ballot sounds like a tightening of term limits for state legislators. But it would allow Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez and Senate Leader Don Perata both to serve an extra term in office. They’re Democrats, so why would Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger write an op-ed in today's LA Times supporting the measure?

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Which Way L.A.? is made possible in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports study and research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region.

 

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