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Long-term Impact of Shutdown at Long Beach, LA Ports
West Coast ports, including LA and Long Beach, opened again today, but a nine-month impasse has yet to be broken and goods are moving slowly. Is it all about the fate of a single arbitrator? Will dire predictions about the impact on the nation's economy turn out as bad as they sound?
By Warren Olney • • 26m ListenWest Coast ports, including LA and Long Beach, opened again today, but a nine-month impasse has yet to be broken and goods are moving slowly. Is it all about the fate of a single arbitrator? Will dire predictions about the impact on the nation's economy turn out as bad as they sound?
Also, is a presidential library a repository of history or a device for polishing a former chief executive's image? Saul Gonzalez talks to the latest director of Richard Nixon’s library and museum in Orange County.
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2 storiesThe West Coast Ports and the US Economy
The President has sent Labor Secretary Tom Perez to San Francisco to try to bring longshore workers and West Coast shippers together after nine months of working without a contract. The shippers claim workers have slowed things down — so they shut 29 ports for three days to avoid paying holiday premiums.
Read the story16 minNixon Controversy Follows President to His Library
Chicago and Honolulu are in the running for the Obama Presidential Library. Closer to home, a new director's been chosen for Orange County's Richard Nixon Presidential Library . As befitting a controversial and divisive figure, there's question as to whether Michael Ellzey is the right man for the job.
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