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More than 3,000 residents from across Los Angeles County came together for the 18th annual Alzheimer's Association Memory Walk® to raise awareness and funds to fight Alzheimer's disease.
Families and friends walked side by side with teams from community groups, businesses, schools, assisted living facilities and professional groups, raising more than $680,000 for Alzheimer's disease care and research.
by John Eggerton
Rep. Maxine Waters used the Fox/Cablevision retrans fight to renew her calls for conditions on the Comcast/NBCU deal. In a letter to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, she said that if Comcast were to use its ownership of NBCU TV stations, or online content, as leverage to negotiate higher rates from cable competitors, it could potentially harm consumers.
"Therefore, the FCC and DOJ should strongly consider the impact the merger could have in areas where Comcast will own both a cable system and an NBC owned-and-operated broadcast station," she wrote.
by Todd Shields
News Corp.'s programming conflict with Cablevision Systems Corp. raises questions about Comcast Corp.'s proposed merger with General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal, U.S. Representative Maxine Waters said today.
By Gautham Nagesh
House Judiciary Committee member Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) said Monday that the standoff between Cablevision and Fox raises additional concerns about the planned merger between NBC Universal and Comcast.
by Eric Bradley
South Bay state Sen. Jenny Oropeza, who seemed set to win a second and final term next month but had been battling a painful abdominal blood clot, died Wednesday. She was 53.
Oropeza, whose district includes Torrance, Carson, El Segundo, Lomita, Westchester, the beach cities and the Harbor Area, died at 9 p.m. Wednesday at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, according to her office.
The former state assemblywoman's name will remain on the Nov. 2 ballot.
By DAMIAN PALETTA And DAVID WESSEL
A four-month-long Obama administration probe into five of the country's largest mortgage servicers has discovered "a significant variation" among their operations, with some servicers "significantly worse than others" in how they handle home loans, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan said in an interview.
Mr. Donovan wouldn't identify which companies were laggards in the HUD review, but he said the administration plans to make the results of its investigation public in the next few weeks.
By ALAN ZIBEL, AP Real Estate Writer
Big lenders are trying to move past the foreclosure-document mess, saying they're now confident their paperwork is accurate.
Yet they face so much organized resistance that they can't just snap up their briefcases, declare the crisis over and move on.
by Olu Alemoru
South Bay cities and community organizations received a much needed financial boost Tuesday when Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Los Angeles, announced she had secured nearly $7 million in 2010 appropriations funding.
Waters outlined $6.85 million in awards to 12 entities at a press briefing held in the council chambers at Inglewood City Hall.
by Joanne Allen
A House of Representatives subcommittee on housing issues will hold a hearing on home foreclosures when lawmakers return from recess after the November elections, the panel announced on Monday.
The hearing is scheduled for Thursday, November 18 at 10:00 a.m. with testimony from industry representatives, government regulators and watchdog groups, the House Subcommittee on Housing and Communality Opportunity said in a statement.
BY GARY WALKER
Rep. Maxine Waters (D- Westchester), who is facing ethics charges stemming from her alleged involvement with a community bank, still retains popularity among many of her constituents, including those in Westchester and Playa del Rey.