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The U.S.'s Unwelcoming Approach To Welcoming Foreigners

Philip Seib | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Islamophobia, Islam, Discrimination, Lax, US Immigration and Customs, Public Diplomacy, Travel News

Presumably, the training of the men and women working at U.S. entry points includes instruction in the religions and cultures of the people they will encounter. In this case, at least, the training didn't work.

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Will Travel for Food

Ann Gentry | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Vegetarian, Veg-Friendly, Fun, Restaurants, Vegan, Travel, Lax, Foodies, Vegan Travel, Vegan Traveller, Travelling, Food News

Traveling can have its challenges, but traveling while vegan is an adventure unto itself.

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More Money, More Problems For LAX

AP | Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Lax Renovation, Lax Baggage Screener, Los Angeles Airport Baggage Screener, Los Angeles Airport, Lax Renovations, Los Angeles Airport Renovation, Lax, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES -- Officials at Los Angeles International Airport say a $140 million baggage screening facility in its recently remodeled international te...

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SEIZED AT LAX: Pig Placenta, Deer Antlers & Bird Nests

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Smuggled Items LAX, LA Airport, Lax Airport, Video, Lax Security, LAX Customs, Lax, Swine Flu Airports, Airports, Smuggled Goods LAX, Customs and Border Protection, Airport Security, What You Can Fly With, Items Allowed at LAX, LAX Hidden Underground, Los Angeles News

Guns, drugs and your face wash aren't the only things confiscated daily at LAX. The airport regularly seizes food and sometimes specialty items such a...

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Bye-Bye LAX, Hello LIZ: Honoring Elizabeth Taylor and Rebranding Los Angeles Airport

Derek Shearer | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Elizabeth Taylor, Urban Politics, Lax, Culture, Los Angeles, Rebranding, Los Angeles News

LA should step up to the global marketing plate and rename our airport after Elizabeth Taylor, one of the great movie actresses of modern times. LAX should become LIZ.

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Getting Los Angeles Back to Work

Austin Beutner | Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Los Angeles Transportation, Los Angeles Employment, LA Manufacturing, Los Angeles Tourism, Los Angeles Unemployment, Lax, Los Angeles News

With strong leadership we can and we will find a way for every Angeleno to realize the promise of a good education, good quality of life with safe neighborhoods and decent transportation, and good paying work to support a family.

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Spreading Good Old Holiday Cheer To LAX Travelers

The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: TSA Holiday, Video, TSA Christmas Carols, Los Angeles International Airport, Lax, Tsa Choir, LAX Choir, LAX Christmas Carols, LAX Christmas, Los Angeles News

If you are worried that your holiday spirit will be squashed by long lines at the airport, the Trasportation Security Administration (TSA) and the Los...

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Marijuana 'Christmas Present', Handgun Confiscated By LAX Security

Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Tsa, Marijuana, Lax, Los Angeles International, Lax Drug Bust, Global Pulse, Airports, Handgun in Luggage, Travel News

Somebody's Christmas is going to be a little less merry this year. Authorities at Los Angeles International Airport arrested a traveler for attempting...

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L.A.'s Work in Creating Jobs Pays Dividends

Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 01.01.2012

Read More: Business Tax, Gensler, Local Preference Ordinance, Byd, Lax, Los Angeles, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Los Angeles News

For too long, L.A. businesses have been stolen from us by other cities and states. The result has been a calamitous decline in both jobs and tax revenues in our city, causing huge strains on our budget.

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TSA Catches Smugglers With Birds, Snakes And A Turtle (PHOTO)

Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Plane, Tsa, Video, Airport, Snakes, Airplane, Lax, Global Pulse, Birds, Airports, Miami, Flying, Snakes on a Plane, Travel News

TSA agents at Los Angeles International Airport discovered two birds while patting down a passenger planning to board a China-bound flight last week, ...

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Emergency Landing At LAX

AP | Posted 10.27.2011

Read More: Federal Aviation Administration, Lax Emergency Landing, Philippine Airlines Jumbo Jet, Boeing 747, Los Angeles International Airport, Lax, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES — A Philippine Airlines jumbo jet carrying more than 400 people has landed safely at Los Angeles International Airport after declaring a...

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LAX Jet Way Collapses; 2 Injured

AP | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: LA Airport, Lax Airport, Jet Way Collapse, Lax, Travel News, Global Pulse, Airports, LAX Collapse, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES — Federal inspectors were examining a faulty jet bridge that collapsed and dropped an American Airlines captain and a passenger 10 f...

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The Future of LAX: How World Class Cities Connect Airports to Transit

David Murphy | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Los Angeles Transportation, Subway, O'Hare Airport, Los Angeles Mass Transit, Lax, London Heathrow, JFK Airport, Los Angeles Airport, Metro, Light Rail, Los Angeles News

Want to take public transportation to LAX? Good luck.

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Man Pleads Guilty In LA To Plane Stowaway Charge

AP | NOAKI SCHWARTZ | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Olajide Oluwaseun Noibi, Travel News, Los Angeles International Airport, Tsa-Screening-Procedures, Lax, Stowaway, Airlines, Los Angeles, Travel News

LOS ANGELES — A man accused of breaching layers of airport security by using an expired boarding pass with someone else's name to get aboard a c...

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Life Of The Party

HuffingtonPost.com | Rod Kurtz | Posted 09.20.2011

Read More: La Nightlife, Video, LA Nightclubs, Starting a Business, La Clubs, Lax, Las Palmas, H.Wood, Wickler, Entrepreneur Spotlight, Small Business Video, Loyal Pennings, Best Clubs, Small Business News

You may not find Loyal Pennings in any of the supermarket tabloids, but chances are, he's partied with most of the Hollywood celebrities you see benea...

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40.5 Things to Do in L.A. Without Your Car

Jennifer Ketcham | Posted 09.12.2011

With the 405 shutting down, I find myself excited for my upcoming Westside staycation. City officials may encourage us to leave, but this list of the amazing things we can do locally illustrates just how great being a Westsider is.

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LAX Aims To Become 'Dominant International Gateway'

latimes.com | Dan Weikel, Los Angeles Times | Posted 09.02.2011

Read More: Lax Modernization Plan, Bradley West, Lax Airport, Lax Modernization, Lax, Los Angeles News

Barring another terrorist attack or recession that disrupts air travel, Los Angeles International Airport -- long ranked among the nation's worst avia...

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New Restaurants, Food Trucks Coming To LAX

latimes.com | Posted 08.21.2011

Read More: Lax Dining, Lax Restaurants, Lax, Los Angeles News

After a contentious contract bidding process (and plenty of big talk about big-name restaurants), the Los Angeles City Council has approved plans by t...

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Metro Can Afford to Build the Crenshaw/LAX Light Rail Corridor Right

Mark Ridley-Thomas | Posted 07.26.2011

Read More: Los Angeles, African Americans, Lax, Los Angeles News

Like every major infrastructure project there is a cost to the Crenshaw/LAX line upgrades. It's time to distinguish costs from investments, and recognize that there is great value in having the safest, speediest and most complete rail line Los Angeles can afford.

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PHOTOS: Untouched Paul Williams Mid-Century For $3.49 Million

The Huffington Post | Lucy Blodgett | Posted 05.30.2011

Read More: La Real Estate, Paul Williams, 1958, Beverly Hills Hotel, Lax, Slidepollajax, Val Riolo, Trousdale, Beverly Hills, Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Michael Nourmand, 1959, Los Angeles News

For the first time in fifty-two years, this untouched Paul Williams home is on the market for $3.49 million. Built in 1958, the 3,793 square foot res...

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An LA Idea for Moving America From Pause to Fast Forward

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: San Fernando Valley, Time Magazine, Salt Lake City, Congress, City National Bank, Los Angeles, Japan, Cnbc, Wall Street, 30/10 Initiative, La Metro, Bart, America Fast Forward, San Francisco, Westside Urban Forum, Libya, Lax, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Los Angeles News

In places as different as LA and Salt Lake City, local voters had to first recognize the benefit of public transportation by voting for sales tax increases that are helping pay for expansion projects.

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LAX's Poor Excuse for Mass Transit

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Infrastructure, Delhi, Public-Private Partnerships, Bart, Metro, America Fast Forward, San Francisco, India, Lax, Mass Transit, Indira Gandhi, Transformation, Lawa, 30/10 Initiative, Santa Monica, Big Blue Bus, Los Angeles News

The time has come to give commuters to the world's sixth busiest airport a truly rapid mass transit option.

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Exhibition Spotlight: Celebrating "Human Nature" At LAX

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Exhibition Spotlight, Art, Annie Buckley, Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, Dane Picard, Lax, Environment, ARt Exhibition, US Airways, Southwest Airlines, Los Angeles, Airport Security, Air Travel, Slidefullscreen, Human Nature, Arts News

WHO: Annie Buckley and Dane Picard WHAT: Human Nature WHEN: October 2010 - February 2011 WHERE: Los Angeles International Airport Gate One, Termina...

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Rain, Snow and the Prospects for 30/10 in 2011

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LA Times, San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley, Torrance, Washington, 30/10, Wilshire Subway, Snow, Congress, Los Angeles, Orlando, The Source, Los Angeles News, California High-Speed Rail Authority, Crenshaw, Curbed La, New Jersey, Westside, New Year?S Eve, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, LA Weekly, Metro, Governor Christie, Ciclavia, Anaheim, Disney, Lax, Rain, Public Transportation, Los Angeles Streetsblog, ARC Tunnel, Los Angeles News

The end-of-year deluge is not getting me down. Instead, I see the storms, which have blanketed the East in snow and LA in rain, as more evidence of our need to build the subway.

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All I Want for Christmas Is 30/10 and the Subway to the Sea

Joel Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: San Fernando Valley, President Obama, Washington, Pakistan, Senator Menendez, Drones, Ray Lahood, 30/10, Christmas, Subway to the Sea, New Year's Eve, South Bay, Los Angeles, New York City, Harvard, Patton Boggs, Senator Lautenberg, New Jersey, Metro, Santa Claus, Fox News, Afghanistan, Lax, Public Transportation, ARC Tunnel, President Bush, Jersey Shore, Los Angeles News

Where have President Obama's and his Secretary of Transportation's backbones gone? Long time passing. I'm sitting here weeping and fuming at the sam...

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