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		<title>In an Era of Library Cutbacks, LA County Opens a New Library&#8212;in Topanga</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/la-county-board-of-supervisors/2012/admin/amid-library-cutbacks-la-county-opens-a-new-library-in-topanga/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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 The prevailing mood was utter giddiness when the brand new 11,293 square foot LA County library opened on Saturday morning in Topanga Canyon with Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky and actress (and longtime Topangan) Wendie Malick the duel masters of ceremonies for the speechifying part of the festivities that also featured Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, Al [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Party for Jim Newton&#8217;s Ike Bio Draws LA Politicos &amp; Journos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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A pile of journalist and editor types plus a gaggle of politicos gathered late Sunday afternoon to hear LA Times&#8217; columnist/editor-at-large Jim Newton talk about his new biography, Eisenhower: The White House Years.  The lit party was thrown by longtime Newton friends, former LA Times reporter (now UC Irvine law and literary journalism prof) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Must Reads (Views and Listens)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 07:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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TOO IMPORTANT TO FAIL
The terrible fact is that a staggering 48-percent of all African American males will drop out of high school.  Tavis Smiley explores what amounts to a national tragedy and looks at what to do about it.  
The PBS show debuts Tuesday night in LA, but check listings for your cable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ChangeLA Fundraiser:  Help Train LA&#8217;s Next Gen Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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If you want to go to a cool party this weekend and congratulate yourself on doing a good deed at the same time, consider the ChangeLA Fundraiser, sponsored by Liberty Hill, an LA-based nonprofit that has a history of supporting small but significant LA projects that larger funders tend to overlook.

A featured speaker on Saturday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blaming the Rape Victim, Changing 3-Strikes, Prison Theater&#8230;. &amp; Hemingway</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/prison/2011/admin/blaming-the-rape-victim-changing-3-strikes-prison-theater-hemingway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 09:09:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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&#8220;IT&#8217;S ONCE AGAIN IT&#8217;S THE ALLEGED RAPE VICTIM WHO IS ON TRIAL, SAYS LAT&#8217;S SANDY BANKS
As the cable channels blared out the details of Dominique Strauss-Kahn being released from home confinement largely because his alleged victim turns out to have a less than squeaky clean life,  the LA Times&#8217; Sandy Banks found she has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Tips 4 Getting the Most Out of the LA Times Festival of Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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This weekend the glorious LA Times Festival of Books will be held at its new location on the USC campus, after 15 years at UCLA. 
The line up of authors and other intriguing panelists is, as usual, excellent. (You can find the Saturday and Sunday schedules here.)
Both days are filled with more great events than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations to&#8230;&#8230;.</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/american-artists/2011/admin/congratulations-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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THE LA TIMES BELL REPORTING TEAM &#38; TO LAT PHOTOGRAPHER BARBARA DAVIDSON FOR THEIR WELL-DESERVED PULITZERS
I believed and hoped that the Bell series would win.  But one never knows.  The committee can be quirky.  
Barbara Davidson&#8217;s win for her strong and heartbreaking photos was a welcome surprise.
It was also nice to see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VOTE!  (And Witness Recommends A YES Vote on Measure L)</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/elections/2011/admin/vote-and-witness-recommends-a-yes-vote-on-measure-l/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/elections/2011/admin/vote-and-witness-recommends-a-yes-vote-on-measure-l/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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&#8220;&#8230;when you are growing up, there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is the great equalizer.&#8221;
- Keith Richards

Why vote YES on Measure L?-&#8211;even though it means the dreaded ballot box budgeting, as the LA Times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA Times Book Awards Finalists Announced!  Read &#8216;em and Cheer!</title>
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		<comments>http://witnessla.com/los-angeles-times/2011/admin/la-times-book-awards-finalists-announced-read-em-and-cheer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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The finalists for this year&#8217;s LA Times book awards were announced Tuesday morning and it&#8217;s a great list filled with things that you honestly ought to run out and read immediately.  (Or soon, anyway.)
For instance, I love the range covered by the five books short-listed for the fiction prize:  This year&#8217;s megabook, Freedom, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LAPPL Predictibly Opposes Measure L &amp; OC DA Criminalizes Campus Protest</title>
		<link>http://witnessla.com/academic-freedom/2011/admin/lappl-predictibly-opposes-measure-l-oc-da-criminalizes-campus-protest/</link>
		<comments>http://witnessla.com/academic-freedom/2011/admin/lappl-predictibly-opposes-measure-l-oc-da-criminalizes-campus-protest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Celeste Fremon</dc:creator>
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TWO WRONG-HEADED DECISIONS THAT ASK FOR OUR ATTENTION
THE POLICE UNION Vs. THE LA PUBLIC LIBRARIES
I wish this was not grindingly predictable that the LAPD&#8217;s union, the LAPPL, would come out against Measure L, the item on the March 8 ballot that would set aside funding for the Los Angeles Public Library system.
In a statement put [...]]]></description>
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