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Mark Z. Barabak

@markzbarabak

LA Times political columnist, with a focus on the West, from the Grand Coulee Dam to the Capitol. Cat on a tin roof. Dogs in a pile. [email protected]

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linkhttps://www.latimes.com/people/mark-z-barabak calendar_today06-05-2011 20:53:16

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Why is it OK for rich guys to steal my work? Just re-upping this piece on the California Journalism Preservation Act as Google throws a temper tantrum today. latimes.com/california/sto…

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.Faith E. Pinho with the Wild West history of that Civil War-era Arizona anti-abortion law -- which was cribbed from California

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Great look back here by Steve Battaglio. It was a a different world in the media....How O.J. Simpson's murder trial changed the TV news business latimes.com/entertainment-…

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Every year, the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation bestows an award meant to honor acts of political courage. 

But foundation leaders are too cowardly to honor Liz Cheney for her courage taking on Trump. 

It would be funny if it weren't so lame.

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'O.J. Simpson was many things to many people. But for me he will always be the murder suspect who turned an already fragile and freaked-out Los Angeles into a perverse cabaret of trauma.'

Great mary mcnamara read on a weird and profound time in LA history

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South American theft gangs are targeting jewelers — and robbing them on L.A. freeways. The heists, often carried out in broad daylight, have a brazen quality befitting an action movie, or at least a TV police procedural. An inside look at the crime wave: latimes.com/california/sto…

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.David Hume Kennerly didn't mean for his protest against GRF Foundation to go public. But once it did, he's not holding back.

'Chickenshit' is how he describes the refusal to honor Liz Cheney, for fear of offending Trump

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A California border town's first transgender mayor faces recall. Is gender the reason?

Hailey Branson-Potts from Calexico

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NEW: Trump hoped to sidestep the abortion issue by turning the matter over to states. But instead of deflecting, the move tied him even closer to the issue by placing his fate in the hands of judges, like in Arizona, going far beyond where most voters are

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“As it is, voters think Republicans want to take women [backward]. You can just write the commercial: ‘Republicans want to take women back to the ’60s — the 1860s.'

Trump, abortion and the repercussions of that retrograde Arizona Supreme Court decision
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Paging Franz Kafka...

A thief stole William Woods’ identity, but nobody believed him. He spent nearly two years locked up as a suspect in the crime ... against himself.

Brittny Mejia

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As President Biden struggles to sell Bidenomics to skeptical voters, he’s facing the all-too-real consequences of stubbornly higher inflation, but he’s also battling human psychology.

Don Lee

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Trump hoped to sidestep the abortion issue, Mark Z. Barabak writes. Arizona's near-total ban shows why he can't latimes.com/politics/story…

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NEW: Trump hoped to sidestep the abortion issue by turning the matter over to states. But instead of deflecting, the move tied him even closer to the issue by placing his fate in the hands of judges, like in Arizona, going far beyond where most voters are

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California’s housing crisis is hitting Nevada hard. Could that help Trump win a crucial state? ⁦Benjamin Oreskes🦅⁩ explains what’s behind the economic angst. latimes.com/politics/story…

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Over the past two years, Axos Bank and Don Hankey, have collectively extended more than $500 million in financing that has benefited Trump, An AP report suggests Hankey may be getting something other than interest for his money.

Brian Slodysko

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It's official. L.A. Times Executive Editor Terry Tang solidifies her leadership position w/ a strong endorsement from Dr. Pat Soon-Shiong and his wife, Michele. Tang is the first female editor of Los Angeles Times in the paper's 142-year history. latimes.com/entertainment-…

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“If I could sound better, I would.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talks to Jim Rainey about spasmodic dysphonia, a rare neurological condition that gives his voice that strangled sound

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