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Judge rules in favor of JPL scientists disciplined for emails sent from work accounts
Scientists and engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory were unfairly disciplined for sending emails about a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving background checks at the agency, a judge has ruled. The ruling comes after the JPL employees...
Tags: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Labor Legislation, NASA, Justice System, Judges
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Sport Chalet employees hurt in explosion were asked to investigate gas odor
The two Sport Chalet employees who were hurt in an explosion at the sporting goods store Friday were asked to shut off a gas valve after someone reported smelling gas, authorities said. Two employees, who were not identified, had unspecified injuries,...
Tags: Google+, Emergency Incidents, Sport Chalet Incorporated, Explosions, Employees
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Pensions are bearing down on LCF's budget
Thanks to good management and deep pockets, the city of La Caņada Flintridge has amassed a healthy budget surplus. But like the California budget surpluses of the 1990s, it will vanish in a heartbeat if strong action is not taken now to protect us from...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Retirement, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, Government
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Seventeen debutantes sponsored by the La Caņada Thursday Club presented at Saturday's Bal Blanc de Noel
Following a tradition going back more than six decades, the La Caņada Thursday Club held its Bal Blanc de Noel on Saturday, presenting debutantes who have spent 16 months preparing for the occasion as part of the club's Les Fleurettes program. The young...
Tags: YMCA, Photography, Hospitals and Clinics, Teaching and Learning, New York University
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Brown's Prop. 30 draws cheers
La Caņada Unified School District officials can stop sharpening the budget knife now that voters have approved a statewide measure restoring $6 billion in school funding. But the district's budget challenges won't disappear entirely. “It won't...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Unemployment, Politics, Jerry Brown, Elections
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State: Gas station owner owes $520K
The Union 76 gas station on Foothill Boulevard near Briggs Avenue has sat unused for two months, the pumps turned off and wrapped in caution tape. The listed owner and operator of the station, La Caņada Enterprises Inc., has had its incorporation...Tags: Pacific Continental Corporation, Downstream Oil and Gas Activities, Companies and Corporations, Car Repair and Maintenance Tips, Economy, Business and Finance
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La Caņada teacher jobs may be spared
La Caņada Flintridge Educational Foundation fundraising efforts have brought in $1.55 million to date, signaling that the district likely will be able to retain many of the teachers who received layoff notices in March, officials said this week. “...Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Unemployment, Job Layoffs, Students
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City employees should bear float cost
It was very helpful to have the letter written by Garry Ackerman, president of the Glendale Rose Float Assn. (“Trouble in rose float land,” June 30). The letter fully clarified the history of the association and the status of its current...Tags: New Year's Day, Civil and Public Service, Rick Caruso, Chicago Hotels, Government
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Op-Ed: Questions of tenure, union's role
Mandy Redfern, president of the LCUSD teachers' union, recently derided efforts to reform teacher tenure, suggesting tenure was far from “the problem” (“Blaming teachers union is wrong tactic,” op-ed, April 22). She minimizes both...Tags: Sex Crimes, Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Unions, Los Angeles Unified School District
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NASA cuts threaten employees, Mars exploration
Proposed cuts to next year’s NASA budget would drastically scale back the agency’s efforts to explore Mars, likely costing hundreds of Jet Propulsion Laboratory workers their jobs. In the scope of a more than $17.7-billion proposed 2013...
Tags: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Space Programs, Astronomy, Budgets and Budgeting, NASA
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After 45 years, long-time employee leaves YMCA
From heading up summer camp to setting up computer systems, Cathy Hoy has been an integral part of the Crescenta-Canada YMCA for the past 45 years. Tomorrow Hoy will head into work at the YMCA for the last time, sealing a decades-long alliance with people...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Clubs and Associations, Employees
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Opposing lawyers sum up JPL 'intelligent design' case
Attorneys argued Monday that it was either religious intolerance or workplace incompetence that drove systems administrator David Coppedge from a post at Jet Propulsion Laboratory last year. Monday’s arguments capped a five-week trial in Coppedge&...
Tags: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Same-Sex Marriage, Labor Legislation, NASA, Proposition 8 (California, 2010)
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