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In the wake of the fire and repeated county blunders, many Altadena residents have pushed for more discussion about the community’s unincorporated status, some calling for cityhood and more autonomy over its services and resources.
From Los Angeles Times
There were also moments of recognition for figures such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson and his civil rights advocacy, including his push to integrate the leadership of the Tournament of Roses.
From Los Angeles Times
“Unless housing supply increases, these additional potential buyers becoming active in the market could simply push up home prices,” Lawrence Yun, the National Association of Realtors’ chief economist, said recently.
From Barron's
His decades of painstaking research helped lead to a push in the 1990s for the Air Force to come clean on what it had been doing: testing spy balloons and recovering crash dummies.
His push to revive the market is being complicated by fallout from the cataclysmic L.A. fires.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.