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Family men, with guns
Two residents trying to keep a community safe cross paths. Now one is paralyzed,
the other faces trial and neighbors are divided.
Nicholas Riccardi
reporting from bluffdale, utah

Healthcare comes down to final push
Democrats work to nail down support from wavering lawmakers ahead of Sunday’s vote.
Noam N. Levey and Janet Hook
reporting from washington


efore the shooting, David Serbeck and Reginald Campos were pillars of their community,
living at opposite ends of an unfinished development here at the edge of Salt Lake
City’s sprawl. Serbeck, a genial 37-yearold father of two and former Army sniper,
welcomed new arrivals to the neighborhood by offering to help install their sprinkler
systems or work on their yards. Campos, a 43-year-old CPA and father of four, tried
to forge a community in his neighborhood by warning new residents about a spate of
mailbox thefts and lobbying authorities to investigate the incidents. The two men
did not meet until one night last July, when Serbeck was patrolling the area in his
SUV, looking for whoever was behind the thefts. Campos was in his SUV too, looking
for a suspicious car, and nearly collided with Serbeck. Both men were armed. Shots
were fired. Now one man is in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the chest down. The other
is scheduled to stand trial in July, charged with at[See Shooting, A16]

Pablo Martinez Monsivais Associated Press

VIRGINIA APPEARANCE: President Obama holds a healthcare rally at George

Mason University in Fairfax. He was to meet Saturday with House Democrats.

Bell tolls for K.C. schools
Diminished by falling student numbers, a district in Kansas City, Mo., will close
nearly half its campuses.
Nicholas Riccardi
reporting from kansas city, mo.

During the warm months, when students at Westport High School got too hot, they cooled
down by moving to one of the many vacant classrooms on campus. It was one of the
advantages of having 400 students assigned to a school that could hold 1,200. The
downside became apparent last week, though,

when the Kansas City school board voted to close Westport and 25 other schools —
nearly half of the district’s campuses. Big-city districts shutter schools all
the time. Cities such as Denver and Portland, Ore., have seen childless young families
repopulate their urban cores and have adjusted accordingly. But what is happening
in Kansas City is different in scale than anywhere else in the country. It’s an
extreme example of what happens

when a school system loses the support of the public it’s meant to serve. The Kansas
City, Missouri School District lost half of its student population in the last 10
years as parents fled to the suburbs or placed their children in private or non-district-run
charter schools. District test scores have long lagged behind the rest of the state’s.
Meanwhile, the district continued to operate 61 schools capable of holding [See Schools,
A20]

With the clock ticking down to Sunday’s vote on the $940-billion healthcare package,
President Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) labored Friday to
sustain their momentum in the face of continuing dissent in Democratic ranks over
abortion and other issues. The president and his allies picked up support Friday
from several key uncommitted House Democrats, including at least three who voted
against the House healthcare legislation last year. And several Democrats facing
tough reelection campaigns — including Rep. Dina Titus of Nevada — also announced
they would continue to support the healthcare overhaul. “A lot of people are telling
me this decision could cost me my job,” Rep. John Boccieri (D-Ohio), a freshman
from a Republican-leaning district who voted no in November, said outside the Capitol
on Friday, surrounded by families of people who struggled to get medical care. “There’s
too many politicians who are worried about their future instead of the future of
the families who are standing behind me,” Boccieri said. With little margin for
error, Democratic leaders spent Friday trying to lock down more wavering Democrats,
while a group of the party’s social conservatives pushed for more restrictions
on abortion services in the healthcare overhaul. They appeared to be within a handful
of votes of the 216 needed to pass the

Harry Hamburg Associated Press

JOHN A. BOEHNER

The House Republican leader keeps up attacks on the legislation.
legislation. “We have a number of issues,” Pelosi told reporters at the Capitol,
even as she predicted that Democrats would have the votes they need Sunday. Pelosi
lost one closely watched lawmaker Friday, when Rep. Jason Altmire (D-Pa.) announced
he would not switch his “no” vote from last year. “The cost of inaction on
healthcare is great, but it would be an even bigger mistake to pass [See Healthcare,
A11]

Housing flap may benefit Israeli premier
Edmund Sanders
reporting from jerusalem

Jeff Lewis Associated Press

Scully, and his fans, are OK
Dodgers faithful everywhere can breathe easier, Bill Dwyre writes. SPORTS

Pasadena radio station making waves
KPCC-FM, after a huge decade, is about to get even bigger.
Steve Carney KPCC boasts “A Prairie Home Companion,” Larry Mantle’s popular
“AirTalk” call-in show and an audience that has tripled in size in the last 10
years, turning the station into one of the country’s most-listened-to public radio
outlets. Coming next? A major expansion that its board of trustees hopes will make
KPCC the hub of a regional constellation of public radio stations and a major source
of news and information in Southern California. On Saturday, KPCC will take the wraps
off of a $24.5-million broadcast facility in Pasadena that houses 13 studios and
control rooms, compared with one primary studio in the

More giant ads are coming down
L.A. prosecutors say two of Hollywood’s tallest graphics will be gone. LATEXTRA

Not comfortable with minimalism
“Less isn’t more. It’s just less,” says the occupant of one Westwood condo.
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Irfan Khan Los Angeles Times

A LEADING VOICE: Larry Mantle, right, host of KPCC’s popular “AirTalk”

program, in one of the station’s new studios, to be formally unveiled this weekend.
cramped quarters of the library at Pasadena City College that has been the station’s
home since 1993. Among the additional programming the new headquarters will afford
is a local newsmagazine due to air this spring with Madeleine Brand. A year ago,
Brand lost her job as co-host of the National Public Radio newsmagazine “Day to
Day,” based in Los Angeles, when the network canceled the show and laid off about
three dozen people, fallout from the economic downturn and a steep drop in corporate
underwriting. At a time when many public broadcasters are financially strapped —
reliant [See KPCC, A12]




By drawing a line against expansion of Israeli housing units in Jerusalem, the Obama
administration is confronting a policy that enjoys a strong consensus among Israelis:
the effort to ensure that the city remains united and under their control. The fight
over who will control Jerusalem has always been one of the thorniest issues between
Israelis and Palestinians, who both claim the city as their capital. U.S. officials
reacted with fury last week to a decision to build 1,600 housing units in an area
of contested East Jerusalem, a move that threatened to derail American efforts to
relaunch peace talks. But focusing the debate on Jerusalem may actually prove to
be of domestic political benefit for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Even many
Israelis who otherwise oppose the government’s settlement activity in the West
Bank see nothing wrong with building homes for Jews in parts of Jerusalem that were
seized during the 1967 Middle East War. “For Netanyahu, this is the best issue
you could have given him,” said Efraim Inbar, a political science professor at
Bar-Ilan University, who said the prime minister could emerge politically stronger
by refusing Ameri[See Jerusalem, A6]

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