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House Republicans push new oil drilling to fund road projects
Nation NowOil drilling: A measure that would allow new oil drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to energy exploration is headed for a vote in the Republican-controlled House. It is expected to be... -
Police arrest man for making threats against Sen. Barbara Boxer
L.A. NOWSan Rafael police arrested a 47-year-old man Saturday morning for allegedly threatening Sen. Barbara Boxer. Kevin Joseph O’Connell of San Rafael was booked on one count of making criminal threats against Boxer and is being held in Marin County jail.... -
Report raises questions about EPA's 2008 perchlorate decision
GreenspaceThe Bush White House played a role in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's controversial 2008 decision not to regulate the drinking water contaminant perchlorate, according to a congressional watchdog agency. In a report released Tuesday, the U.S.... -
Villaraigosa: Cuts to transportation would be 'devastating blow'
L.A. NOWLos Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa warned a Senate committee that federal cuts to transportation would be a "devastating blow." It would set back local projects and damage the nation's economic recovery.... -
Bipartisan group of U.S. senators backs hefty boost in money to speed rail projects
L.A. NOWLos Angeles’ efforts to speed up the expansion of its public transit system received a boost in Washington on Wednesday, as a bipartisan group of senators backed a hefty increase in a federal loan program seen as a potential source...... -
California officials say jobs riding on transportation bill
L.A. NOWState and local leaders this week used the approaching Labor Day holiday as a platform to call for federal investment in transportation projects, warning that failure to do so would further damage the nation’s infrastructure and cost millions of... -
EPA scolded on greenhouse gas report review process
GreenspaceWe concluded that the technical support document that accompanied EPA’s endangerment finding is a highly influential scientific assessment and thus required a more rigorous EPA peer review than occurred. EPA did not certify whether it complied... -
Steve Jobs reaction: Gov. Brown, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, [Updated]
TechnologyMarc Andreessen, Michael R. Bloomberg, Mark Zuckerberg and more talk about Steve Jobs' death.... -
The BlackBerry solution
Opinion L.A.Two big stories out of Europe this week. First, geneticists announced that they had reconstructed the genome of the bug that caused the so-called Black Death, the plague that killed about 30 million people in Europe from 1347 to 1351....... -
Matt Fong dies at 57; former California state treasurer
Reporting from Sacramento -- Matthew Kipling Fong, a former California state treasurer who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1998, died Wednesday at his home in Pasadena after a long bout with skin cancer. He was 57.
Fong, a Republican, was the...Tags: U.S. Senate, Gray Davis, Republican Party, Career and Workplace, Pete Wilson
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Battle brewing over expanding wilderness protections in the West
Nation NowThe Obama administration on Thursday recommended stronger protections for federal land in nine Western states, but many of the proposasl are likely to face resistance in the Republican-controlled House.... -
Penn State scandal prompts calls for child-abuse reporting laws
Nation NowFederal lawmakers are calling for laws to require the reporting of child sexual abuse in the wake of the sex scandal involving Penn State and former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky....
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