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Skelton: Sacramento steps up to save the Kings
Without question, Mayor Kevin Johnson has been the central player in the effort to keep the Kings in Sacramento. But it's also clear, George Skelton says in his Thursday column, that he had an all-star team of high-powered politicos on his side. For...
Tags: National Basketball Association, Kevin Johnson
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Savvy politicos block the shot
SACRAMENTO — There's an emotional risk to falling in love with a local pro sports team, because it can cheat on you. It can walk out and take up with another city. An owner sees greener pastures — more dollars — and jumps the fence....
Tags: Sacramento Kings, Sports, Basketball, Government, Jerry Brown
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Jerry Brown eases up on push to revamp California's environmental law
SACRAMENTO — As Gov. Jerry Brown toured China over the last week, he repeatedly contrasted that nation's speedy construction of modern transportation systems and other key public works with what he characterized as a lack of vision back home. A...
Tags: Judges, Justice System, Parties and Movements, Jerry Brown, Government
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Welcome home, governor. Now get to work
SACRAMENTO—Let's welcome the governor back home. It must be sobering. The work has been piling up. The real, difficult work. Actually, it was piling up even before Gov. Jerry Brown departed on a weeklong "trade and investment" mission to China...
Tags: Elections, Jerry Brown, Government, Regional Authority, Politics
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State Senate panel approves package of gun control bills
SACRAMENTO -- A package of some of the most restrictive gun control measures in the nation advanced in the state Senate on Tuesday after tearful testimony from victims of firearms violence and opposition from gun-owner groups including the National...
Tags: Gun Control, Tea Party Movement, Antonio Villaraigosa, Crime, Law and Justice, Personal Weapon Control
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Assembly panel backs halt to fracking
SACRAMENTO -- Plans to halt fracking in California advanced in the Legislature on Monday, when a key committee approved three measures that would prohibit the practice until the state can study it further. The votes were a victory for environmentalists,...
Tags: Holly J. Mitchell, Energy Resources, Elections, Energy, Credit and Debt
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Sacramento wins big victory in fight for Kings
SACRAMENTO — In a town normally obsessed with political power plays and legislative minutiae, the only thing people wanted to talk about Monday was the Kings. The Capitol, the city and the metropolitan area were all buzzing with the news that an...
Tags: Sacramento Kings, Sports, Lobbying, Basketball, Government
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California panel advances bills targeting prescription drug abuse
A broad package of bills aimed at reducing prescription drug abuse and overdose deaths won approval from a key state Senate committee Monday. The bills, including a measure that would require coroners to report prescription-involved deaths to the...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Curren D. Price, Jr., Pharmaceuticals, Prescription Drugs, Medical Research
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Gov. Brown as Robin Hood
Now we know what Gov. Jerry Brown really cares about — what gets him riled and raring to rumble. "The battle of their lives," he promises opponents. "This is a cause." When a governor bares his soul like that, not only is he waving a nasty...
Tags: Joan Buchanan, Jerry Brown, Government, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice
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Another patient of O.C. doctor dies of prescription drug overdose
An Orange County doctor featured in a Times investigative report because 16 of his patients fatally overdosed on drugs he prescribed has had another patient death, according to recently released coroner's records. Wayne Oviatt, a patient of Dr. Van Vu...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Morphine (drug), Prescription Drugs, General Practitioners
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Steinberg doesn't want to talk about taxes this year
SACRAMENTO -- Senate leader Darrell Steinberg wants to slam the brakes on any talk of tinkering with local tax rules. Democratic lawmakers have floated the possibility of making it easier for school districts to raise parcel taxes and change the way...Tags: Gun Control, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Personal Weapon Control
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Feds take action over alleged patient dumping at Nevada hospital
SAN FRANCISCO -- Following state Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg's call for an investigation, federal authorities have taken disciplinary action against a Nevada hospital in an alleged case of "patient dumping" in California. In a letter...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Medicare, Government, Politics, Schizophrenia
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