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Senators reject fee on their campaigns to improve state website
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Energy Commission poised to boost building energy standards
SACRAMENTO -- California homes and buildings are about to become a lot more energy efficient, if state regulators, as expected, approve new building standards. The Energy Commission has scheduled for Thursday a last debate and vote on triennial, 2013...
Tags: Politics, Weather, House Building, Science and Technology, Alternative Energy
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We need a stronger Glass-Steagall Act to regulate financial firms
"Bring back Glass-Steagall!" That's the cry you hear most often for restoring regulatory stringency to our misbehaving financial sector.
The 1933 law, which barred commercial banks from underwriting or investing in stocks — in effect, from owning...Tags: Investments, Douglas, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bonds, Goldman Sachs
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Italian opera festival launches at Aliso Viejo's Soka arts center
A two-year effort to bring Italian opera to south Orange County will come to fruition Wednesday with the opening of the three-night Tuscia Operafestival at the Soka Performing Arts Center in Aliso Viejo. Organizers of the festival, an annual summer event...
Tags: Politics, Anne Frank, Dmitri Shostakovich, Opera (genre), Italy
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Richard Riordan launches effort to court Latinos for GOP
PolitiCalFormer LA Mayor Richard J. Riordan has launched an organization aimed at bringing Latino voters into the Republican fold. The campaign began Memorial Day with radio spots in selected areas around California.... -
State Senate acts to restrict cash demands over disabled access
PolitiCalSenate votes on measure barring demands for money over disabled access rules... -
DirecTV's executive shake-up: Chang leaving, AT&T's York joining
Satellite broadcaster DirecTV is shaking up its executive ranks. Derek Chang, who holds the pivotal role of DirecTV's executive vice president of content strategy and development, is leaving his post at the end of year. He has been in charge of all...
Tags: Politics, HBO (tv network), Mike White, Entertainment, Time Warner Cable Inc.
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Amazon in danger as Brazil moves forward with bill, critics say
SAO PAULO, Brazil — The Brazilian government is pressing forward with controversial legislation that critics say will lead to widespread destruction of the Amazon rain forest. After months of heated discussion, President Dilma Rousseff on Monday...
Tags: Politics, Laws, Agricultural Research and Technology, Natural Resources, Science and Technology
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U.S. attorney lobbies against limits on wildfire liability
PolitiCalBenjamin Wagner, the U.S. attorney in Sacramento, has launched an unusual and intense lobbying effort to stop Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to limit legal liability for wildfires.... -
Newton: Greuel's hot hand
It's still very, very early in the campaign to become the next mayor of Los Angeles, but right now, it's City Controller Wendy Greuel who's playing the hot hand. The only independent poll shows her in a tie with City Council President Eric Garcetti and...
Tags: Jan Perry, Los Angeles Unified School District, Politics, Local Elections, Career and Workplace
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California's egg-farm law prompts a push for national standards
ATWATER, Calif. — The gigantic chicken coop at the JS West farm here is big enough to hangar a Boeing 747, and the clucks from 150,000 egg-laying hens make it almost as noisy as one. Jill Benson, whose family owns the place, is proud of the roomy...
Tags: Laws, Politics, Justice and Rights, Science and Technology, Justice System
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$55 million for conservative campaigns -- but where did it come from?
WASHINGTON — The financial firepower that fueled the rise of a network of conservative advocacy groups now pummeling Democrats with television ads can be traced, in part, to Box 72465 in the Boulder Hills post office, on a desert road on the...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Companies and Corporations, Matea Gold, Bruce L. Braley
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