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Brown seeks to rewrite toxins law
SACRAMENTO — Responding to complaints from businesses, Gov. Jerry Brown is proposing an overhaul of California's 26-year-old landmark clean water and anti-toxins law that he said is being misused by "unscrupulous lawyers" filing lawsuits. At issue...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Justice System, Lawyers, Politics, Government
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford wins South Carolina House seat
WASHINGTON — Two years after Mark Sanford left the South Carolina governor’s office tarred by an adultery scandal, he has completed an unlikely political comeback to win a special congressional election. Sanford defeated Democratic neophyte...
Tags: Democratic Party, Jim DeMint, Israel, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, Mark Sanford
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Is Chris Christie's weight-loss surgery a 2016 clue?
WASHINGTON -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who recently described himself as “the healthiest fat guy you’ve ever seen,” revealed Tuesday that he’s taken a major step toward slimming down. The Republican told the New York...
Tags: White House, Politics, Chris Christie, Government, Elections
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Healthcare puts Jerry Brown, Capitol Democrats on different sides
SACRAMENTO — With California's deficit wiped out and its economy starting to hum, this was to be a year when Gov. Jerry Brown was free of the budget logjams that have paralyzed the Capitol. But instead, the governor has a fight on his hands...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Jerry Brown, Justice System, Politics, Government
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Brown, senator at odds over clean energy money
SACRAMENTO -- Six months after voters approved new taxes to fund clean energy projects, Gov. Jerry Brown and lawmakers remain at odds over how to spend the money on improving energy efficiency at public schools and community colleges. Brown, who is...Tags: Energy Saving, Jerry Brown, Environmental Issues, Justice System, Politics
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Ronald Reagan and the fall of UC
Once upon a time, the University of California was a sacred trust, the top tier of a model educational system that helped lift the state to unprecedented prosperity. It was jealously protected from outside political interference. Now UC is more often...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Politics, Teachers, Government, Civil Rights
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Pérez vows fiscal discipline from Democrats
SACRAMENTO — Speaker John Pérez wants voters to know something: Cash may be cascading into state coffers as it hasn't for years. Democrats may totally control the Assembly with a new supermajority. But they're not going to be drunken sailors....
Tags: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Teaching and Learning, Head Start, Jerry Brown, Finance
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South Carolina election a dead heat, Democratic robopoll shows
The high-profile House race between former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch is going down to the wire as a dead heat, according to a Democratic poll released Sunday night. The survey, by Public Policy Polling,...
Tags: Democratic Party, Jim DeMint, Polls, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, Parties and Movements
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Gov. Jerry Brown submits court-ordered prisons plan
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown's office late Thursday produced a court-ordered plan to reduce prison crowding that includes the early release of thousands of inmates and the relocation of some prisoners to private lockups or state fire camps, among...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Justice System, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Government
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Maldonado, mulling gubernatorial bid, hits Brown's prison policy
Abel Maldonado, in his first public move since announcing that he was considering a run for governor, on Wednesday attacked Gov. Jerry Brown’s prison policy, arguing that Brown has made Californians unsafe by allowing certain criminals serve their...Tags: Jerry Brown, Justice System, Politics, Government, Criminals
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Academy changes rules, opens up Oscar voting to all members
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.In a move to expand the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences membership's involvement in Oscar voting, the organization announced Saturday during its first general membership meeting that it will allow all members to vote in the foreign-language...Tags: Voting, Corporate Officers, Entertainment Events, Seth MacFarlane, Politics
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In South Carolina, an ex-governor's quest continues
CHARLESTON, S.C. — At a harborside reception overlooking Ft. Sumter, where the Civil War began, Mark Sanford batted away a TV reporter's question about the latest insult to his comeback campaign: an unwanted endorsement from pornographer Larry...
Tags: Democratic Party, Elizabeth Colbert Busch, Political Fundraising, Elections, Adultery
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