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The Battle for Los Angeles
5-6-2008 7:40 am
Shawn Steel
Statewide
 

Every 12 years Los Angeles County  voters get to choose a new Supervisor. Under the racially complaint redistricting rules District 2 is the "black" seat. Although the district is vigorously trending Latino. 

There are two competitors for...

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Sometimes Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction
5-8-2008 11:59 pm
Senator Jim Battin
State Capitol
 


OK - sometimes no matter what you could possibly come up with and write - you just can't top reality.

Now, I know I'm known for using this space every now...


The Flight To Sac
5-8-2008 9:44 am
Jon Fleischman
Publisher
 


I'm aboard yet another Southwest Airlines flight to Sacramento, to make a presentation for a client for my consulting practice, and again my rule of always...


Inside the Beltway News: Thursday
5-8-2008 8:17 am
Jeff Solsby
D.C. "Beltway"
 

Buried inside a DC policy journal called the "Daily Report for Executives" published by the Bureau of National Affairs was an interesting brief on...

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THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2008

Three California GOPers - Darrell Issa, Devin Nunes, Kevin McCarthy named to new 12-Member House GOP Political Committee
Politico: Boehner's GOP fix: A new committee
How much is our state's deficit?
SJMerc: California deficit still anyone's guess
Pacific Legal Institute ready to take on Feds on Global Warming...
SacBee: Law firm vows to sue if U.S. links climate to polar bear's survival
Anti-Gang Initiative headed for November ballot - but not without opposition...
SacBee: Critics call crime initiative a ploy to lure 'ultraconservatives' to polls
Profile of new University of CA President
SFChron: Next UC Chief: Homey Image, Hefty Mission
Billionaire Gates reduces stake in Pacific Ethanol - A little...
SacBee: Gates reduces his stake in Pacific Ethanol stock
Are screen writers doing an end-run after their strike?
CapWkly: Unresolved issues from writers' strike spill over into Capitol
The Legislature, as usual, has to get their hands into everything...
CapWkly: Obscure effort to charge for unlisted numbers leads to ferocious lobbying fight in Capitol
Grant of over $40 mil awarded for Stem Cell center...
SDUT: Stem cell group gets its first building block
"California Forward" has pledged to help pass the Common Cause redistricting measure...
CapWkly: New non-profit group faces political test in redistricting fight
SacBee: A standout proposal
Time for a big 24 story casino/hotel in Placer County?
Sacramento County
SacBee: Seven candidates meet in freewheeling debate
Who will be Sacramento's next Mayor?
SacBee: Mailer attacks Johnson
A union goes on the attack...
Fresno County
FresBee: Union poised to make difference in Valley vote
Will low turnout increase the influence of a big-spending union?

THE GOLDEN PEN

Former Rep. Pat Toomey, Chairman of the Club for Growth
WSJ: In Defense of RINO Hunting
Toomey says there's no point in electing 'Republicans' who don't share the party's principles. We wholeheartedly agree!
Senate Republican Leader Dave Cogdill and Assembly Republican Leader Mike Villines
SJMerc: Reform, fund schools without new taxes
Fresno Bee Opinion Page Blog - Perata should be forced out!
FresBee: Legislature should censure Don Perata and then tell him to leave
Here, here!
Former Governor's Pete Wilson and George Deukmejian pen a column with disgraced, recalled former Governor Gray Davis
LAT: A new water strategy
They make the case for an urgent need to attend to California's water infrastructure...
Karl Rove
WSJ: It's Obama, Warts and All
The GOP strategist largely responsible for two Presidential victories for George W. Bush...
Daniel Weintraub
SacBee: Conservative flat tax idea could serve liberal ends
I don't think there would be a GOP vote in the legislature to "convert" to a new tax system that wasn't revenue neutral (i.e... Didn't increased the overall burdon on taxpayers) - Flash
Another Tribe To Build Casino - But NOT on Ancestral Reservation?
CCTimes: Tribe wanting to buld casino granted 254 acres in Bay Area
Some CA coverage of the Obama/Clinton war...
LAT: A confident Obama shifts focus to McCain
Ventura County
VentStar: Coastal panel delays power plant hearing
Has the Coastal Commission EVER approved a power plant?
SDUT: A rising number of Democratic voters
Barry Jantz leaves the La Mesa City Council, and now the city has gone Democrat?