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Capitol Alert: First U.S. Senate debate scheduled for Wednesday night
The first and only U.S. Senate debate scheduled so far between Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer and her Republican challenger Carly Fiorina is set for 7 p.m. Wednesday night at St. Mary’s College in Moraga.
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Political notebook: Teachers decry Fiorina’s stance on jobs bill
A group of local teachers held a press conference in Bakersfield Thursday to denounce Carly Fiorina, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, for opposing a federal jobs bill they say will save 16,500 education jobs in California.
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Looming tax cut debate already ripples through Boxer-Fiorina race
Congress is set to take up whether to extend tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, a debate that highlights the ideological differences between the candidates for U.S. Senate in California.
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GOP sees chance to make gains
SAN DIEGO | For the first time in memory, California Republicans have a diverse statewide slate of candidates to field this fall, a lineup their state party chairman calls “an inspirational ticket.” Coupled with national momentum for conservatives, the California GOP is hoping this might be their breakthrough year. Yet …
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Mayhill Fowler: That Hopey, Changey Thing Comes to the California Republican Party
The Republican face is changing, as the party moves with new currents, carrying it away from the Age of Reagan, bobbing, lurching, evolving, treading, if not boldly, nevertheless inexorably forward.
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Senate Landscape Shifts Farther in Favor of GOP
It’s hit that point in the election cycle where the competitive nature of Congressional races are shifting rapidly. Unfortunately for Democrats, the overwhelming majority of those shifts are in favor of Republicans.
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After devastating Station Fire and winter mudslide, La Cañada Flintridge resident rebuilds
LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE – Standing next to a wall of giant cinder blocks in her front yard designed to fend off another devastating mudslide, Pat Anderson hears the sound of a power saw buzzing inside her home and smiles. “I love the sound of that,” Anderson said. “The sound of progress.”
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August breeds ugly mosque fight
There’s something about August that seems to bring out the worst in people. Last year at this time tens of thousands of voters around the country flooded town hall meetings to yell at their elected officials about the health care bill. An exercise in…
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The trials of Rep. Maxine Waters: Ethics or payback?
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who waged a more successful war on drugs than the entire U.S. government, was concerned with people like Ronald Reagan and George Bush, who made enormous profits from this trade by flooding urban America with poison. Her efforts to investigate were suppressed by Porter Goss, who then chaired the House Intelligence Committee. Now Goss heads the ethics office that …
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Mary Bono Mack, Steve Pougnet come out swinging in congressional debate
Rep. Mary Bono Mack and Palm Springs Mayor Steve Pougnet used their debate Thursday — the 45th Congressional District’s first in eight years — as a forum to attack each others’ records.
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