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Hollywood executives are headlining Calif. super PAC donors
California Watch
Feb 01Chase Davis and Will Evans AlexKalina/istockphoto.com Californians gave more than $12 million to super political action committees in 2011, bolstering the campaigns of President Barack Obama and his Republican challengers by taking advantage of new cam... »
Calif. drugmaker's HIV prevention pill draws concern
Daily Report
Jan 30Bernice Yeung amphotora/istockphoto.com Foster City drugmaker Gilead recently updated its application with the federal Food and Drug Administration for approval to market its HIV treatment medication Truvada as a HIV prevention pill. If the FDA approv... »
Billionaire insurance exec backs initiative to change rate rules
Daily Report
Jan 27Will Evans AlexKalina/istockphoto.com The 90-year-old billionaire chairman of Mercury Insurance just won’t give up. George Joseph gave $8.2 million to put an initiative on the November ballot that supporters say would lower car insurance rates for cons... »
Disclosure of corporate campaign spending sought in Calif. bill
California Watch
Jan 26Chase Davis Kativ/istockphoto.com Corporations that donate to political campaigns – including through so-called super PACs that have no contribution limits – would have to report their activity if they have shareholders in California under a bill intro... »
Hollywood money flows to Calif. Congress members
California Watch
Jan 24Will Evans Fred Prouser/ReutersChris Dodd, former U.S. senator and chief executive of the Motion Picture Association of America Hollywood is threatening politicians with one thing they hold very dear: campaign cash. As anti-piracy legislation stalled i... »
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Obstructionists Could Kill 49ers Stadium
San Jose Inside
Jan 26A group called Santa Clara Plays Fair is trying to stop plans to build a new football stadium in Santa Clara for the San Francisco 49ers. It is fundamentally wrong in a representative democracy to allow a minority to game the system and stop progress b... »
U.S. Postal Service Under Attack
California Labor Federation
Jan 26by John Beaumont On January 17, 1962, President John F Kennedy signed Executive Order 10988. This granted Federal Employees, for the first time, the right to collective bargaining. This action led to inspire many states and localities to follow suit, a... »
Road warriors
The Daily Roundup
Jan 26California's air-pollution regulators are expected to approve a landmark rule requiring 15 percent of new automobiles sold in California produce little or no smog, which means they will be powered by electricity, hydrogen or some other fuel that produc... »
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra at MAPAC on Jan. 26
Inmenlo
Jan 24Harpsichordist Richard Egarr performs with and conducts the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra on Thursday, Jan. 26 at 8:00 pm at the Menlo-Atherton Performing Arts Center. There’s a pre-concert talk with John Prescott at 7:15. Titled Masters of the Englis... »
Boys' basketball: Saturday scores
LATimes. Varsity Times Insider
Jan 22COLISEUM LEAGUE Crenshaw 68, Dorsey 67 LIBERTY LEAGUE Viewpoint 70, Glendale Adventist 28 MISSION LEAGUE Alemany 77, Harvard-Westlake 68 Chaminade 56, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame 54 Loyola 68, St. Francis 54 PREP LEAGUE Webb 63, Chadwick 54 SAN JOAQUIN LEA... »