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MercuryNews.com: California to loan $13 million to Monterey County schools

johnjenkine — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:21:40 +0000

KING CITY — California is taking over a Monterey County school district in order to lend it $13 million and save it from bankruptcy.

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Los Angeles Times: California budget deal could help Industry stadium group

johnjenkine — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:10:50 +0000

A provision that would extend the length of redevelopment status could provide key assistance to backers of an Industry stadium.

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MercuryNews.com: California’s fragile budget deal still on track, Schwarzenegger insists

johnjenkine — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:00:03 +0000

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Democratic legislative leaders insisted the state’s $26 billion budget deal is still on track for a vote Thursday night after defusing Republicans threats to scuttle it

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Los Angeles Times: Oxy Petroleum’s oil and gas discovery may be California’s largest in 35 years

johnjenkine — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:41:44 +0000

The equivalent of 150 million to 250 million barrels of oil was found in a field that is 80% owned by the Westwood company, with two-thirds of the new source believed to be natural gas.

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SFGate.com: Grower recalls lettuce due to salmonella risk

johnjenkine — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 04:33:19 +0000

A major California lettuce grower has recalled about 22,000 cartons of romaine lettuce over concerns that the product may be tainted with salmonella. Tanimura & Antle Inc. of Salinas issued the vo

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BusinessWeek: CalPERS takes the really long view

johnjenkine — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:23:28 +0000

Putting the best possible face on terrible financial news is something investor relations departments have had to get good at over the last year. Submitted for your approval, California Public Employe

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EurekAlert!: Ytterbium’s broken symmetry

johnjenkine — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 00:12:28 +0000

The weak interaction has the shortest range of the fundamental forces and does some of the most peculiar things, like changing the flavor of quarks, governing the interactions of neutrinos, and violat

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Courthousenews.com: Nudists in Park PolicyNeeds Another Look

johnjenkine — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:03:12 +0000

(CN) – A 30-year tolerance of nude sunbathing at a California beach cannot continue because the memo that allowed it was not presented for public comment, a California appeals court ruled.

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NY Post: OFFICE OF MICHAEL JACKSON’S DOCTOR RAIDED

johnjenkine — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:55:37 +0000

Los Angeles police and federal drug agents searched the Houston clinic of Michael Jackson’s doctor Wednesday, while investigators in California sought more information from him. The lawyer for Dr. Con

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Los Angeles Times: No recovery in California until 2011, forecast says

johnjenkine — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:41:11 +0000

The Southland’s unemployment will rise and personal income will fall as construction keeps sinking and the aerospace, textile and motion picture industries absorb blows, Jack Kyser predicts.

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