Is there an upset in the making in the July 12 special election to replace former Congresswoman Jane Harman in California’s 36th congressional district? You might think so if you watch these ads by Democratic candidate Janice Hahn.
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Excellent Forbes piece by Joel Kotkin on the rise of the Gulf Coast, and especially the port of Houston.
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A class action lawsuit was filed against the Oakland Police Department and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office on Monday alleging that they violated the rights of 150 people who were arrested after former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle was sentenced last Nov. 5.The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court only hours after Mesherle, 29, was released from the Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail at about 12:30 a.m.
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Family and friends are grieving the death of 38-year-old Gregory Weiss, who inexplicably crashed his bicycle into a street median in Forest Hills last week.The San Franciscan died from his injuries in the hospital three days after the apparent accident on June 6, according to the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office.
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Store windows in Oakland were boarded up Monday in anticipation of unrest following the release of ex-BART cop Officer Johannes Mehserle from jail.But protests in Oakland involving about 300 people on Sunday were peaceful. Mehserle left Los Angeles County Men’s Central Jail at about midnight.
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The only suspect in the vicious Bryan Stow beating case may have an air-tight alibi other than his 9-year-old daughter — surveillance video at a Hollywood motel, his attorney said.ABC News reported that the lawyer for Giovanni Ramirez, 31, will file a motion requesting video from the motel that he says will prove his client was not at Dodger Stadium when Stow was attacked.
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I have been appalled by the Obama administration’s obstinate insistence on spending $3.6 billion of stimulus on the high-speed rail project in California, and I become more appalled the more I learn about it. The latest report of the state Legislative Analyst’s Office makes clear that this is crazy.
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Voters along Los Angeles County’s southern coast conducted a test run of the state’s new top-two primary-election system this month, and the outcome is a harbinger of next year’s elections in 153 newly redrawn congressional and legislative districts.
The special election in the 36th Congressional District was triggered by the resignation of Democratic Rep. Jane Harman.
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When then-married couple Aimee Nash and Scott Von Ryper split from Australia’s The Morning After Girls four years ago, they were determined to carry on somehow.
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The man arrested for the vicious beating of a Giants fan outside Dodger Stadium says he has an alibi proving he was in his Los Angeles apartment at the time of the attack, according to TMZ.
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