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Thursday, October 9, 2008

Prop. 11 foes waging Orwellian campaign

California | Local | By George Skelton | October 9, 2008
The award for the most cynical, mendacious, Orwellian campaign of the state election season goes to the opponents of Proposition 11, the redistricting reform initiative. Read more
 

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

John McCain’s ties to Charles Keating

National | October 7, 2008
McCain’s ties to a convicted S&L owner The issue: Probably the biggest political embarrassment of John McCain’s career emanated from his close ties to Charles H. Keating Jr., the high-flying owner of Lincoln Savings & Loan who later went to federal prison. Read more
 

Friday, October 3, 2008

Reid is blamed for insurers’ big losses

Business | By Tom Petruno | October 3, 2008
New York Sen. Read more
 

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Governor portrayed as a villain

California | Local | By Patrick Mcgreevy and Nancy Vogel | October 2, 2008
The way legislators tell it, Gov. Read more
 

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Phone conversation may speak to Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens’ state of mind

National | By Richard B. Schmitt | September 23, 2008
The telephone conversation between the two businessmen concerned an old friend, Sen. Read more
 

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Gov. gets candid on GOP, Palin

California | Local | By Michael Rothfeld | September 10, 2008
Gov. Read more
 

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Congress starts again, with rancor

National | By Noam N. Levey | September 9, 2008
After a monthlong summer recess, Congress returned to work Monday with dim prospects for agreeing on ways to address the nation’s energy problems, the foundering economy or long-term funding for the federal government. Read more
 

Saturday, September 6, 2008

California governor’s veto threat creates logjam of nearly 1,000 bills

California | Local | By Nancy Vogel | September 6, 2008
More than California’s budget is up in the air. Read more
 

Monday, August 25, 2008

Convention donors often have business before lawmakers

National | By Tom Hamburger and Vimal Patel | August 25, 2008
Last year, when a union for government workers in Colorado needed help from Gov. Read more
 

Pelosi’s star power gets party going

National | By Robin Abcarian and Don Frederick | August 25, 2008
It may be Barack Obama’s week, but the show’s early star as Democrats gathered here over the weekend was San Francisco’s own Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker currently moonlighting as co-chair of her party’s national convention. Read more
 

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Legislator is booted from her office

California | Local | By Nancy Vogel | August 19, 2008
Assembly Speaker Karen Bass, widely known as a nice person, flexed some muscle Monday: She punished the sole Assembly Democrat who refused to vote Sunday evening for a state spending plan drafted by fellow Democrats. Read more
 

Friday, August 15, 2008

Official’s housing troubles continue

California | Local | By Jeff Gottlieb | August 15, 2008
First Rep. Read more
 

Thursday, August 14, 2008

A star and his galaxy

National | August 14, 2008
Mark R. Warner is expected to reignite his political career with an easy election to the Senate in November in much-watched Virginia. Read more
 

Monday, August 11, 2008

Budget bog: Time for pickoffs

California | Local | By George Skelton | August 11, 2008
S Whenever legislators become frozen in a budget bog, I remember the words of two historic leaders. Read more
 

Friday, August 8, 2008

Capitol awash in party politics

California | Local | By Nancy Vogel | August 8, 2008
After 5 p.m. Read more
 

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Ethics agency fines former state senator

California | Local | By Patrick Mcgreevy | August 5, 2008
The state’s ethics agency announced fines Monday against former state Sen. Read more
 

Monday, August 4, 2008

Iraqi election law remains stalled

World | By Ned Parker and Caesar Ahmed | August 4, 2008
The struggle for the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk sabotaged another effort by Iraq’s parliament to approve a law Sunday allowing crucial local elections this year, a stalemate that also raised questions about whether major Shiite and Sunni parties were deliberately stalling on sending people to the polls. Read more
 

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

High-paid Nuñez aide got an extra $100,000

California | Local | By Nancy Vogel | July 9, 2008
Former Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez gave his chief of staff, who is already the highest-paid employee in the Legislature, an additional $100,000 this year for “campaign consulting.” Read more
 

Saturday, July 5, 2008

A conservative who didn’t budge

California | Local | By Johanna Neuman | July 5, 2008
Jesse Helms, the former U.S. senator from North Carolina who for half a century infuriated liberals with his race-baiting campaign tactics and presidents of both parties with his use of senatorial privilege, died Friday. Read more
 

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Ethics watchdog wants probe of Long Beach congresswoman’s foreclosure woes

California | Local | By Jeff Gottlieb | June 19, 2008
A legal ethics watchdog group Wednesday called on the House Ethics Committee to investigate Rep. Read more
 
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