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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Prop. 11 foes waging Orwellian campaign
California | Local |
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
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Governor portrayed as a villain
California | Local |
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 |
September 23, 2008
The telephone conversation between the two businessmen concerned an old friend, Sen. Read more
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Congress starts again, with rancor
National |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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
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 |
August 11, 2008
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Whenever legislators become frozen in a budget bog, I remember the words of two historic leaders. Read more
Friday, August 8, 2008
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Ethics agency fines former state senator
California | Local |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
June 19, 2008
A legal ethics watchdog group Wednesday called on the House Ethics Committee to investigate Rep. Read more
