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Bee EditorialsCongratulations and best wishes are in order for Garrad Marsh, who came out with a solid win in Modesto's mayoral runoff election. Marsh ran a strong campaign in the fall, receiving 44 percent of the vote in a field of four candidates, and relied on that same broad base of support for Tuesday's decisive victory over Brad Hawn.
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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has a reputation for issuing sweeping, precedent- setting and liberal rulings that are often overturned by the more conservative U.S. Supreme Court.
It's a fairly small set of offices and it's down to just 3½ employees due to county budget cuts. But good things keep on happening there. Take the $7 million in benefits awarded last fiscal year to county veterans. Work on obtaining those benefits was done in the county's veterans service offices, part of county's Department of Aging and Veterans Services.
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New districts with new numbers. A new primary format. And a lot of new names. I'm predicting many citizens will have a difficult time figuring out who is running for what in the primary.
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I am writing to thank the Stanislaus County Office of Education and the citizens of our community for hosting our local Future City competition.
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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has a hard-won reputation for issuing sweeping, precedent-setting and liberal rulings that are often overturned by the more conservative U.S. Supreme Court.
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Here's more evidence that we need a part-time Legislature in California: It took lawmakers almost six months to come up with a phony budget, which Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed within hours of its passage. Part-timers couldn't have done any worse, and likely would have solved the problem.
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Unless you're steeped in Idaho politics, you've probably never heard of Frank VanderSloot. But the wealthy Republican businessman and people like him around the country are wielding outsized influence on the 2012 presidential election.
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Latin America rarely comes up as a major issue in U.S. presidential races, but this time it will: There are growing signs that Iran's rising presence in the region will become a contentious election topic.
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Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is refreshingly frank, sometimes stunningly so. He outdid himself on a trip to Europe last week, making headlines on two sensitive topics.
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In the most recent Gallup poll on abortion, as many Americans described themselves as pro-life as called themselves pro-choice. A combined 58 percent of Americans stated that abortion should either be "illegal in all circumstances" or "legal in only a few circumstances." These results do not vary appreciably by gender. But if you've followed the media frenzy surrounding the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation's decision — which it backpedaled from, with an apology, after a wave of frankly brutal coverage — to discontinue about $700,000 in funding for Planned Parenthood, you would think all these millions of anti-abortion Americans simply do not exist.
