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A report this week from the outgoing Stanislaus County civil grand jury further exposes the dysfunctional leadership in Riverbank, where two mayors have resigned and there's an effort to recall two City Council members.
In one of the more radical suggestions to come out of a grand jury in recent years, the panel recommended that the city invalidate last November's election of Jesse James White because he was not a registered voter in Riverbank when he took out nomination papers.
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The next congressional elections aren't until 2010, but challengers already have emerged in two of the three districts in our region.
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It's one of those things I learned as a child -- reduce, reuse, recycle. Unfortunately that proves a bit difficult in the Modesto area. I've come home for extended periods twice since I entered Western Washington University last fall. Both times I have been increasingly discouraged by the poor waste management systems in effect in regards to recycling.
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The state's perpetual budget mess has certainly fueled interest in – and perhaps even passion for – fundamentally overhauling California's dysfunctional government.
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1999 The Legislature passes and Gov. Gray Davis signs Assembly Bill 26 to create a domestic-partnership registry in California. The bill, by then-Assemblywoman Carol Migden, also requires hospitals to give domestic partners visitation rights and allows state and local employers to give spousal health benefits to partners.
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You'd think that Rep. Jim Costa, D-Fresno, would be pleased that his party controls the White House, giving him better access to the executive branch than he had when George W. Bush was president. But Costa seems frustrated that he can't get the ear of the president at a time when his congressional district is suffering as much as any region in the country.
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It is time for an 11th University of California campus: a cyber-campus devoted to awarding online degrees to UC-eligible students.
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Help me out here. President Obama immediately "meddles" in the affairs of Honduras, denouncing a military coup, the intent of which is to preserve the country's constitution, but when it comes to Iran's fraudulent election and the violent repression of demonstrators who wanted their votes counted, the president initially vacillates and equivocates.
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Last month, hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest a rigged presidential election. Our president was extremely cautious in his initial criticism of the Iranian government’s fierce crackdown against the protestors.
At first, President Barack Obama said that the United States -- given our history in Iran -- should not be “meddling” in the country’s internal affairs.
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