Contributor ReportsReport examines civil rights enforcement during Bush years
Source: The Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated Thu Dec 03 16:28:11 -0800 2009 | political-news
When the Bush administration ran the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, career lawyers wanted to look into accusations that officials in one state had illegally intimidated blacks during a voter-fraud investigation. But division supervisors refused to "approve further...
'Some people will die needlessly': Stroger
Source: Chicago-Sun Times
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated Wed Dec 02 02:04:42 -0800 2009 | political-news
Cook County Reporter ldonovan@suntimes.com It has been said there are only two things certain in this life: taxes and death. On Tuesday Cook County Board President Todd Stroger argued he's certain that the board's successful slashing of the county's unpopular...
Schwarzenegger signs water conservation bill in San Jose
Source: The Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated Wed Nov 11 00:33:14 -0800 2009 | political-news
Schwarzenegger signed the bill, SBX7-7, at a ceremony at the Santa Clara Valley Water District headquarters in Almaden Valley. The bill, authored by Sen. Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, is the fourth of five water measures Schwarzenegger has signed around California since...
Poll: GOP a united, divided party
Source: United Press International
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated Mon Nov 30 06:37:53 -0800 2009 | political-news
Republicans across the United States align with GOP lawmakers in opposing President Obama's policy, but split on the party's direction, a new poll indicates. Republicans and GOP-leaning independents were overpoweringly negative about Obama and the Democratic Party, with nearly all...
Campbell's Evan Low sworn in as youngest Asian-American, openly gay ...
Source: The Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated Wed Dec 02 13:10:59 -0800 2009 | political-news
In a standing-room only chamber with people pouring out the doors, a gallery of news cameras zeroed in on Evan Low when the Campbell City Council on Tuesday made him the youngest Asian-American and openly-gay mayor in the country. As...
And if California slides into the ocean... | Michael Tomasky
Source: The Guardian
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated Tue Nov 24 12:23:43 -0800 2009 | political-news
The terrible news from this state, which last week announced an obscene-bordering-on-pornographic 32% tuition increase at state universities and colleges, continues. Today's Sacramento Bee reports that the state's debt burden is way out of whack: But after an economic collapse,...
Medical marijuana trade goes up in smoke
Source: The Age
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated Mon Nov 23 22:41:46 -0800 2009 | political-news
Clinics selling medical marijuana, which has been legal to sell, are facing a crackdown. Authorities are cracking down on California's thriving medical marijuana trade. Past the security man and his pit bull and through a haze of eye-watering smoke, two...
Penguins recall defenseman Engelland from farm team
Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated Sat Nov 07 10:41:51 -0800 2009 | political-news
The Penguins have recalled defenseman Deryk Engelland from their Wilkes-Barre/Scranton farm team, an indication that defenseman Alex Goligoski might not be available for the team's game tonight against the Sharks...Engelland, who was one of the final cuts in training camp,...
Train hits, kills person in San Jose
Source: The Mercury News
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated Sat Nov 07 07:13:35 -0800 2009 | political-news
ACE Train #4 hit the person on the tracks between Julian Street and De La Cruz Boulevard, Caltrain said in a press release...The ACE train had left the San Jose Diridon Station at 3:35 p.m. headed to Stockton.
UFC combatants hope inside knowledge helps
Source: Las Vegas Review-Journal / Sun
San Jose :: CA :: USA | updated Sat Nov 21 03:09:04 -0800 2009 | political-news
My roommate, Josh Thomson, trained him," Koscheck said. "I'm not really concerned too much about this fight." The 31-year-old veteran of Season 1 of "The Ultimate Fighter" stopped short of disclosing what strategic edge he thinks he picked up during...
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