A County in California Allows Merrill to Come Back
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Orange Countyâs board of supervisors put the investment bank on its list of firms qualified to provide it with underwriting services.
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By Rebecca Dellagloria, The Miami Herald  Feb. 11--More than a year after Homestead lost a county permit to dig for fill dirt at a city-owned lake, officials have come to an agreement with Miami-Dade to reinstate the permit.
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By By Bob Cuddy, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Sep.
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By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Jun. 6--San Joaquin County may squeeze a straw into the Mokelumne River after all.
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By The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  May 29--Sacramento County's landmark affordable housing law is under attack, and the real threat isn't the court system, but a new majority on the Board of Supervisors.
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By Scott Duke Harris, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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By Tamara Chuang, The Orange County Register, Calif.  Dec. 19--NEWPORT BEACH -- As a child growing up in Slovenia, Bostjan  Cadez would doodle during class.
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By Larry Parsons, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 8--A small subdivision in Carmel Valley, rejected by a Monterey County advisory panel, will be appealed to the county Board of Supervisors.
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A federal judge in California reinstated Clinton-era protections against logging and mining in forests.
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Southern California went back-to-back and wire-to-wire.
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California will vote on a broad campaign-finance measure that includes limits on corporate donors.
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By Joshua Norman, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 11--GULFPORT -- After well more than $500,000 in donations to the city and its employees, the residents of San Bernardino County, Calif., have decided to give something that will have a long-term impact on the city's future.
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By Andre Briscoe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Dec. 12--Del Rey Oaks residents will have another month to examine initial plans for future development on former Fort Ord property that the soon fall under city control.
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State wildlife officials announced plans Friday to revive a program to create marine reserves along California's 1,100-mile coast.
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to his Austrian hometown Sunday for the first time since severing official ties with the city two years ago after a flap over the death penalty.
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PORTLAND, Ore.  - An Oregon county was ordered by  a judge to start issuing marriage licenses again after  officials stopped granting them earlier this year to avoid  discriminating between heterosexual and homosexual couples.
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By Bruce Gerstman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep.