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Sacramento -- The Schwarzenegger administration offered a counterproposal on how to pay for the Bay Bridge&#39;s $2.3 billion cost overruns Thursday, but local lawmakers immediately rejected the plan as time was running out for a solution.
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Governor Mitt Romney's push to sell the state-owned John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in the Back Bay will be rejected today by a special state commission that includes Romney appointees, panel members said.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr.; Journal Staff Writer  Selectmen oppose a state proposal that would let Verizon compete with Comcast without first negotiating with the town.
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Homeowners unable to pay monthly mortgage bills and facing foreclosure shouldn't count on help from Washington this year. Regulators and lawmakers seem to be taking a wait-and-see approach as they confront the fallout from several years of lenders making too many home loans to people with inadequate credit.
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A bill passed by state lawmakers would have barred school textbooks from using language that is discriminatory to gays, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger refused Wednesday sign it.
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Supporters of the bill were unable to convert a single House Republican who voted against the bill last month.
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Invoking executive privilege, the Environmental Protection Agency on Friday refused to provide lawmakers with a full explanation of why it rejected California's greenhouse gas regulations.
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Is there no rest for the weary lawmaker? "Members Resist Five-Day Workweek," one of the Capitol Hill newspapers proclaimed on its front page yesterday. Senators were "ready to revolt" and House members were "simmering" over their legislative demands.
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Iraqi lawmakers have refused to pass the 2008 budget because of rows over allocations, including how much money to give the autonomous Kurdistan region, in the latest sign of the country's deep political divisions.
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Major League Baseball on Wednesday rejected as &quot;wholly unacceptable&quot; a stadium financing plan approved the day before by the Washington City Council, throwing into grave
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By E.J. Schultz, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Feb. 22--The state should wait for Congress to act before spending any money to restore the San Joaquin River, the state's nonpartisan budget analyst said in a report Wednesday.   Gov.
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By Ed Mendel, The San Diego Union-Tribune  Feb. 20--SACRAMENTO -- A surge of new highway money from a $19.9 billion  transportation bond has renewed political infighting over whether Caltrans  should use government or private engineers, bringing warnings of possible  project delays.
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By JOHN A. COLVIN  PORT ALLEN - A resolution supporting a subdivision development on the city's outskirts failed without a vote before the City Council on Wednesday night.
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TORONTO -- Doctors across Ontario have voted to reject a proposed four-year fee agreement with the McGuinty government. Broadcast News has learned 60 per cent of the 15,000 doctors who voted by phone rejected the new deal with the province.
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virginia beach  House candidate won't take law job  Bobby Mathieson, a Democrat running for the state House of Delegates, has decided against taking a controversial job with the city's revenue commissioner.
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I am disappointed (but not surprised) to hear of the problems with the proposed transit tax in Salt Lake County. I was torn when voting for the tax increase in November.
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AUSTIN, May 26 -- Hours after lawmakers who tried to overtake the speaker's podium seeking to oust him were physically restrained, House Speaker Tom Craddick (R) charged through a rowdy floor session Saturday without ceding his coveted post.