Even Without a Rival Group, Prop. 84 Faces a Tough Fight
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 20--Millions of Californians spent the summer relaxing on public beaches, hiking in redwood parks and boating on lakes.   Those activities were made possible by the investments of past generations.
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Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is wounded and vulnerable, and yet the two Democrats vying to unseat him are tearing each other apart in the very nightmare scenario party leaders had feared.
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By MATT WEISER McClatchy News Service  The push behind its likely removal as an endangered species has some worried.   SACRAMENTO, Calif.
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More than two years after a Massachusetts court cleared the way for gay couples to marry, the issue faces its most serious challenge yet &amp;#151; this time in the Legislature.
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The grass-roots remembrance of wooden crosses has become a First Amendment battle in Lafayette, Calif., traditionally an apolitical suburb.
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Angered by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's veto of a bill to let undocumented immigrants drive legally, Hispanic leaders and political groups are organizing protests and a national boycott of California to disrupt convention business.
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By Tamara Chuang, The Orange County Register, Calif.  Dec. 12--With no game to its credit, Aliso Viejo startup Red 5 Studios  must rely on its lineage to win over supporters. And it's working.
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By Ken Ward Jr.  kward@wvgazette.com  More than 15 years after lawmakers fought the "Garbage Wars," another battle is brewing at the state Capitol over West Virginia's solid-waste laws.
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The "L.A. Law" state strikes again.
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The odds are against this trio.
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Bills that would give California's local governments more power to fight Wal-Mart and other huge stores are heading to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, over the objections of the giant retailer, business groups and Republican lawmakers.
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A new state-level probe is aimed at banning the organization. But legally and politically, that remains a difficult task
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The Senate's revived legislation to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants faces a critical test Thursday after surviving potentially fatal challenges
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Doctors and lawyers who represent victims aren&#39;t going to declare peace just because voters put a few things in the state&#39;s constitution.
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Those rallying to keep open the doors of a hospital trauma unit serving a poor, violence-plagued neighborhood of Los Angeles have hit upon a more potent argument than mere dollars and cents.
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SACRAMENTO, California  - In a state where   Democrats far outnumber Republicans and President George W.   Bush has never been popular, an experienced Democrat should be   in a strong position to unseat Republican Gov. Arnold   Schwarzenegger.
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The state of Louisiana is on the skirmish lines of a growing fight waged by animal-rights groups, lawmakers and courts over the treatment of animals in relation to sports.