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March 30, 2012
Kamala Harris must be chagrined.
The California attorney general filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court urging the justices to uphold the constitutionality of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
But after three days of oral arguments this week, ...
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March 23, 2012
Palo Alto residents have responded admirably to the city’s “Zero Waste” campaign, which aims to divert almost all the city’s trash from landfills to recycling centers by 2021.
In fact, residents have done such a good job of recycling -- the city’s diversion rate has r...
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MARCH 16, 2012
Fifteen days. That’s how long it took developer Broad Sustainable Building to complete construction of a 30-story hotel.
The near-miraculous feat has been attributed to a couple timesavers: The hotel’s foundation was laid out ahead of its actual construction. And 93 percent ...
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March 8, 2012
An unnamed teacher at Haydock Intermediate School in Oxnard was placed on paid administrative leave this week as the Oxnard School District investigates whether she has been moonlighting as a porn actress.
That followed the criminal citation last week of John Eaton Cromwell, a te...
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March 2, 2012
The tiny Manzanita Band of Mission Indians proposes to build a ginormous “casino facility” on a 61-acre parcel of land.
The tribe’s tricked-out casino will boast 2,000 slot machines and 45 gaming tables. It also will have a 200-room hotel, a banquet/meeting hall, three gues...
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