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On illegal immigration, GOP voters smarter than candidates
"I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and lived here, even though some time back they may have entered illegally."
That was Ronald Reagan speaking during his 1984 reelection campaign. After that election, he stuck to his...Tags: Lawyers, Extradition, Minority Groups, Regional Authority, Executive Branch
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California voters still support Jerry Brown's call for tax hikes
SACRAMENTO — California voters continue to back Gov. Jerry Brown in his call for higher taxes, but distrust of state government could erode that support, according to a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll. About half of those surveyed said they...
Tags: Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Health and Safety at School, Jerry Brown, Budgets and Budgeting
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Analysis: Still no good news for Republicans in California
For years, even as despondency deepened in some of its quarters, the Republican Party in California has argued that its message really isn’t the problem. Depending on the year, blame has been laid on the messengers — nominees not telegenically...
Tags: Abortion, Minority Groups, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Mitt Romney
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Tech Giant Hewlett-Packard to Cut 27K Jobs by 2014
Los Angeles TimesPALO ALTO, Calif. -- Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s largest PC maker, will cut 27,000 jobs, or about 8 percent of its staff, by 2014 to bring down costs and make the company more competitive in a changing marketplace. The move comes as consumer...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Job Layoffs, Hewlett-Packard Co., Corporate Officers, Computing and Information Technology Industry
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Tech giant HP to slash 27,000 jobs by 2014
Hewlett-Packard Co., the world’s largest PC maker, will cut 27,000 jobs, or about 8 percent of its staff, by 2014 to bring down costs and make the company more competitive in a changing marketplace. The move comes as consumer demand for the...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Hewlett-Packard Co., Apple iPhone, Corporate Officers
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Executive profile: Kathleen Brown
A Goldman Sachs executive was at a Chicago dinner party recently when a fellow guest, hearing she had just relocated from California, asked what she thought of the new governor there. The executive, Goldman's chairman of investment banking for the...
Tags: Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Illegal Immigrants, Goldman Sachs, Banking
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Proposition 29 and the contributions of political campaigns
No matter how you feel about Meg Whitman, head of Hewlett-Packard, former head of eBay, you'd have to concede that one of her biggest contributions to the California economy was as candidate for California governor. She lavished about $160 million on...Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Lance Armstrong, eBay Inc., Health Organizations, Cancer
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Romney taps San Diegans for Calif. campaign team
SAN DIEGO -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney Tuesday announced his 38-member California Leadership Team, which includes a former San Diego mayor, two local congressmen a pair of state legislators. Pete Wilson, a former San Diego mayor,...
Tags: Mark Wyland, Executive Branch, Barack Obama, Republican Party, Mitt Romney
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Miss Universe pageant opens to transgender contestant
Gloria Allred's demand that a transgender contestant be allowed to compete in the Miss Canada Universe pageant was trumped Tuesday when pageant owner Donald Trumpagreed with her. It was a public relations battle featuring two well-known masters of the...
Tags: Public Relations, Gays and Lesbians, News Agency, CNN (tv network), Jerry Brown
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Let's bring back the idea of a free UC education
The son of a railroad worker, Earl Warren came from a family keeping a desperate finger hold on a working-class existence at the turn of the last century. Yet when he left high school in Bakersfield in 1908, there was no question where he was headed: to...
Tags: Music Industry, Ralph Bunche, Regional Authority, Michael Hiltzik, Executive Branch
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For Romney, stressing business prowess may be risky strategy
As Democrats launch their general election assault on Mitt Romney, their approach has sounded familiar to those who followed the meteoric rise and fall of Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman, corporate chieftains who lost their Republican bids for senator and...Tags: Bain Capital, LLC, Job Layoffs, Hewlett-Packard Co., Labor Markets, Executive Branch
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Is kicking the state's neediest 'manning up'?
SACRAMENTO — Surely it was just a casual throwaway line. Regardless, Gov. Jerry Brown deserves to have it thrown back at him. There are too many things that rub wrong — even rankle — about the governor scolding the Legislature to "man...
Tags: Public Finance, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Ronald Reagan, Pension and Welfare
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