FAIRFIELD — A bill authored by state Sen. Lois Wolk to help maintain and strengthen levees was passed Thursday by the Senate and now moves to the state Assembly. The bill extends existing state authorization to reimburse local agencies for up to 75 percent of levee maintenance and improvement costs, a Wolk press release said. It [...]
DAILY REPUBLIC VACAVILLE — Rep. George Miller learned details about the Kaiser Permanente electronic medical record system Friday and sees such technology as being part of health care reform. Miller, D-Martinez, came to the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Vacaville to talk with Kaiser officials. He wants more members of Congress to hear what he [...]
Daily Republic SUISUN CITY — When 10-year-old Bobby Thornson saw images of the earthquake devastation in Haiti on the evening news, he knew he wanted to do something to help. “They showed kids on the ground wrapped in blankets who were dead and babies sitting on towels looking around and there were no parents,†Thornson [...]
DAILY REPUBLIC FAIRFIELD — At the same time the fate of Proposition 8 — the California Marriage Protection Act — is being decided in court, Fairfield is marking the 10th anniversary of hearings for United Methodist ministers involved in the Jan. 16, 1999, blessing of a union between two women. Over three days, Feb. 1-3, [...]
Las Vegas Sun Consider this allegation: The federal government, under the guise of helping the mentally ill, is establishing a concentration camp in Alaska to house political opponents — a new step on the path toward totalitarianism. That entirely specious assertion came from conservative political analyst Dan Smoot in 1956, and it briefly became an [...]
Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON — The Obama administration’s immigration policy is among the issues that visitors went to the White House complex to discuss in recent months, records disclosed today show. The White House is releasing visitor records periodically to help meet President Barack Obama’s promise of transparency. Most of the roughly 75,000 newly disclosed [...]
Associated Press Writers BALTIMORE — In a remarkably sharp face-to-face confrontation, President Barack Obama chastised Republican lawmakers today for opposing him on taxes, health care and the economic stimulus, while they accused him in turn of brushing off their ideas and driving up the national debt. The president and GOP House members took turns questioning [...]
Daily Republic FAIRFIELD — More than four years ago the financial wheels started coming off the Ford dealership in Vacaville, prompting numerous lawsuits. Those lawsuits added up to thousands of hours of legal wrangling with many of the suits only recently drawing to a close. What had once been a gleaming auto showroom surrounded by [...]
FAIRFIELD — The state Senate passed a bill authored by state Sen. Lois Wolk to help maintain and strengthen levees Thursday and it now moves to the Assembly. The bill extends existing state authorization to reimburse local agencies for up to 75 percent of levee maintenance and improvement costs, a Wolk press release said. It [...]
AP Sports Writers We watch the Winter Olympics with a need for speed, marveling when it’s harnessed properly by an Alpine ski racer in a breathtaking run down a nearly vertical sheet of ice or by a speedskater in a record-breaking sprint around a slick oval. And, yes, let’s just go ahead and admit it: [...]
Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON — More than four decades ago, Congress passed legislation that helped birth both the New Orleans Saints and the Super Bowl. Now the two are finally coming together. In 1966, the National Football League announced plans to merge with its rival American Football League, as cutthroat competition for college players had [...]
KENANSVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Singer and guitarist Willie Nelson canceled a North Carolina concert because of a bum hand about an hour after several band and crew members were busted for allegedly possessing moonshine and marijuana. Alcohol Law Enforcement spokesman Ernie Seneca said Friday that six members of Nelson’s band and crew have been charged [...]
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