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Would you vote for Obama?
The 2012 presidential race is just heating up, but we want your opinion. If the election were held now, would you vote for President Obama?
Brown still wants to put tax extensions on ballot
SAN FRANCISCO — With budget talks hitting a wall, California Gov. Jerry Brown said Thursday he was still determined to give voters a chance to decide whether to extend tax increases to balance the state’s budget. Brown said at a meeting of apartment investors and builders that he remained in negotiations to get the four Republican votes he [...]
AP Enterprise: Unions wary of Brown’s tax election
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown has struggled to find the four Republican votes he needs for the centerpiece of his budget proposal — a special election on higher taxes — but he also faces resistance from the Democratic Party’s most influential supporters. The public employee unions and labor groups that backed his election last year, fund [...]
Republicans bail on budget talks, blame Democrats
WASHINGTON — Republicans pulled out of debt-reduction talks led by Vice President Joe Biden with a flourish on Thursday, blaming Democrats for demanding tax increases as part of a deal rather than accepting more than $1 trillion in cuts to Medicare and other government programs. “Let me be clear: Tax hikes are off the table,” [...]
We the People need some manners on public discourse
This is in response to Colleen Britton “A Shocker” and Joey Porters “Atlas in California” letters where they assail the Solano County Board of Supervisors for unanimously approving the Climate Action Plan and Sea Level Rise Strategic Plan while purporting to be “We the People.” I was also in the audience, and what I took [...]
Democrats eye GOP tax cut ideas to boost jobs
WASHINGTON — Desperate to boost employment and their bleak poll numbers, the White House and Democrats in Congress are turning to a Republican idea for stimulating the economy: taxcuts. With little chance of passing a bill to stimulate the economy through more government spending, some Democrats now want to give employers a break on their Social [...]
Illegal immigrant youth ‘come out’ in reform push
ATLANTA — Eighteen-year-old Dulce Guerrero kept quiet about being an illegal immigrant until earlier this year, when she became upset after a traffic stop that landed her mother in jail for two nights. The arrest came as Georgia lawmakers were crafting what would become one of the nation’s toughest immigration crackdowns, and Guerrero feared her mother [...]
Karzai surrounding himself with anti-US advisers
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai is increasingly isolated and has surrounded himself with an inner circle of advisers who are urging him to move closer to Iran and Pakistan as the U.S. draws down its role in Afghanistan, several friends and aides tell The Associated Press. Their advice is echoed in Karzai’s anti-West rhetoric, which has [...]
