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Covered California exchange to lift the veil — a little
Covered California , the health exchange in charge of implementing key elements of national health reform in California, is set to announce some "tentative" details on Thursday. Those are expected to include which health plans will participate in various geographical regions throughout the Golden State and what rates consumers and small businesses will have to pay to participate. The ...
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If Saturday Night Lives Stefon pitched SFs hottest startup it would look like Boundary
I'm a huge fan of Stefon - the insecure clubkid city correspondent of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update news segment, played by the just-retired Saturday Night Live ...
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Hollywood stars join Ultimate Champions Match
Actor Will Smith and son Jaden will line up alongside an array of football greats for Saturday's Ultimate Champions Match in London, free to attend and streamed live on ...
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View from Sacramento David Stern deserves statue thanks
This opinion piece was published by The Sacramento Bee earlier this week. It's an interesting perspective on how NBA commissioner David Stern, who has been roundly criticized in Seattle, is viewed in Sacramento for keeping the Kings from ...
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Man who died in apparent fall at UCLA identified
LOS ANGELES -; Coroner's officials have identified a man found dead at the University of California, Los Angeles, campus after an apparent fall from a ...
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State report CA city faces crisis after scandal
LOS ANGELES -; An audit by the California state controller's office reveals that the city of Bell is still reeling financially three years after it was discovered the working-class suburb's municipal leaders had looted millions of dollars from its ...
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Brown defends Californias business climate
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -; Gov. Jerry Brown acted Wednesday as California's cheerleader-in-chief, countering the state's anti-business reputation in an address to hundreds of business, agriculture and education ...
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Arias jury deadlocked but must continue
In a surprise jailhouse interview just hours after a jury began deliberating her fate, Jodi Arias spoke out Tuesday about her murder trial, her many fights with her legal team and her belief that she "deserves a second chance at freedom ...
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Brit Bugged by Santa Barbara
Roger and other geology majors explore Death Valley. Why do most travel writers describe "perfect days" of beachfront restaurants offering "killer views" and "a taste of the sea," while movie critics consistently grind new releases and find the "things that went wrong"? Roger (not his real name), a 20-year old Brit studying geology this year ...
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Facebooks Sandberg HPs Whitman claim top spots on Forbes list of powerful women
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg rose to No. 6 on the Forbes list of most powerful women. Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook Inc., took the No. 6 spot on the annual list of 100 most powerful women issued by Forbes magazine. Sandberg, 43, was No. 10 on the list last year. The Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) executive made a splash this year with her book Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 22
Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...
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Greuel thanks supporters after failed LA mayor bid
She says she wasn't able to break the glass ceiling at City Hall - a reference to a gender breakthrough - but told supporters "you sure helped me put a crack in ...
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Auto Club of Southern California cuts car insurance rates
About 1 million customers of the Automobile Club of Southern California will get an average $65 reduction in their annual car insurance premiums, the company and the state insurance department announced ...
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Tioga Energy is todays latest solar casualty
Eric Wesoff at Greentech Media. The company had had some success financing solar projects, including a large municipal solar development in New Jersey. But it was outshined by competitors like SunRun and SolarCity who have raised hundreds of millions to finance solar projects. Last we checked in with Tioga ...
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Wells Fargo strategist stock prices rational exuberance
Animal spirits may rule on Wall Street but Jim Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Wells Capital Management, says today's economy is being led by nervous 'church ...
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$70M Reduction For Auto Club’s Southern California Drivers
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones and Robert Bouttier, CEO of the Automobile Club of Southern California, announced a rate reduction for Auto Club policyholders in California totaling $70 million. The reduction represents a decrease of 4.1 percent. It is effective for new or renewed policies after July 1. "With the economy still recovering, this significant decrease delivers ...
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Video Garcetti trumps Geruel in Los Angeles mayoral election
Los Angeles has elected its next mayor: City Councilman Eric Garcetti, a Latino who will also become the city's first Jewish leader when he takes ...
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Ventura County to regulate hydraulic fracturing
VENTURA, Calif. -; Ventura County has changed its land-use process to regulate hydraulic fracturing, an oil and gas extraction method that some fear can contaminate ...
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Tesla shows Model S to influence NC auto bill
RALEIGH, N.C. -; North Carolina lawmakers and passersby stopped to take in a display of Tesla Motors' award-winning electric cars Wednesday as the company presses against a bill in the General Assembly that effectively outlaws Tesla's Internet-based sales ...
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San Diegos Pulse Electronics does reverse stock split
Pulse Electronics, a San Diego electronic components maker, announced a 1-for-10 reverse stock split effective Wednesday, with the aim of meeting requirements to keep the company's shares listed on the New York Stock ...
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12-year-old Mass. boy wins National Geographic Bee
David Lyle, CEO of the National Geographic Channel, has seen enough of the letters to know how they go. The writer is typically a longtime reader of the magazine, who perhaps recalls the times he leafed through its glossy pages while perched on grandpa’s ...
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Wevorce goes national with amicable divorce offering
COO Jeff Reynolds and CEO Michelle Crosby, co-founders of Wevorce offer a more amicable way to a divorce, using special software and techniques. They announced on Wednesday they are taking their service national after a beta test in San Jose and a handful of other cities. Wevorce, a Y Combinator startup that uses technology to take the pain out of ending a marriage, said on Wednesday it is ready ...
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Bear strolls through California neighborhood
A bear wandered through a community outside of Los Angeles this morning for more than an hour before being tranquilized by officers. TODAY.com's Dara Brown ...
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Republican wins Central Valley state Senate race
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- A Republican has won a hotly contested state Senate contest in the southern San Joaquin Valley, with his top Democratic rival conceding Wednesday that the race will not go to a ...
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5 dead in Ill. van crash part of Christian group
VANDALIA, Ill. (AP) -- Five Baltimore men killed when their van careened off of a southern Illinois freeway and overturned several times were members of a Christian ministry returning from a weeklong international conference in ...
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Sacramento vulnerable to massive disaster
If a major earthquake were to occur tomorrow, Sacramento could potentially be devastated by massive flooding on-par with that seen in New Orleans during Katrina. The state’s major fresh water systems would be destroyed and 25 million would be without fresh water, while millions would lose their homes, but for all this, funding to upgrade the city’s levees is hard to come by.
When Hurricane Katrina barreled into US states along the Gulf Coast in 2005 it caused chaos and devastation in a part of the world considered among the most developed and stable. Read more
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