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Our View: Senators' support could bring funding to port
We’re more than willing to listen to any idea regarding how to make our nation’s ports of entry more efficient. When an idea involves one of our local ports and public-private partnerships, our level of interest skyrockets. A public-...Tags: Barbara Boxer, Juan Vargas, Company Privatization, U.S. Congress, Migration
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City Council Meeting Wrap-Up
The following is from the March 19 City Council meeting. All council members were present. * EXTRAORDINARY BUSINESS Mayor Kelly Boyd presented a proclamation declaring April as Donate Life California Month in Laguna Beach to Marisa Garcia, ambassador...Tags: Local Government, Barbara Boxer, Environmental Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, FEMA
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Congressman brings common sense to gun control debate
SACRAMENTO — As the national firearms debate reaches a crescendo, a Northern California congressman is proving that you can be both a gun lover and a gun controller. Rep. Mike Thompson of St. Helena, a moderate "blue dog" Democrat who represents...
Tags: University of California, Davis, Personal Weapon Control, Mike Thompson, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Gun Control
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Rand Paul's stunt misses the point
If you took Sen. Rand Paul duck hunting, he'd probably shoot the decoy. That's the impression the first-term Kentucky Republican gave when he took the floor of the U.S. Senate on Wednesday for a 13-hour rambling real-life imitation of Jimmy Stewart's...Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, Ron Wyden, Barack Obama, Military Equipment, James Stewart
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Senators asked to back P3
Staff WriterEfforts to rally political support for the so-called P3 continues, as the county Board of Supervisors agreed Tuesday to urge California senators to back the bill that allows private funding for port of entry expansions. U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer and...Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Barbara Boxer, Juan Vargas, Company Privatization
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An assault weapons ban was doomed. Focus on background checks.
WASHINGTON -- Earlier this month, I wrote that the Senate was making quiet progress toward passing a gun control bill that would make background checks mandatory on buyers in almost all gun purchases, including most sales between individuals. And that,...
Tags: Dean Heller, Personal Weapon Control, Tom Coburn, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Gun Control
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Americans and their guns
The 58% of Americans who favor a ban on assault weapons got a sad lesson in Washington politics this week when a major bill to end their sale, and to eliminate the high-capacity magazines that allow mass killers to do their awful work without pausing to...
Tags: Barack Obama, Personal Weapon Control, Political Fundraising, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Gun Control
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Denying victims a vote
WASHINGTON -- Shame on Harry Reid for killing any prospect of an assault weapons ban. I understand why he did it, but that doesn't make it right. In his State of the Union address, President Obama spoke with fiery eloquence about the cost of gun...
Tags: Gaming, Barack Obama, Personal Weapon Control, Mitch McConnell, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Reid: Background checks will be in Senate gun bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are taking an aggressive stance in their drive to curb firearms, announcing that the gun control legislation the Senate debates next month will include expanded federal background checks for gun purchasers. Senate...
Tags: Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Personal Weapon Control, Parties and Movements, Washington, DC, National Rifle Association of America
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Fuming over the assault weapons ban's failure
To say that that the preponderance of letters we receive on assault weapons call for their ban wouldn't be an exaggeration. So when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Tuesday that the ban proposed by Sen. Dianne Feinstein wouldn't be brought to...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Rob Portman, Personal Weapon Control, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Interior Policy
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Biden, Bloomberg lean on Congress to act on guns
Vice President Joe Biden, seeking to reinvigorate slowing momentum for gun control legislation, urged Congress on Thursday to be courageous in supporting new laws and insisted that the political risks of supporting such laws were overblown. Biden...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, U.S. Senate
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Letters: Failure of Feinstein's assault weapons ban
Re "Feinstein assault weapons ban fails," March 20 We all owe Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) great thanks for her pursuit of a federal assault weapons ban, but it is quite clear that if the horrific massacre in Connecticut in December didn't...Tags: Weaponry, Assault, Personal Weapon Control, Politics, Unrest, Conflicts and War
Mar 29, 2013
|Story| Imperial Valley Press Online
Mar 27, 2013
|Story| Coastline Pilot
Mar 27, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Mar 10, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 27, 2013
|Story| Imperial Valley Press Online
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|Story| Los Angeles Times
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|Story| Los Angeles Times
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|Column| Orlando Sentinel
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|Story| Petoskey News
Mar 20, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
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|Story| Los Angeles Times
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