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OUR VIEW The super thing about the Super Tuesday presidential primaries is that results tell Americans the real game is on.
Rumors started circulating around the fire station in Byron, Georgia, within a year after the medical treatments began.
CLAIM: Court upholds North Dakota law stripping voting rights from Native Americans.
Many factors go into making political deals – ideology, self-interest, expediency and emotion to mention just a few. Logic rarely enters the equation, and if it does, it usually dwells at the bottom in importance. Two cases in point are to be found in the final deal on a $213 billion state budget that was hammered out last weekend, just a few days before the June 15 deadline, by Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders.
Arts and crafts giant Hobby Lobby has submitted plans to open a store in the former Toys R Us building in southeast Santa Maria.
Gavin Newsom is fond of making grandiloquent, headline-grabbing gestures couched in moralistic terms.
There has been, by happenstance, a cyclical pattern in the mindsets of California governors in the post-World War II era and Gavin Newsom fits…
Gilbert King wrote a book that changed many people's lives, and it happened almost by accident. More than a decade ago, King was researching a book about U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall's days as director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He came across documents about a case in the tiny Central Florida town of Groveland. "I'd never heard of it," King says. "But in ...
The beginning of a new year is just hours away. Are you ready for it?
Christmas is days away, but women got a couple of early presents - one from local medical researchers and the other from the highest court in …
SAN FRANCISCO — Republican John Cox entered the only scheduled debate in the campaign for California governor on Monday as an underdog in need…
Among this week's Paperback Picks are a collection of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's speeches and writings, a saga of class and politics by Pulitzer finalist John Dee and a page-turner about a black Texas Ranger who has a complicated relationship with his home state. As time for summer reading begins to slip away (don't worry; the fall reading season's just around the corner), ...
A couple of former congressmen have written a widely-circulated guest commentary that warns of the continued infusion of so-called dark money …
Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, a 70-year-old former state Supreme Court justice, defiantly denied allegations of decades-old sexual misconduct with minors published Thursday in a Washington Post story.
A statue of the U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote the 1857 Dred Scott decision that upheld slavery and denied citizenship to African Americans was removed from the grounds of the Maryland State House early Friday.
Four Confederacy-related monuments were hauled away on trucks under cover of darkness late Tuesday night and early Wednesday.
In the wake of U.S. Supreme Court decisions that states cannot impose mandatory no-parole sentences on juveniles convicted of murder, the AP s…
The city of Santa Maria is one step closer to finalizing election boundaries, officially changing how voters will pick their representatives i…
The Santa Maria City Council narrowed the field of potential election district maps from 16 to three and set the final criteria for how the bo…
We celebrated Rosa Parks Day on Saturday, Feb. 4, and it’s important to note why the day is so important.
Here’s a semi-rhetorical question — who is hurt by a U.S. Supreme Court with eight justices instead of nine? Here’s our non-rhetorical answer …
Wisconsin Club for Growth wants the high court to throw out the probe targeting coordination between Gov. Scott Walker's campaign and conservative political groups.