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Online Education: College Lite by the Byte

...public universities to grant students credit for online courses given by outside providers.A bill introduced in the California Senate would extend this concession only when a required class is full and not offered online at the college. The legislation...

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Guest Columns
Highlights of state primary results

Results of state primary voting in three states Tuesday: CALIFORNIA SENATE: Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein nominated for second full term; GOP Rep. Tom Campbell to challenge her. HOUSE: Rep. Matthew...

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News
Congress' new freshman class

...president of the Florida Senate. Another, California Democrat Hilda Solis, was the first Latino woman elected to the California Senate. Other women in the group also have impressive credentials. West Virginia's Shelley Moore Capito, a Republican...

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Opinion
City attorney elected mayor of Los Angeles

...other races, Los Angeles voters chose: --Former state Sen. Diane Watson, the first black woman to serve in the California Senate, to succeed Rep. Julian Dixon in the overwhelmingly Democratic 32nd Congressional District. Dixon died of an apparent...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/060601/nne_0606010016.shtml
News
Men fighting laws forcing non-fathers to pay support

...court-ordered support if DNA tests prove he did not father the child in question. A similar bill has reached the California Senate after clearing the state Assembly. Measures have been introduced in several other states, including Vermont, Massachusetts...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/062202/nne_0622020072.shtml
News
Up for grabs

...leadership's control. Rep. Tom Campbell, a moderate Republican from Silicon Valley, recently decided to jump into the California Senate race, while conservative Rep. David M. McIntosh is running for governor of Indiana. But the GOP leadership has...

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Opinion
Sanchez agrees to move fund-raiser away from Playboy Mansion

...decision to abandon the mansion as a "courageous act," but not all Democrats agreed. The president pro tem of the California Senate faxed a letter to Andrew saying he would protest by giving $25,000 he was raising for the Democratic National...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/081200/pol_0812000052.shtml
Politics
California Senate OKs rescue of struggling utility

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The state Senate approved a bill Friday that would help a struggling utility pay its debt, significantly altering the plan negotiated by Gov. Gray Davis.

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/072101/nne_0721010024.shtml
News
Afghanistan war is AWOL in elections

...last weekend had a full-fledged national debate on Fox News; the war never came up. A few days earlier, in California, Senate candidates Barbara Boxer, the incumbent Democrat, and her Republican challenger, Carly Fiorina, were grilled...

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