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20021230

Desalination - - "Marin thirsty for desalination: Officials say tapping bay could solve water woes." ... "... the thorniest obstacle is that reverse osmosis technology --the process of forcing water through a semi-permeable membrane that blocks out salt molecules -- is still very expensive." ... "Pushing water through the membranes takes a huge amount of electricity, which is why most desalination projects are being built alongside electric power generation plants." ... "Desalination has been a concept since the fourth century B.C., when Aristotle made his proposal to condense seawater vapor. The first crude plant was installed in 1862 in Key West, Fla., to support military personnel at Fort Zachary Taylor." -By Peter Fimrite -SFGate.com

20021221

"Critics Decry Detention of M. Eastern Men: Critics Say Detention of Middle Eastern Men in California Harms Terrorism Fight." ... "A post-Sept. 11 federal registration policy that led to the detention of hundreds of Middle Eastern immigrants hurts more than it helps the war on terrorism, critics charged." ... "The detention of some immigrants who showed up to register under a new security policy drew comparisons to the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II." ... "Critics alleged the detentions probably failed to net a single terrorist but did rile law-abiding Muslims who already feared being scapegoated." -AP via -ABCNEWS.com

INS.gov - "Immigration and Naturalization Service." - "USINS"

"California May Bar Judges from Joining the Boy Scouts." ... "he California Supreme Court is considering a proposal that would forbid the 1,600 judges in the state to belong to the Boy Scouts because of its refusal to accept gays." ... "California judges are prohibited from joining groups that discriminate based on sexual orientation, but nonprofit youth organizations are exempt. The Supreme Court took up the proposal to consider changing the rule at the request of bar associations in San Francisco and Los Angeles." -By Adam Liptak -NYTimes via -AltaVista-News

20021209

Law Enforcement News - "Congress probes irregularities at Los Alamos: UC asked to turn over records relating to cases of theft, fraud." ... "Congressional investigators, following up on a criminal probe launched by the FBI, have asked the University of California for dozens of records relating to allegations of illegal procurement practices, theft and misuse of government funds at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico." -Dan Morgan -WashingtonPost via -SFGate.com

20021207

"Bigfoot backers mourning: But they remain Yeti loyalists despite family's admission of hoax." ... "Relatives of Ray L. Wallace, a logger who propelled one of California's earliest publicized claims of the creature's existence, have stepped forward in the shadow of his passing to say their patriarch admitted to trickery that fueled one of American culture's most enduring myths." ... "They say it was Wallace who stoked a fury in 1958 by slipping into two, carved, 16-inch-long wooden feet, then stomping around his Humboldt County site logging camp as a gag on fellow workmen." ... "[H]is son Michael .... said 1967's famous "Patterson-Gimlin Film" -- a grainy home movie that allegedly captures a startled specimen fleeing a streambed -- may be only his obliging mother wearing a monkey suit." -By John M. Hubbell -SFGate.com

20021205

"Lovable trickster created a monster with Bigfoot hoax." ... "Bigfoot is dead. Really." ... "Ray L. Wallace was Bigfoot. The reality is, Bigfoot just died," said Michael Wallace about his father, who died of heart failure Nov. 26 in a Centralia [Washington] nursing facility. He was 84." ... ""The fact is there was no Bigfoot in popular consciousness before 1958. America got its own monster, its own Abominable Snowman thanks to Ray Wallace," said Mark Chorvinsky, editor of Strange magazine and one of the leading proponents of the theory that Mr. Wallace fathered Bigfoot." ... "Chorvinsky believes the Wallace family's admission creates profound doubts about leading evidence of Bigfoot's existence: the so-called Patterson film, the grainy celluloid images of an erect apelike creature striding away from the movie camera of rodeo rider Roger Patterson in 1967. Mr. Wallace said he told Patterson where to go —near Bluff Creek, Calif. — to spot a Bigfoot, Chorvinsky said." -By Bob Young -SeattleTimes.NWsource

20021204

- "Buy, Use, Dispose: A Spike in Disposable Products Has Environmentalists Worried." ... "Scrub the floor, toss out the rag. Use up your minutes, toss out the phone. Watch a movie, throw away the DVD." ... "In a nation that places a high value on convenience, this is all possible or will soon be possible for consumers willing to pay a little more for products designed for one-time use. And the list is growing." ... ""The business model of the high-tech industry depends on us to continue to buy, consume and throw away," he [executive director of Californians Against Waste, Mark Murray] says. "That's the problem, they're not designing these things to last, they're designing them to use and throw out."" -By Amanda Onion -ABCNEWS.com

20021104

ELECTION 2002 - "Last-minute push for votes: Analysts blame major parties for electorate's dissatisfaction." ... "Donald Richter, a retired truck driver from Milpitas, says he's failed to vote for a candidate only once in 26 years. This year, he's doing it again in protest." ... "When he marks the ballot for [California] governor on Tuesday, "I'll vote for Mickey Mouse," he said, "and hope the major parties get the message."" ... "A new Field Poll predicts that just 39 percent, or 8.4 million of the state's 21.5 million eligible voters, will cast ballots in California. That's the lowest number recorded in the 42-year history of the poll." -By Carla Marinucci -SFGate.com

20021017

Enron News - "CHRONOLOGY- California power crisis investigations." ... "A former top Enron Corp. electricity trader pleaded guilty Thursday to inflating prices during the California energy crisis, confirming the suspicions of state officials who are demanding billions of dollars in refunds." ... "Timothy Belden, who was employed by Enron as the head of its western power trading unit in Portland, agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, federal prosecutors said." -Reuters via -Fortune

20020929

STEM CELL NEWS - "Nancy Reagan Fights Bush Over Stem Cells." ... "Mr. Bush sharply limited such research. At 81, the former first lady is obliquely but persistently campaigning — through friends, advisers, lawmakers and her own well-placed calls and letters — to reverse the president's decision." ... "Mrs. Reagan believes that embryonic stem cell research could uncover a cure for Alzheimer's, the disease that has wiped out her husband's memory. She was dismayed, friends say, when the White House took issue on Monday with a new California law that encourages embryonic stem cell research." ... ""A lot of time is being wasted," she told a friend last week who was given permission to pass her words on to The New York Times. "A lot of people who could be helped are not being helped."" -By Alessandra Stanley -NYTimes via -Google-News

20020924

- "Judge Concludes Energy Company Drove Up Prices." ... "An administrative law judge concluded today that the El Paso Corporation illegally helped to drive up prices for natural gas in California during the state's power crisis in 2000 and 2001, the first time any federal regulatory official has determined there was widespread manipulation of energy supplies." ... "Executives at El Paso, which is based in Houston, said the ruling "is unsupported by the evidence and is inconsistent with FERC policy."" -By Richard A. Oppel, Jr. with Lowell Bergman -NYTimes via -AltaVista-News

20020923

STEM CELL NEWS - "Calif. Approves Stem Cell Research." ... "In a move that runs counter to Bush administration policy, California has adopted a new law that opens the state's doors to stem cell researchers." ... "Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation Sunday that expressly permits the research, which has been strongly opposed by anti-abortion groups and the Roman Catholic church because it involves the use of fetal and embryonic tissue." -AP via -Guardian.co.uk

20020827

"Officials ban soda pop sales in Los Angeles County schools." ... "... studies that show the percentage of American adolescents who are overweight has nearly tripled in the past 20 years. The trend has been blamed on junk food and lack of exercise." ... "Critics of the soda ban argued that sugary drinks were only part of a larger health and junk food problem and some Los Angeles school administrators predicted that they will have trouble paying for such things as dances and band uniforms."-Reuters via -MercuryNews

20020802

"Sheriff: Rescued girls were minutes from death: 'He was hunting for a place to kill them and bury them'" ... "The man who abducted two teenage girls at gunpoint early Thursday [in California] was "hunting for a place to kill them" in a remote desert spot about 100 miles away when two deputies located him and fatally shot him, authorities said." -CNN

20020730

"L.A. Times Bomb Suspect Arrested." ... "The Los Angeles Times building was evacuated and surrounding streets were shut down for more than four hours Monday night when man falsely claimed to have a bomb and threatened to blow up the newspaper office." -By Daisy Nguyen -AP via -WashingtonPost

20020718

Enron News

"Army secretary [Thomas White] defends his record as former Enron executive." ... "White was vice chairman of an Enron subsidiary called Enron Energy Services, which critics say engaged in questionable electricity trading that helped drive up power prices during the 2000-2001 California power crisis." -By Matt Kelley -AP via -Boston/Globe

20020705

"FBI identifies Egyptian immigrant as gunman in L.A. shooting." ... "Los Angeles Police looking for possible links to terrorism searched the apartment of an Egyptian who opened fire at Los Angeles' airport [July 4th], killing two people at Israel's El Al ticket counter before being shot to death by a guard." -By Ryan Pearson -AP via -IHT.com

20020628

"[California] Credit Card 'Warning' Law Stopped." ... "A group of high-powered financial corporations, including Chase Manhattan Bank USA, Citibank and MNBA America Bank, filed the suit a month ago to stop the law that would require the companies to warn customers about how long it takes to pay off balances by just paying the minimum monthly payment." -By Jessica Brice -AP via -Newsday.com

20020613

"In the land of Reagan, GOP faces prospect of a shutout: Polls and even Republicans themselves say Democrats look poised to sweep California's top offices in November." ... "One leading Republican strategist calls the race for governor here "a boxing match with [Democratic Gov.] Gray Davis in one corner hitting himself in the face, while in the other corner a pair of gloves languishes unused."" -By Daniel B. Wood -CSMonitor/buy

20020603

"Napster files for bankruptcy." ... "Napster, the Californian company that pioneered the mass-market swapping of music online, has filed for bankruptcy protection from its creditors."-BBC /News

Discussion - "Napster files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy." -Slashdot

20020506

"Hearing Set on Oracle [computer software corporation] Deal: State lawmakers begin probe of controversial $95-million software agreement, even as officials try to rescind it." ... "State officials are already moving to undo the contract after a scathing audit last month that concluded that there was little demand for the software, and that the deal would actually cost California taxpayers up to $41 million, a far cry from the $111 million in savings promised by a state consultant." -By Miguel Bustillo and Julie Tamaki-LAtimes

20020429

Enron News

"[California] State GOP Sought Donations From Enron: Requests brought in $50,000 during probe of the energy firm." ... "Republican legislative leaders solicited tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from Enron Corp. even as the state government was investigating the company and other producers suspected of price gouging and market manipulation during last year's energy crisis, according to internal Enron documents." -By Virginia Ellis and Carl Ingram -LAtimes

20020118

- Sacramento - Autos - "Lemon Lawsuits: Litigation over bad cars, including class actions, is on the rise across the U.S.." ... "Rosemary Shahan, founder and president of Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety, a Sacramento, Calif.-based group working to improve lemon laws, says the Fresno case is "the largest verdict she had heard of for lemon laundering" -- the general term used in the industry to describe the practice of hiding the background of vehicles with major problems. She says that even if the award is knocked down on appeal, it "gets the manufacturers' attention."" -By Alan Fisk -Law.com

20011124

- "Soundtack of a City: Steve Erickson chooses the top 100 songs recorded in L.A."-NPR

19990609

Richard Shelby

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"Richard Shelby Is No Robin Hood." ... "Shortly before the Memorial Day recess, [Alabama Republican] Senator Richard Shelby started to pick the pockets of both California and New York State. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted overwhelmingly to impose the Alabama Senator's 12.5 percent ceiling on what any one state can receive of the annual total of Federal rapid-transit aid. That would siphon off some $200 million to $300 million that would ordinarily go to New York or California in fiscal 2000 and redistribute it in equal shares to the other 48 states for mass transit." ... "Without these subways, commuter rail lines, light rail systems and buses, major metropolitan areas in both states would choke on highway congestion." ... "Mr. Shelby's Transit Equity Provision pretends to champion fairness even as it steals money from overburdened transit systems and distributes it to states that may not have matching funds or projects ready to carry out. But ''fairness'' cuts many ways. In fiscal 1997, by one analysis, New York delivered $14.2 billion more in taxes to Washington [DC, United States Capital] than it received in aid, and California delivered $11.8 billion more. Mr. Shelby's Alabama, on the other hand, was the beneficiary of $6.9 billion more in aid than it gave Washington in taxes. Is it ''fair'' to make these imbalances even greater?"

-NYTimes

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