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After shocking the political world by announcing his decision to retire after this year, U.S. Senator Evan Bayh warned that conditions could be ripe for a Ross Perot-type candidate in 2012. Referred t ...

Mild summer weather has slowed the growth of many California crops, but forecasters are predicting a record year for walnuts.  According to a report by the California Farm Bureau Federation, the ...

On July 1, the federal government and dozens of states set up temporary “high-risk” health insurance pools for people denied health insurance due to so-called pre-existing conditions. These pools were ...

A significant – and often overlooked -- result of what’s been dubbed the Great Recession is that in just over half of the 50 states, the programs that pay unemployment insurance to workers who’ve lost ...

Receiving little press attention over the Easter weekend, filings with the Security and Exchange Commission on April 2 revealed that WellPoint Inc. CEO Angela Braly received a boost in total compensat ...

Reforming the health insurance industry has occupied Washington lawmakers and dominated the news for a better part of a year.  Why we need reform has become all too obvious.  Forty-five thou ...

I always thought I was an Evan Bayh Democrat. Today I became certain. In his surprise retirement announcement, Bayh was careful to make it clear that he had wearied of the partisanship on both side ...

In 1995, Congress addressed this issue with the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, sponsored by Republican Senator Kempthorne of Indiana and signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton.  The ...

Approximately 1,500 fewer high school seniors will become freshman at University of California campuses than last year this fall.Fewer students were admitted for Fall 2009 to the UC campuses, mainly o ...

Heads of the Pacific Coast side of the Fishery Management Council decided on Wednesday, April 8 to basically call off this year's salmon fishing season, after fears that the King/Chinook salmon popula ...