Pelosi Delivers Comprehensive Health Care Reform

Poll shows Harman gets 29% - Cooley 22%. Sacramento - A new survey conducted by Survey USA and CBS 5 KPIX on key statewide races in California, shows Senator Tom Harman beating Los Angeles DA Steve Cooley amongst Republican Primary voters. CBS 5 reported: In the Republican primary for st...

SAN JOSE, CALIF. – The San Jose Redevelopment Agency today was forced to turn over $62,247,530 to the Santa Clara County Controller, a required payment resulting from the State´s decision to raid $2.05 billion in local redevelopment funds as part of the 2009-10 State Budget. Instead of going t...

Fundraiser nets more than $6,000 for Aspiranet, Camarillo Boys & Girls Club, Turning Point Foundation, Casa Pacifica Center for Children and Families and FOOD Share.

Come experience the glory of Cuban Ballet & Dance "up close and personal" in a grand arts venue in which you can observe Blankenship Ballet's "world class dancers" perform beautiful ballet and other forms of dance in an "in-the-round" performance where the dancers are "close enough to touch".

SANTA BARBARA, CA — Santa Barbara City Councilmember Das Williams has announced that the Consumer Federation of California (CFC) has endorsed his campaign for the 35th Assembly District. CFC is the state´s leading consumer advocacy organization dedicated to enacting state and federal ...

Nearly $45 million for Ferry Terminals and Other Projects. This week Senator Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord) applauded the release of Proposition 1B bond funds to San Francisco Bay Area Water Emergency Transportation Authority (WETA) for the Antioch and Martinez Ferry Terminals and other vital Bay ...

New System Will Help Veterans Access the Benefits They Have Earned. Washington, DC – Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) joined the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in announcing the launch of its new and improved online form, "Application for Health Benefits," which will make it easier and faster for Ve...

Lawmaker says: "If we are serious about getting our arms around both climate change and reducing our dependence on oil, energy efficiency initiatives must be enacted." Washington, D.C. – Reps. Jane Harman (D-Venice) and Fred Upton (R-Mich.), members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, th...

A brief sampling of the mystery pulp fiction works by L. Ron Hubbard, and information about the Golden Age Stories, print, audio and performed in live "radio-theater."

The non-profit advocacy group which acts as a voice for consumers across California has endorsed Susan Jordan for the 35th Assembly District seat. "Susan Jordan has proven that she is tough enough to stand up to the oil and energy corporations. The Consumer Federation of California endorses her ...

Ventura County´s only premier company, the Ventura County Ballet Company, will present "Sleeping Beauty - A Fairytale Ballet" May 22-23 at the Oxnard Performing Arts Center. Featuring an international ensemble of more than 100, including a cast from around the world, the classic fairytale is brought to life through a metamorphosis of talent representing the best in classic techniques to convey the Russian tale through thoughtful execution and choreography by Marina Fliagina. Fliagina, who danced professionally in her home country of Russia for more than 30 years, says her version of the ballet is comparable to The Nutcracker at one and one-half hours and is filled with prime jewels from the original production. All of the traditional movements that make this particular ballet a classic have been retained, including such famous movements as the Rose Adagio and pas du deux with Aurora and Prince Desire´ and the pas du deux with Princess Florina and the Blue Bird. Fliagina´s choreographic adaptation of the ballet won a 2005 Telly Award for Best Videography in a Live Performance in Production. This is the same production that will be presented May 22-23 at the Oxnard Performing Arts Center.

House Passes the Home Star Energy Retrofit Act. Washington, DC - Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) voted yesterday for the bipartisan Home Star Energy Retrofit Act, H.R. 5019, to provide immediate incentives for consumers who renovate their homes to become more energy-efficient. Increased demand for ene...

$175 Million in Addition to the Property Tax Roll Will Be Generated in FY 2009-2010. San Francisco, CA – The Assessor-Recorder´s Office has announced that it expects to generate $50 million above budgeted projections. Original FY 2009-2010 budget projections called for the Department to g...

The California Legislative Latino Caucus, comprised of California State Senators and Assemblymembers, voted on Wednesday to give a sole endorsement to Democrat Susan Jordan in the 35th Assembly District contest. The Latino Legislative Caucus is dedicated to providing affordable housing, investing...

NEW YORK/PRNewswire/ -- TED's famous 18-minute TEDTalks -- long available free on TED.com -- will now be accessible on broadcast TV stations around the world through the TED Open TV Project (www.ted.com/tv), which launched this week. Announced at Web 2.0 in San Francisco, the TED Open TV Project ...

SACRAMENTO – After over a month of denying that they had even a single document pertaining to the upcoming controversial visit by Sarah Palin, California State University Stanislaus officials are now offering to disclose "800 or 900" documents about the event, according to a report published in Cali...

(SACRAMENTO) – In the wake of revelations that hundreds of dangerous felons have been erroneously released, Assemblymember Ted Lieu (D-Torrance) is calling on the California Department of Corrections (CDCR) to immediately halt the implementation of the State´s new unsupervised parole program, ...

OAKLAND, Calif., May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- With the number of air passengers traveling through the Bay Area expected to increase from 60 million to 100 million by 2035, planners are looking at ways of accommodating the demand without expanding runways. Options will be explored at three public hearings s...

The Pasadena Young Musicians Orchestra will pay tribute to movie music when it presents Lights! Camera! Music! featuring works by composers from John Williams to Edvard Grieg.

A solo play written and performed by Kres Mersky featuring Albert Einstein's faithful secretary who tells of her life with the great Nobel Prize Winner; intimate, amusing, touching.

PACIFIC SERENADES PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF STILL TIME BY JAZZ COMPOSER & PERFORMER KATISSE BUCKINGHAM Also on the program, entitled "Ode to Imagination", are works by Dvorak and Webern

Presented by The Volunteer Center serving San Francisco and San Mateo Counties, volunteers of Aspiranet´s literacy intervention volunteer program earn top honors.

SANTA BARBARA, CA — Santa Barbara City Councilmember Das Williams announced Tuesday that the Consumer Federation of California (CFC) has endorsed his campaign for the 35th Assembly District. CFC is the state´s leading consumer advocacy organization dedicated to enacting state and fede...

San Francisco, CA— Mayor Gavin Newsom today presented his proposed balanced budgets for ten "enterprise" departments. The enterprise departments are agencies within City government that generate their own revenue or are funded with special funds, rather than by general fund revenues. "Inves...

SACRAMENTO – On a bipartisan 29-0 vote, the California Senate today approved legislation in response to the Richmond case in which a 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped repeatedly by a group of young males with as many as twenty witnesses to the crime. The legislation – authored by Senator Le...

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman John Garamendi (D-Walnut Creek, CA) today issued the following statement after Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced that he is giving up on his plan to approve what would have been the first new offshore oil drilling lease in more than four decades in California: ...

SACRAMENTO – In a move certain to disappoint those who care about the environmental condition of the Golden State´s world famous coasts and mountains, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today vetoed a proposed statewide ban on smoking at state beaches and parks. "I´m sorry the governor did no...

PASADENA, Calif. In the 17th century, chamber music was typically performed by a small group of musicians in a palace chamber. Later, of course, this intimate form of music moved from grand aristocratic drawing rooms to more intimate spaces ranging from front parlors to concert halls. Members of t...

On May 8, Ventura County letter carriers will team up with presenting sponsors HelpPoint Claim Services by Farmers (University of Farmers, Claims) and Montecito Bank & Trust to participate in Stamp Out Hunger!, the nation´s largest single-day food drive, to benefit FOOD Share Ventura County. The annual drive began 18 years ago and has collected nearly one billion pounds of food donations.

WEST HOLLYWOOD - The City of West Hollywood will sponsor the 2nd Annual "West Hollywood Structures + Style: Taste & Space" a guided tour of eight restaurant properties with avant-garde architectural and interior design on Saturday, May 22, 2010 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in West Hollywood. Participating...

Decline in Consumption Continues to Follow Economic Activity. Jerome E. Horton, Vice Chair of the California State Board of Equalization (BOE), has released California gasoline and diesel consumption figures for January 2010. Gasoline consumption decreased 3.3 percent, while diesel consumption...

Navajo and Hopi Tribal Leaders and the Sierra Club Host Documentary Screening and Panel Discussion in Los Angeles. Los Angeles – Leaders from the Navajo and Hopi nations and the Sierra Club´s Beyond Coal Campaign hosted a public screening of the PBS documentary "Power Paths," as well as a...

Washington, DC – Last week, Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack (CA-45) and Congressman Adam Schiff (CA-29) praised the Senate Committee passage of a version of their legislation (S. 1684) aimed to prevent arson across the country. The Managing Arson Through Criminal History (MATCH) Act, will create a com...

At the same time Texas-based oil company Plains Exploration & Production (PXP) was trying to woo Santa Barbara environmentalists into supporting its plans to drill the first new offshore oil lease in California state waters in more than 40 years, the company was trying to convince the federal govern...

Mourns Loss of Life in Gulf of Mexico. Marina del Rey - Congressional Candidate Marcy Winograd (CA-36) applauds President Obama's decision to put new off-shore oil leases on hold in light of the disastrous oil spill off the Louisiana coast in the Gulf of Mexico. Winograd joins in mourning the l...

And entertaining and enlightening play based on a iconic book about acting by Richard Boleslavsky in which a "green" young woman becomes a talented actress by heeding the wise words of her Teacher.

San Francisco, CA – To further the ties of friendship and understanding between San Francisco and Amman Jordan, and to affirm their mutual aspiration to work in unison for the benefit of their cities and nations, Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Honorable Omar Maani, Mayor of the City of Amman, this week ...

SACRAMENTO – Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States granted a writ of certiorari (review) of California´s law to prevent the sale and rental of excessively violent video games to children. The law was written by Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) in 2005 and was struck down by the U...

(SACRAMENTO) – The State Assembly approved new requirements on hospital emergency rooms to reduce dangerous overcrowding levels. Introduced by Assemblymember Ted Lieu (D-Torrance), Assembly Bill 2153 would require hospitals to institute guidelines that will reduce high levels of overcrowding in Cali...

SACRAMENTO – The Senate Judiciary Committee today approved a plan to ban retailers from imposing surcharges on those who use debit cards, sending the consumer-protection measure to face a full vote on the Senate Floor. "Regardless of whether you´re buying milk for the kids or gas for the ca...

May 12--Torrance Mayor Frank Scotto said Tuesday the city is grappling with an $8 million budget shortfall this fiscal year, while city officials warned that another $9 million deficit is looming on the horizon for next year.

La Secretaria Tecnica de Gobierno Digital volveria a la Presidencia durante la futura administracion de Laura Chinchilla y se enfocaria en el fortalecimiento de la competitividad.La Secretaria Tecnica de Gobierno Digital volveria a la Presidencia durante la futura administracion de Laura Chinchilla y se enfocaria en el fortalecimiento de la competitividad.

May 8--San Jose officials on Friday joined those criticizing Arizona's new law that empowers police to detain people suspected of being in the United States illegally.

May 7--OAKLAND -- City Attorney John Russo last week endorsed the state's ballot initiative to legalize marijuana, and the City Council seems poised to do the same soon.

May 5--Richmond is joining a growing list of cities in denouncing Arizona's new immigration law and boycotting the state until the law is repealed.

May 5--SACRAMENTO -- The state Senate Education Committee will hear a bill today that would place a three-year moratorium on the use of metal bats in high school baseball games, Assemblyman Jared Huffman said Tuesday.

May 5--Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger took one look at the millions of gallons of oil spreading across the Gulf of Mexico and saw the error of his ways.

May 5--OAKLAND -- More than 130 years after city leaders made it illegal to appear in public dressed "in the attire of a person of the opposite sex," Oakland finally moved Tuesday toward taking a little-known ordinance against cross-dressing off its books.

May 4--Setting up what is expected to be a multimillion-dollar political battle between oil companies and Silicon Valley tech leaders, opponents of California's landmark global warming law turned in about 800,000 signatures Monday for a November ballot measure to suspend the law.

May 4--SACRAMENTO -- The catastrophic oil slick spreading through the Gulf of Mexico has claimed another victim: Cash for California's strapped parks system.

May 4--Carson has traditionally celebrated its rich cultural diversity by spending about $450,000 annually on an exhaustive schedule of ethnically themed festivals.

May 3--Setting up what is expected to be a multimillion-dollar political battle between Texas oil companies and Silicon Valley tech leaders, opponents of California's landmark global warming law, AB 32, turned in an estimated 800,000 signatures Monday for a November ballot measure to suspend the law.

May 1--In the midst of a massive oil spill off the Gulf of Mexico, state legislators held a hearing in Hermosa Beach on Friday to assess the risk of a similar catastrophe on the California coast, and embolden cities fending off costly bids by oil companies to expand drilling.

Apr. 28--What happens in November could shape Richmond's policy for pot clubs in town.

Apr. 28--SACRAMENTO -- How's this for border insecurity?

Apr. 27--The U.S. Supreme Court is about to jump into the controversial world of kids, joysticks and violent video games such as "Grand Theft Auto" and "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare."

A news brief Sunday about the South Bay Bar Association's Law Day gave a wrong date for the event.

Apr. 26--Q Why?

Apr. 25--The Euphrat Museum of Art at De Anza College had no money and made little noise in the art world when Janet Rindfleisch took it over in 1978.

Apr. 24--A federal jury in San Jose on Friday concluded that a former Silicon Valley chief financial officer violated securities laws by rigging stock options for employees at Maxim Integrated Products over a five-year period.

Apr. 24--Marina del Rey's Fourth of July fireworks event, a tradition since the 1980s that draws thousands of spectators, could fall by the wayside next year because of budget cuts, county officials said Friday.

A murder charge was filed Friday against a man accused of fatally stabbing a family member this week in Torrance.

Apr. 22--OAKLAND -- A man shot by Oakland police in East Oakland on Thursday morning is expected to recover, police said.

Apr. 22--DUBLIN -- In the next three years, an estimated 950 to 1,100 prison inmates will be released into Alameda County.

Apr. 22--Faced with a $9 million hole in this year's budget and another $9 million deficit expected next fiscal year, Carson city officials plan a series of workshops to discuss ways to plug the gaps.

Apr. 21--Residents of San Jose's council district 3, which includes downtown, Naglee Park and several neighborhoods near the airport, are invited to attend a community forum tonight to discuss the city's budget crisis.

NEW YORK, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Logo, the entertainment network for gays, lesbians and their families and friends announced the co- hosts for the 2010 "NewNowNext Awards."

LOS ANGELES, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Cable Show 2010 - the nation's premiere event for the cable industry - is taking place this week at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

The Black Eyed Peas' highly anticipated sold out concert tour, "The E.N.D. World Tour 2010" will make its world television premiere on May 15 at 10 pm EDT on EPIX, the multiplatform premium entertainment service.

Bearden native Dale Dickey will be featured on the next episode of "Criminal Minds" (airing 9 tonight on WVLT, Channel 8).

May 12--It was Christmas in May on the stage of The Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts Tuesday as Santa Claus and a team of Rockettes helped announce a new Broadway in Jacksonville season.

LOS ANGELES - TV stars Joel McHale of NBC's "Community" and Sofia Vergara of ABC's "Modern Family" are handling announcement duties for the prime-time Emmy Awards nominations.

CANNES, France, May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CANNES FILM FESTIVAL: Akamai Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKAM), the leader in powering video, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced that online video coverage of the 63rd Cannes International Film Festival will be delivered on the official Cannes International Film Festival website using the Akamai HD Network.

LOS ANGELES, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- NCTA Cable Show 2010 -- Pre- production is underway on a six-part prequel to Starz' hit original series "Spartacus: Blood and Sand."

May 12--It could have been fate, or it might be just a sweet irony.

MALTA, N.Y., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- MediaRover, an easy-to-use software program for keeping every family member's iTunes music libraries and playlists in sync, now integrates seamlessly with the Sonos multi-room music system.

The theme at Cannes 2010 is more art house than blockbuster.

May 12--CENTURY CITY, Calif. -- After a multiyear, almost decade-long drought, the television sitcom again has a heartbeat -- emphasis on heart.

Product featured on show sold-out in record five hours in all 23 stores across the province -

Ray Harryhausen is letting the monsters out of his closet.

As Roger Ross Williams says, laughing about it in hindsight, he holds two records in the annals of the Academy Awards.

Astral and Bell deliver a full slate of HBO programming Online for Bell TV subscribers at no additional fee

May 12--Love him madly

CANNES, May 11 -- Hard times for the economy.

May 12--RIVERSIDE -- Movie producer Jon Landau, whose credits include "Avatar" and "Titanic" shared his professional experiences and advice Tuesday afternoon to aspiring writers, actors and filmmakers here.

May 12--VALDOSTA -- Murder is no laughing matter.

Her luminous beauty helped make her one of the first black women to triumph in Hollywood.

May 12--Regal and righteous, passionate and peerless -- that was the Lena Horne who enjoyed a musical renaissance that began in 1981 and ran through 1998.

May 12--After you eliminate a few star athletes and a cheerleader or two, it seems that everyone winds up feeling like an outsider in high school.

The Springfield Public Schools Student Film Club will host Premiere Night 2010 at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Springfield High School auditorium.

6 Lennon film hits all the high notes

Drive By Truckers a resilient force for Southern rock sound