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Report contradicts Orange County water quality study
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWith a hearing to determine the fate of a proposed toll road through south Orange County a few weeks away, the agency backing the project issued a report Wednesday arguing that the new road would adequately protect water quality at San Onofre State Beach....Tags: Natural Science, Tetra Tech Incorporated, Road Transportation, Environmental Pollution, Water Pollution
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Accounting's appeal experiencing a boom
Tribune NewspapersSAN DIEGO—The weather is balmy and the local beaches are inviting, so naturally San Diego State University students are thinking about … accounting. Yes, accounting. It's become one of the hot courses on campus. The boom in accounting at...Tags: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Brigham Young, Internal Revenue Service, San Diego (San Diego, California), Colleges and Universities
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Judge upholds nude sunbathing along stretch of San Onofre State Beach
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterVisitors to a stretch of San Onofre State Beach will still need extra sunblock for those hard-to-reach places, thanks to a legal victory Wednesday for nudists who frequent the spot. Orange County Superior Court Judge Sheila Fell ruled that state parks...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Court Administration, San Diego (San Diego, California), Justice System, Judges
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Del Mar is again chosen for hearing on 241 tollway
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFederal officials have set a Sept. 22 hearing date in Del Mar to take public testimony regarding a proposed 16-mile extension of the 241 toll road through an ecological preserve and a popular state beach in northern San Diego County. In February, the...Tags: Trade Policy, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, San Diego (San Diego, California), Transportation, California
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Manny Farber, 91; iconoclastic film critic and artist
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterManny Farber, an iconoclastic stylist who achieved prominence in two careers -- as a painter of abstract canvases and still-lifes and as a film critic admired for his canny, muscular writing and advocacy of such directors as Sam Fuller, Howard Hawks and...Tags: Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), James Agee, Death and Dying, New York, Howard Hawks
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Obama pounces on McCain's gaffe about his homes
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersA political gaffe, it is said, occurs when a politician inadvertently tells the truth. Thus did John McCain's frank admission that he doesn't know how many homes he and his wife own spark the biggest, nastiest mud fight of the presidential campaign....Tags: Phil Gramm, Cindy McCain, Elections, George H.W. Bush, Maine
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Questions surrounding man's death in Border Patrol custody remain unanswered six weeks later
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's been six weeks since Tomas Sanchez Orzuna died in Border Patrol custody, but the questions of why and how remain unanswered. Authorities say Sanchez fought with agents as they tried to arrest him July 8 in downtown San Clemente. He died within...Tags: Justice System, Illegal Immigrants, Internet, Migration, Fires
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Environmental groups sue federal agencies over San Onofre toll road
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterA coalition of environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit this week alleging that U.S. wildlife agencies violated endangered species protections in their support of the proposed toll road through San Onofre State Beach. The suit, filed Wednesday in San...Tags: Natural Science, Environmental Politics, Wildlife, Aquaculture, San Diego (San Diego, California)
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The wrong way on transit
Los Angeles County voters soon may decide whether to raise $40 billion in local sales tax revenue for public transportation over the next 30 years. And like never before, the list of transportation projects to be funded -- a list largely dictated by...Tags: Elections, Laws, Gloria Molina, State Budgets, Real Estate Sales
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Touch-screens stored untouched
Associated PressThe demise of touch-screen voting has produced a graveyard of expensive corpses: warehouses stacked with thousands of carefully wrapped voting machines that have been shelved because of doubts about vanishing votes and vulnerability to hackers. What to...Tags: Debra Bowen, Elections, Crimes, Diebold Incorporated, Polls
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Orange County transfers 1,200 acres to developer-backed land trust
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOrange County supervisors Tuesday approved a plan to give control of 1,200 acres of open space to a land trust backed by a developer that supports building a six-lane toll road through the property. The developer, Rancho Mission Viejo, says it plans to...Tags: San Diego (San Diego, California), Justice System, Transportation, California, Lawyers
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School boards are prodded to take a stance in gay marriage debate
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhen it comes to political views, Jim Gibson of Vista and Mike Katz-Lacabe of San Leandro are at opposite ends of the spectrum. Gibson, 54, a father of four, is a conservative and an evangelical Christian; Katz-Lacabe, 40, describes his politics as...Tags: Citizens Initiative and Recall, Elections, Constitutional Issues, Christianity, Minority Groups
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