Saturday, July 11, 2015 – 02:00 p.m.

Billionaire Republican Presidential hopeful Donald Trump is doing the unexpected.

He’s sucking the oxygen from the other GOP candidates.

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Related: InlandPolitics: More gas price manipulation: This time it’s creative!

Saturday, July 11, 2015 – 11:30 a.m.

California regulators and politicians talk a good game. Especially when constituents become heated over high gas prices.

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Capitol Alert
By Jim Miller
jmiller@sacbee.com
July 10, 2015

• The attorney general approved title and summary Friday
• Three-quarters of the money would go to healthcare programs
• The initiative says raising reimbursement rates should be a priority

A tobacco-tax initiative proposed for the November 2016 ballot would raise as much as $1 billion to increase reimbursement rates for healthcare providers, about three-quarters of the estimated revenue that would be generated by the $2-per-pack tax hike.

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By Kate Linthicum, Richard Winton and Kurtis Lee
July 10, 2015

Donald Trump brought his Republican presidential campaign to Los Angeles on Friday, unrepentant over his inflammatory comments about Mexican immigrants that have drawn national ire and pushback from businesses and fellow party members.

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By Stephanie K. Baer, San Bernardino County Sun
Posted: 07/10/15 – 10:48 PM PDT |

WEST COVINA — Assemblyman Roger Hernandez, D-West Covina, said Friday that the findings of a state audit into the city’s fiscal mismanagement revealed criminal activity at City Hall that ultimately led to the waste of taxpayer money.

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By Seung Min Kim
7/10/15 – 8:23 PM EDT

President Barack Obama appears likely to lose – again – in the protracted legal fight over his executive actions on immigration.

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