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Ventura County Star
Commission rejects bid to close mobile-home park
A divided Thousand Oaks Planning Commission on Monday night rejected a recommendation from the city to green-light the owner’s plan to close the Conejo Mobile Home Park in Newbury Park.
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Commission rejects bid to close mobile-home park
A divided Thousand Oaks Planning Commission on Monday night rejected a recommendation from the city to green-light the owner’s plan to close the Conejo Mobile Home Park in Newbury Park.
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State constitutional effort on track, backers say
Leaders of the movement to call California’s first constitutional convention since 1879 said Monday they are on track to draft the ballot initiatives that will be necessary so the question can be put to voters in the November 2010 election.
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Fewer county convicts entering drug program
The number of people being referred to drug treatment through a sweeping diversion program has dropped by 18 percent in Ventura County since last year, but the reason is a mystery.
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Short yellow light blamed for tickets in Ventura
The Ventura County Grand Jury is recommending that the city of Ventura lengthen the duration of a yellow light at a busy downtown intersection to decrease the number of red-light-camera violations and make the area safer.
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Tip-A-Cop event to benefit Special Olympics
Ventura police will sponsor a Tip-A-Cop event this evening from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Black Angus restaurant, 4718 Telephone Road in Ventura.
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ID theft turns area college student's life upside-down
Maria Gonzalez is never late with a bill. She has a 4.0 grade-point average at Ventura College and holds down a job as a switchboard operator. But she is often treated like a deadbeat.
“I can’t get an apartment, I can’t purchase a car. I’m rejected for credit cards at Penneys and Target,” she said. “I have the worst credit.”
That’s because somebody else has been using her Social Security number for about 18 years.
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Recruits for leadership class sought
The Thousand Oaks-Westlake Village Community Foundation announces recruitment to attend a nine-month leadership class, known as Leadership Conejo. This program has been created to identify and promote skills as a current or future leader. BRIEF
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Thousand Oaks to consider loosening filming restrictions
Making movies and TV shows in Thousand Oaks could become easier for producers under changes in the film-permit process the City Council is scheduled to consider tonight.
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Editorial: Forget the tough talk
President Barack Obama is again being pounded in certain Republican circles for not talking tough on Iran. They accuse him of insufficient table-pounding and finger-pointing.
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Editorial: It's worth the effort
President Barack Obama signed a sweeping anti-smoking law Monday that gives the Food and Drug Administration unprecedented authority to regulate tobacco products in the marketplace.
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Your letters: June 23, 2009
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Voodoo economics spells disaster for California
The politicians who are fashioning — or not fashioning — a new state budget often spout economic theories as the bases for their actions.
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Keep the debate simple
To dissect today’s healthcare debate, the crux of which concerns a “public option,” use the mind’s equivalent of a surgeon’s scalpel, Occam’s razor, a principle of intellectual parsimony: In solving a puzzle, start with the simplest explanatory theory.
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B&G clubs there for kids
An economic perfect storm not only raids retirement funds and bankrupts corporations, it robs children of opportunity.
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Purported judicial activism of Sotomayor and what that means
Many conservatives, including Professor Stanislaus Pulle (“Judge Sotomayor and empathy,” June 2 edition), bemoan the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. Pulle implies she will “stir anew the cauldron of the method and manner of constitutional interpretation,” indulging in “judicial activism.” And in so doing, she may wreak havoc with our social customs and mores.
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Westlake's Brandon Hagy stays on course
In sports, encores are often difficult to produce. More times than not, a team or individual that wins a title one year often slips a bit the following year. More times than not, a team or individual that wins a title one year often slips a bit the following year. That wasn’t the case for Westlake High golfer Brandon Hagy.
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Westlake High golfer has a finishing touch
Brandon Hagy capped off a great career at Westlake with a strong senior season. His steady play as the Warriors’ No. 1 player helped Westlake reach the State Championship Tournament. Hagy will continue his career at UC Berkeley, following in the footsteps of fellow Westlake alum Charlie Wi.
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Fewer county convicts entering drug program
The number of people being referred to drug treatment through a sweeping diversion program has dropped by 18 percent in Ventura County since last year, but the reason is a mystery.
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State constitutional effort on track, backers say
Leaders of the movement to call California’s first constitutional convention since 1879 said Monday they are on track to draft the ballot initiatives that will be necessary so the question can be put to voters in the November 2010 election.
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