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A toast to the end of beach booze: So the other day I had a beer on the beach with Jeremy Malecha, one of the guys who fought – and lost – the battle to keep drinking legal there.
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Aguirre aide doesn't wait for changing of the guard: City Attorney Mike Aguirre's No. 1 assistant, Don McGrath, left the City Attorney's Office yesterday a week before Jan Goldsmith officially takes over.
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Local conservative pops up in daffy Palin ad: For pure schmaltz, you'd be hard-pressed to cook up a sweeter, fattier dish than the Thanksgiving-themed “Thank You, Sarah Palin” TV ad that just finished airing on cable in the Lower 48 (with extra airings in Alaska).
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'Embarrassed' GM isn't biting on coach questions: A.J. Smith normally is in a good mood during our quarterly sessions. Not this quarter. The Chargers general manager yesterday morning was looking and talking very much like a miserable GM responsible for a miserable 4-8 NFL team.
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Turner is here for the duration, – at least for now: The head coach has been addressed. End of story. Close of subject. Chargers General Manager A.J. Smith's abrupt answers to pointed questions about Norv Turner may not be what you want to hear, but they're about all you're likely to get.
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Take 'The Express' with a grain of salt: “Express”-ly speaking, the Ernie Davis story is a great one for the movies, and the just-released “The Express” does a good job bringing it to the big screen.
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Sales taxes not best way to balance state budget: When Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unseated Gray Davis five years ago, one of his rallying cries was his pledge to cut taxes. Just last month, the governor called Barack Obama a “socialist” for his plan to raise taxes on the rich to cut taxes for the middle class.
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Avoiding the heat on immigration: If Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano wins confirmation as secretary of homeland security, she will be responsible for enforcing the nation's immigration laws. This is a chilling thought for those of us who have witnessed up close how Napolitano can be vexed to the point of paralysis by that highly charged issue.
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Good stuff or useless junk? It comes down to perspective: I got an e-mail recently and, probably because it made me feel guilty, I put it aside. The subject? Well, it was right there in the subject line of the message: 81% of Couples Fight About Household Junk.
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Shatner with attitude, Costello with aptitude: Just in time for the holidays, two new cable shows are giving the gift of gab. Debuting tomorrow on the Biography Channel, “Shatner's Raw Nerve” finds host William Shatner grilling his celebrity guests about such intensely personal subjects as heaven, hell and first marriages.
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