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Extra, Extra: Recall Movement for Jack Weiss and the Governator's Healthcare Plan
- The movement to recall LA Westside Councilman Jack Weiss is going strong with close to half the signatures necessary already in.
- The Governator wants HIS healthcare plan enacted, Democrats be damned!
- The Big One could be up to 15 times larger than the 1994 Northridge earthquake, according to a newly released study by USC geologists.
- Why not try your hand at naming chef Alain Giraud's newest brasserie?
- The second in a series of "All-American Presidential Forums on PBS" for Republican candidates, moderated by Tavis Smiley, will take place on September 27 and will be broadcast live from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.
- The arraignment for self-purported pedophile Jack McClellan - who faces 3 civil contempt-of-court charges - is set for today.
- Make up your mind General Pace: do you support the surge or not?
- A new intelligence report has revealed that (surprise, surprise) the surge hasn't accomplished its goals and predicts that things are gonna get even more dicey in the months ahead.
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