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John Garamendi crushed David Harmer last night in the CD-10 congressional election.

WASHINGTON Republican Mike Berryhill is using more than $100,000 of his own money to jump-start his challenge to Rep.

Former President Bush stated Jack Abramoff was a ''equal money dispenser'' who helped politicians of both parties.

The Republican primary to unseat Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Pleasanton, is getting crowded.

Republicans have landed a serious candidate in their effort to unseat California Rep.

Using money raised in part from prominent San Joaquin Valley businessmen, Rep. Devin Nunes has become a leading contributor to Republican causes.

Mike Berryhill's fellow San Joaquin Valley Republicans confront a delicate choice with his decision to challenge Rep.

It has now been revealed that a Washington, DC PR powerhouse that was recently exposed as being part of an anonymous "grassroots" pro-coal group also has significant ties to the Republican Party.

The recession has been hard on restaurants of every type, but it's been particularly hard on the owners of soul food, Caribbean, or Louisiana kitchens East Bay Express 4489 words A phenomenon begun by former Brown University football player Reid Mihalko has adults getting into their pajamas, setting boundaries and spooning with strangers.

Republican Rep. George Radanovich of Mariposa has picked up his fundraising pace but still lags well behind his San Joaquin Valley colleagues in available money, new records show.

The next congressional elections aren't until 2010, but challengers already have emerged in two of the three districts in our region.

McCloskey : Leading From the Front: A "Truly CA" documentary. Narrated by Paul Newman, produced and directed by Robert Coughlan.

Contaminated needles and scalpels, bloodied bandages, body parts, unused prescription drugs, soiled hospital garments, radioactive waste and refuse tainted with infectious disease: These are only a few items that may be discarded on a curbside, abandoned in a nearby lake or piled in a dumpster headed for the local landfill.

Republican strategists are now roughing up San Joaquin Valley congressional Democrats with radio ads linking them to the region's water woes.

Filmmaker Rob Caughlan spent eight years trying to pack an account of the life and career of Pete McCloskey into his allotted 54 minutes, the length of the program that will run on KQED-TV on Sunday, July 5, as part of the station's "Truly CA" series.

The race for one of San Joaquin County's two congressional seats ramped up Monday with entry of a new Republican candidate for the 11th Congressional District and the announcement that two Republican members of the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors were endorsing the seat's Democratic incumbent.

Six times as a Marine in the Korean War, former U.S. Rep. Pete McCloskey hoisted his bayonet and led a charge into battle.

Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture.

No one turns their back on their political party lightly. Ronald Reagan always said he did not leaveA the Democratic party but that it left him.

The American Gas Association today announced the appointment of experienced communications professional Kristin Schrader Marcell as the director of communications.