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Governors of Arizona, Nevada and Oregon today praised California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's call to "close the borders," saying it would improve the security and living conditions of all citizens in their own states. However, a spokesman for Gov. Schwarzenegger said he was speaking of the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada, not California's borders with neighboring states. "We're grateful for Arnold's unilateral move to protect us from incursion by Californians," the three governors said in a joint news release. "Our porous borders have posed a grave threat to our states for too many years. The ideological degradation spawned by this...

California faces critical challenges in the next two decades as its population surges and stretches vital resources to the limit while creating an ever-widening gap between rich and poor, according to a Public Policy Institute of California study released Wednesday. Virtually half of all residents believe smog, traffic and skyrocketing home prices will make the Golden State a worse place to live by 2025, according to the study and poll released by the nonpartisan, nonprofit group. "We hope that this report acts as a wake-up call," said Mark Baldassare, director of research at the nonpartisan institute and a co-author of...

Sirenza relocates from California to ColoradoBy Semiconductor Business News May 6, 2003 (11:22 AM) URL: http://www.siliconstrategies.com/story/OEG20030506S0037 BROOMFIELD, Colo. -- Radio-frequency (RF) chip maker Sirenza Microdevices Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif. today (May 6) announced plans to relocate its corporate headquarters and all manufacturing operations to Broomfield, Colo. The move, to be completed by July, follows Sirenza's recently completed purchase of substantially all of the assets of Denver-based RF chip maker Vari-L Co. Inc. (see Dec. 2, 2002 story ). Sirenza will lease approximately 74,000-square-feet in two buildings in a technology park located midway between Boulder and Denver. One building will serve...