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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi might be a radioactive figure in many parts of the country, but one day after Democrats lost the House in a landslide, Bay Area business and political leaders are already regretting the region's loss of clout. "Just look around," the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce's Jim Lazarus told The San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday. "The $400 million for the Transbay Terminal project, the [$46 million] Doyle Drive rebuild, the [$86 million] Hunters Point Shipyard cleanup — if she wasn't there, I'm not sure we would have gotten the funding, and we certainly wouldn't have gotten it as...

Dear xxxxxx, Last Monday, the Ohio Joint Committee for Agency Rule Review (JCARR) voted to uphold the restrictive and illegal voter registration rules enacted by Secretary of State Ken Blackwell. But People For the American Way Foundation is still in the fight! Many of you signed PFAW Foundation’s Election Protection 365 petition denouncing the burdensome regulations and urging JCARR to do the right thing and reject right-wing voter suppression tactics in Ohio. By a party-line vote, your calls for justice were turned down. Today, People For the American Way Foundation joins several other civic organizations in filing a lawsuit to...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Backed by a 500 million dollar inheritance, Teresa Heinz Kerry brings spontaneity and outspoken life to the sometimes leaden presidential campaign of her level-headed husband John Kerry (news - web sites). No problem admitting to using botox, no problem to championing women's and environmental causes that would certainly annoy the current occupant of the White House. The heir to the Heinz ketchup and soup fortune -- born in Mozambique and brought up in South Africa -- has crossed the US political frontier to throw herself into her husband's quest for the Democratic nomination to carry the party...

Pelosi here Tuesday U.S. House Democratic Leader Rep. NANCY PELOSI of California will be in Springfield for a fund-raising luncheon Tuesday honoring U.S. Rep. LANE EVANS, D-Rock Island. The event is from 11:30 to 1 p.m. at the Renaissance Springfield. Tickets start at $50. Evans represents the 17th Congressional District, which includes part of Springfield