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Race For Boxer's U.S. Senate Seat Heats Up Fri Feb 13,12:10 PM ET TheKCRAChannel.com There was more sharp jousting Thursday between Republican hopefuls who want Barbara Boxer's U.S. Senate seat. Bill Jones and Rosario Marin each accused the other of failing to protect taxpayers. Her campaign calls a motor home the "Adios Boxer Express." But U.S. Senate candidate Rosario Marin's target Thursday during a Sacramento stop wasn't incumbent Barbara Boxer, it was fellow Republican Bill Jones. "He supported the biggest tax increase in the history of California -- over $7 billion. In fact, he voted for the largest tax increase...

Sen. Boxer Plans to Confound Republicans Thu Feb 19, 3:59 AM ET By ERICA WERNER, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Democrats across the country are fond of saying "anybody but Bush" for president. In the California race for the U.S. Senate, Republicans have a saying of their own: "anybody but Boxer." She's too liberal, they complain of Sen. Barbara Boxer. She's an extremist, they charge. In the words of California Republican Party Chairman Duf Sundheim, Boxer is "out of synch." Yet the GOP twice has failed to find that somebody who could defeat Boxer. This time, with Democrat Gray Davis...

Unlikely New Budget in Time for Deadline Sun Jun 15, 5:52 PM ET Sue McGuire for KCBS-740 AM (KCBS)--There is still no state budget. Sunday is the constitutional deadline but the state capital is nearly empty. Lawmakers remain deadlocked over tax hikes versus spending cuts to ease the state's $38 billion deficit. Governor Gray Davis has spent most of the weekend with his financial advisers. "I want the state to go forward not backwards and I believe that it is everyone's responsibility whose salaries are paid by the taxpayers to come together and pass a budget on time. I'm ready....