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<p>Here we go again: A government shutdown looms if lawmakers can’t reach a compromise on a budget by Oct. 1, and the White House has already ordered federal agencies to prepare for a potential closure.</p> <p>Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to pass a bill that would fund the government after Sept. 30, but there’s a catch: it also defunds the president’s signature health-care reform, so it doesn’t stand a chance of passing in the Democrat-controlled Senate.</p>

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Last week, Orange County Register readers were treated to one of those small stories that says volumes about government officials, their priorities, and the way they constantly waste your tax dollars to promote their own well-being and their own agendas. Often it's the small examples that tell big stories, which is why the public yawns when the government wastes billions of dollars, but gets outraged when, say, a city council member names a park after himself, or when the Navy spends $1,000 for a toilet seat. The public appears outraged at Orange County Sanitation District General Manager Blake Anderson after...

More than a year after his death, Aaron Huth continues to haunt those who knew him. His profile on the behemoth six-degrees-of-separation Web site Friendster.com still lets people know that in May of 2003 he was listening to bands like the Birthday Party and the Postal Service and reading Nietzsche. His likes and interests were frozen for posterity on May 26, 2003, the last time he logged into the site. While Huth’s 12 listed Friendster friends haven’t heard from him since May 29, the day he passed away, each time they log on to the site they are simultaneously reminded...

<p>An outside auditing firm this week gave a highly questionable retirement deal the kind of tough scrutiny it ought to have received three years ago from the elected Sacramento City Unified School District trustees. If the trustees who approved the deal had been more vigilant at the time the California Administrative Services Authority (CASA) was formed, the glaring problems raised in the audit -- self-dealing and apparent conflict of interest by district administrators; potential fiscal liabilities for a district that can't afford to squander money -- this dubious scheme might never have taken flight at all. The trustees' best move now is to undo this pungent mess before it does greater financial or legal damage to the district.</p>

What Happens If We Don't Go To War?by Gary D. Halbert March 4, 2003 IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Implications If We Do Not Go To War. 2. Turkey Is Out - Where Do We Go Next? 3. How The War Is Likely To Play Out. 4. Three Keys To Why War Is Imminent. 5. Market Implications - What To Do Now. Introduction Whenever you write a weekly communication to apprx. two million people, as I do, there will be those who strongly agree and those who strongly disagree, plus all those in between. Some weeks I get hundreds of...

The search for the love of your life can be long and baffling, and most of us find ourselves forced to make it without the help of the delightful Ulrika Jonsson. In her new television show, Mr Right, she offers one man, Lance Gerrard-Wright, a choice of no fewer than 15 women, all of whom appear eager to win him. I do not grudge him his good fortune, for getting to know even one woman, let alone 15, while being filmed for a television programme, is something I could never in a million years carry off. The debonair Mr Gerrard-Wright...