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It’s official: The situation in Sunland Park has gotten crazier than the last two seasons of “Lost.” On Friday, Daniel Salinas was arrested again, this time charged with 18 new felony charges, including receiving and soliciting illegal kickbacks, fraud and ethics violations. Salinas is the man who: *as the border town’s mayor pro tem got drunk with then-mayor Martin Resendiz during a meeting at a restaurant with officials from a California firm during which Resendiz said he got so inebriated he signed city contracts [4]while not realizing their import *has been accused of trying to blackmail rival mayoral candidate Gerardo...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALIFORNIA LEAVIN' Report: 40% of firms to move jobs from state Burdensome regulatory costs create bad climate for business -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 28, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The business climate in California is so poor that 40 percent of the companies questioned in a report say they will move jobs out of state. Half of the firms said they would not add jobs within California, according to the survey by the California Business Roundtable, the Sacramento Bee reported. Mostly because of regulatory costs, doing business in the Golden State is 30 percent more expensive than...