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Through an appearance on NBC's “Meet the Press” and through other actions of late, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has put the GOP on notice that he's the governor of every Californian and not just fellow Republicans. “I will run as an Arnold Republican, which is I am there to govern and to serve the people of California, meaning Democrats and Republicans, even though there are some on the right wing that are not happy about that,” Schwarzenegger told host Tim Russert about his bid for re-election. Good for Arnold. It's exactly the right message, and it comes at exactly the right...

In a burst of green penmanship, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed 29 environmental bills into law Thursday on a wide range of issues. One will require all new cars for sale in California starting in 2009 to display stickers explaining how many tons of global warming-causing gases they emit. Another, from a Palo Alto lawmaker, bans sewage dumping and garbage burning from commercial ships within three miles of the coast. Others will require a study of the aging levee system in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, prohibit the use of experimental pesticides around schools, phase out mercury in industrial switches and...