In 1978 he spearheaded the Proposition 13 campaign in California to roll back property taxes and make it exceedingly hard to raise them again.

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Urban Media of Palo Alto, California, will roll out free broadband to hundreds of office buildings this year.

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Merritt's music is hard to pin down: She incorporates gospel, soul, '70s California rock 'n' roll and warm echoes of Joni Mitchell's brand of folk music into her piano-based country songs.

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And now, as storm clouds from Europe's exhaustion and California's failure begin to roll into our heartland, trapping our economy without exit, the president offers tacit acknowledgment that this is the best he can do: His campaign is about everything but what will save us.

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The new bottles will first appear in the New York area, then roll out to Chicago, parts of California and Florida.

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On the day of the San Francisco Giants World Series parade, I made my way to the corner of California and Montgomery where I was sure I had a pretty good vantage to watch the players roll by in their rubber-wheeled cable cars.

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That would widen their margin of power before returns begin to roll in from the West, where Democrats hope to pick up as many as four seats in California, at least one and maybe two in Washington and one each in Utah and Montana.

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