A Sampling of Clips for
October 28th — 30th, 2006
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Majority of California
Votes Might Be Absentee
Los Angeles Daily News, Oct. 29 -- A majority of California voters may cast absentee ballots in the Nov. 7 election, a milestone that's forcing politicians to rethink campaign strategies and prompting registrars to streamline ballot-counting procedures. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson) More
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OPEC Tightens Taps to Shore up Oil Prices
NPR, Oct. 26 -- Although Exxon Mobil Corp. announced profits of more than $10 billion for the second quarter, the price of oil has been dropping. OPEC is looking to shore up a price that has fallen from a $78 high in July to around $61. But the cartel's power is only as strong as its members' resolve to stick to production quotas. (Quotes UCSD economist Vincent Crawford) More
Builders, Unions Fund Prop. R
to Extend L.A. City Council Terms
Los Angeles Times, Oct. 28 -- Labor unions, developers, builders and businesses with a stake in what happens at City Hall are financing the campaign to relax term limits for the Los Angeles City Council. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Steven Erie) More
Bush, Republicans Find Strong
Economy Doesn't Win Middle Class
Bloomberg, Oct. 30 -- Republicans who planned to use low unemployment, cheaper gasoline and a surging stock market as a shield against discontent over the Iraq war and congressional scandals are discovering that there's little protection to be had. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson) More
Parental Notice
Bankrolled by Weekly's Owner
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 29 -- Since 2004, Jim Holman, owner of the San Diego Reader, has spent $3.5 million on parent-notification initiatives in California, far more than anyone else. Last year, voters rejected the first ballot measure, Proposition 73, by less than 6 percentage points. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Samuel Popkin) More
Climate Change Accelerates in West
North County Times, Oct. 28 -- Researchers are telling us that the Western United States is heating up twice as fast as the planet as a whole. That has scary implications for Southern California, according to the climate scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD. More
Paxil Helps Compulsive Hoarding Syndrome
UPI, Oct. 27 -- The serotonin reuptake inhibitor medication paroxetine is effective in treating patients with compulsive hoarding syndrome, say UCSD researchers. More
Angelides Struggling to Capture Momentum
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 28 -- The most recent poll shows Phil Angelides continuing to trail Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger by nearly 20 percentage points – a steep hill for even a tidal wave to rise above. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Samuel Popkin) More
With Torn ACL, Dickey leads Tritons to Title
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 30 -- Megan Dickey decided to keep playing for the UCSD women's team this season despite suffering the fourth major knee injury of her soccer career. She didn't want to miss the postseason of her senior year. More
Stepping Forward: New Dance
Company Shows Promise in Debut Work
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 28 -- A woman curls up as if dreaming in Yolande Snaith's “Garden Trilogy” at UCSD's Molli and Arthur Wagner Dance Building. The dreamer might be the audience, entering Snaith's visually rich sensibility. More
Rising Violence Leads
to Growing Dissatisfaction with War in Iraq
KPBS, Oct. 26 -- It’s been a long and brutal war in Iraq, now in its third year. October has been a particularly deadly month for U.S. troops, with the death toll nearly 100. Rising numbers of Iraqi civilians are also falling victim to the sectarian fighting. UCSD historian Abe Sharagge talks to host Gloria Penner about what’s happening in Iraq. More
Burn Victims Struggle in Fragile Zone
The Press-Enterprise, Oct. 28 -- To the men and women who staff the Inland Counties Regional Burn Center, work is personal. This week Adrian Martinez and his team began treatment on a firefighter trapped Thursday by an inferno that left four of his colleagues dead and his body 90 percent burned. (Quotes Janine Dubina, nurse manager at the UCSD Regional Burn Center) More