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The district attorney’s office is conducting a criminal probe of the land deal.”It’s up to Supervisor Hansberger to address these concerns,” Uffer said. Bitsberger, assistant Treasury secretary for financial markets, said that after taking public comments, the department would decide whether to bring back the bond Aug. Gordon Parks, who became the first African American [...]

The owner told me that the Western-style toy gun I wanted looked too realistic.”Toy stores,” he said, “no longer sell toy guns that look like real guns. “There are very perverse economic incentives” in the system, says Mike Hardesty, president of the California Central Valley Flood Control Assn., which comprises 80 maintenance districts.What’s truly perverse [...]