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THROUGHOUT this primary election season, we've heard a number of horror stories involving computer-automated telephone calls — or robocalls — from political campaigns.  

GOVERNORS from three states, including Arnold Schwarzenegger, are pushing Congress to extend and fully fund the National Guard's stay along the Mexican border.  

ADMITTING one has made a mistake is a virtue in politics.  

AFAMILY that has run a Livermore institution starts the transition to a new life this week.  

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice.  

EARTH Day is the perfect backdrop to highlight an emerging industry blooming right here in the Bay Area — green jobs.  

STATE Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata, who has represented state Senate District 9 for the last decade, has been a towering presence in Sacramento.  

SEN. BARACK OBAMA has gotten lots of well-deserved heat for his remarks about rural Pennsylvanians clinging to their religion and guns after their local economies tanked when mining and other rust-belt industries shifted offshore.  

THERE IS an essential task that I've been putting off.  

NO, IT'S NOT your imagination: The "debate" about Iraq, and I use the word loosely, becomes ever more surreal as the occupation drags on.  

THE airline industry is driving through some turbulence.  

BY SIGNING legislation creating Medicare Part D, George W.  

DAVID MAMET, one of the country's greatest playwrights, recently came out as a conservative.  

ETHNIC CAMPAIGNING used to be so simple. You ate a knish with Jewish voters, you wore a green necktie on St.