Should UC hospital nurses be allowed to hold a one-day strike?
Whitman easily defeats Poizner
Meg Whitman, who spent a record-smashing $71 million of her own money to sell herself as a political outsider from the corporate world who could turn California around, decisively defeated Steve Poizner on Tuesday to become the first woman in state history to win the Republican gubernatorial nomination.
Fiorina on verge of making GOP history in state
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina became the first Republican woman in California to win her party's nomination for U.S. Senate, setting up a November showdown against Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer that promises to be the three-term incumbent's toughest election fight ever.
PG&E-backed; measure fails
A ballot initiative that would limit the ability of local governments to enter the electricity business was narrowly defeated in a loss for the measure's main backer, Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
Court backs Walgreens' objection to tobacco ban
San Francisco's first-in-the-nation ban on tobacco sales in drugstores appears to be unconstitutional because it exempts supermarkets and big-box stores that have pharmacies, a state appeals court said Tuesday.
BP: No large concentrations of underwater oil
BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles continues to insist that no massive underwater oil plumes in "large concentrations" have been detected from the spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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