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With local reaction from state senators. I spoke with repubulican senators joni ernst and Chuck Grassleys team today. And both senators issued a statement they do not agree with tougher gun laws. Joni ernst replied by saying i am opposed to president obamas overreaching and unilateral actions; the American People should have a voice in this process instead of the president s top down approach that sidesteps congress and the people we were elected to represent. Senator Chuck Grassley echoed a similiar statement saying, quote history has taught us that simply focusing on limiting access to guns ...

Looking just at housing voucher recipients, chicago has a higher percentage of black recipients than dubuque. 40percent to 34percent. The city of dubuque says kurtzs article is filled with political opinions and inaccuracies. In a statement to tv9, dubuque city manager Mike Van Milligen said this is a political commentary blog entry. It represents the opinion of the author, a partisan political commentator. The vast majority of the blog entry is the authors views on national issues. While the city w wl not respond to the authors opinions, there are many inaccuracies in the blog entry. We also ...

Liccardo declared victory in his race for mayor of san jose. The city council held a rare friday meeting this morning to talk about calling an independent investigator to look into the p. O. A. Action. The allegations are the police union is actively telling recruits not to stay on the force, or to stay on for one or two years, and then quit. Those are allegations the p. O. A. Adamantly denies. Liccardo concedes a fullblown investigation could have more damaging effects on the citys relationship with police, so he wants, and the council approved, to instead do an internal inquiry before callin...

Wit vote . The presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the ayes are 53. The nays are 41. And the motion to invoke cloture is agreed to. Under the previous order, all postcloture time is expired. The question occurs on the saldana nomination. Is there a sufficient second . There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote the presiding officer does any member wish to change their vote or to vote . If not, on this the yeas are 55, the nays are 39 and the nomination is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to recon...

Is at the scene. How is it looking . It has borned about six acres and as you menged it did threaten several mobile homes. With me is captain mike van elgord with the San Jose Fire Department. Tell us what the latest is and what the challenges are. That will take us up through the morning through the night before we have it completely extinguished. Challenges are that it is up a hill threatening several different home developments and we cant see where we are walking or any pit falls and dangerous attack at night. We use several different techniques including ground patrol, ground roots, hoses...