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It happened to me a few days ago and was totally unexpected. There, in my daily mail stack of incredibly boring bills, coupon offers, and disgustingly early holiday catalogues, was a goldenrod envelope, addressed to me and warning me in large-font bold letters: “DO NOT DESTROY.” The Republican National Committee had sent me, according to the return address, the 2009 Obama Agenda Survey.

Plans are afoot to build new coal terminals on the West Coast to ship the lucrative commodity to China. But the mayor and activists in Bellingham, Wash., want to keep the city's green image and move beyond its industrial past.

White House and congressional leaders may finally have exhausted political maneuvering and moved closer to a place where a deal on raising the debt ceiling can be reached. To get to the endgame, Republicans and Democrats had to go through the formality of killing each other's bills.

The dream of finding a place to call home for these kids once they turn 18 is even more elusive.

Pilot Project Would Raise Striped Bass

Attorneys from two California counties say the state's medical marijuana law conflicts with federal statutes and should be overturned.

Each day, thousands of doses of powerful narcotics are freely dispensed in Florida's pain clinics. Hordes of people from across the Southeast head to the Sunshine State for drugs like oxycodone. Florida lacks a system for monitoring prescriptions.

A group of senior citizens in a luxury retirement community in Orange County are discovering the benefits of medical marijuana, which was legalized in California more than a dozen years ago. Now they're also figuring out how to procure it for the rest of their community.

The Navy hopes to have a plan in place by the end of the year to expand its training activities on the Silver Strand. But, California’s Coastal Commission has some reservations about the expansion.

Women's health advocates and female Democratic senators are spotlighting controversial insurance practices that often result in dramatically higher premiums for women. One patient told a Senate hearing recently that an insurer rejected her because she wasn't sterilized.