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Barbara Boxer, the senator from California, leaned over her press secretary, Peter True, as he sat at an HP desktop computer and tried to find an old campaign ad from 2010. Boxer wanted me to see the ad because it featured interviews with former employees of HP who had been laid off by the storied technology company’s one-time CEO, Carly Fiorina, who in 2010 challenged Boxer for her seat and now, five years later, seeks the Republican nomination for a somewhat higher office: president of the United States. -snip- Fiorina was, in Boxer’s telling, a monstrously greedy businesswoman who would...

Governors of Arizona, Nevada and Oregon today praised California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's call to "close the borders," saying it would improve the security and living conditions of all citizens in their own states. However, a spokesman for Gov. Schwarzenegger said he was speaking of the U.S. borders with Mexico and Canada, not California's borders with neighboring states. "We're grateful for Arnold's unilateral move to protect us from incursion by Californians," the three governors said in a joint news release. "Our porous borders have posed a grave threat to our states for too many years. The ideological degradation spawned by this...

California faces critical challenges in the next two decades as its population surges and stretches vital resources to the limit while creating an ever-widening gap between rich and poor, according to a Public Policy Institute of California study released Wednesday. Virtually half of all residents believe smog, traffic and skyrocketing home prices will make the Golden State a worse place to live by 2025, according to the study and poll released by the nonpartisan, nonprofit group. "We hope that this report acts as a wake-up call," said Mark Baldassare, director of research at the nonpartisan institute and a co-author of...

Sirenza relocates from California to ColoradoBy Semiconductor Business News May 6, 2003 (11:22 AM) URL: http://www.siliconstrategies.com/story/OEG20030506S0037 BROOMFIELD, Colo. -- Radio-frequency (RF) chip maker Sirenza Microdevices Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif. today (May 6) announced plans to relocate its corporate headquarters and all manufacturing operations to Broomfield, Colo. The move, to be completed by July, follows Sirenza's recently completed purchase of substantially all of the assets of Denver-based RF chip maker Vari-L Co. Inc. (see Dec. 2, 2002 story ). Sirenza will lease approximately 74,000-square-feet in two buildings in a technology park located midway between Boulder and Denver. One building will serve...