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The change to Republican domination in Washington D.C. could have one excellent ripple effect in California—the feds pulling the plug on Gov. Jerry Brown’s high-school rail. The outgoing Obama Administration has re-written the rules several times to keep a $3.2 billion federal grant flowing to California. It was part of the 2009 stimulus bill for […]

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