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 California
Monday, Feb. 8
Oakland - Oreo cookies and Fig Newtons may become the next target of anti-smoking activists. Alameda County supervisors are asking the county counsel's office to investigate whether they can stop buying food products made by subsidiaries or other companies owned by tobacco firms.
Friday, Feb. 5
Sacramento - Boys respond differently than girls to common air pollutants, says a $15 million study commissioned by the Air Resources Board. Boys living in communities with smog-forming contaminants wheeze more. Girls have lower breathing capacity, the study says. The study will track 5,000 children until 2001.
Thursday, Feb. 4
Oakland - Former Mayor Elihu Harris fell just short of a majority vote in his bid to win back his old state Assembly seat. Harris, the top vote-getter among three Democratic candidates with 48.8% of the vote, faces Audie Elizabeth Bock of the Green Party in a March runoff election.
Wednesday, Feb. 3
Pasadena - Federal appeals court judges scolded community groups for filing suit too late to stop Los Angeles subway builders from spending federal funds ''hand over fist'' on a project that caused Hollywood Boulevard to sink. . . . Pay Scale - Varies by county; in Orange County, $1,160 plus $365 per day at trial for serious felonies.
Tuesday, Feb. 2
Oakland - Former Mayor Elihu Harris wants his old 16th Assembly District seat back. Harris faces fellow Democrats Frank Russo and Enrique Palacios and Green Party candidate Audie Bock in Tuesday's primary.
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