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State Senator Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, was pictured on page 2, in an AP photo taken during the budget debate, in a discussion with Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, and Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar. The Legislature approved a $108 billion bill for the upcoming fiscal year.
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Naftali Bennett, Israel’s Economics Minister, was quoted in a story on page A6 by the Washington Post, in reference to the kidnapping of three Israeli teens, “We will respond with an iron fist to terror.” Also quoted was Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon: “Our government will extrct a heavy price from the Palestinian leadership. We are not ruling out any options when it comes to possible actions against the PA government in both Gaza and Ramallah.”
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In a column by Fred Dickey on marriage ceremonies, that profiles Anseth Page Richards, owner of the Bridal Bar in La Jolla, it was reported on page B-2: “Jews don’t use (Richnard) Wagner’s music because he was an anti-Semite.”
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In the letters to the editor, on page B-5, Congressmen Adam Schiff and Jared Huffman were taken to task by reader David Fetchina who casts doubt that there is any popular sentiment favoring a study of the impact of captivity on Orcas performing at Sea World and other marine parks. “I would venture to conclude that those expressing a desire to rewrite those regulations are a tiny lot of environmental activists…” Fetchina wrote.
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In a story by Barbara Bry and Neil Senturia beginning on Page C-1, Paul Jacobs, executive chairman of Qualcomm, was one of the panelists quoted in a presentation on “Creating a Policy Climate for Global Innovation in San Diego.” Jacobs rued U.S. immigration policy that allows bright students to study here, but declines to issue visas that would enable them to take jobs in industries that need them. “It’s not just the students,” Jacobs said. “Sometimes the CEO of a company that we’re working with in China can’t get a visa to come to a conference or visit a facility here.”
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Sports Columnist Nick Canepa, in an article beginning on Page D-4, says Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers who is banned by the NBA for racist comments, reportedly has hired detectives to dig up dirt on NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. Says Canepa: “He’g going to go making noise, because he can, and that’s the way he is.”
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After the San Antonio Spurs defeated the Miami Heat 104-87 to win the NBA championship on Sunday, former San Diego State University star Kawhi Leonard was awarded the coveted title of Most Valuable Player by NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. Tim Reynolds of the AP reported that when Silver made his announcement Leonard “was mobbed by his teammates and Spurs coach Greg Popovich roared with laughter, knowing Leonard would have to do what he hates most – talk about himself.”
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Columnist Eddie Brown, on page D-8, nominated former football star O.J. Simpson as the week’s “biggest loser,” not only because it was the 20th anniversary of the murder of his wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman (on which charges Simpson was acquitted), but because in Brown’s estimate the Simpson trial and famous car chase engendered “the never-ending stream of ‘reality’ television shows and America’s unquenchable thirst for celebrity gossip.”
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Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff