President Obama addressed the nation Tuesday to hail the end of the War in Iraq.

I am writing in response to the article in the paper regarding box stores coming to Grass Valley and Nevada County.

By Carol Aun - Mission City Record Published: September 01, 2010 4:00 PM Updated: September 01, 2010 4:04 PM Local businesses and residents are shopping for a new strip mall and they hope Mission council will be buying into it too.

California's Legislature adjourned in shame early Wednesday, bickering and jockeying to the end, and leaving far too much of the people's business unfinished as a result of timidity or incompetence.

You may have seen the ads on television or the internet, now a group of residents fighting a proposed Wal-Mart in Houston's Heights neighborhood plan to turn out in force for a public meeting with the mayor Wednesday night.

As the California Legislature raced through the final hours of this session's lawmaking Tuesday, dueling budget proposals went nowhere, key environmental bills were headed to the wire and a number of bills pushed by corporate sponsors met surprising defeats.