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Longtime Rep. Joe Baca narrowly failed Saturday to get the official support of the California Democratic Party in an increasingly bitter race against state Sen.

Democrats running in three Inland Southern California congressional and legislative seats are trying to lock up support for endorsement caucuses at this weekend's state convention in San Diego.

Fun time is over in the increasingly rough race between San Bernardino County Supervisor Neil Derry and San Manuel tribal Chairman James Ramos for the 3rd District seat.

Fundraising data for Rep. David Dreier, D-San Dimas, from the last quarter of last year suggests he's likely to retire this year, according to local political experts.

Candidates for Inland Southern California legislative seats have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for campaigns in redrawn Assembly and Senate districts, new state filings show.

THE LEDE: Facebook will file for an initial public offering with Morgan Stanley as the chief underwriter, according to various reports.

Candidates for contested Inland House seats raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign cash at the end of 2011 as they jockeyed for position heading into the current election year.

For at least the fourth consecutive year, U.S. Rep. Joe Baca outmaneuvered a host of his Democratic colleagues and worked himself into a coveted center aisle seat at last week's State of the Union address.

Local officials, in seeking solutions to make the region's water supply more reliable, are eyeing the University of La Verne as a linchpin for research and growth for new locally based water industries.

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The central initiatives laid out in President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night seem tailored to address Inland Southern California's largest problems: unemployment and the home foreclosure crisis.

Diehard Democrats met in Claremont, Beaumont and elsewhere around the state Sunday to consider " pre-endorsements " for 2012 legislative and congressional contests.

Riverside County Supervisor John Tavaglione did not endear himself to some fellow Republicans last year when he stumped for Gov.