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	Where’s the Support? Benefits May Vanish Two state safety net programs for immigrants in jeopardy By Janet Ng Thanh Mai Truong and her husband emigrated from Vietnam to the United States hoping for freedom and looking forward to spending the rest of their lives with their children. Instead of enjoying her golden years, though, Truong, 70, struggles to pay for basic needs — and faces the possibility of homelessness. Truong wouldn’t have to worry if Governor Gray Davis had included the California Food Assistance Program (CFAP) and the Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI) into next year’s budget. But he didn’t. Now, immigrant rights groups are fighting to see these programs saved from their sunset date of September 30. COMPLETE STORY...		Mom and Pops Unite: Taking on a Dry-clean Giant in Fairfax (in National News) Were Those Bugle Boys You Were Wearing? (in Business) Fantastic Plastic Machine: Tanaka and His Beautiful Girl (in A&E) Paying Attention: Remembering the Stonewall Uprising of '69 (in Opinion)

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Public Housing Aims to Improve Lives By Ethen Lieser Right smack in the middle of the 531 Bay Street public housing development, there is a dilapidated dumpster reddening from rust. Nearby, a basketball hoop personifies an age-worn man, barely able to stand upright. Pasty pink and yellow paint is peeling off the complex, which surrounds this scraggly, depleted courtyard that only hints at any plant life. But in the near future, this complex, built in the 1950s, could become a distant memory — thanks to Hope VI, a 1992 federal program funded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that renovates and rebuilds a series of rundown housing developments. COMPLETE STORY...

Last Chance for Town of Locke: County Officials breathe new life into town built by Chinese Americans. Film Student Killed in Palo Alto: Shooting outside nightclub mostly a mystery. Jack Lee Fong Celebrated for Outstanding Work: Insurance company veteran recognized for 30 years of service. Political Potstickers: Swinging Parties, Doing Lines. Columnist Samson Wong takes note of interesting developments in Sacramento and San Francisco.

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