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• SAN DIEGO (AP) -- Voters in two major California cities overwhelmingly approved measures to cut retirement benefits for city workers Tuesday in contests being closely watched as states and local governments throughout the country struggle with mounting pension obligations.
• In San Diego, 67 percent voted in favor of Proposition B while 33 percent were opposed. More than 65 percent of precincts reported.
• The margin in San Jose was even wider, with 71 percent in favor of Measure B and 29 percent opposed. Nearly half of precincts reported.
• San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed called the vote a victory for fiscal reform.
• "The voters get it, they understand what needs to be done," he said in an interview.
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• FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) -- With a growing demand for ways to treat the psychological damage of war, one Army pilot project is offering therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder by encouraging soldiers to take control of their own stories in a filmmaking class titled I Was There Media Workshop.
• The Fort Carson program began last year, under the auspices of Ben Patton, a New York documentary filmmaker and a grandson of Gen. George S. Patton, and Scott Kinnamon, a Denver educational filmmaker. Some 20 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars so far have attempted to organize their combat experiences in video as a way to fight PTSD.
• "You can put everything into a video or a movie, a small movie about what you want to tell people -- your story," said 1st Sgt. Jason Gallegos of Fountain, Colo., who deployed to Iraq three times and has now produced a short film called "From Hero to Zero."
• "If they want to watch it, great. If they don't, then don't. But I don't have to go through the process of the 'angsting' up to tell somebody something, just for them to be interested for a minute," Gallegos said.
• Some 2.3 million men and women have served tours of duty in Iraq and Afghani

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