The California budget deficit could now reach $28 billion over the next 18 months due to estate tax cuts proposed by Obama. These cuts will cost California $2.7 billion
While multiple provisions of the federal health care reform law have been enacted this year, health insurance still remains out-of-reach for thousands of low-income Californians. To help
Faced with the two charging rhinos of the California budget crisis, these rhinos being higher taxes and fewer services, governor-elect Jerry Brown apparently will choose to adroitly sidestep them,
After the weekend's deadly suicide bombing which killed 7 American troops in Kandahar, 20 soldiers have died so far in the month of December, already surpassing last year&
The partisan lines in the debate over extending Bush's tax cuts are clear at this point: (most) Democrats want tax cuts for the middle and lower class, but
In a settlement agreement announced Thursday, California officials intend to enforce a state law that prohibits schools from charging fees for textbooks, cheerleader outfits, and other items. The American Civil
Even as the House passed its own version of the Dream Act and the Senate postponed voting on the measure for now, immigration reform activists are hoping for a late
Despite a groundswell of grassroots activism opposed to it, hundreds of non-profit organizations launching awareness and push-back campaigns to stop it, and hundreds of thousands of phone calls
With its founder in the custody of British authorities, and the organization’s website under sustained attacks, Wikileaks is now receiving significant support from the international Pirate Party movement.
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An ad-hoc group of transportation experts, headed by former state director of transportation Will Kempton, slammed the California High Speed Rail Authority saying it needed "a thorough reassessment
Journalist Gordon Duff calls Wikileaks “mother's milk laced with arsenic.” I prefer a reference to the story of the Trojan Horse. Its “leaks” are a gift to the
What if California's prison crisis would end - its overcrowding would ease, its spiraling prison costs would settle, and its streets would become much safer for law-abiding citizens
