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Last winter’s bountiful snowfall in the Sierras pulled California out of its four-year drought and provided much-needed water to farms, homes and businesses.  This past summer was unusually cool ...

Some are making the argument that legalizing gay marriage is a slippery slope towards legalization of polygamy. Once gay marriage is legal, then what prevents polygamy from being accepted, then legali ...

Personally, I don't have a problem with marijuana legalization.  But, current marijuana users do need to know that their marijuana (or other drugs too) almost certainly comes via Mexican drug car ...

Late spring storms, a heftier Sierra snowpack, and higher reservoir levels have largely made Californians believe the state’s record dry three-year drought is over.  But, despite a year where, th ...

History tells us that every off-year election is normally a win for the opposition party. This, coupled with anti-incumbent fever particularly on the right, is expected to fuel big losses in November ...

Last December, Antonio Maria Costa, head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said $352 billion in criminal money was laundered and kept the financial system afloat during the worst of the crisis."In ...

With less than three weeks until Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger unveils his revised budget plan for the fiscal year starting July 1, he and the Democratic majority Legislature have done little to reduce t ...

One winter storm that hit the east coast this past winter had the anti-global warming advocates claiming victory over Al Gore and environmental groups pursuing legislative solutions to anthropogenic ( ...

Here in the High Sierras, winter hasn’t relinquished its hold on the atmosphere.  A snowstorm during the first week in April dumped as much white stuff on the top of cars and roofs as any this ye ...

The most heated debate in Sacramento during the past two years hasn’t been budget cuts depriving poor children of health care or awarding billion-dollar tax breaks to corporations.  It hasn’t eve ...