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Report: California animal agriculture is a job creator
Over the past decade, California dairies, ranches and livestock farms have created 17,000 jobs for the state. A new report that analyzes federal data from 2000 to 2010 shows that the $289 billion a ye ...
30 Nov, 2011
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Under financial pressure, UC Davis takes bold step to become 'private' University
UC Davis has come up with an answer to the crushing budget reductions that the State of California has thrown its way: become a private university. While that’s not exactly what University ...
29 Sep, 2011
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3 min read
'Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars': interview with Sylvia Longmire
Sylvia Longmire's new book Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars has just been released and is available in bookstores today. She is a retired Air Force captain and Special Agent with exte ...
27 Sep, 2011
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9 min read
Wall Street protest enters second week, spreads to West Coast
Protesters demonstrating against the excesses of crony capitalism and its corrupting influence on our nation’s politics have occupied a park in Manhattan’s financial district for over a week. ...
26 Sep, 2011
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3 min read
Rasmussen: Unaffiliated voters rise to their highest level ever
On the same day that a small earthquake shook the San Fernando Valley, a recent Rasmussen Reports study of partisan trends indicates that unaffiliated voters will likely be shaking up the nation's pol ...
02 Sep, 2011
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3 min read
New business creation in California drops off a cliff
For most of the last decade, California was first or second in new business creation. In 2009, it ranked first. In 2010, new business creation imploded. Actually, that's an understatement. California ...
29 Aug, 2011
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3 min read
New party on track to gain ballot access in California
In addition to the Democrats and Republicans, there are four other ballot-qualified political parties in California, and over a dozen smaller political bodies which are formally attempting to gain b ...
08 Jun, 2011
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California: the zombie state
It certainly seems that way sometimes, doesn't it? The California legislature shambles around, bumping into things, with no apparent sense of direction. Issues that managed to get resolved quickly in ...
30 May, 2011
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2 min read
California hardest hit by NAFTA-generated job losses
It turns out Ross Perot had not fallen off his rocker when he, as a 1992 3rd party presidential candidate, predicted that signing NAFTA would lead to the loss of American jobs to trade partners amid a ...
12 May, 2011
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2 min read
Osama bin Laden is dead, but not much may change on the foreign policy front
A number of contentious issues surrounding the reported death of the most wanted man in America has sparked partisan bickering over the execution of the Administration's wars, but these contentions ha ...
04 May, 2011
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4 min read