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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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Demand for local food drives expansion of year-round farmers' markets
Fueled by a growing demand for locally produced food year-round, the number of farmers' markets extending their operations into winter months is on the rise, according to U.S. Department of Agricultur ...
31 Dec, 2010
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Financial analyst Meredith Whitney slams California
Meredith Whitney, who was early and right about the cratering of our banking system, says the appalling fiscal condition of many states is a systemic risk to the entire country, with California being ...
04 Oct, 2010
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Surging Independent sentiment, lesser evilism, and Tea Party politics
These days, it seems like we are provided with new evidence of the American public’s desire for Independent and third party alternatives to the Democratic and Republican parties on a regular basis. &n ...
21 Jul, 2010
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Minority and out-of-state freshman enrollment to increase at the University of California this Fall
New enrollment data was released last week by the University of California showing that admissions of white and California resident students declined among freshmen who plan to attend a UC school this ...
19 Jul, 2010
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California Jobs Initiative, backed by out-of-state oil, seeks to overturn California global warming law
The California Jobs Initiative has submitted over 800,000 signatures, more than twice as many as needed to be on the ballot in November. It seeks, in effect, to overturn the landmark Global Warm ...
13 May, 2010
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Californians rabid about sterilizing cats and dogs
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 ...
15 Apr, 2010
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6 min read
"The Next California Budget": a public policy report
The Reason Foundation is a libertarian, non-profit, public policy organization that was established "to advance free minds and free markets." This month, they published a report by David Osborne, a po ...
10 Apr, 2010
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Over half of state unemployment insurance funds face insolvency
A significant – and often overlooked -- result of what’s been dubbed the Great Recession is that in just over half of the 50 states, the programs that pay unemployment insurance to workers who’ve lost ...
08 Apr, 2010
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6 min read
University of California could be subsidizing illegal immigration
As racially diverse as the California population is becoming, the illegal immigration debate and the passionate emotions accompanying it are not disappearing anytime soon. This is true especiall ...
12 Mar, 2010
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2 min read