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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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"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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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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Furloughs will not solve California budget crisis
The question of whether it’s better to share the pain of state budget reductions through furloughs or go cold turkey with layoffs will soon be in the hands of California’s highest courts. But fo ...
28 Feb, 2010
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California legislators should focus on the deficit, not costly government-run healthcare
“If you get breast cancer, I’m sorry honey; you have less chance of survival than before this bill passed.” Those words were declared by Michigan Congressman Mike Rogers six months ago during his open ...
04 Feb, 2010
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The money's where the mouth is
In the aftermath of Citizens United v. FEC, the most recent (and most controversial) decision released by the Supreme Court this year, there have been a variety of highly predictable reactions. From t ...
25 Jan, 2010
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SEIU Disappointed in Gov.’s Speech
SEIU Executive Vice President Eliseo Medina says: “Governor Schwarzenegger’s proposed cuts to home care would add up to 340,000 people to the ranks of the unemployed, moving California’s unemplo ...
07 Jun, 2009
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They Like Us; They Really, Really Like Us
California has once again become a Favored Nation in the eyes of Washington. After eight years in the political doghouse, we have been returned to our national leadership position - at least as far a ...
20 May, 2009
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