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Bountiful snowfall may not provide drought relief for California
Bountiful snowfall may not provide drought relief for California
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 ...
17 Apr, 2010
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3 min read
Californians rabid about sterilizing cats and dogs
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
Pot legalization a civil rights issue?
Pot legalization a civil rights issue?
ABC News reports that the upcoming November ballot initiative to legalize the cultivation, possession, and recreational use of marijuana (the Tax Cannabis Act) is getting support from some unexpected ...
13 Apr, 2010
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2 min read
Over half of state unemployment insurance funds face insolvency
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
California not alone in passing on budget pain to public university students
California not alone in passing on budget pain to public university students
The 550,000 students enrolled at the University of California and the California State University system have been served a steady diet of tuition and fee increases over the past few years.  In p ...
25 Feb, 2010
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6 min read
CPAC exposes GOP split over illegal immigration
CPAC exposes GOP split over illegal immigration
Seeking to pick up steam going into the 2010 congressional midterms and even the 2012 presidential election, conservatives of all stripes descended on Washington DC this past weekend to attend the Con ...
23 Feb, 2010
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2 min read
Republicans may surprise Democrats in 2010 elections
Republicans may surprise Democrats in 2010 elections
California, a Republican bastion?!  Don’t act so shocked, it’s happened before.Remember a certain two-term, incredibly popular Republican President of the United States, whose name is still so po ...
01 Feb, 2010
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Propositioning the Rule of Law
Propositioning the Rule of Law
Having been solidly rebuffed at the ballot box, turned back by a repentant California Supreme Court and then frustrated by a series of statewide special elections (most of which&nb ...
13 Jan, 2010
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The Voters' Guide to the Direct Democracy Blues
The Voters' Guide to the Direct Democracy Blues
I knew we were in trouble when the official Voters' Guide arrived earlier this year. It was the size of a small-town phone book, studded with legalistic and often arcane discussions, with choice ...
10 Dec, 2008
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4 min read
Burn the Witch!
Burn the Witch!
In Monty Python's "Monty Python and theHoly Grail", a group of angry peasants drags a young woman into thetown square and demands that she be burned at the stake because she is a witch.When the local ...
11 Nov, 2008
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