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After Greenpeace Protests, Apple Promises to Dump Coal Power

Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Robert McMillan - May. 19 (News Report) - This story was produced by Wired as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Apple is cleaning up its energy act. The computer company says that by early next year, the energy used to power its worldwide data centers will all come from renewable sources, such as solar, wind power, or hydroelectric dams. It announced the news Thursday in a post to its website. That's a victory for the environmental activists at Greenpeace, who have been pressuring Apple for more than a year to clean up its act and commit to renewable energy. A major sticking point has been Apple's Maiden, North Carolina, facility, which is on the inexpensive but partially coal-powered Duke Energy grid . Apple had already started building a 100-acre solar array and a biogas energy plant on the site, but was still using Duke for a large chunk of the power at the 500,000-square-foot data center. Now, the company says it will instead use local power providers who use renewable energy. "By the end of 2012, we'll meet the ...

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Why Is the Government Killing Bald Eagles?

Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Tim McDonnell - May. 11 (News Report) - the federal Wildlife Services agency, an obscure bureau within the USDA tasked with "resolving wildlife conflicts," has in the last decade accidentally killed over 50,000 animals that posed no threat to people or the environment (in addition to nearly a million coyotes killed intentionally). The execution roster would make John Muir roll over in his grave: wolverines, river otters, migratory shorebirds, bald and golden eagles, and more than a thousand dogs (averaging eight a month!), including family pets.

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VIDEO: Tea Party Activist's Racist Email Shocks Orange County GOP

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Anna Almendrala - Apr. 16 (News) - Marilyn Davenport, a Tea Party activist and member of the Orange County Republican Party's central committee, is drawing fire from people in her own party...

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Hawaii affected by the tsunami, the west coast of the United States on alert

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

seek4media - By Jessica - Mar. 11 (Breaking News) - The first waves of the tsunami triggered by a powerful earthquake off Japan beat Hawaii on Friday morning, while part of the West Coast of the United States was placed on alert.

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State Attorney Gen. Asks Courts to Lift Gay Marriage Ban

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

nbcsandiego.com - Mar. 01 (Breaking News) - California's attorney general has asked a federal appeals court to allow gay marriages to resume while the court considers the constitutionality of the state's ban on same-sex unions, according to the Associated Press. Attorney General Kamala Harris submitted a petition to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday regarding Prop 8, the a voter-passed initiative that bans same-sex marriage, Right now, the 9th Circuit court is considering its constitutionality on appeal after a trial judge struck down the ban last year. The court imposed a stay on that ruling during the appeals process. In Tuesday's petition, Harris joined lawyers for the two gay couples who sued to overturn Proposition 8 in asking the court to lift the stay. Source: State Attorney Gen. Asks Courts to Lift Gay Marriage Ban | NBC San Diego

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Weedmart: Marijuana Superstores. IPOs. Reality TV.

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Josh Harkinson - Jan. 26 (Special Report) - Meet the cocky entrepreneurs at the vanguard of the pot boom.

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On Election Day, Whitman wrote herself one more check

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

California Watch - By Lance Williams - Nov. 18 (News Report) - As her campaign for governor collapsed around her, retired eBay CEO Meg Whitman kept up a cheery, optimistic front. Perhaps she really was optimistic. On Election Day, hours before California voters rebuffed the Republican challenger in favor of Democrat Jerry Brown, Whitman wrote her campaign another check, this one for $2.6 million, according to a filing with the California Secretary of State. That pushed Whitman’s self-donations to more than $144 million. No American politician has spent that much personal money on a campaign, win or lose. In the end Whitman only attracted 41 percent of votes cast, or about 3.9 million votes. That amounts to $36 of Whitman's own money for every vote she attracted.

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Should illegal immigrants be eligible for in-state tuition rates at state colleges and universities?

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

NewsVine - By Reader poll - Nov. 15 (Poll) - No. The state should not favor illegal immigrants over U.S. citizens who pay higher out-of-state tuition, 35,409 votes Yes. If they graduated from state high schools they should have in-state financial eligibility 2,844 votes

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Health care case denied; no grants

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

SCOTUSblog - By Lyle Denniston - Nov. 08 (News Analysis) - The Supreme Court on Monday turned aside the first attempt to pursue in the Court a constitutional challenge to the new federal health care law. The initial test sought to draw the Justices into the nationwide controversy over the law, before any federal appeals court has ruled on it.

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Prop 19 Opponents Veer Off Into Paranoia

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Ryan Grim - Oct. 27 (Special Report) - The opposition to California's marijuana legalization measure is veering off into paranoid and delusional terrain in the final days of the campaign, echoing some of the more bizarre anti-pot themes more common in the early part of the 20th century when the film "Reefer Madness" worked to persuade Americans of the dangers of the drug.

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Obama Blasts Republican Economic Policies: GOP 'Snake Oil' Could Jeopardize Economy

Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Oct. 23 (News) - With the midterm elections just 10 days away, President Barack Obama blasted Republicans' economic policies at rallies in support of Democratic candidates and over the airwaves. "This is a choice between the policies that got us into this mess and the policies that are going to lead us out of this mess," Obama told a crowd of about 37,000 on Friday at a rally in Los Angeles for California Sen. Barbara Boxer.

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Republicans Struggle To Say How They Would Pay For Tax Cuts (VIDEO)

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Amanda Terkel - Oct. 17 (News Analysis) - On Sunday's morning public affairs shows, both Republican Senate candidates Carly Fiorina in California and Ken Buck in Colorado struggled to give specifics about how they would reduce the deficit while also supporting expensive extensions of the Bush tax cuts. Although journalists ask Republicans this question almost without fail in debates and interviews, candidates and lawmakers still consistently stumble over it.

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Republican Ex-CEOs Challenge Veteran Dems in California's Heated Gubernatorial, Senate Races

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Tim Redmond - Oct. 14 (News Report) - California's gubernatorial contest has already become the most expensive non-presidential race in US history. The billionaire Republican candidate, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman, has reportedly spent an unprecedented $140 million of her fortune, nearly fourteen times as much as her challenger Jerry Brown, a longtime California politician, former governor and the state's current attorney general. Meanwhile, in California's Senate, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is challenging three-term Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer. We speak to Tim Redmond of the _San Francisco Bay Guardian_.

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Backing Prop 19, California NAACP Calls Marijuana Legalization a Civil Rights Issue

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Oct. 14 (News Report) - California's Proposition 19 would authorize possession of one ounce of marijuana for personal consumption by people twenty-one and older, legalize marijuana use in private homes, and allow marijuana growth in private residences for personal use. Supporters of Proposition 19 argue that legalizing and taxing marijuana could help the cash-strapped state and reduce arrests of nonviolent drug offenders, who are disproportionately Black and Latino youth. We speak to California NAACP president Alice Huffman.

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Green Party Candidate Excluded from California Governor's Debate

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Laura Wells - Oct. 14 (News Report) - While governor hopefuls Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman debated on Tuesday night in San Rafael, the Green Party candidate for governor was being arrested outside the hall. Police charged Laura Wells with trespassing after she tried to get into the debate that she was not allowed to participate in.

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Ananya Roy on California's Education Battle and "Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development"

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Oct. 14 (News Report) - Protests were held on several California campuses last week as part of the National Day of Action to Defend Public Education and Social Services. California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger also restored some $300 million dollars of funding following months of statewide protests, rallies, and walkouts over the drastic budget cuts. We speak to Ananya Roy, a University of California, Berkeley professor who was a part of the Solidarity Alliance at the height of the protests earlier this year. We also speak to Roy about her latest book, "Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of Development."

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Tea Party Frontrunner: Abolish Public Schools

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Nick Baumann - Oct. 13 (News Report) - It's fairly common for conservative political candidates to support eliminating the federal Department of Education. But in California, tea party darling and congressional candidate David Harmer has gone further. He's advocated eliminating public schools entirely and returning education to "the way things worked through the first century of American nationhood," when educational opportunities for poor people, African-Americans, women, the disabled, and others were, to say the least, extremely limited. Harmer, the son of former California Lt. Gov. John Harmer,could soon be taking his anti-public school views to Washington.

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Federal Eye - 'Don't ask, don't tell' enforcement struck down by judge

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ed O'Keefe - Oct. 12 (Investigative Report) - ...A California federal judge has issued an injunction stopping the military from enforcing its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in uniform. Her ruling bars the Pentagon from enforcing or applying the policy and orders the military to immediately suspend and discontinue any investigations, discharges or other proceedings related to potential violations of the law.

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With Housekeeper Scandal as Backdrop, Whitman and Brown Debate in Fresno

Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Bay Citizen - By Jennifer Gollan - Oct. 03 (News Report) - It presented a peculiar tableau: Billionaire Meg Whitman on Saturday fending off attacks from her Democratic gubernatorial rival, Attorney General Jerry Brown, who claimed that she mistreated her poor, undocumented maid--in a Spanish-language debate in the Central Valley. Then everything went dark. Midway into their second gubernatorial debate on Saturday, a technical glitch with the audio system forced the candidates from the stage at the Satellite Student Union at California State University Fresno. The debate resumed a half-hour later, punctuating a similarly rollercoaster week in which Nicky Diaz Santillan, an illegal immigrant, claimed that Whitman and her husband knew that she was undocumented before they fired her in June 2009, with little care that she could be deported. "

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New Proof Wall Street Knew Its Mortgage Securities Were Subpar: Clayton Execs Testify

Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Shahien Nasiripour - Sep. 25 (Special Report) - The revelations give a better picture of what many have likely known for years: Wall Street firms knew they were buying lead yet passed it off as gold to investors who had no knowledge of the alchemy behind the scenes.

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CA Court Refuses To Order Gov. To Defend Prop 8 -

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

CBS5 COM - Sep. 08 (News Report) - California's highest court has refused to order Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown to appeal a ruling that overturned the state's gay marriage ban. The state Supreme Court on Wednesday denied a conservative legal group's request to force the officials to defend voter-approved Proposition 8. The court did not explain why it turned down the request by the Pacific Justice Institute.

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Facebook Blocks Ads For Pot Legalization Campaign

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:07:23 -0700

Huffington Post - By Ryan Grim - Aug. 24 (News Report) - For a typical college student, if it didn't happen on Facebook, it didn't happen. That gives the social networking behemoth an out-sized influence on the confines of political debate, if that debate falls outside what Facebook deems acceptable discourse.

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Homeowners' Rebellion: Could 62 Million Homes Be Foreclosure-Proof?

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Web of Debt - By Ellen Brown - Aug. 18 (Special Report) - Over 62 million mortgages are now held in the name of MERS, an electronic recording system devised by and for the convenience of the mortgage industry. A California bankruptcy court, following landmark cases in other jurisdictions, recently held that this electronic shortcut makes it impossible for banks to establish their ownership of property titles—and therefore to foreclose on mortgaged properties. The logical result could be 62 million homes that are foreclosure-proof.

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Ninth Circuit: Marriages on Hold

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Advocate - Aug. 16 (Special Report) - Without explanation, the U.S. court of appeals for the ninth circuit has granted a stay in the Proposition 8 case, yet again delaying the possibility of marriages for same-sex couples seeking to wed in California.

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Prop. 23 Supporters Are Major Polluters

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Cathy Bussewitz - Aug. 10 (News Report) - The attempted repealing of AB32 is a disgrace to democracy. Your article failed to mention that prop 23 is called the "California Jobs Initiative," more Orwellian tricks by big oil companies that as you indicated are the major polluters of the state.

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