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Public-Private Partnerships In California Tackles Obesity, Hunger Epidemics

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Think Progress - By Guest Blogger - Feb. 14 (Opinion) - At all levels of government there has been a serious push for increasing access to food among low income households and fostering more nutritious eating habits in communities and schools. Last July, First Lady Michelle Obama and the Partnership for a Hea

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Why Aren’t More Arab Americans Working in Mainstream Journalism?

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Columbia Journalism Review - Jan. 31 - There are anywhere between 3.5 and 5.1 million Americans of Arab descent, according to figures from the Arab American Institute, yet relatively few work in journalism full time. While meaningful estimates aren’t known, as journalism scholars that conduct demographic research in American newsrooms do not typically tally newsmakers of Arab descent, the National Arab American Journalists Association counts around 250...

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Jesse Kornbluth: The Police Riot At Berkeley: If They'll Beat A Poet Laureate, Will They Kill A Student?

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jesse Kornbluth - Nov. 14 - The year was 1967. Body bags were coming back from Vietnam at the rate of 1,000 or more a month. I had skipped my freshman...

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Palin Blames Obama For High Gas Prices

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By The Huffington Post - Mar. 16 - Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin blasted President Obama in a Facebook post on Tuesday, accusing his administration of intentionally pushing energy policies designed to drive...

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Wisconsin’s Walker Signs Bill Requiring 2/3 Majority for Tax Increases

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Firedoglake - By David Dayen - Feb. 22 (Opinion) - Being from California, I’m pretty clear what the implications of a Prop 13-style supermajority requirement for taxes will do. It will basically destroy government as they know it in Wisconsin, ratcheting down the ability for the state to collect the revenue needed to provide a basic level of services. If you liked the efficient, responsive government we’ve seen over the last three decades in California, you’re going to love it in Wisconsin.

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Rx for Catastrophe

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:55:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Melinda Burns - Jan. 23 (Review) - A book on disaster law and policy urges stronger federal intervention to shore up natural barriers and protect the most vulnerable members of the community. A photograph of a bayou in Louisiana. One law professor looks at disaster law and policy in the

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Two Californias

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

National Review - By Victor Davis Hanson - Dec. 16 (Opinion) - Abandoned farms, Third World living conditions, pervasive public assistance -- welcome to the once-thriving Central Valley.

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Former Republican Sen. Warns GOP May ‘Have Gone So Far Overboard That We Are Beyond Redemption’

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Think Progress - By Alex Seitz-Wald - Nov. 28 (Opinion) - In an age when far-right tea party activists have taken over the Republican Party and demanded lockstep allegiance, Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN) has been one of the few GOP lawmakers to step out of line. In particular, Lugar, the ranking GOP member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has blasted his own party for relentlessly blocking ratification of the New START nuclear arms treaty with Russia, calling on his fellow GOP senators to “do your duty for your country” and complete the pact.

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A Year After Copenhagen, California Shows the Green Revolution Is Alive and Well

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Arnold Schwarzenegger - Nov. 19 (Opinion) - When the Copenhagen summit on climate change failed to reach agreement last December, many thought it was the beginning of the end for the fight against global warming. But I can report nearly a year later that the Green Revolution is alive and robust in states, provinces and localities across the world, starting in California.

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Robert Creamer: Latinos Prevent Republicans from Seizing Control of Senate

Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Robert Creamer - Nov. 05 (Opinion) - Republicans won control of the House last Tuesday, but their hopes of controlling the Senate as well were stymied by a firewall of Latino...

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‘Bag It’ DVD Packaged With Message in Mind

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Todd - Oct. 21 (Review) - So you make this movie about the evils of disposable plastic, see, and it comes time to distribute the DVD. So you’ve got a plastic disc tucked inside a plastic case with a veneer of shrink-wrap as an aperitif.

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Brown-Whitman II turns into slugfest

Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Orange County Register - By Dan Walters - Oct. 04 (Opinion) - For weeks, Republican Meg Whitman demanded that Jerry Brown, her Democratic rival for California governor, debate her here in Fresno, clearly hoping it would shore up support in the GOP-leaning San Joaquin Valley and among Latino voters, but Brown stalled. Whitman finally got her wish Saturday night in a bilingual debate sponsored by Univision, but it quickly became a slugfest as Brown pummeled her on how she handled a former housekeeper who was an illegal immigrant – a case that had erupted just days earlier.

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Your Bad Economic News for the Morning

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Kevin Drum - Sep. 29 (Opinion) - Earlier this year, government bond spreads in several European countries ballooned dangerously in response to the Greek debt crisis. In May the EU came to the rescue, Greece agreed to a combined loan/austerity package, and spreads settled down. The crisis was over. But for how long? As the chart on the right shows, spreads have been steadily rising since May in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, and now stand as high or higher than they were at the height of the crisis.

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Sebelius To Health Insurers: Stop Lying About Your Rate Increases

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Ap - Sep. 10 - WASHINGTON ? President Barack Obama's top health official on Thursday warned the insurance industry that the administration won't tolerate blaming premium hikes on the new...

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News Corp Donates $1 MILLION To Republican Governors Association

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Danny Shea - Aug. 17 - Fox News and Wall Street Journal parent company News Corp donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association in June, Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported. The media...

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Carly Fiorina: Runs to the Tea Party, Away From the Truth

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Robert Greenwald - Jul. 25 (Opinion) - Everyone in America has at this point seen and heard what the Tea Party is about. Our video uses carefully date-labeled footage of a Tea Party rally we had video for that occurred in March. We also use clearly date-labeled footage of an April Tea Party

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Dumb Blogger Apologizes to Future Governor Meg Whitman

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Chris Kelly - Jul. 20 (Opinion) - I screwed up. The other day I was writing about Meg Whitman -- who's running for governor because she refuses refuses refuses to let California fail -- and how her plans include a tax cut for the super rich that could cost the state between four and six billion dollars. My first mistake right there: It could be ten billion dollars. Maybe more.

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Being schooled by (in)justice

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Oakland Local - By Susan Mernit - Jul. 09 (Opinion) - The jury deliberated less than seven hours to reach the verdict in the trial of former BART officer Johannes Mehserle for murdering Oscar Grant: involuntary manslaughter. In other words, although the former officer was found guilty of pulling a gun on Grant and shooting him in the back as he lay face down, hand-cuffed, on a platform, the jury did not find that Mehserle had any intent to end Grant's life when he pulled his gun and shot him in the back as he lay handcuffed on the platform, face down, with another officer's knee pushing into in his back. With this verdict, the jury essentially affirmed their belief that Mehserle, while guilty, had made a "mistake". As someone who has observed juries deliberate, the idea this jury could reach a concensus so quickly in such a complicated case makes me wonder how many of the people sitting in the jury box actually listened to what they heard. Did they hear the witnesses describe how helpless Grant was as he lay on the platform, and how unlikely, even impossible, it would have been to reach for a gun?

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Killing AB 32 Will Threaten California's Leadership in Wind Energy

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Public CEO - By Nancy Rader - Jun. 14 (Opinion) - Just when California is about to start closing the gap with Texas and Iowa in the amount of wind energy it produces, there's a move afoot by out-of-state oil companies to pull the rug out from under us and thwart the development of these projects.

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Forget Greece, California's the REAL worry

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Housing Watch - By Charles Feldman - Apr. 07 (Opinion) - While all eyes are glued to Greece, whose financial woes could melt the Euro (not to mention the Gyro), one banking big wig is focused on an economic mess that makes Greece's problem seem like a souvlaki picnic comparison. The sovereign state he's concerned about? California! Jamie Dimon is chairman of JP Morgan Chase, which when it is not being rescued by American taxpayers, tends to be a pretty savvy observer of the world economic scene. Dimon, reported Britain's The Telegraph, warned investors at the bank's annual meeting that they need to be more worried about California defaulting than about Greece.

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You Stay Classy, Sacramento

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

American Spectator - By William Yeatman - Mar. 11 (Opinion) - In many countries, electric utilities struggle to keep up with demand, and often fail. The World Bank estimates that almost 1.5 billion men, women, and children lack reliable access to electricity. They want it, but they can't have it. In new-agey California, it's the other way around. The centerpiece of California's energy policy is really the absence of energy.

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Detaining Criminal Illegal Immigrants is A Step Forward for California

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

campaignsthatmatter.com - By Davisus - Feb. 23 (Opinion) - California is home to at least a quarter of all illegal immigrants living in the United States. Clearly, it is the most adversely affected state in this regard, and faces a severe economic burden due to millions of illegal immigrants residing here.

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Dr. Mark Weiss: Throw the Bums Out

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Dr. Mark Weiss - Feb. 22 (Opinion) - There's no end in sight for how high Anthem's premium increases can go. As if this isn't bad enough, its parent company has made billions, on the backs of all of us who can't afford to be without health insurance. This is shameful, disgraceful and immoral.

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Can California Be Fixed?

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

American Prospect - By Pema Levy - Sep. 27 (Interview) - In the coming weeks, the coalition Repair California will begin the official process of calling a state constitutional convention, submitting ballot-initiative language to Attorney General Jerry Brown's office. Repair California proposes to restructure government through a state constitutional convention. The Prospect talked to John Grubb, official spokesperson for Repair California, about the crisis in California and the emerging movement to reform government.

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Critical mass for same-sex marriage

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Media Nation - By Dan Kennedy - Jun. 05 (Opinion) - At some point, though, it seems inevitable that liberal, blue California will re-enshrine same-sex marriage. And with more than 36.7 million people, it remains the big prize. Add them to the other six states plus New York, and you've got 58.9 million people, or 21.7 percent of the U.S. population.

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