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California Voters Likely to Decide on Tax Increase
California Gov. Jerry Brown (photo: Freedom To Marry/flickr) This November voters in California will likely be deciding whether or not to raise taxes. Yesterday, California Democratic Governor Jerry...
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Health Insurance Rate Review Likely to Make California Ballot
This November the voters of California will likely decide whether or not to give their state regulators the ability to approve or deny health insurance premium increases. Today the group Consumer...
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Obama Is Dominating in California
(image: lillieinthecity / flickr) President Obama holds an incredible 18 point lead over Mitt Romney in California, according to the newest Field Poll of the state. According to the poll, Obama is...
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Health Insurance Rate Review Will Be on California Ballot in 2014
(image: lillieinthecity / flickr) In two years the voters of California will get to decide whether or not to give state regulators the right to review and reject unreasonable health insurance premium...
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GM Food Labeling Likely to Be Approved in California
(photo: glue&glitter / flickr) Indications are that Proposition 37, Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Engineered Food, is on track to be approved by the voters of California this November. The...
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Negative Ad Blitz Erodes Support for California GMO Labeling Initiative
Over the past few weeks Monsanto, DuPont and other large corporations have flooded California with millions of dollars in ads against Proposition 37, which would require the labeling of food...
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California GMO-Labeling Initiative Tightens in the Polls
The fate of California’s Proposition 37, which would require the labeling of food that contains genetically modified ingredients, could go either way. New polling confirms that there has been...
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Prop 8 Decision Could Cause Long Term Problems for Direct Democracy
Most people are focused on the immediate impact of the Hollingsworth v. Perry decision, which will allow same-sex marriage to resume in California, but the legal justification for this decision could...
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Minimum Wage Increase Might Be Put on California’s Ballot…By a Conservative
Ron Unz This could potentially be one of the most significant, impactful and interesting ballot initiative campaigns next year. A rich California conservative is pushing to have his state lead the way...
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Californians Plan to Vote Overwhelmingly for Criminal Justice Reform and...
The people of California are planning to vote overwhelmingly to change how several minor offenses are treated under the criminal justice system. According to a new PPIC poll, 62 percent of likely...
View ArticleNew Report Finds Inmate Deaths on the Rise
Inmate deaths in local jails and state prisons are on the rise for the third year in a row, according to a new study by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics. The report, released on August 4, found...
View Article4,000 Prison Inmates Fighting California Wildfires For $2 Per Day
Published in partnership with MintPress News. SACRAMENTO, California — With wildfires blazing throughout the parched Western United States, the state of California has found a novel, though ethically...
View ArticleInmate Claims Epilepsy Went Untreated At Santa Rita Jail
An inmate suffered a Grand Mal seizure after deputies at the Santa Rita jail in Alameda County, California denied his repeated requests for epilepsy medication, according to a federal lawsuit [PDF]...
View ArticleCalifornia Agrees To Restrict Use of Long-Term Solitary Confinement
California has agreed to restrict the use of long-term solitary confinement in a settlement agreement filed in federal court this week. The agreement [PDF] comes in response to a class action lawsuit...
View ArticleDespite Prop 47, California Continues to Invest In Incarceration
California fails to take advantage of opportunities to reduce their inmate population, according to an annual report published by prison reform group Californians United For A Responsible Budget...
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California Activists Target Nestlé, The ‘Grinch’ That Stole Water
Published in partnership with MintPress News. SACRAMENTO, California — Activists are preparing to disrupt business at a Nestlé bottled water plant for a third time as the corporation continues to...
View ArticleSanders Encourages Struggle Against Establishment Politics To Continue
“The struggle continues,” Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders declared in a speech, which capped off his statewide campaign in California. He described the struggle broadly as one for...
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