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John A. Perez: A Blueprint for California's Budget

2013-05-14T18:53:54Z

With the Governor's May budget revision being announced this week and the Legislature working to pass a final budget by June 15, these are some of the issues Assembly Democrats will be focusing on to make sure our state takes the critical steps we need.

Read more: Prop 25, California Coastal Commission, California State University, California, Student Debt, Prop 30, Democratic Party, California Legislature, California Budget, California Prop 39, Great Recession, Jerry Brown, Middle Class Scholarship Act, S, Video, Los Angeles News

Peter Scheer: New First Amendment Suit Poses Existential Threat to Government Unions

2013-05-02T05:42:44Z

Public employee unions face a new, and mortal, threat. It's not the unfunded liability of union pension plans or municipal governments' resort to bankruptcy to void union contracts. No, the new existential threat facing government unions comes from... the First Amendment.

Read more: Freedom of Speech, Supreme Court, Freedom of Association, US Supreme Court, First Amendment, Trade Unions, Seiu, Teachers Unions, Prop 32, Politics News

Beverly Bell: From Growing Profit to Growing Food: Challenging Corporate Rule

2013-04-03T16:35:46Z

Just outside of the small town of Maumelle, Arkansas sits your run-of-the-mill American strip mall. And as in so many other box store hubs, a Walmart dominates the landscape. But something is a shade different about this one; its big, looming letters are not the standard blue.

Read more: Food System, Food Justice, GMO's, Food, Agribusiness, Corporate Power, Prop 37, Justice, Food Workers, Monsanto, Impact News

The Good News About Teacher Layoffs

2013-03-14T18:41:06Z

After years of threatening to lay off tens of thousands of teachers due to budget shortfalls, California has some relatively good news: less than one-...

Read more: Education News, Teacher Firing, Los Angeles Unified School District, Class Size, Arne Duncan, Prop 30, Los Angeles, Arne Duncan Pink Slips, Teacher Layoffs, Proposition 30, Education, Pink Slips, Lausd, Joy Resmovits, California Teacher Layoffs, Sequester, Sequestration, John Deasy, Los Angeles News

Lynne Peeples: Monday Tracks: GMO Debate Rages On After Prop 37 Failure

2013-01-14T12:41:08Z

Welcome again to my (relatively) new blog: Toxic Tracks. Here, I'm posting short bits of daily news and commentary on environmental health topics. Ple...

Read more: Proposition 37, Genetically Modified Food, Gmos, Prop 37, Gm Salmon, GMO Labeling, Monsanto, Lynne-Peeples, Green News

Imelda Nava-Landeros: A Golden APLE for California's Teachers

2013-01-08T16:26:10Z

By reinstating the APLE program, California can renew its commitment to growing a strong and vital teaching workforce and ensure that our collective tomorrow will indeed be a golden one.

Read more: Prop 30, California Aple Program, California Schools, California Public Education, Assumption Programs of Loans for Education, Home News

Catherine McCord: Please Don't Call Organic Eating Snobbery

2013-01-07T15:26:15Z

Recently, a teacher told me she had been talking to parents about the importance of serving their children organic food at school. The parents adamantly disagreed. Their reason? "We don't want our kids to be snobs."

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Andrew Winston: Despite Prop 37 Vote on GMOs, Transparency Will Win Out

2012-12-13T17:12:21Z

Perhaps Prop 37, the ballot initiative that would have required food companies to put a label on packaging if they used GMOs, was poorly constructed. But its defeat is a blip in the arc of history. The power of openness and transparency is a relentless tide that's only getting stronger.

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Christiana Wyly: The Future of Food Series: Exponential Solutions to Transforming Our Food System

2012-12-13T11:34:21Z

By 2050, we need to figure out how to not only feed but also nourish the three billion new people who will be joining the seven billion of us who are already here on the planet. And we need to figure out how to do this as effectively, ethically and as environmentally sensibly as possible.

Read more: Lettuce, Stewart Brand, Urban Farming, Paul Lightfoot, Impact X, Rooftop Farms, Proposition 37, Jobs, GMO Labeling, Brightfarm Systems, Impact XTechnology, Tedx, Organic Food, Jigar Shah, Hurricane Sandy, Grocery Stores, Brightfarm-Systems, Food, Hydroponic Farming, Prop 37, Slidepollajax, Gmo, Impact, Video, Green News

David Fagin: It's Time We Occupied Well Street: The Incomprehensible Defeat of Prop. 37

2012-12-12T08:41:12Z

As someone who supports the objective of Prop. 37, and any legislation/ideology that will force the bio-tech industry to come clean and tell us what, ...

Read more: Pesticides, Gmos, Organic Food, Prop 37, GMO Labeling, Gmo, Barack Obama, Monsanto, Dupont, Home News

Tech Millionaire Threatens To Leave California Because Of Tax Hikes On Wealthy

2012-12-05T14:40:37Z

A wealthy entrepreneur is threatening to abandon California because he's outraged over higher taxes.

Ethan Anderson, ex-Googler and co-founder of t...

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Jenna Goldring: Meeting My Meat

2012-12-03T15:00:13Z

One would think that having killed a chicken and seen it previously alive and kicking, that it would be difficult to actually eat it. Strangely, however, it had the opposite effect.

Read more: Poultry, GMO Labeling, California Prop 37, Factory Farming, Prop 37, Gmo Food, Meat, Mandatory Gmo Labeling, Home News

Steve Currall: Stewarding the University of California Dream

2012-12-01T13:37:50Z

The dream of a University of California education has been a historical driver of the upward economic mobility of California's young people. With the passage of Proposition 30, Governor Brown on Nov. 14 said the UC must think anew about how it does business.

Read more: Prop 30, UC Berkeley, California Higher Education, California University System, UC Davis, University of California, Ucla, California Prop 30, College News

Randi Weingarten: The People's Priorities

2012-11-18T10:49:33Z

While critics put teachers unions in their crosshairs, the unions in effect serve as proxies for public education. If critics can discredit teachers and their unions, they can build the case for not improving, funding or valuing our public schools.

Read more: Politics, Education, 2012 Election, Elections 2012, Mitt Romney, Prop 30, Education Reform, Public Education, Barack Obama, Home News

Diane Farr: A Public vs. Private Education Post Prop 30

2012-11-17T18:25:52Z

As I watched them from the other side of the gas pumps of the America that I live in, I felt sure that our futures were intertwined no matter what the Republican candidates had been feeding me in their election ads all year.

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Prop. 30 Not A Cure-All For California Schools

2012-11-15T10:44:11Z

SANTA CRUZ -- The Santa Cruz City Schools board meeting Wednesday erupted with cheers and applause when the district's business chief, Alvaro Meza, wa...

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Gary Hirshberg: Just Label It Video: Stars Speak Up for National GMO Labeling

2012-11-14T07:56:47Z

How do we overcome the money and influence of the chemical companies controlling our federal government's approach to GE foods and labeling? We need millions of Americans to tell our federal government officials that we want transparency, honesty and labeling in our food system.

Read more: Gmos, Prop 37, GMO Labeling, Just Label It, Gmo Food Risks, Gmo Food, Gmo Food Labels, Genetically Modified Food, Genetic Engineering, Video, Home News

LA Schools Haven't Done This In FOUR Years

2012-11-14T12:39:00Z

Thanks to voter-approved Proposition 30, Los Angeles Unified students will attend school for 180 days this year, the first time since the 2008 financi...

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Jonathan Greenberg: Grassroots Lessons From Monsanto's Swiftboating of California's Campaign to Label GMOs

2012-11-12T19:05:44Z

Our movement made the costly mistake of arming itself with peace signs and love beads for what turned out to be a gunfight with an assault rifle-equipped enemy. The problem that We, the American People, now have is that big money has come to dictate political speech in America.

Read more: Genetically Engineered, Fda, Genetically Modified Food, Food Safety, Prop 37, Gmos, Proposition 37, Monsanto, Green News

Jonathan Greenberg: Ten Grassroots Lessons From Monsanto's Swift-Boating of the Prop37/Label GMO Campaign

2012-11-11T15:00:10Z

Our consumer movement made the costly mistake of arming itself with peace signs and love beads for what turned out to be a gunfight with a ruthless, assault rifle-equipped enemy.

Read more: Food Labeling, Gmos, California Prop 37, GMO Labeling, Prop 37, Gmo, Green News

'The Voters Of This State Literally Saved Us From Educational Calamity'

2012-11-11T11:53:17Z

Just a week after voters approved a package of tax hikes to fund public education, the LAUSD board will consider Tuesday rescinding 10 furlough days f...

Read more: California Budget, LAUSD Furlough Days, Lausd, Prop 30 Lausd, Prop 30 California, Prop 30, Prop 30 Passes, California Education Budget, California Education Budget Cuts, California Education, Los Angeles News

Even After Prop 30, California Students Demonstrate Against Fees

2012-11-09T14:55:49Z

Proposition 30's victory at the polls may have ended the prospect of deep midyear budget cuts for California's public universities, but students are i...

Read more: Prop 30, Proposition 30, Student Activism, Prop 30 California, California Students Protest, College News

HILARIOUS: Jon Stewart Weighs In On New Condom Law

2012-11-09T11:40:55Z

Jon Stewart is verklempt.

On Thursday's episode of "The Daily Show," Stewart played the role of proud papa, holding back tears while discussing th...

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Proposition 30 Passage A 'Tremendous Relief And Joy'

2012-11-09T06:43:35Z

SANTA CRUZ -- Education officials here and around the state have stopped biting their nails and are now celebrating, following Tuesday's passage of a ...

Read more: Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2012, Prop 30, Proposition 30, California Schools, Education Reform, UC Santa Cruz, Jerry Brown, California Education Budget Cuts, George Blumenthal, California Education, Video, Home News

'L' Is For Loser

2012-11-08T23:44:10Z

This story comes courtesy of California Watch.

By Lance Williams

Multimillionaire activists, big labor unions and major corporations combined to...

Read more: George Joseph, California Election Losers, Video, Chris Kelly, California Politics, California Propositions, California Election Winners, Molly Munger, Monsanto, Los Angeles News