Unemployment In California Highest In Nearly 70 Years
California's unemployment rate in August hit its highest point in nearly 70 years, starkly underscoring how the nation's incipient economic recovery c...
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Volunteers Needed: California Coastal Cleanup Day
Posted 11.18.2009 | Impact
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Last year, over 70,000 volunteers picked up over 1.6 million pounds of trash from California beaches. This year, the annual California Coastal Cleanup...
BCelebrated -- A Revolutionary New Approach to Death and Life
Geoffrey Dunn | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
Bcelebrated allows individuals, families and friends to get the information and images and music and wishes all together well before death comes knocking at the door.
Maine Campaign Heats Up; "No on 1" Fights Back
Paul Hogarth | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
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Polls show gay marriage losing narrowly in Maine, but a new TV ad with Maine's 2005 Teacher of the Year may help turn the tide.
EPA Throws Up Hands As Mercury Puts 100,000 People At Risk In California
AP | JASON DEAREN | Posted 11.18.2009 | Green
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NEW IDRIA, Calif. — Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, ...
With Time, Equality Will Blossom Even in Orange County
Chris Prevatt | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
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Orange County, like the rest of California, has grown more diverse and more moderate over the last generation. Yet its reputation as a conservative, antigay bastion persists, despite evidence to the contrary.
Next Up for the Santa Monica Pier is Cirque du Soleil's "Kooza"
Terry Gardner | Posted 11.17.2009 | Entertainment
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Cirque du Soleil helped the Santa Monica Pier celebrate its 100th birthday on 9/9/09. Next up for the partying centenarian is "Kooza," Cirque's new s...
Too Good To Be True?
Robert Stavins | Posted 11.17.2009 | Green
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I had thought that arguments about massive "free lunches" in the energy efficiency and climate domain had long since been laid to rest. The debates in California (and some of the rhetoric in Washington) prove otherwise.
California Attorney General Brown To Launch Investigation Into Rating Agencies' Role In Fueling The Financial Crisis
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
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California AG Jerry Brown joins the ranks of Attorneys General to scrutinize the disastrous role the credit rating agencies played in the financial cr...
FEMA in California
Giles Slade | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics
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Across California's Central Valley, towns are already seeing some of the worst unemployment in the country, with rates three and four times the national average
Chamber Of Commerce And Car Dealers Fight California Emissions Rules
nytimes.com | Jim Motavalli | Posted 11.14.2009 | Green
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The United States Chamber of Commerce is joining with the National Automobile Dealers Association to try to derail California's ability to regulate gr...
GM's "60-day Buy Back" plan - more gimmicks or smart sales move?
Steve Parker | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
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Another "Hail Mary" from GM? Or the real thing? Starting today and running through November, General Motors is offering buyers of their Core Four bra...
Danny Pang Dead: Financier Under Investigation Dies
AP | CHRISTOPHER WEBER | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business
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LOS ANGELES — Danny Pang, an Orange County financier accused by federal regulators of defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollar...
Power Plants Don't Have to Suck (Literally)
Steve Fleischli | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
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Collectively, the power industry sucks in approximately 80 trillion gallons of water annually to cool their equipment. In the process, they kill on a massive scale fish, larvae and other aquatic organisms.
GM Forget the Guarantee, Fight for Clean Air.
Terry Gardner | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green
What good is a business's bottom line if we end up with air we can see and chew?
Californians Don't Trust State Government: Poll
LA Times | Cathleen Decker | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
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Public Policy Institute survey finds two-thirds expect bad economic times in the next year, and half fear job loss. But the survey also uncovers stron...
Sigg Says Sorry, Patagonia Dumps Sigg
Sarah Newman | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green
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The anti-BPA movement is spreading nationwide. Chicago has already banned the toxin and legislation is currently pending in California
Mosquitoes Breeding In Swimming Pools Of Foreclosed Homes (VIDEO)
Huffington Post | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
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Mosquitoes lay their eggs in stagnant water and there's an abundance of it in eastern Riverside County, California. Mosquitoes there are breeding in t...
Mike Duvall: Recorded Sex Comments Cost California GOP Lawmaker His Job
AP | JULIET WILLIAMS | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A scandal involving a family-values legislator caught boasting about his sexual escapades with his lobbyist mistresses crea...
Promising Models for Reforming Juvenile Justice Systems
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
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The pipeline to prison in the U.S. is not an act of God or inevitable but a series of choices that can be changed with strong leadership and a focus on meeting child and youth needs.
Isn't Adequate Healthcare a Moral Issue?
Byron Williams | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home
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Why don't we see the same fervor -- particularly emanating from the churches that seek to block gay marriage -- transferred, at least temporarily, to the 47 million Americans who must go without health care?
How I Spent My Summer Vacation?
Rochelle Lefkowitz | Posted 10.21.2009 | Media
About to complete his freshman year at George Washington University, Josh told the communications director he encountered that he loved stats and that he wanted a summer job around voting.
Update: Meg Whitman Does Not Heart Van Jones
Chris Kelly | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
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Meg wants you to know that, when it comes to Van Jones, although she "got to know him very well" and she's "a big fan," she also hates everything he stands for, and doesn't know him from Adam Clayton Powell.
Van Jones Hearts Meg Whitman
Chris Kelly | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
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Meg Whitman once said something nice about Van Jones, which didn't mean anything at the time, but now proves she supports collectivism and miscegenation.
Cash-Strapped States Shut Down Hundreds Of Offices
wsj.com | LESLIE EATON, RYAN KNUTSON and PHILIP SHISHKIN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
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California drivers can't line up to renew their licenses Friday. Wisconsin natives can't order copies of their birth certificates. Georgia consumers w...
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New York Times | JENNIFER STEINHAUER | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business