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The California Styrofoam Ban

Take-out isn't over in Oakland. Fast-food empires haven't fallen in Albany. And doggie bags still do just fine in San Francisco. That's despite all

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February 18, 2009

A Green(er) Los Angeles? Measure B Advocates without Explaining

Idealistically, Los Angeles' Measure B, or the Green Energy and Good Jobs for Los Angeles Plan, sounds like a benevolent counter-strike against the smog-ridden metropolis. But the March 3

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February 17, 2009

A Green(er) Los Angeles? Measure B Advocates without Explaining

Airports, Energy, and Facts

Scott Lewis of the Voice of San Diego, wrote a piece criticizing a presumptuous editorial in the Union Tribune for its lack of facts and for being deliberately misleading. As

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February 16, 2009

Lock Them in Until it Passes

Theyended the lockdown too soon in Sacramento. For a few insane reasons, the Legislature worked late Sunday night after marathonweekend sessions led to missed Valentine's Day dates and

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February 16, 2009

Two Capitols, Two Melodramas

Whilemost of California and the nation was transfixed this week on whetherthe $789 billion federal stimulus package was going to be approved inWashington, another drama -- no less important to

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February 13, 2009

AMT Hitting the Middle Class

The percapita income in Californiawas $33,749 in 2005, according to U.S. Census Bureau Data. If thealternative minimum tax fix that expired in December isn't renewed, taxpayersmaking

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February 12, 2009

Expand the Sales Tax

Businesseslargeand small loathe it. The nation's giggling about it, though everyone'smissing a much better laugh line in South Dakota's proposed tax on rodeo clowns.

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February 11, 2009

Looking for Bi-Partisanship in a 'Post-Partisan' World

They say we now live a "post-partisan" world. The phrase implies that in 2009 we have all risen to a practical,solutions-based approach to politics that flies above

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February 10, 2009

Looking for Bi-Partisanship in a 'Post-Partisan' World

Lawsuit Must Not Be Allowed to Weaken Campaign Finance Disclosure Laws

Last week a federal judge ruled in support ofCalifornia campaign finance disclosure laws that requires making publicthe names of political donors contributing more than $100 to a campaignor candidate. U.

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February 5, 2009

Lawsuit Must Not Be Allowed to Weaken Campaign Finance Disclosure Laws

Our Wild West Politics

Welcome to the latest episode of "Wild West Politics, California-Style," a show where everyone would rather fight than switch. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger comes out ahead in this installment,

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February 3, 2009

Stimulating Education in California

While Gov. Schwarzenegger is notthe bearer of ecstatic education news for California, a U.S. stimulus package may very well be. Of the $21.5billion that the Golden State stands

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February 2, 2009

California's Leon Panetta a Good Choice to Head CIA

President BarackObama's appointment of Californian Leon Panetta to direct the CIA isyet another example of how the Golden State has become the nation's defacto go-to source

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January 30, 2009

California's Leon Panetta a Good Choice to Head CIA