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Astroturf Tramples Grassroots in Washington State GMO Labeling Battle
A look into the money pouring into Washington tells an anti-democratic tale of how a once-popular initiative is now statistically tied in the polls.
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Boys, Toys, and Guns — A Fatal Mix
Officers sworn to serve, protect, and keep the peace should not show off their guns to children and put them in their eager hands.
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Monterey Peninsula Fights For-Profit American Water for Public Control
In communities across the country, people are deciding that water is just too precious to subject to the profit motive.
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One Month After Historic Hunger Strike Ends, Legislators Hold Hearings About Solitary Confinement
Families and former prisoners held for years in solitary confinement expressed optimism October 9 after the first of several California Public Safety Committee hearings about the punishment, promised in …
More Details on Ocean Fracking Revealed as Environmentalists Challenge Federal Regulators
An environmental group plans to take legal action if federal agencies fail to halt offshore fracking in California's Santa Barbara Channel.
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California Poised to Broaden Access to Abortions
California has two bills that could lead to the one of the biggest expansions of access to abortion in the US since the FDA approved the abortion pill.
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Sen. Feinstein Wants to Strip Independent Journalists’ Rights
Freedom of the press may be one of the founding principles of the United States, but Senator Dianne Feinstein is on a mission to limit these powers.
Slash and Burn: The War Against California Pensions
u201cPension reformu201d has become the latest battle cry in a seemingly endless war that has ostensibly been declared against tax-dollar waste.
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A Call to Be Treated “Justly and Humanely“
Pelican Bay Prison hunger striker Lorenzo Benton deconstructs and lambastes California Department of Corrections Secretary Jeffrey Beard's contentions that the hunger strike (which ended Thursday), is gang-instigated and enforced, …
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Another Key Provision of Obamacare Meant to Protect Consumers Is Being Delayed, and More
In today's On the News segment: The Obama Administration is holding off on instituting out-of-pocket expense limits; North Carolina's Republican Governor Pat McCrory signed our nation's most restrictive voter …