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In the race for funds, incumbent U.S. Senate Democrat Barbara Boxer has raised over $16 million, doubling Republican challenger Carly Fiorina's over $7 million raised. Would you like to know where all that money on both sides is coming from? Senator Boxer's number one contributor
On Monday evening, Californians learned that U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein opposes the legalization of marijuana in California, and will be participating in a campaign to oppose Proposition 19, The Tax Cannabis Act. Supporters of the initiative, which will be on the ballot this November, say that it will increase
"People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along?" The year was 1992, and Rodney King spoke these words on live television to calm the angry mobs, which had been rioting for three days. They were outraged by the acquittal of four Los Angeles
Governor Schwarzenegger made national headlines this week after the governor's Department of Personnel Administration issued an order to withhold the pay of state employees up to the legal limit- which is the Federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour. Placing 200,000 of California's state
In a flurry of other controversial rulings Monday, the Supreme Court overturned a Chicago gun ban as unconstitutional in the now landmark decision, McDonald v. Chicago. In doing so, the nation's highest court took the unprecedented step of "incorporating" the Second Amendment right to keep and
Despite the monetary promise of increased state and local revenues, and lowered costs for an already strained justice system, the Tax Cannabis Act still has some Californians worried. Fox News' San Francisco-based correspondent, Claudia Cowan writes that "Critics, including most law enforcement groups, say legalizing pot will only
With California's budget in crisis mode, the solutions have been presented by lawmakers and the media in strictly zero-sum terms. You can think of a zero-sum game as a pie. If one piece of that pie gets bigger, another piece necessarily has to become smaller. In other words,
Earlier this week, California missed another constitutionally mandated deadline to pass a state budget. Policymakers are reeling from the enormous, seemingly impossible task of bridging an approximately $19 billion budget deficit. A dour Mecury News editorial opined: "It's a measure of how broken state government really is.
What if California could fix its enormous budget deficit with a single policy change that would potentially cut billions out of the state budget without sacrificing the quality of services that Californians receive? What if five years from now, without any reductions in the quality of health, housing, education, law
California's very own State Board of Equalization reports in its legislative bill analysis that revenues from a bill similar to the Tax Cannabis Act would equal roughly $1.4 billion. With California's budget in crisis mode, the Tax Cannabis Act could be a welcome boon with
California prison and safety reform consists primarily of finding ways to reduce costs in an overburdened system without sacrificing the safety of California's residents. As costs in both the prison budget and the rest of California's budget spiral upward, the never-ending challenge is to find less
President Obama is deflecting. Amid lagging poll numbers, a drawn-out oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, allegations of a criminal bribe to Congressman Joe Sestak, and fierce criticism from both parties (including harsh words of reproof from Democratic strategist James Carville and former Clinton advisor Dick Morris), Obama turned