Death Penalty Activists Soldier On

Anthony Pignataro: If you happened to walk past the north steps of the State Capitol around noon today and you ignored a nice man in a baseball cap who tried to hand you a small slip of peach-colored paper while

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AB32 Empowers State Regulators

OCT. 18, 2010 By SUSAN M. TRAGER As we head down the stretch to the November 2 election, Proposition 23 has become the top initiative people are talking about. The debate mainly focuses on whether it would create or kill

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Justice George's Free Press Legacy

OCT. 18, 2010 By TORI RICHARDS When California Chief Justice Ronald George retires at the end of the year, the nation will lose one of its staunchest supporters of the public’s right to know — a trailblazer whose rulings have

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Is California An Idiocracy?

OCT. 18, 2010 While trying to get the assembled, clueless staff at a phone store to tell me how to turn off an annoying e-mail alarm on my new smart phone, I was finally greeted by a manager, who declared

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