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Jerry Brown on Bill Clinton

“If Clinton didn’t exist, the Trilateral Commission would have to invent him because he has deprived and drained the radical energy out of environmental movements, out of the African American civil rights community, by just being there and being not

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Cities create own traffic fiefdoms

  APRIL 6, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO According to aides to Sen. Jenny Oropeza, D-Long Beach, a Long Beach police officer recently gave a Torrance resident a choice: get a speeding ticket for violating the state’s Vehicle Code, which will go on the

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AG passes on whistle-blower suit

APRIL 6, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Despite his reputation as a consumer activist, California Attorney General Jerry Brown has decided against joining a controversial lawsuit against the nation’s largest PVC manufacturing company. The case involves four states, and 43 California

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E-Waste bill passes out of committee

Senator Jenny Oropeza’s SB1052, which rationalize state agencies’ approach to  electronic waste, passed out of the Senate Environmental Quality Committee this afternoon, according to a press release sent out by Oropeza’s office. “I am alarmed the California State Auditor has

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More dirty cops

It’s getting heard to keep up with all the dirty cop stories in the papers. Here’s the latest from today’s Orange County Register: “An off-duty Westminster police officer and an off-duty state corrections officer were arrested Saturday night in connection

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Jerry Brown's quote of day

Brown on debt and the “nonexistent” Soviet threat: “The national debt waits like a hungry tiger to pounce on President Clinton’s new programs. Despute urban despair and ecological disaster, Congress won’t appropriate money even when it’s clearly needed. Yet Reagan

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