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Gov. Brown signs drivers license bill for undocumented immigrants
Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Thursday which gives million of undocumented immigrants the right to drive in California. AB 60 by Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Salinas, will grant drivers licenses to everyone who can pass the tests required by the Department of Motor
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Anti-UFW farm workers seek help from Gov. Jerry Brown
SACRAMENTO — Roll over, Cesar Chavez, here comes Silvia Lopez. custom essay writing services Silvia Lopez is a quiet, thoughtful 15-year Gerawan Farming employee, and the de facto leader of thousands of Central Valley farm workers who have been protesting
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CA's lie about public interest in Obamacare just the preview
California health exchange officials grossly overstated the number of online hits it received Tuesday during the rollout of Obamacare. I'm shocked. According to the Los Angeles Times, “state officials said the Covered California website got 645,000 hits during the first day
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Gov. Jerry Brown forcing electric car market in CA
Gov. Jerry Brown must be in the market for a Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf or Tesla electric car. There could be no other explanation for why he signed six bills this week to force a market for electric cars that
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Farm workers fight UFW unionization
The United Farm Workers labor union and the state Agricultural Labor Relations Board have found themselves on the brink of ruination and even irrelevance. The labor union boasted 50,000 members by the end of the 1970s. But according to the UFW’s
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Govt. global warming hoax ‘hilarious incoherence’
“Global warming deniers,” we skeptics have been called. Much of our climate change skepticism stems from the government’s involvement and manipulation of the scientific data, and the subsequent creation of a cap and trade system, designed to punish and tax
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Domestic workers’ bill recipients received Obamacare grants
SACRAMENTO — With the Republican Party at such a low ebb, the supermajority Democratic Party is advancing connections everywhere. In particular, there’s cross-pollination between groups pushing for overtime for domestic workers — and groups receiving Obamacare money. In some cases,
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Sacto arena bill signed, but not over yet
I hate “I told ya so” moments. Gov. Jerry Brown just signed SB 743, “easing environmental regulations for developments in California cities, including a new basketball arena in downtown Sacramento,” the Los Angeles Times said. In March I predicted Senate President Pro
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CA Obamacare implementation registers Dem voters
This is Part 2 of a two-part series. Part 1 is here. As I explained in Part 1 of this series, one of the biggest features of Covered California, the state’s new health benefit exchange, is how it was set
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Creating a permanent poverty class with minimum wage increases
Assembly Bill 10 to raise the minimum wage in California, is sitting on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk. Brown has indicated he is in a signing mood, and will likely sign the bill. However, should AB 10 by Assemblyman Luis Alejo, D-Salina, be
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