What are the politicians saying?
By Marlene Allen. Last week I joined hundreds of other Californians -- college students, school employees, social workers and other community members in a march to Occidental Petroleum's offices in Los Angeles. [...]
ATLANTA — Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have been named finalists in the second round of the federal "Race to the Top" school reform grant competition, giving them a chance to win a share of $3 billion.
The Environmental Protection Agency is making public data on the release and transfer of nearly 650 chemicals at 21,000 locations across the country during last year. EPA Administrator Lisa P. [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency is making public data on the release and transfer of nearly 650 chemicals at 21,000 locations across the country during last year. EPA Administrator Lisa P. [...]
Californians craving more detail about how their next governor plans to address the state's problems will get more face time with the candidates this fall as Republican Meg Whitman Tuesday agreed to two more televised debates with her Democ [...]
Supporters of Proposition 23, an effort to suspend California's landmark climate change law, say that Attorney General Jerry Brown wrote misleading, biased summary on ballot measure
Change is in the wind. On whichever side of the aisle you may find yourself, the mandate to improve things is all but impossible to ignore.
Know anyone in California that thinks our healthcare system is working as it should? Even if they did think it was perfect, what are the chances they'd risk the wrath of the rest of us by claiming it was working just fine?
Who do you know that thinks our schools are doing great right about now? Certainly not anybody who has a child, grandchild, or even a friend with a kid enrolled in one of our embattled schools today.
Anybody willing to make a case that our environmental laws are everything they should be? Or that Californian companies have been experiencing business as anything close to "usual" for the past few years?
Finally California's economy has been going these past few years? Everything's smooth sailing so let's just "stay the course?" If there's anyone among us that might still think so, you can bet they aren't up for re-election anytime soon.
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