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No Water, No Jobs | RaceWire
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Apparently, Congress has almost entirely diminished water irrigation from lakes up north into the state’s aqua-duct system to protect the preservation of the smelt, a small three-inch non-commercial... More
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Birds can only fly so far
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The sky is the color of a robin's egg on the Barker Dam Loop Trail in Joshua Tree National Park, 215 miles southwest of Las Vegas. I'm hiking a section of trail that winds its way through an immense... More
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Some Small Businesses May Accept California IOUs As Payment | AlterNet
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California "IOU" recipients can turn to credit unions and check-cashing storefronts if a state budget deal does not appear by Friday and if three major banks refuse to... More
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Student Voices on the High School Exam
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“It has been five months since I took the last CAHSEE math test. For the fifth time. Yes, I took the test five times. I will probably take it again if I have to. I have all my high school credits... More
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Sub-prime Redux? Wall Street Banksters to Trade California IOUs | Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace | AlterNet
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Amid the vacation rentals and used cars for sale, browsers of the website Craigslist will now find a unique offer: for California IOUs. “If you are receiving a Cali fornia IOU and you need cash... More
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Canceling Exit Exam Cheats Students—and California
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Using the false argument of cost savings to the state, the legislative budget conference committee took actions on June 16 that would suspend the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) as a... More
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Schwarzenegger declares emergency in California
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger formally declared a fiscal emergency in the largest US state and called state legislators back into a special session to close a budget deficit expected to... More
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Californians are sinking themselves
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The world's eighth-largest economy has just gone belly-up. When midnight tolled on Tuesday night with legislators and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger still deadlocked over how to resolve the state's... More
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California Parks Could Be Seized By Feds
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California officials said Wednesday they are trying to avert the federal government's threat to seize six parks that could be closed to help reduce the state's ballooning budget... More
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Calif. State Employees Protest Schwarzenegger's Proposed Furloughs
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SACRAMENTO -– Arnold Schwarzenegger, the movie star, is used to acknowledging crowds of adoring fans. But yesterday at the state Capitol, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger encountered a not-so-adorning... More
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