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Tobacco taxes are great, but Proposition 29 stinks
Yes, our freeways and surface streets are crumbling. But the next time your front wheel hits an enormous pothole, you can remember with pride that California is the world leader in one form of highway maintenance: paving the road to hell with good...Tags: Education, Healthcare Provider, Science and Technology, Tobacco Products, Financial Aid
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Cigarette tax is a lifesaver
SACRAMENTO — Cigarette makers have a certified history of deception, distortion and lying. And let's not forget fraud and racketeering.
Those aren't my words. Credit U.S. District Judge Gladys E. Kessler of Washington, D.C.
She wrote in a landmark...Tags: Prostate Cancer, Companies and Corporations, Healthcare Provider, Judges, Science and Technology
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Tobacco company ads take aim at Proposition 29
Every morning when UC San Diego physicist Herbert Levine laces up his running shoes and chugs alongside Mission Bay, his earphones crackle with radio ads opposing a proposed $1-per-pack cigarette tax to raise money for cancer research. The ads are funded...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, Healthcare Provider, Science and Technology, Tobacco Products, Democratic Party
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Think of the tobacco tax as user fee
SACRAMENTO — Let's begin with the basics: Tobacco companies are inherently evil. They peddle poison that causes cancer and addicts people to their killer products. Second, smoking is nuts. Smokers know that. Spare the lectures. Can't stop, they...
Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Companies and Corporations, Parties and Movements, Health Organizations
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San Francisco votes for mayor in 'ranked choice' balloting
L.A. NOWSan Francisco voters trickled into the polls Tuesday to choose a mayor from a pool of 16 candidates, including interim Mayor Ed Lee. Lee became the city’s first Asian American mayor when he was named to fill out the term...... -
Jean Harris dies at 66; forceful gay-rights organizer
Jean Harris, a feisty advocate for gay and lesbian rights and longtime Democratic Party activist who helped elect openly gay candidates in California, has died. She was 66.
Harris, who had a number of serious health problems, was found June 25 in her...Tags: Politics, Parties and Movements, Career and Workplace, Gays and Lesbians, Harvey Milk
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No to diploma mills
California has a reputation as a haven for diploma mills, for-profit trade schools that charge thousands of dollars for questionable training that doesn't bring students the prosperous careers as chefs, beauticians and lab techs they had expected. The...Tags: Corporate Crime, Fraud
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Budget dead ends and delays
No, really, how bad could it be? How seriously should we take the state's latest budget crisis if a clutch of lawmakers, including the chairwoman of the Senate Budget Committee, is spending the emergency session in India? What kind of buy-in from...Tags: Republican Party, Disasters, Regional Authority, India, Bankruptcy
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Sacramento stalls on renewable energy
California is seen as a national, even worldwide, pioneer on environmental issues such as fighting global warming and pursuing renewable energy. But somewhere along the trail, the state has broken a couple of wheels on its Conestoga wagon. Four other...Tags: Politics, Death, State Budgets, Democratic Party, Environmental Issues
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California budget fix could raise sales taxes
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLegislative leaders are drafting a complicated scheme to help close the state's massive deficit by raiding funds voters have set aside for transportation and local government services, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Thursday, adding that it probably...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Laws, Regional Authority, Budgets and Budgeting
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California's costly budget
It's not over. The 2008-09 state budget is so late, and so lame, that it won't really be finalized until next year -- if then. Its passage Friday and expected signature by the governor early next week provide some relief to the clinics that were about...Tags: Republican Party, Regional Authority, Democratic Party, Referenda, Voting
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Transcript of Gov. Schwarzenegger's press conference vowing to veto state budget
Time: 3:00 p.m. Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 Event: Press Conference, Room 1190, State Capitol, Sacramento, CA GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER: Good afternoon. You know, when the people of California sent me to Sacramento I promised them that I will...Tags: Republican Party, Wages and Pensions, Laws, Politics, Regional Authority
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