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May 25, 2011
Prisoner Release Sees 450 California Convicts With 'High Risk For Violence' Accidentally Let Out
Patrick HealyZachariah Lehnen, accused in Culver City double homicide, was free on non-revocable parole.As state officials grapple with this week's U.S. Supreme Court ruling ordering California to unleash 33,000 prisoners within the next two years there's some evidence today that maybe correc ... More >>
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May 25, 2011
Marijuana is Huge Business in California, But California Big Business Says Protecting Medical Pot Users is a 'Job Killer'
Dirty cache?In California, as you know, medical marijuana is big business -- $14 billion a year worth, and the Golden State's top cash crop, according to some. But big business in California? It's not so high on pot. In fact, the California Chamber of Commerce today took a big stand against ... More >>
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May 26, 2011
Un-Gerrymandering Los Angeles
Get ready for the brawl of cutting Southern California in pieces, on paper
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May 31, 2011
Your Facebook Info Could be Protected Under California Proposal
eigiIf you don't want Facebook to share your private information, a bill that would grant that wish hits the California Senate this week for a vote. But it will be an uphill battle. Sen. Ellen Corbett's SB 242 needs five votes for passage. It was already rejected and was granted reconsiderat ... More >>
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June 8, 2011
California, America's Left-Leaning, Pot-Smoking Republic, Ranks Almost Last in Study of 'Freedom in the 50 States'
Put some clothes on.California is loose, man. We roll with it. We can buy and smoke weed pretty much legally. We're home to the porn capital of the world -- the San Fernando Valley. We're pretty much for same-sex marriage, especially when the Mormons don't meddle in our affairs. Our bell- ... More >>
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June 10, 2011
California Citizens Redistricting Map Shakeup: Why Disgusted Voters Took Control of Senate, Assembly and Congressional Electoral Borders
While the U.S mourned 9-11 the California State Legislature went behind closed doors to rig their elections.By Hillel Aron and Jill Stewart Here's why California citizens today produced new, non-sleazy, non-trickster-y redistricting maps that starkly rejigger how communities are represented ... More >>
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June 15, 2011
Marijuana Dispensaries Near Homes Could be Outlawed Under Proposed California Law
Marijuana supporters say a California bill that would ban pot shops from residential areas is a buzz kill. SB 847 faces a crucial vote in the state assembly's Health Committee on Tuesday and the activists are reaching out to supporters in hopes they'll call key legislators and urge them to b ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
Legalize Marijuana on a National Level? It Could Happen as Barney Frank Introduces Bill in Congress Today
Sign it if you got it, Mr. President.Legal medical marijuana from coast to coast? It's possible. Not that anyone in California is about to get up and cheer, since it's been legal here for 15 years and pot shops have flourished in L.A. for nearly five. But think about your brothers in the fl ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
Porn Actress Contracted HIV in 2009: Judge Blocks State Workplace Regulators From Peeking at her Medical Records
Update: The AIDS Healthcare Foundation says it will appeal the ruling to the California Supreme Court. Details at the bottom. A previously unknown HIV case in porn was revealed this week after an adult performer sued California workplace regulators who wanted access to her medical records. ... More >>
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June 27, 2011
Best New Semi-Local Whole Wheat Flour: Community Grains' Winter Wheat
JgarbeeCalifornia Grown And Milled Whole WheatYou might say Community Grains has a now-typical California restaurant-to-home-kitchen story, one most often recounted whenever Nancy Silverton, Campanile and La Brea Bakery wind up in the same sentence. The small Woodland-based mill also sprang u ... More >>
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June 30, 2011
Sales Tax in California Goes Down 1 Percentage Point This Weekend
Indeed.Yes, we've seen the t-shirts: 2010 sucked. It's true. And so far, 2011 isn't exactly sparking the turnaround of the new century. Not yet. But there's hope. Thanks to the often sedentary ways of the California legislature, a 2009, one-percentage point sales tax increase will expire t ... More >>
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July 7, 2011
SIMPLY GRAND FOR 25 YEARS
Indeed.Yes, we've seen the t-shirts: 2010 sucked. It's true. And so far, 2011 isn't exactly sparking the turnaround of the new century. Not yet. But there's hope. Thanks to the often sedentary ways of the California legislature, a 2009, one-percentage point sales tax increase will expire t ... More >>
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July 14, 2011
Gay History Now Required, by Law, to Be Taught in California Social-Studies Textbooks
Instinct MagazineYour children are doomed!Another reason for SoCal Republicans to secede: The children of California will now be required to learn about homosexual contributions to history, a bill proposed by openly gay San Francisco Senator Mark Leno (figures!) and signed into law by Governo ... More >>
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July 19, 2011
No-Cook Recipe: Chilled Momotaro Tomato Salad California Olive Oil
Susan ParkMomotaro Tomatoes from Yatsutomi Farms We're not wild about most tomato varieties. We find them either too bland and hard, or too acidic for our tastes. This has been an enduring issue since childhood. But last weekend we bought half a dozen Momotaro tomatoes from Yatsutomi Farms at ... More >>
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July 25, 2011
Marijuana From California Increasingly Ending up in Middle America
Shreyans BhansaliWe wish they call could be California girls.How epic is California's medical marijuana scene? Well, pot here is a little like water -- as it floods it spreads. So much so that some authorities think that purveyors of find Golden State cannabis -- said by some to be the sta ... More >>
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July 25, 2011
Stop SB 48 Campaign Seeks to Repeal California's Gay History Law
Gay Californians and their straight allies may soon have to fight off another ballot measure. Governor Jerry Brown recently signed a state bill into law that ensures that the contributions of gays and gay rights are included in school textbooks. A group called Stop SB 48 now wants to repeal ... More >>
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July 26, 2011
Marijuana Seizures Increase at Border Despite Mexican Drug War And Medical Legalization in California, Other States
Hemp Beach TVBorder weed.As blood continues to flow from Mexico's drug-cartel wars, the country's marijuana crop is having a banner year, beating last year's seizure rate along the Texas border from Del Rio to Brownsville by 10 percent so far this year, according to the Houston Chonicle. Str ... More >>
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August 18, 2011
Celeb Hotspots Cited for Not Serving Food: Shocking!
Lina LecaroThe scene inside Voyeur.At Voyeur, strippers used the kitchen as a dressing room. At SBE-owned Industry, a table for the night costs $2,000, but don't expect to eat. At Hyde Lounge, another SBE hotspot, ask a bartender for food and you'll be told they don't serve any. That's accord ... More >>
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August 19, 2011
Unemployment in Los Angeles Hits 12.4 Percent: Recovery or Great Recession?
'The Jerk'We hope you're enjoying the economic recovery, what with the stock market taking a stage dive, a real estate Ice Age and yes, lots and lots of people out of work. Good thing 2008 is in the rear view, right? Wait, California just announced state unemployment has hit 12 percent. That ... More >>
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September 1, 2011
Support Your State: Drink California Wine During CA Wine Month
Kathy A. McDonaldLearn more about wine this month at a wine tasting seminarThese days, every foodstuff or drink gets a day in its honor. Did you know there's a National Pecan Cookie day (September 21)? One guess on how to observe either National Guacamole Day (September 16) or National Beer D ... More >>
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September 2, 2011
Teen Tanning Ban Passed by California Legislature: No Fake Bake For You, Young Lady
No can do.California has challenges, like a perpetually stormy, multi-billion-dollar deficit hanging over our heads, a public-university system, once the best in the world, with near private-school prices, and the imminent release of 33,000 state prisoners. So South Bay Sen. Ted Lieu has don ... More >>
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September 13, 2011
Illegal Immigrants Won't Usually Get Their Cars Towed at Police Checkpoints Under New Law on Jerry Brown's Desk
Alex ThompsonDUI checkpoints in California have doubled as all-you-can-tow buffets for cash-strapped cities. That's because the unlicensed drivers who happen upon them get their vehicles towed and impounded. If they don't have the cash to bail their cars out (often around $1,000 for 30 days a ... More >>
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September 13, 2011
Nearly Half of All Young Americans, 6 Million Californians, Officially Living in Poverty
So the Great Recession has been over for nearly two years, huh? The latest U.S. Census data indicates the United States has more people living in poverty than, oh, ever. Well, almost ever. The 46.2 million of Americans below the line are as many as have been recorded in the 52 years governme ... More >>
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September 13, 2011
Diversity Programs at UC, Cal State Universities Blasted by Critics Who Say Budget Cuts Should Affect All
Chicano Studies ReaderA small group of educators is pissed that California's epic cuts to its higher education system don't seem to be affecting diversity programs as much as the rest. This amid reports that UC students could see $22,000-year tuition within four years. Of course, that kind o ... More >>
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September 15, 2011
California Environmental Protection Could be Watered Down Under Sneaky Law Awaiting Jerry Brown's Signature, Activists Say
Chris McCorkleDensity in downtown L.A.Critics of over-development in L.A. are up in arms about a California law, which just needs the governor's signature to be finalized, that they argue would weaken the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and allow cities to use years- and decades-o ... More >>
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September 23, 2011
'Hands Off Proposition 13,' Two-Thirds of California Voters Tell Gov. Jerry Brown and Respected Field Poll
Green: Who backed Proposition 13 in 1978. Red: People who watched a ball game instead. Wow, this is pretty definitive: With all kinds of California newspapers bashing Proposition 13 (often inaccurately claiming that it has starved the state budget -- which has skyrocketed since 1978 even as c ... More >>
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September 27, 2011
Will Stop SB 48 Get Anti-Gay History Initiative on 2012 Ballot?
"Stop SB 48," the group that wants to repeal a state law that allows California students to learn about important people in history who were gay, claimed in an email to supporters yesterday afternoon that its petition drive for a ballot measure will be successful. "The signed petitions are ... More >>
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September 28, 2011
Californians Like to Shoot People: State Tops Nation in Gun Murders
hi-fictionWhen we think "gun crime" we think Deep South and toothless, pickup-truck driving yokels who'll shoot you for even looking at their property. Stereotype. We're wrong, because California, the self-obsessed, yoga-centric, surf-'em-if-you-got-'em state is also the capital of shoot-' ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Legal Marijuana Users in California Can't Buy Guns, Federal Gov Says
Buffalo PDIf you legally use medical marijuana in California the federal government has just revoked your constitutional right to bear arms. In other words, if you use weed, forget about buying a gun. Well, enforcement is another matter (more on that below). You see, the U.S. Bureau of Alco ... More >>
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October 11, 2011
Let's Get Retarded: Anti-Vaccine Group Claims Federal Law Trumps California's New Rule That Allows Girls to Get HPV-Prevention Drug
Bachmann vs. HPV.The organization that injected the specter of retardation-via-vaccine is at it again, this time criticizing California's new law allowing 12-year-old girls to avoid cancer by getting HPV-prevention shots without their parents' consent. Now, we're not sure if the National Vac ... More >>
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October 12, 2011
'Stop SB 48' Fails to Gather Enough Signatures for Repeal of California Gay History Law
Gore Vidal"Stop SB 48," the group that sought to repeal a state law that allows California students to learn about important people in history who were gay, has officially announced that it has not gathered enough signatures from registered voters to place an initiative on the 2012 ballot. ... More >>
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October 18, 2011
Marijuana Growers Find a Home on California Farmland?
realcaliforniamilk.comWhat are those cows munching on?Since California legalized medical marijuana in 1996, growers of pot have, well, grown wise, evolving from a campaign that emphasized the cancer-afflicted grandma growing pot on her windowsill (way to legalize it) to the reality of large-s ... More >>
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October 19, 2011
Medical Marijuana Crackdown in California by Feds Blasted by Golden State Lawmakers Leno, Ammiano
Tiffany RoseFeds want to tear up this prescription.A pair of California lawmakers is pushing back against a federal crackdown on medical marijuana dispensaries in the Golden State. Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano today lashed out against the pronouncement by Depa ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Marijuana Dispensaries Could See Tighter Restrictions, Licensing Under Calif. Ballot Initiative Proposed by Pot Advocates
The California initiative process is your bud.If you look at the marijuana dispensaries around L.A., you might conclude that the pot-shop game is a far cry from the laws voters approved in order to allow the "seriously ill" to share homegrown, nonprofit weed. It has become, even by some of m ... More >>
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October 27, 2011
Hermosa Beach Cigarette Nazis Ban Smoking Pretty Much Everywhere in South Bay Town
Ian BroylesHermosa Beach: Woo! Wait, not woo.Ah, the South Bay. Home of the Beach Boys, the laid-back, California lifestyle and, of course, white people partying. And now it's also where you'll find ... cigarette Nazis! That's right, the salt-air breezes don't seem to dissipate the anti-s ... More >>
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October 27, 2011
Gay History Bill: Why Is the Los Angeles Times Spreading Sex-Ed Lies Birthed by 'Stop SB 48'?
Hide your little boys and girls... 'cause California's scheming, sexed-up politicians are about to sneak gay porn all up in their kindergarten classrooms! Heh. That's the gist of the "Stop SB 48" campaign, which seeks to repeal a new California law requiring the contributions of LGBT-identif ... More >>
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November 9, 2011
UCLA Students to Occupy Banks in Los Angeles' Financial District Downtown Today
Nanette GonzalezOccupy denim shorts.Updated at the bottom: Arrests in Westwood and now the occupation of a Bank of America downtown. First posted at 12:09 p.m. Following Bank Transfer Day, a movement that started here in L.A., local college students will march on banks today to protest high ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
Cut: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011
Nanette GonzalezOccupy denim shorts.Updated at the bottom: Arrests in Westwood and now the occupation of a Bank of America downtown. First posted at 12:09 p.m. Following Bank Transfer Day, a movement that started here in L.A., local college students will march on banks today to protest high ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
Campanile: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011
Nanette GonzalezOccupy denim shorts.Updated at the bottom: Arrests in Westwood and now the occupation of a Bank of America downtown. First posted at 12:09 p.m. Following Bank Transfer Day, a movement that started here in L.A., local college students will march on banks today to protest high ... More >>
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November 15, 2011
Los Angeles Has America's Top 3 'Congested Corridors,' Including 110 Freeway: We Waste a Lot of Gas, Too
NoiseCollusionToldya we're good at stuff in L.A. Like putting Asian meat in tacos, producing porn and creating traffic nightmares like nobody's business. Yeah baby. L.A.'s number one once again when it comes to the nation's top "congestion leaders," e.g. f----- up freeways. In fact we grabbe ... More >>
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November 16, 2011
Occupy Affiliated ReFund California to March on Cal State Trustees, Wells Fargo in Long Beach Today
ReFund CaliforniaUpdated at the bottom with blood, pepper spray and a clash between protesters and police. First posted at 7 a.m. The Occupy-affiliated protesters who scared the UC Board of Regents into cancelling their big meeting this week will be at the Cal State Board of Trustees meeting ... More >>
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November 21, 2011
Billionaires Endorse Initiative to Raise California Taxes For Schools, Universities
The Occupy movement and ReFund California have been making a lot of noise about getting billionaires and big banks to pay a greater share of California's tax and education bill so students don't have to continue facing huge tuition hikes. It looks like at least some of California's billionai ... More >>
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December 27, 2011
The Year in Food Recalls
A. ScattergoodIt was a bad year for orange fruit (papayas, cantaloupes) and leafy greens (especially romaine). Ground turkey took a big hit (36 million pounds recalled), and raw milk products were pulled from shelves. Here's a look back at 2011 in food recalls, a year of E. coli conundrums, L ... More >>
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December 27, 2011
Shark Fin Smuggler Caught at Border
No more shark fin soup in California.Now that the sale of shark fins for commercial purposes is illegal under both state and federal law, we'll likely see more incidents like this: A Mexican woman was stopped at the border in San Ysidro, California allegedly trying to smuggle shark fins into ... More >>
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January 3, 2012
New California Law Bans Minors From Buying Cough Syrup (Happy New Year!)
Vicks are (not) for kids.It'll be a sobering 2012 for the sizzerp-sipping teens of California. As of January 1, state minors can add cough syrup -- alongside porn and cigarettes -- to the list of novelties to buy from the drugstore on their 18th birthday. And they've got Sen. Joe Simitian (D ... More >>
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January 4, 2012
California's $100B Bullet Train 'Not Feasible' at This Time, Says Peer Review Group for the High-Speed Rail (Surprise, Surprise)
The Bullet Train: Even more expensive a pipe dream than the L.A. mayor's "Subway to the Sea."How many more warnings will it take for starry-eyed California politicians to realize the voter-approved $100 billion Bullet Train is a budget disaster waiting to implode? On top of skepticism from t ... More >>
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January 9, 2012
Los Angeles Has Highest Gas Prices in America Right Now
Ouch.What a fine way to kick off 2012: with some apocalyptic gas prices to sucker-punch an already battered economy. Over the last three weeks, California company Lundberg Survey Inc. finds that gas prices have risen just over 12 cents across the nation. And Lundberg's president tells Bloomb ... More >>
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September 8, 2011
Golden State of Craft: California 1960-1985
Ouch.What a fine way to kick off 2012: with some apocalyptic gas prices to sucker-punch an already battered economy. Over the last three weeks, California company Lundberg Survey Inc. finds that gas prices have risen just over 12 cents across the nation. And Lundberg's president tells Bloomb ... More >>
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January 30, 2012
Top Ten Best Live Music Venues in L.A.: #10 - #6
Timothy NorrisCalifornia knows how to party. -"California Love" It's the unofficial state motto. But not only do we know how, we know where. Los Angeles is home to a wide spectrum of live music venues, from the teeniest Echo Park hole-in-the-wall only you and five friends know, to grand ol' ... More >>
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February 8, 2012
Marijuana Sold For Profit at California Dispensaries? Guy Who Wrote The Law on This, John Vasconcellos, Says it's Legit
Troy HoldenOne of the rallying cries of those opposed to the proliferation of pot shops in places like Los Angeles is that medical marijuana was never meant to be for-profit in the state of California. Yet, in L.A., the weed game has clearly become about money and entrepreneurship, so much s ... More >>
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