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EDITORIAL: BREAKING BAD–CALIFORNIA VS. THE OTHER STATES
By Richard Rider, Chairman, San Diego Tax Fighters August 21, 2009 (San Diego) — Here’s a depressing comparison of California taxes and economic climate with the rest of the
EDITORIAL: THE ECONOMICS OF “PREVAILING WAGES”
By Tracy Emblem August 23, 2009 (San Diego)–The federal prevailing wage law known as the Davis-Bacon Act was passed in 1931 after the Great Depression. In 1979, nine
EDITORIAL: PULLING THE PLUG ON GRANDMA
By Leon Thompson August 18, 2009 (Santee)–In town-halls across America and in the media, opponents of President Barack Obama’s heath care reform proposal (including ex-Alaska Governor Sara Palin) are
EDITORIAL: AN OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER FROM A SPECIAL OLYMPICS ATHLETE : PLEASE DON’T TERMINATE PROGRAMS FOR DISABLED!
Editor’s note: Governor Schwarzenegger and the Legislature just slashed hundreds of millions from programs helping disabled people with medical care, finding jobs, and Special Olympics. An effort to override
EDITORIAL: THE POLITICS OF FEAR
By Tracy Emblem July 26, 2009 (San Diego)–Many of us know from personal experience that our health care insurance system is not working. Families and business owners cannot
EDITORIAL: SINGLE PAYER AND THE PUBLIC OPTION
by Sheila Kuehl July 2009 (Sacramento)–As many of you may know, I was the author of a bill to establish a Medicare-like, single payer program in California. The bill passed
EDITORIAL: HATE FREE LEMON GROVE
"Many names of those Americans that have been murdered from LGBT bias in this nation were read as candles were lit… the silence was slight as each name then
EDITORIAL: THE $24 BILLION QUESTION: HOW WILL BUDGET CUTS HELP PROMOTE ECONOMIC GROWTH?
By Robert Cruikshank, Courage Campaign (originally printed at http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/community/post/roberticruickshank/C2t5 with links to sourcing) June 9, 2009 (Sacramento)–It’s a question that I rarely ever see asked, and one that is *never*
EDITORIAL: FIDDLING WHILE ROME BURNS
By Assemblyman Joel Anderson In the year AD 64, Roman emperor Nero fiddled at the top of a tower as a devastating fire swept through the city of Rome.
EDITORIAL: THE TRUTH ABOUT HEALTHCARE REFORM: WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW CAN KILL YOU
“Single-payer is the health system that works for every other industrialized nation on earth.” By Sylvia Hampton Supporters of real health care reform want a national expansion of the popular
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EDITORIAL: BREAKING BAD–CALIFORNIA VS. THE OTHER STATES
By Richard Rider, Chairman, San Diego Tax Fighters August 21, 2009 (San Diego) — Here’s a depressing comparison of California taxes and economic climate with the rest of the
EDITORIAL: THE ECONOMICS OF “PREVAILING WAGES”
By Tracy Emblem August 23, 2009 (San Diego)–The federal prevailing wage law known as the Davis-Bacon Act was passed in 1931 after the Great Depression. In 1979, nine
EDITORIAL: PULLING THE PLUG ON GRANDMA
By Leon Thompson August 18, 2009 (Santee)–In town-halls across America and in the media, opponents of President Barack Obama’s heath care reform proposal (including ex-Alaska Governor Sara Palin) are
EDITORIAL: AN OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER FROM A SPECIAL OLYMPICS ATHLETE : PLEASE DON’T TERMINATE PROGRAMS FOR DISABLED!
Editor’s note: Governor Schwarzenegger and the Legislature just slashed hundreds of millions from programs helping disabled people with medical care, finding jobs, and Special Olympics. An effort to override
EDITORIAL: THE POLITICS OF FEAR
By Tracy Emblem July 26, 2009 (San Diego)–Many of us know from personal experience that our health care insurance system is not working. Families and business owners cannot
EDITORIAL: SINGLE PAYER AND THE PUBLIC OPTION
by Sheila Kuehl July 2009 (Sacramento)–As many of you may know, I was the author of a bill to establish a Medicare-like, single payer program in California. The bill passed
EDITORIAL: HATE FREE LEMON GROVE
"Many names of those Americans that have been murdered from LGBT bias in this nation were read as candles were lit… the silence was slight as each name then
EDITORIAL: THE $24 BILLION QUESTION: HOW WILL BUDGET CUTS HELP PROMOTE ECONOMIC GROWTH?
By Robert Cruikshank, Courage Campaign (originally printed at http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/community/post/roberticruickshank/C2t5 with links to sourcing) June 9, 2009 (Sacramento)–It’s a question that I rarely ever see asked, and one that is *never*
EDITORIAL: FIDDLING WHILE ROME BURNS
By Assemblyman Joel Anderson In the year AD 64, Roman emperor Nero fiddled at the top of a tower as a devastating fire swept through the city of Rome.
EDITORIAL: THE TRUTH ABOUT HEALTHCARE REFORM: WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW CAN KILL YOU
“Single-payer is the health system that works for every other industrialized nation on earth.” By Sylvia Hampton Supporters of real health care reform want a national expansion of the popular
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