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California considers ban on caffeinated alcohol beverages

Written on 12 Jul, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 50 comments

If you like caffeine with your beer, you’ll have to mix them yourself. [San Mateo Daily Journal] The California Assembly moved to prohibit the sale and production of popular energy drinks such as Joose and Four Loko, which are laced... (Continue reading)

You can’t kill me, I’m a level 76

Written on 8 Jul, 2011 in Opinion | 10 comments

OPINION By ROGER FREBERG By now everyone knows that California’s stupid law prohibiting the sale of violent video games to children has been struck down by – no less than—the United States Supreme Court. In what many are claiming to... (Continue reading)

Government plans large-scale marijuana raids in six California counties

Written on 7 Jul, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 40 comments

Marijuana growers in the Mendocino National Forest will be the targets of the largest series of law enforcement raids ever conducted in Northern California. [California Watch] Later this summer, as illegal grow operations start winding up for the surge in... (Continue reading)

Hundreds of California’s state employees earn more than $240,000

Written on 6 Jul, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 16 comments

More than 500 of California’s public service workers earned more than $240,000 before taxes in 2010, according to data released Tuesday by state Controller John Chiang. [San Francisco Chronicle] As legislators last year worked feverishly to reduce spending in the... (Continue reading)

Bill would require California schools to teach contributions of homosexuals

Written on 6 Jul, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 97 comments

California’s students may soon be instructed on the contributions of homosexuals if Gov. Jerry Brown signs a bill that lawmakers delivered to him on Tuesday. [Associated Press] The bill, SB48, adds lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people as well as... (Continue reading)

Immigration status could block children from public healthcare

Written on 3 Jul, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 96 comments

As many as 220,000 uninsured children in California will be excluded from health care reform programs because of their or their parents’ immigration status, according to an analysis released Thursday. [CaliforniaWatch] When fully implemented in 2014, the Patient Protection and... (Continue reading)

Blakeslee resurrects bill limiting gifts from lobbyists

Written on 30 Jun, 2011 in Daily Briefs | 17 comments

State Sen. Sam Blakeslee, R-San Luis Obispo, is resurrecting a version of a bill that was killed earlier this year limiting gifts legislators can receive from lobbyists. [TheCalifornian.com] He is co-authoring the bipartisan SB 50 with Sen. Lou Correa, a... (Continue reading)

California dream isn’t so golden any more

Written on 30 Jun, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 20 comments

The last decade between 2000 and 2010 proved to be the biggest population slump of any period since the beginning of California’s statehood in 1850, according to the most recent census data. [CNN U.S.] The Golden State, the most populous... (Continue reading)

New vaccine law takes effect

Written on 29 Jun, 2011 in Daily Briefs | One comment

A new California law that requires middle and high school students to be vaccinated against whooping cough takes effect July 1—a regulation that intends to help curb an outbreak of the highly contagious disease. All students entering 7th through 12th grades... (Continue reading)

Treasurer worried about high-speed train funding

Written on 28 Jun, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 10 comments

California’s top financial official is warning that the numbers are not penciling out for the proposed controversial 800-mile bullet train system. [California Watch] State Treasurer Bill Lockyer says that the $45 billion rail system is brimming with “unanswered questions: about... (Continue reading)