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Sacramento TV station airs first medical marijuana ad

Written on 4 Sep, 2010 in Screening Room | One comment

This week a Fox affiliate in Sacramento produced and aired what is believed to be the first broadcast ad for a medical marijuana dispensary. The ad shown below is for marijuana advocacy group CannaCare and is running as a fully-paid... (Continue reading)

2010 could be record year for state marijuana busts

Written on 30 Aug, 2010 in Daily Briefs | 17 comments

Law enforcement officials believe that 2010 could be a record year for marijuana busts, topping the seven million pot plants destroyed last year. [California Watch] With the major fall pot harvest fast approaching, law enforcement agencies across the state are... (Continue reading)

World without lawyers?

Written on 27 Aug, 2010 in Screening Room | 3 comments

Do you ever wonder what the world would be like without lawyers? A World Without Lawyers – The most popular videos are here From the  Consumer Attorneys of California some of the 169,294 active members of the State Bar of... (Continue reading)

California law seeking to ‘cure’ gays under scrutiny

Written on 26 Aug, 2010 in Daily Briefs | 7 comments

Legislation to eliminate a 60-year-old law requiring the state to ‘cure” gays and lesbians has been sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. [MercuryNews] The long-ignored provision in the Welfare and Institution Code classifies gays as deviants. It requires the Department of... (Continue reading)

California mall forbids talking to strangers

Written on 15 Aug, 2010 in Daily Briefs | 7 comments

Owners of a mall in Roseville don’t like strangers speaking to each other, unless it is about commercial enterprises in the mall, and penned rules prohibiting strangers from conversing. [SacramentoBee] The rules forbid peaceful, consensual, spontaneous conversations between strangers about... (Continue reading)

Closed state parks cost Central Coast jobs

Written on 13 Aug, 2010 in Opinion | 12 comments

OPINION By John Laird - We must take a stand to fix our state parks, so that we do not continue to lose jobs on the Central Coast – right at the moment when our visitor-serving economy needs them the... (Continue reading)

Fix California

Written on 13 Aug, 2010 in Opinion | 4 comments

OPINION By Sam Blakeslee, Ph.D. - California’s 12.3 percent unemployment rate now ranks as the third worst in the nation. Other large diverse states post much lower rates which translates to millions of Californians who are unnecessarily unemployed and... (Continue reading)

California incomes plummeting

Written on 11 Aug, 2010 in Daily Briefs | One comment

Personal Incomes for Californians dropped the first time since World War II, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis. [MarketWatch] The agency said that California incomes dropped by $40 million during 2009. That’s down about 2.5 percent in a year.... (Continue reading)

Judge to rule on status of gay marriage

Written on 11 Aug, 2010 in Daily Briefs | One comment

Judge Vaughn Walker is scheduled to rule Thursday morning on whether or not gay marriage can resume in California. [LA Times] The federal jurist is deciding if a hold on gay marriage in the state should continue, following his recent... (Continue reading)

State workers urge boycott of Arnold’s new movie

Written on 10 Aug, 2010 in Daily Briefs | 10 comments

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger apparently feels that state workers are expendable–at least on Furlough Fridays. Now some are trying to repay the governor by urging a boycott of his new movie, opening this Friday, “The Expendables.” [California Watch] In truth, the... (Continue reading)