Salon.com > California http://www.salon.com Fri, 03 May 2013 03:47:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 California’s disappearing health care reform http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/what_happened_to_californias_single_payer_health_care_bill_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/what_happened_to_californias_single_payer_health_care_bill_partner/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 18:54:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13287790 Los
Angeles Review of Books
 A VERY STRANGE THING HAPPENED to the California single payer health care bill this year. It disappeared.

This disappearance was no small thing. Single payer has actually passed both California legislative branches — twice — before being vetoed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The bill hasn’t exactly been obscure, if only because its initial sponsor was Senator Sheila Kuehl, famous long ago as Zelda on the television show The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. Yet, where Vermont begins the year progressing toward its version of a single payer system and Pennsylvania unveils a study of how much money a similar system might save its people, the largest state in the union has no such legislative vehicle, despite the millions who will remain uncovered by “Obamacare” and reports of drastic health insurance rate increases to come.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/what_happened_to_californias_single_payer_health_care_bill_partner/feed/ 2 How neglecting bees could endanger humans http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/follow_europes_lead_in_protecting_bees/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/follow_europes_lead_in_protecting_bees/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 18:50:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13286205 If you are an almond farmer in the Central Valley of California, where 80 percent of the world’s production is grown, you had a problem earlier this spring. Chances are there weren’t enough bees to pollinate your trees. That’s because untold thousands of colonies -- almost half of the 1.6 million commercial hives that almond growers depend on -- failed to survive the winter, making this the worst season for beekeepers in anyone’s memory. And that is saying a lot, because bees have been faring increasingly poorly for years now.

Much of this recent spike in bee mortality is attributed to Colony Collapse Disorder, a mysterious condition where all the worker bees in a colony simply fly off as a group and never make it back to the hive. Scientists have been studying this odd phenomenon for years and they still aren’t sure why it is happening.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/follow_europes_lead_in_protecting_bees/feed/ 26 Feds threaten medical pot dispensaries with 40-year sentences http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/feds_threaten_medical_pot_dispensaries_with_40_year_sentences/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/feds_threaten_medical_pot_dispensaries_with_40_year_sentences/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:45:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13286000 In the latest act in the ongoing drama pitting federal drug laws against state legislation permitting the sale of marijuana, a U.S. attorney is threatening the landlords housing medical marijuana dispensaries with 40 years in federal prison. After ballot measures legalizing the sale and possession of recreational pot use passed in Colorado and Washington state, we wondered whether Obama's second term would see the beginning of the end of the federal war on drugs.

But as the San Jose crackdown, among others, suggests, the Justice Department will not be backing down. In January, Southern California medical marijuana dispensary operator Aaron Sandusky was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for running a business deemed legal in his state since California legalized marijuana for qualified patients, caregivers and collectives in 1996 and 2003. Now, as the East Bay Express reported, "a new round of actions against lawful medical cannabis dispensaries in the South Bay" has begun following crackdowns in 2011:

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/30/feds_threaten_medical_pot_dispensaries_with_40_year_sentences/feed/ 57 3 sea snail divers killed over the weekend http://www.salon.com/2013/04/29/3_sea_snail_divers_killed_over_the_weekend_ap/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/29/3_sea_snail_divers_killed_over_the_weekend_ap/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2013 22:22:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13285128 SANTA ROSA, Calif. — Three recreational abalone divers died in separate incidents over the weekend in Northern California, where powerful rip currents were reported.

A low tide drew the divers to the beaches looking for the mollusks that are prized delicacies by seafood lovers, the Press Democrat reported on Sunday.

The body of a 66-year-old retired Pacifica firefighter was found on Saturday afternoon off Shell Beach in Sonoma County.Cedric Collett, a strong swimmer in good physical shape, had been diving with a friend but didn’t resurface, the newspaper said. His body was found still in his weight belt, which is used to help a diver stay submerged while prying abalone loose from rocks.

On Sunday morning, several divers helped pull 36-year-old Kenneth Liu of San Francisco to shore after he got caught in a rip tide off nearby Salt Point State Park, but he couldn’t be revived, the newspaper said.

Several hours later, an unidentified diver was found dead north of Fort Bragg. A Sonoma County sheriff’s sergeant said the man was found about 15 feet below the water and might have been snagged in rocks.

The surf was pounding on rescue crews who responded to all three distress calls, Sonoma County sheriff’s Deputy Henri Boustany said.

Deaths from abalone diving are common during the recreational harvesting season. However, three in a single weekend was a shock, even to authorities.

“It’s the busiest we’ve been in that short amount of time with that many horrible outcomes,” said Paul Bradley, a veteran helicopter pilot for the sheriff’s department.

Abalone season for recreational divers opened April 1 and runs through the end of June.

Since the early 1990s, dozens of people have died in their quest to collect the prized sea snails. One diver was decapitated by a shark in Mendocino County in 2004.

Tim Murphy, a state parks lifeguard, said abalone divers should spend time studying the water before deciding to dive. Rip currents and fast-changing sea conditions make for a dangerous environment.

Murphy said it is also important to have a dive buddy and to stay close together and have a game plan if trouble arises.

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Information from: The Santa Rosa Press Democrat, http://www.pressdemocrat.com

Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Lila Shapiro at Huffington Post reports:

Despite the unresolved legal challenge, two New York state lawmakers from New York City, Sen. Michael Gianaris and Sen. Deborah Glick, both progressive Democrats, said the time was right to propose a ban.

"There are often challenges to any manner of legislation that is protecting of the LGBT community and you can't sit on your hands and wait until things get resolved somewhere else," said Glick, who became the first openly gay legislator in New York in 1990.

According to the American Psychological Association website, ”To date, there has been no scientifically adequate research to show that therapy aimed at changing sexual orientation (sometimes called reparative or conversion therapy) is safe or effective.”

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/26/new_york_bill_would_ban_gay_conversion_therapy_for_minors/feed/ 3 Why can’t America unite on the economy? http://www.salon.com/2013/04/18/why_cant_america_unite_on_the_economy_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/18/why_cant_america_unite_on_the_economy_partner/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:57:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13275075 We come together as Americans when confronting common disasters and common threats, such as occurred in Boston on Monday, but we continue to split apart economically.

Anyone who wants to understand the dis-uniting of America needs to see how dramatically we’re segregating geographically by income and wealth. Today I’m giving a Town Hall talk in Fresno, in the center of California’s Central Valley, where the official unemployment rate is 15.4 percent and median family earns under $40,000. The so-called “recovery” is barely in evidence.

As the crow flies Fresno is not that far from California’s high-tech enclaves of Google, Intel, Facebook, and Apple, or from the entertainment capital of Hollywood, but they might as well be different worlds.

Being wealthy in modern America means you don’t come across anyone who isn’t, and being poor and lower-middle class means you’re surrounded by others who are just as hard up. Upward mobility — the old notion that anyone can make it with enough guts and gumption — is less of a reality.

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Driving through Sonoma’s famed pastures and rolling vineyards, I note billboards advertising casinos and hydroponics — a favored tool for cultivating pot indoors. This is pot country as much as wine country. Marijuana is the second most-popular intoxicant in the world (after alcohol) and largely legal in the Golden State thanks to 1996 and 2003 laws that allow its use for medicinal purposes.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/14/go_green_at_californias_first_pot_farmers_market_partner/feed/ 16 Are California state prisons racist? http://www.salon.com/2013/04/12/is_the_california_penitentiary_system_racist_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/12/is_the_california_penitentiary_system_racist_partner/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:45:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13269154 ProPublicaIn several men’s prisons across California, colored signs hang above cell doors: blue for black inmates, white for white, red, green or pink for Hispanic, yellow for everyone else.

Though it’s not an official policy, at least five California state prisons have a color-coding system.

On any given day, the color of a sign could mean the difference between an inmate exercising in the prison yard or being confined to their cell. When prisoners attack guards or other inmates, California allows its corrections officers to restrict all prisoners of that same race or ethnicity to prevent further violence.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/12/is_the_california_penitentiary_system_racist_partner/feed/ 2 Rick Warren: My son committed suicide with unregistered gun http://www.salon.com/2013/04/12/rick_warren_my_son_committed_suicide_with_unregistered_gun_ap/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/12/rick_warren_my_son_committed_suicide_with_unregistered_gun_ap/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:47:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13268895 TUSTIN, Calif. (AP) — Pastor Rick Warren said his son killed himself with an unregistered gun he purchased through the Internet.

Warren sent a tweet Thursday saying he forgives whoever sold the weapon to his 27-year-old son Matthew, who committed suicide last Friday.

The Orange County Sheriff's Department is trying to find the seller but it won't be easy. The gun's serial number was scratched off, making it impossible to trace, spokesman Jim Amormino said.

"We can't tell if it's registered or not because the serial number is scratched off," he said. "At one point in time, it may have been, but it's going to be impossible to find out."

It's illegal in California to buy a gun without a background check and purchasers are supposed to register their firearms. Defacing a gun's serial number is a federal offense.

Rick Warren is pastor of Saddleback Church in Orange County and author of "The Purpose-Driven Life," a bestseller.

He and his wife, Kay, said in an email on Saturday that their son struggled for much of his life with severe depression and suicidal thoughts. They have set up a mental health fund in Matthew's memory.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/12/rick_warren_my_son_committed_suicide_with_unregistered_gun_ap/feed/ 36 Judge strikes down high-tech workers’ lawsuit http://www.salon.com/2013/04/08/judge_strikes_down_high_tech_workers_lawsuit_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/08/judge_strikes_down_high_tech_workers_lawsuit_partner/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:51:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13265155 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A federal judge on Friday struck down an effort to form a class action lawsuit to go after Apple, Google and five other technology companies for allegedly forming an illegal cartel to tamp down workers' wages and prevent the loss of their best engineers during a multiyear conspiracy broken up by government regulators.

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, Calif., issued a ruling Friday concluding that the companies' alleged collusion may have affected workers in too many different ways to justify lumping the individual claims together. She denied the request to certify workers' lawsuits as a class action and collectively seek damages on behalf of tens of thousands of employees.

The allegations will be more difficult to pursue if they can't be united in a single lawsuit. Koh, though, will allow the workers' lawyers to submit additional evidence that they have been collecting to persuade her that the lawsuit still merits class certification.

"Plaintiffs appreciate the court's thorough consideration of the evidence and are prepared to address the court's concerns fully in a renewed motion," employee attorney Kelly Dermody wrote in a Friday email.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/08/judge_strikes_down_high_tech_workers_lawsuit_partner/feed/ 0 New Deal policies can save us from recession yet http://www.salon.com/2013/04/08/tk_5_partner_8/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/08/tk_5_partner_8/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:41:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13264842 Next New Deal The fact that the Works Progress Administration (WPA) is today remembered as an exceptional moment in American economic policy is evidence of the serious blind spots Americans have developed in the way we think about government. Even Millennials, who have experienced perhaps the worst impacts of the current recession, have often celebrated entrepreneurship as a solution to their employment woes, rather than calling for the robust public action that has always been a part of effective responses to economic crisis.

But making the case that addressing the jobs crisis requires much stronger public investment will have to go beyond advocating for larger stimulus packages or revived public employment programs — we must also challenge myths of economic recovery, both past and present, that render activist government invisible.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/08/tk_5_partner_8/feed/ 9 How to talk about a woman’s looks http://www.salon.com/2013/04/05/how_to_talk_about_a_womans_looks/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/05/how_to_talk_about_a_womans_looks/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 11:45:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13262203 There were, perhaps, stupider things said recently than “How did it become so difficult to call a woman good-looking in public?” but I didn't happen to hear them. So congratulations, Dylan Byers of Politico. Your commentary on the president calling California Attorney General Kamala Harris “by far, the best looking attorney general" made my brain hurt.

It is not "difficult to call a woman good-looking in public," not in a world where women's looks are considered public property, to be commented on, uninvited, whether it's on the street, in a job interview, or in the press. Many people find it quite easy to do, many of them men, and many people who should know better, like Barack Obama.

This is hardly the first time Obama has been smarmily sexist under the guise of paying a compliment. In the same New York magazine story on Christine Quinn in which Mayor Michael Bloomberg was notoriously quoted saying, "Look at the ass on her," Obama got a pass for a more politely phrased brand of creepiness. According to the piece, Obama said to a Republican legislator, 32-year-old Nicole Malliotakis, that she didn't look a day over 23. Quinn promptly joked that Malliotakis should become a Democrat, and the president chimed in, “Come on, honey! I said you’re pretty! I said you look 23!”

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 At the University of California, Santa Cruz, where tuition runs to nearly $35,000 for non-residents, students every year pay more than 30 additional fees — including a small charge for what's billed as "free" HIV testing. Students at Oklahoma State University pay a handsome sum to attend one of the state's flagship schools, but they are also responsible for covering 18 different fees, including a "life safety and security fee."

The $100 "globalization fee" at Howard University is listed — without explanation — in the school's tuition and fees brochure. A school spokeswoman said the fee "supports internationalization initiatives" such as study abroad. Students pay the fee even if they have no intention of studying abroad themselves.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/03/30/college_tuitions_hidden_charges/feed/ 26 Cop-killer tied to “sovereign citizen” movement http://www.salon.com/2013/03/28/cop_killer_tied_to_sovereign_citizen_movement_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/28/cop_killer_tied_to_sovereign_citizen_movement_partner/#comments Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:57:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13255211 The Southern Poverty Law Center A 36-year-old software engineer who shot and killed a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer last fall was bipolar and held antigovernment “sovereign citizen” views, an investigation by the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office has concluded.

Christopher Lacy’s ideological ties to the sovereign citizen movement, whose adherents generally believe they are immune to federal tax and many criminal laws, were documented with more than 100 interviews and search warrants. But the seven-month investigation failed to determine why he shot CHP Trooper Kenyon Youngstrom on Sept. 4.

The trooper was fatally shot at close range moments after stopping Lacy’s vehicle, which had an “obstructed license plate” as it traveled on busy Interstate 680 near Alamo, Calif., the sheriff’s office said in a just-released summary statement. That was only the latest murder of a law enforcement official during a traffic stop by a sovereign citizen, most of whom believe the government has no right to regulate their driving. On May 20, 2010, two West Memphis, Ark., police officers were slain by a father-son team of sovereigns during a routine traffic stop.

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In his feature, that is well worth reading in full, Taibbi writes:

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No doubt, you've probably caught this or a similar phrase in your Web surfing, your email box and your casual discussions. It is the conversation-ender du jour. Don't like the election results and the policies that follow? Deride them as proof America is "becoming California." Don't like a bill moving through your legislature? Cite it as more evidence your state is "turning into California." Don't like what Congress is doing on any given day? Write a screed bewailing America "turning into California."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/03/26/gops_inane_war_on_california/feed/ 196 Oakland police kept man on Most Wanted list for nothing http://www.salon.com/2013/03/11/oakland_police_kept_man_on_most_wanted_list_for_nothing/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/11/oakland_police_kept_man_on_most_wanted_list_for_nothing/#comments Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:43:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13225721 Chau Van was surprised to hear that he was one of Oakland's "most wanted" criminals last year -- after all, there wasn't even a warrant out for his arrest. According to Courthouse News, "Oakland Police [kept Van] on its Most Wanted list for six months though he was not wanted for anything, the man claims in court."

Van has now sued the police department for publicly branding him "a violent felon." Via Courthouse News:

The first he heard of the fiasco, Van says, was when a friend called him on Feb. 7, 2012, and told him that KTVU-TV was broadcasting his name and picture, describing him as "one of Oakland's Most Wanted criminals."

He went home and checked the Internet and saw that sure enough, "his name and face were on the news and that it was being reported that he was responsible for a shooting," Van says in the complaint.

The news left him "shocked and afraid" and "scared that the police would break into his house and possibly harm him based on this mistake," Van says in the complaint.

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The U.S. Geological Survey's automated monitoring system places the epicenter in the desert near Anza, about 100 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

The late morning quake was felt sharply in the local area. It was also felt in downtown Los Angeles and in Orange County.

 

Recreating San Francisco Before the 1906 Earthquake

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Recall that in 2011, California faced at the state level what the federal government faces at the national one. (With "trigger" mechanisms that made them even more sequester-like).

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“Our parks offer opportunities to enjoy outdoor recreation with family and friends," Secretary Salazar said at the ceremony, reading from a letter from President Obama, "and they provide a safe and accessible setting to appreciate the bounty of our land … Pinnacles National Park is now among these cherished sites."

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