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<p> If there is a silver lining in California Governor Jerry Brown’s latest budget proposal, it is the recognition that we cannot realign state services down to county and local governments or bridge the state’s almost $26 billion budget deficit without sufficient revenues.</p>
So what does $1 billion dollars get you when you are trying to build a high-tech fence along the border???? Not much, to be exact 53 miles of border fence. Of course as we said all along, a border fence won’t stop those looking for a better life.
I read a news story “Cleanup of Rio’s slums drives out Read more…
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<p>Una epidemia de tosferina en California que ha cobrado las vidas de 10 niños, ha resultado en un cambio de legislación que ahora exige a todos los estudiantes de séptimo a doceavo grado que demuestren haber sido vacunados contra la mortal enfermedad.</p>
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<p> Sheer desperation forced Jose Hidalgo to join a class-action lawsuit filed last week in Alameda County Superior Court, challenging Cali-fornia’s approval of the cancer-causing strawberry fumigant, methyl iodide.</p>
<p> “I like my job, but I am afraid of what it is doing to my health,” the 35-year-old Mexican immigrant said in Spanish in a telephone interview translated by his Salinas-based attorney, Michael Marsh.</p>
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<p> The whooping cough outbreak has already claimed the life of 10 children and has urged legislators to pass a law requiring all students entering 7th to 12th grade have a booster shot against the potentially killer disease.</p>