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May Budget Revise: Oliver Twist vs. Great Expectations 26 Aug 2013 | 06:01 pm
By Sheila Kuehl In Charles Dickens' early and dark novel, Oliver Twist, an orphan is condemned to the poorhouse and forced to labor for an undertaker. He escapes to London only to be recruited into a...
Obamacare Choice: Navigation or Conflagration 22 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
By Leo Gerard United Steelworkers So many challenging choices for young people today! And it’s not just between Vine and Instagram. More importantly, it’s between burn-baby-burn and health insurance...
Senate Suspends Anti-LifeLine AB 1407 21 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
By Randy Shaw Beyond Chron On August 19, tenants from San Francisco’s Central City SRO Collaborative (CCSRO) hit the halls of the state capitol and got the Senate Appropriations Committee to stop AB...
California Legislators Call for Offshore Oil Fracking Investigation 16 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
By Dan Bacher Assemblymember Das Williams (D-Santa Barbara) and eight other California lawmakers are calling on the Department of Interior and Environmental Protection Agency to investigate reports o...
Behind the Stirring Among Low-Wage Workers 15 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
By Rev. Dick Gillett Something is happening among our low-wage workers in America. Is the ghost of the Occupy movement stirring? Probably, but maybe more. In just one astonishing week recently, the...
SB 440: Strengthening Pathways to Four Year Degrees 14 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
By Michele Siqueiros The Campaign for College Opportunity The key to meeting our economy’s demand for a skilled workforce lies within California’s Community Colleges. Serving over two million studen...
What Should We Think About The Arrests at JPMorgan Chase? 13 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
By Richard Eskow Four years after Wall Street’s malfeasance dealt a telling blow the economy, and long after tens of billions of dollars have been paid out for banker fraud, reports say that we’re ab...
Growing Opposition to AT&T's Attack on LifeLine Program 9 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
By Randy Shaw Beyond Chron/> As we described on July 10, the California State Legislature is moving toward passing AB 1407, an AT &T backed measure that would devastate the state’s LifeLine phone pr...
Oil Lobby Leads California Spending as Ocean Fracking Proceeds 8 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
By Dan Bacher Some may consider California to be a "green" state and the "environmental leader" of the nation, but that delusion is quickly dispelled once one actually looks at who spends the most on...
Troubled Young People Deserve Compassion, Not Punishment 5 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
By Lizzie Buchen Center on Juvenile & Criminal Justice/> At the turn of the 20th Century, Lucy Flower, my grandmother’s great grandmother, established the world’s first juvenile court inside the Coo...
