California
Single-payer rally “welcomes” insurance industry group
June 17, 2011It's no surprise that this week's meeting of America's Health Insurance Plans, the health insurance industry's national trade association, was greeted by a "welcoming committee."
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Progressive Mexican presidential candidate visits Los Angeles
June 15, 2011Invoking Cesar Chavez, Andrés Manuel López Obrador said, "[F]or us, we should insist and assure that we are heard and that a new social order comes replacing the old."
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Landmark farmworker bill on its way to governor’s desk
June 10, 2011A bill to make it easier for California's 400,000 farmworkers to choose a union passed both houses of the California Legislature.
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Justice Scalia and the Dybbuk
June 1, 2011It seems that, for second time since I can remember, a federal justice has been possessed by a dybbuk, an evil spirit in Jewish mythology.
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Workers, supporters cheer cheating contractor’s downfall
May 27, 2011A huge wage-theft case against a San Francisco Bay Area contractor almost reached the finish line May 26. One last chapter must still be written.
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