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Demonstrators protest raids at medical pot facilities
April 3, 2012Protesters, many of them medical marijuana users, massed in downtown Oakland to protest the raiding by federal agents of Oaksterdam University, which trains workers for the medical marijuana industry.
Read moreCat rescuers hold Caboodle Ranch owner accountable (with video)
April 3, 2012"What a lucrative business, charging desperate, caring people to take homeless cats at $100 to $200 each. When they die a month later, he just takes more."
Read moreEnvironment and politics: one and the same
March 30, 2012"Capitalism is fundamentally incapable of dealing with climate change." These were the words of microbial ecologist Steve McCallister.
Read moreSupreme Court ruling means mom’s life or death
March 28, 2012A California mother of two in the crowd on the steps of the Supreme Court defended President Obama's health care reform law
Read moreLabor hits delay on new safety rule
March 28, 2012The Obama administration's Office of Management and Budget is sitting on - apparently indefinitely - a proposed job safety rule to cut worker exposure to silica dust.
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