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reddread's JournalFresno County supervisors move to ban marijuana farms
Source: Fresno Bee
Fresno County supervisors on Tuesday took the first step toward banning marijuana growing countywide, a move that angered medicinal pot users but thrilled Squaw Valley residents who said such farms were taking over the foothill hamlet.
Read more: http://www.fresnobee.com/2013/12/10/3659991/fresno-county-supervisors-move.html
Norman Solomon on the death throes of Press Freedom in the US and UK
"In motion now, on both sides of the Atlantic, are top-down efforts to quash real journalism when and how it matters most. In the two English-speaking countries that have done the most preaching to the world about “Western values” like freedom of the press, the governments led by U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron are overseeing assaults on real journalism."
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/12/05/real-journalism-v-big-brother/
Placerville Ca shuts down "too successful" homeless camp Hangtown
for those that havent heard about this-
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2013/11/15/placerville-officials-say-hangtown-haven-was-too-successful-for-its-own-good/
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/11/15/5913604/placerville-homeless-haven-closes.html
if only California could elect a liberal progressive, social and economic justice minded Governor, this would not be a problem.
Jerry Brown followed to events, heckled by California environmentalists over fracking
Source: Sacramento Bee
Environmentalists frustrated with Brown’s permissiveness of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, have followed the Democratic governor to events throughout the state since September, heckling him for his approval of legislation establishing a permitting system for the controversial form of oil extraction.
The demonstrations represent “a new phenomenon for Jerry Brown, given his deep roots in the environmental movement going back to his first tenure as governor,” said Jack Pitney, a government professor at Claremont McKenna College.
Yet Pitney said there is no political pressure on Brown to bend to the environmentalists’ concerns. If anything, the criticism may make Brown more appealing to moderate Democrats and independent voters, Pitney said.
Brown has enjoyed a relatively favorable relationship with California’s oil industry since taking office. Exxon Mobil Corp. and Occidental Petroleum Corp. have donated to his re-election campaign this year.
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/12/02/5961428/jerry-brown-followed-to-events.html
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