May 28 2009
Governor’s Proposed Cuts Will End Welfare as We Know It
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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed cuts to the state budget so deep that they could result in completely decimating the state’s safety net. In the aftermath of the May 19th special election, where voters rejected all but one budget measure, lawmakers now have an estimated $24 billion budget gap to fill. The governor interpreted the election …
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed cuts to the state budget so deep that they could result in completely decimating the state’s safety net. In the aftermath of the May 19th special election, where voters rejected all but one budget measure, lawmakers now have an estimated $24 billion budget gap to fill. The governor interpreted the election …
Violence in Afghanistan continues to climb with at least two dozen people killed in various incidents across the country. The deaths were the results of US/NATO airstrikes, a pitched firefight, and a Taliban road-side bomb, that killed civilians, fighters, and US troops. The Defense Department announced that 615 members of the US military had died in Afghanistan …
A three-day sale of Latin-American art at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York has drawn attention to a rare self-portrait by famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. The sellers hope to rake in a million dollars for the painting by an artist whose other works have sold for tens of millions. Rivera is known internationally as the larger-than-life …
President Barack Obama, in an anticipated announcement yesterday, named Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit as his Supreme Court nominee. If confirmed by the Senate, Sotomayor, in replacing retiring Justice David Souter, would become the first Latino and third woman in history to serve on the High Court. In praising his choice, …
Proposition 8, the anti-same sex marriage initiative which passed in California last November, has been upheld by the California Supreme Court. In a 185 page ruling issued yesterday morning the Court’s 6-1 decision affirmed the right of voters to amend the state constitution through the ballot. At issue was the question of whether Proposition 8 went so far to change …
Last Thursday a key committee in the House of Representatives approved sweeping legislation intended to address the gathering threat of global warming. Introduced by Democratic Representatives Henry Waxman and Ed Markey, the American Climate and Energy Act of 2009 sets out to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. Central to obtaining the bill’s …
Ahead of its annual shareholder meeting tomorrow, the Chevron Corporation is facing increasing scrutiny for its business practices around the world from California to Ecuador. The second most profitable oil company in the United States faced a continuing legal challenge just last week from a coalition of environmental groups in Richmond, California. The activists say that Chevron’s plans to replace …
