California

Jerry Brown has just announced his candidacy for Governor of California. Watch the announcement video and sign-up now: Pass on the following message: Click here for signing up Thank you. From Jerry’s announcement speech: “The key is knowledge. Some people say that if you’ve been around the process can’t handle the job, that we need to go...
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Get involved: Google is asking local governments and residents to express their interest in the fiber optic trial, and to provide information about their community by completing our request for information.
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Over 500 people crowded together at the Petaluma Whole Foods market for a signature by Maynard James Keenan, lead signer & co-founder of international recording acts Tool, A perfect Circle, and Puscifer. It was quite an event and people didn’t mind to stand in long lines twice, first for purchasing Maynard’s wine from his local...
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Bonjour Interesting, my son’s homework this week was about ” What would you change in your school or the world to make it better”?. He chose the School Lunch Program. He had to explain why and give some ideas on how to make it better. One suggestion was to use as much of our local food… Today...
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Public Schools Perform Near Private Ones in Study – New York Times WASHINGTON, July 14 — The Education Department reported on Friday that children in public schools generally performed as well or better in reading and mathematics than comparable children in private schools. The exception was in eighth-grade reading, where the private school counterparts fared...
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Get out of the way, chardonnay. Au revoir, pinot noir. Zinfandel is the “quintessential California wine,” California state Sen. Carole Migden of San Francisco declared Thursday. She’s introduced a bill to make it the official state wine. Bay Area wine consultant Jon Fredrikson, already sensing cannon fire from the cabernet crowd, predicted that “other...
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States Curbing Right to Seize Private Homes – New York Times In a rare display of unanimity that cuts across partisan and geographic lines, lawmakers in virtually every statehouse across the country are advancing bills and constitutional amendments to limit use of the government’s power of eminent domain to seize private property for economic development...
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Four years after President Bush signed the landmark No Child Left Behind education law, vast numbers of students are not getting the tutoring that the law offers as one of its hallmarks. In California in the last school year, 95,500 of 800,000 eligible students were tutored. In Maryland, just over a quarter of those who...
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