Investigative Reports
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MAY 23, 2011
By JOHN SEILER
Today's U.S. Supreme Court decision mandating California state prison reductions must lead to long-needed reforms. The decision upheld a lower court ruling that from 38,000 to 46,000 must be released due to overcrowding that violated the Eight Amendment's ban on "cr...
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MAY 18, 2011
By K. LLOYD BILLINGSLEY
When cities outsource services to save money, they often take heat from workers. It’s different in Berkeley, where a revolutionary plan to “insource” services to the city drew the wrath of recycling reactionaries.
Berkeley’s progressive pretensio...
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MAY 16, 2011
By JOHN SEILER
Call it Government Math. In his January budget proposal for fiscal 2011-12, Gov. Jerry Brown insisted on $12 billion in yearly tax increases to help close a $25 billion budget deficit. Today, in his May Revise to the budget, he announced that the state will enjoy $6...
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MAY 10, 2011
By WAYNE LUSVARDI
Long gone are the hot wars of the 1920’s when Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's William Mulholland took over Mono County and Owens Lake with his own shotgun militia. And local farmers resisted the taking of their water rights and land by dynamiting...
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