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Despite all his tough talk about securing borders and immigration reform, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger last month signed AB 976, making California the first state in the union to prohibit landlords from asking tenants about their immigration status.
Talk about your dubious distinctions.
Not a single Senate or Assembly Republican voted in support of the bill, but the governor -- never one to fret over party loyalties -- signed anyway.
The governor's approval of the bill made Bakersfield...
The fuss over a Portland, Maine, school district's decision to offer contraceptives to middle schoolers last month fizzled in the wake of a national Associated Press survey showing the majority of parents -- 67 percent -- are OK with the practice.
That the Portland story made headlines at all must have come as a shock to some folks here in California, where contraceptives for minors are the law of the land.
"Many school-based clinics have been doing that (dispensing contraceptives)...
It's over. After months of controversy and a level of media coverage generally reserved for celebrity wife-murderers, the great poster debate of 2007 is finally over.
Kern High School District trustees this week brought an end to the argument by voting to display posters that include our national motto, "In God We Trust," in every district classroom.
The locally designed poster, though quite different from the one originally proposed by trustee Chad Vegas, features the national...
In what is surely the week's most gratifying news story, the religious cult known for protesting at soldiers'
funerals was ordered to cough up $11 million in damages to the family of a soldier killed in Iraq.
And you thought the media only reported bad news.
A federal jury decided Wednesday that torturing families of fallen soldiers doesn't fall under the protection of the First Amendment and whacked the Topeka-based Westboro Baptist Church with the crippling fine. At least we can hope...
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