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Mar 5, 2024
The Higher Cost of Rising Health Insurance
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For most California residents, and the vast majority of the state’s lower-income workers, the cost of health insurance has been running away...
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Feb 27, 2024
Prepping for the Primary Election
As the March 5 primary election approaches, many voters are just now considering their choices. Below is information about some of the most impactful races—nationally, statewide and locally.
United States Senate
With the death of longtime senator Dianne Feinstein,...
Feb 20, 2024
Mental Health Advocates Rate Prop 1 a Zero
Julia Ford was in the third trimester of her pregnancy when she moved out of an abandoned school bus in Oakland and into the Healthy Babies Project transitional housing. The shelter came with a treatment program founded...
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Feb 20, 2024
AG Bonta Talks ‘People Power’ in Oakland
On Feb. 8, Rob Bonta gave the keynote speech at the Barbara Lee and Elihu Harris Lecture held at Beebe Memorial Cathedral in Oakland. During his speech, Bonta shared his journey from being a “brown boy born...
Feb 13, 2024
Top Pot ‘Cop’ Evolves Cannabis Stance As Is Her Job
So-called “concerns” about President Joe Biden’s mental acuity have been ginned up by the right-wing propaganda machine with the enthusiastic help of an increasingly indistinguishable mainstream media.It’s all incredibly stupid and destructive. By most accounts from White...
Feb 13, 2024
Ava DuVernay’s New Film Makes the Caste Connection
What does the act of a racist vigilante have to do with the caste system in India that works to the detriment of the Dalits, Jewish people during the Holocaust and the system of slavery that’s in...
Feb 6, 2024
Prohibitionist Republicans’ Latest Irredeemably Stupid Cannabis Policy
Navigating the partisan politics of cannabis can be challenging because there are Republicans and Democrats on both sides of most reform initiatives. That makes cannabis politics almost unique in these days of Republicans automatically opposing any reforms...