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Counties’ attack on medical marijuana snuffed
November 29th, 2006
Superior Court Judge William Nevitt in San Diego has issued a preliminary ruling denying a lawsuit by San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino counties seeking to overturn Proposition 215, California's medical marijuana law approved by voters in 1996. The counties had sought to have the law voided because it conflicts with federal law, which does not recognize medical uses for marijuana and prohibits any use or possession of marijuana.

Judge Nevitt ruled that since Prop. 215 does not require residents or officials to do something specifically banned by federal law, it shouldn't be overturned.
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San Diego council bans supercenter-size stores
November 29th, 2006
In a move that pits the city squarely against the nation's largest retailer, San Diego yesterday joined a growing list of cities nationwide to place restrictions on large retail developments.

The City Council voted 5-3 to ban stores with more than 90,000 square feet that use 10 percent of their space to sell groceries and other merchandise not subject to sales tax.
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Irvine eminent domain rule passes
November 29th, 2006
City officials are on the way to making it more difficult to seize private property.

The ordinance approved by the council Tuesday night would prohibit the city and redevelopment agency from acquiring private property to give to a private party without the landowner's consent.
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California’s biggest, nastiest slumlord
November 26th, 2006
What would you do if you lived next door to an irresponsible property owner who allowed his vacant lot to fill up with dangerous debris, or allowed hobos and drug dealers to hang out there, or who wantonly violated city and state health and safety codes?

What if you rented a house or apartment from that same landlord, and he refused to do anything to fix the leaky roof, the spreading black mold, the rodent infestation and other downright dangerous conditions?

You would call on the government to impose fines and sanctions on that miscreant, right? But what if the government was that slumlord? What if the government told you that it didn't need to follow its own rules and laws and that it could not be prosecuted for anything under "sovereign immunity" – the principle that individuals cannot sue the government.
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Moving Assembly to the far right in a centrist world
November 26th, 2006
A funny thing happened when Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger won another term as California governor by setting out a centrist course in this blue state. Assembly Republicans reacted by pushing hard right. If the governor is tilting blue, they're going code red.

No wonder the Democrats have controlled the California Legislature for a generation. Compromise is a dirty word to Assembly Republicans and they'd just as soon wait until the state moves to them. There's no way they are moving to the center.
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As Power Shifts in New Congress, Pork May Linger
November 26th, 2006
Senators Ted Stevens of Alaska and Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii are the best of friends in the Senate, so close they call each other brother. Both are decorated veterans of World War II. They have worked together for nearly four decades as senators from the two youngest and farthest-flung states. And they share an almost unrivaled appetite for what some call political pork.

Mr. Stevens, an 83-year-old Republican, and Mr. Inouye, an 82-year-old Democrat, routinely deliver to their states more money per capita in earmarks — the pet projects lawmakers insert into major spending bills — than any other state gets. This year, Alaska received $1.05 billion in earmarks, or $1,677.27 per resident, while Hawaii got $903.9 million, or $746.05 per resident, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan group that tracks such figures.
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Property rights fight on again
November 26th, 2006
Just weeks after voters rejected a controversial measure to reform eminent-domain laws in California, taxpayer advocates have returned with a similar measure they say will protect property owners from some government seizures.

The measure, sponsored by the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, would still allow governments to seize private property for public purposes but would prohibit seizures for private development.
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Panel Calls for Big Changes in Medicaid
November 23rd, 2006
A federal advisory panel says that long-term care for aging baby boomers threatens to bankrupt Medicaid, and it recommends sweeping changes to rein in costs, including greater use of managed care for the sickest Medicaid recipients.

The proposals set up a likely clash between the new Democratic Congress and the Bush administration, which has sent strong signals that it will seek big savings in Medicaid next year.
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Pollsters see voters losing trust in two-party system
November 23rd, 2006
Californians are so tired of Sacramento and Washington that they are creating a "unique hybrid democracy'' to dissolve political gridlock on key issues -- a trend that could spread across the nation.

That's the conclusion reached by California's two foremost pollsters, looking back to the Nov. 7 election and ahead to coming sessions of the Legislature and Congress.
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Budget shortfall has stink of reality
November 19th, 2006
Working from cramped quarters on the upper floors of a plain concrete-clad office building catty-corner from the state Capitol, California's nonpartisan legislative analyst is all but unknown to state residents. But think of Elizabeth Hill and her mostly anonymous crew of professional budget watchers as the conscience of the Capitol. Collectively, they are the skunk that ruins the budget garden party the governor and the Legislature would otherwise enjoy each year.

Every fall, just before Thanksgiving, Hill offers a five-year forecast that typically delivers a dose of reality amid the feel-good vibe and wishful thinking that permeate the central Sacramento district where laws and budgets flourish.
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