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  Acupuncturists expect surge in patients under Obamacare By Genevieve Bookwalter, California Health Report, 6/18/13 Students at Five Branches University in Santa Cruz signed petitions and wrote letters to Sacramento last year in hopes that acupun...

  Less Than Half Of San Leandro’s High School Graduates Are Prepared For College Posted by Genevieve Bookwalter, San Leandro Patch,  6/17/ 13 Less than 50 percent of San Leandro’s high school graduates take the courses required to b...

  George Skelton wants your bullets By John Seiler, Calwatchdog, 6/18/13 The L.A. Times’ anti-gun obsessive George Skelton now wants your bullets. He writes: “From what I’ve been reading, the Santa Monica killer was packing an illegal assaul...

  Northridge murders prompt review of realignment by LA County Supervisors   John North, KABC,  12/11/12 More fallout from the Northridge quadruple murder: We now know the prime suspect could have been sent back to prison earlier this year b...

  Unemployment Prompts Online Training Challenging Colleges: Jobs By Ari Levy, Bloomberg,  6/17/13    Acupuncturist Courtney Wallace was struggling to pay off $60,000 in student debt. Seeking more lucrative work through tapping skills she’d ...

By Chris Richard Health activists call for a new push focusing on allergens such as black mold and cockroach waste that they hold partially to blame for high asthma rates among children in some of the city’s poorest neighborhoods.

The exploding number of older adults in the United States – over 8,000 people turn 65 each day according to the U.S. Census Bureau – means Baby Boomers are staring into a terrifying abyss as a faltering economy wreaks havoc with retirement funds an...

The Sacramento Police Department today announced the launch of a new mobile application that makes connecting with the department easier.   Features include: Contact Us (emergency 9-1-1 link or detailed phone... Read more »

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Water brought California lawmakers together on Tuesday. Or, at least, it got a bunch of them in the same room. In two separate sessions on Capitol Hill, one held for House Republicans and one held for House Democrats, California Natural Resources Secr...

Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation to allow the hiring of hundreds of call center employees in Rancho Cordova and elsewhere to assist in selling medical insurance through the state's new health care exchange. "Most definitely, it 's going to allo...