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Sacramento Bee reporter Kevin Yamamura has an excellent piece today http://www.kansascity.com/2012/10/17/3872363/nonprofit-exploits-campaign-finance.html pointing out the increasing number of nonprofits dumping millions of dollars into California political campaigns. Included in Yamamura's article is ConsumerWatchdog.org, which uses its tax exempt status to shield its donors from scrutiny from the press and the California public. Notes the Bee article: "Left-leaning Consumer...

The West County Health Center is the wave of the health care future, says ACA co-author Representative George Miller.

Sierra Club California, the legislative watchdog of the  Sierra Club’s California members, denounced today the malicious campaign against Assemblymember Michael Allen (D, Santa Rosa) being funded by Western Growers Association, a special interest group that represents large agri-businesses in Arizona and California.    The attacks launched against Michael Allen last week are the latest move by...

  Cal State teachers ‘bulldogging’ for Prop. 30 By Katy Grimes, Calwatchdog, 10/16/12 Even after California State University instructors received a mild rebuke for campaigning for Proposition 30 during class time, Gov. Jerry Brown is now maki...

  Thomas D. Elias: “MINOR PARTIES WON’T DISTORT ELECTION RESULTS” By Thomas D. Elias. 10/17/12 As the fall election season nears its welcome end, there are a few people and parties missing, at least in California: the candidates of the Green...

  Times doubles the size of Los Angeles in news stories By Kevin Roderick, LA Observed,  10/17/12 In its first story last week (and subsequent ones) about Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa proposing that the city issue a photo ID card to undocumented im...

  Report warns local pensions face $1.3B deficit By Jason Hoppin, Santa Cruz Sentinel, 10/16/12 SANTA CRUZ — A handful of local public pension funds are a combined $1.3 billion in the hole, according to an analysis by former Assemblyman-turn...

L.A.’s population density: 12,114 people per square mile By Mark Lacter, LA Observed, 10/16/12 That might seem awfully tight considering that metro areas with fewer than 250,000 people have a density of closer to 1,600. But it’s positively ...

  Battery maker A123′s bankruptcy another cleantech fail San Francisco Business Times by Lindsay Riddell,  10/17/12 Battery maker A123 Systems filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday night and will sell its automotive battery business to Joh...