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“A cynic is an idealist who’s been made a fool of.” A college drama professor provided that definition almost 50 years ago, and it still resonates with me. It’s right up there with a high school teacher who reminded our … Continue reading →

ROCHESTER, Minn. May 18, 2013 - Regular consumption of coffee is associated with a reduced risk of primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC), an autoimmune liver disease, Mayo Clinic research shows. The findings were being presented at the Digestive Disease...

Gov. Jerry Brown and his fellow Democrats in the state Legislature are headed for a showdown over the way California pays for its public schools. Brown is proposing a revolutionary plan to give extra state aid to schools that teach large numbers of poo...

The state's legislative analyst says Gov. Jerry Brown's revised budget proposal is too pessimistic -- to the tune of $3.2 billion. That's how much more revenue the analyst expects by the end of the next budget year than the governor is forecasting. Thi...

By Alexia Underwood More than one million people in California suffer from mental illness – the largest number of any state. When the final phase of the new health care law starts in January of next year, more California residents than ever before...

When Charles Garcia looks at a garden, he doesn't see plants. He sees medicine, heritage, art and magic. A curandero, Garcia practices traditional folk healing – curanderismo – the way his mother, grandmother and grandfather did. “It's a combinat...

By Mary Flynn California’s sweeping criminal justice reform plan, in place since October 2011, was meant to sharply reduce the state’s prison population. But the changes may have also had the unintended consequence of passing along the biggest p...

Gov. Jerry Brown committed Tuesday to a state-based expansion of subsidized health care for low-income Californians, abandoning a proposal he had floated that would have required each of the state's 58 counties to provide care for the low-income people...

Because our elected officials have sucked up to the NBA and done everything the billionaires’ club has asked by way of funding a new arena, shouldn’t Sacramento get to keep the Kings? Isn’t that what integrity is all about? On … Continue reading →

By Hannah Guzik Under the Affordable Care Act, health care providers are required to offer domestic-violence screening and counseling to all women, and health insurance companies are required pay for those services. Health care providers statewide h...