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A proposed law in California would require colleges and state health licensing boards to accept relevant military training and experience toward course credits and licensing qualifications.

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With the state facing a budget deficit of at least $15.7 billion, lawmakers will need to enact painful cuts to programs that provide real benefits to real Californians. But by ending certain tax breaks, they make sure the pain isn't borne solely by the state's most vulnerable.
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USDA ought to make Wildlife Services contracts a matter of public record – as well as money received from states, counties, cities, livestock businesses and individual farmers and ranchers to control predators.
Last October I wrote a column complaining about the convenience fee Sacramento County courts charged me for the dubious privilege of paying a traffic fine by credit card online.
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More than six months after Charles Piller's first report on problems with the Bay Bridge, neither the highest officials at Caltrans, nor Gov. Jerry Brown, are publicly addressing several serious questions.
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A promise of big money has a way of quieting nagging questions.
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When I was in Vietnam, Armed Forces Radio frequently played a song called "Abraham, Martin and John."
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Driving can bring out the worst in people, which means it also brings out pet peeves that set off the rest of us.

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Spring arrives with the first warm breezes and fogless mornings in our Valley. On our 80-acre organic farm south of Fresno, I disk our soil, breaking winter's crust. The peaches and nectarines awaken with blossoms, initially revealing their pink buds, then blooming into a glorious canopy. Millions of pink dots blanket the landscape. A new year has begun.

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California's tax on cigarettes, last raised in 1998, is 87 cents per pack, ranking 33rd among the states. The average tax in all 50 states is $1.46. Voters on June 5 will decide whether to raise California's tax to $1.87, ranking 16th among the states. The additional money would go to cancer research, smoking cessation, prevention of tobacco-related diseases and law enforcement.

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A proposed law in California would require colleges and state health licensing boards to accept relevant military training and experience toward course credits and licensing qualifications.

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More than six months after Charles Piller's first report on problems with the Bay Bridge, neither the highest officials at Caltrans, nor Gov. Jerry Brown, are publicly addressing several serious questions.

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California is at war over water, and rice farmers – because they plant and flood more than a half million acres of fields each year – are the state's most conspicuous users of this finite resource. That means they have a big fat target on their backs for anyone who wants to get their hands on more water.

The regulatory reform debate in California just got a little spicier – not a bad thing for a topic that can be rather bland.

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