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This is the sort of story that sends chills down the spines of conservatives everywhere: Dean Angstadt fells trees for a living. He’s a self-employed, self-sufficient logger who has cleared his own path for most of his 57 years, never<br> Read More »

The fight for short-term rental regulation heated up on April 26 as large rallies both in support and against Supervisor Chiu’s legislation on the subject were held in front of City Hall. Leah Pimentel at afternoon rally in support of<br> Read More »

Since Indiana Pacers President Larry Bird made a major midseason trade, the team has imploded. Yet Bird, the best white NBA player over the last thirty years, gets no blame in the media for wrecking the Pacers chemistry. As the<br> Read More »

The ultimate absurdity of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has been visited upon my home state of Washington. One of the many outlandish propositions of NCLB was that 100 percent of students at all schools in the United<br> Read More »

As much as we’d like to place Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s racist rants in isolation (and Commissioner Silver issued a lifetime ban on Sterling today), they followed a U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding Michigan’s abolition of affirmative action, and its<br> Read More »

Senator Mark Leno’s smartphone “kill switch” bill failed to pass last week, but could still pass in May when SB 962 comes up for another vote. Yesterday, we suggested grassroots mobilization would help get the bill passed. I talked to<br> Read More »

A bill to provide for a renters’ rebate for low-income California tenants passed a key committee earlier today. Co-sponsored by Tenants Together, the bill addresses a central demand of the Renters’ Day of Action held in Sacramento earlier this year.<br> Read More »

On April 24, the California State Senate defeated SB 962, which requires smart phones to have a “kill switch” that would render them inoperable in case of theft. But if smart phone users mobilize pressure against Democrats who opposed the<br> Read More »