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Cuts Will Likely Fall Short Of Projected Savings

Apr 06 2011

Gov. Jerry Brown and state lawmakers last month passed what might have been the biggest package of spending cuts in state history, more than $11 billion in reductions to almost every part of the government. But when the next fiscal year ends less than 15 months from now, many of those cuts will have failed to deliver their promised savings.

State's stem cell agency seeks more time, money

Nov 22 2010

After six years, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine has faced questions about leaders' pay and the lack of medical breakthroughs. But its chairman plans to ask voters for another $3 billion in bonds.

Marijuana legalization proposition pulling in high-dollar donations

Oct 08 2010

With the election less than a month away, the campaign to pass Proposition 19, the marijuana legalization initiative, is pulling in some high-dollar donations.

Poll: Most Californians Want to Legalize Pot

Sep 30 2010

A new Public Policy Institute of California survey supports what the Field Poll hinted at a few days ago: Most Californians want legal pot. Of the big four ballot propositions included in the PPIC poll, only one — Proposition 19, which would legalize recreational marijuana use — surpassed the 50 percent threshold needed for passage.

Big Tobacco Snuffs Out Rumors Of California Marijuana Interest

Sep 28 2010

Among some determined pot market conspiracy theorists, scattered in marijuana fields of Mendocino or Humboldt or at some urban dispensaries in California cities, one rumor refuses to die:

Whitman softens stance on U.S. health care law

Aug 23 2010

If elected governor, Republican Meg Whitman plans to add California to the list of states suing to overturn the new federal health care law. Or maybe she won't.

Medical pot ruling called 'significant victory'

Aug 19 2010

A state appellate court released a much-anticipated but mixed ruling Wednesday on a case involving Anaheim's ban on medical marijuana dispensaries, failing to provide the clear precedent that both sides were anticipating on whether California cities have the right to ban all such dispensaries.

Marijuana legalization receiving fewer contributions than previous drug-related propositions

Aug 09 2010

Many big-money donors, such as George Soros, played a major role in the state's pathbreaking 1996 medical marijuana initiative. But this year, Proposition 19 has attracted few large donations.

Long Beach may tax recreational marijuana

Aug 05 2010

Recreational marijuana, if California voters legalize it in November, may end up being taxed in Long Beach, but medical marijuana won't. The City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to place a recreational marijuana tax on the Nov. 2 ballot, but it would go into effect only if California voters approve Proposition 19 at the same time.

Oakland poised to cash in on medical marijuana boom

Jul 22 2010

Oakland is ready to cash in on the medical marijuana boom — and perhaps recreational pot use — now that the City Council agreed to license and tax four industrial-sized marijuana farms and promised to review policies that exclude small and medium-size farmers who grow the marijuana sold at the city's four dispensaries.

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