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March 8th, 2010
San Diego Business Journal
By Marty Graham
As one of the nation’s top solar generating cities, San Diego is a popular place for the business of solar installation. The city has the most solar installations and generating power in the state and more solar rooftops than either Los Angeles or oh-so-green San Francisco, according to advocacy group Environment California.
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March 5th, 2010
Greenlining Institute
By Orson Aguilar
Public anger over bank bailouts and fat Wall Street bonuses has put enormous pressure on President Obama to crack down – but a crackdown isn’t enough. It’s time to take positive steps to push our banking system to better serve all of America’s diverse communities.
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March 4th, 2010
California Progress Report
Author: Preeti Vissa & Faith Bautista
Recent reports that financial legerdemain engineered by Goldman Sachs helped destabilize the Greek economy ought to make Californians nervous. It’s time to ask if Goldman could do to us what it appears to have done to the Greeks and, indirectly, to the rest of Europe.
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February 23rd, 2010
Sacramento Bee
By Orson Aguilar
The $250 million that California is about to save by slashing vital rehabilitation programs for prisoners will cost us many times that much money. The money we think we’re saving will cost us many times over in more crime, more drug abuse and ruined lives. Rehabilitation and alternative programs can save lives. I know. One of them saved mine.
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February 20th, 2010
A statement by APIEL NOW!
Making students jump through admissions hoops is essential to a world-class university’s prestige. However, for students of color and students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, that hoop is about to shrink in size. Proposed by UC President Mark Yudof and approved by the UC Regents, the new UC admissions policy, set to go into effect in 2012, is a deceptive piece of work that actually reduces the percentage of high school students guaranteed admission to at least one UC campus while masking its true nature by expanding the pool of applicants eligible to apply. Although these reductions in guaranteed admissions will affect all applicants, this policy will disproportionately impact students of color.
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February 18th, 2010
SF Chronicle
By Orson Aguilar
The $250 million that California will save by slashing vital rehabilitation programs for prisoners will cost many times that much in increased crime, drug abuse and ruined lives. Every Californian will be hurt by these “economies” that really aren’t economies at all.
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February 18th, 2010
Oakland Local
While global warming has propelled environmental issues into the mainstream of American politics, an all-day hearing activists held recently in East Oakland showed the difficulty of translating concern into action in the neighborhoods hit hardest by environmental problems.
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February 11th, 2010
Oakland Local
Not long ago, energy efficiency & conservation were considered the ugly step-brothers of environmentalism. They were overshadowed by their sexier siblings–solar panels and wind turbines.
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February 9th, 2010
La Opinion
Orson Aguilar
California
Este año los latinos tenemos una oportunidad histórica para determinar el futuro del estado de California. Cualquier persona puede tomar parte en este esfuerzo, ¡y el momento de tomar acción es ahora mismo!
La aprobación de la Proposición 11 durante las elecciones de noviembre 2008 le dio a público por primera vez la oportunidad de redistribuir los distritos legislativos del estado. Este proceso es uno de los ejes secretos del mundo político de California, ocasionando muchas decisiones que afectarán su empleo, sus escuelas, y su comunidad.
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February 5th, 2010
Kalwnews.org
By Holly Kernan
The way we figure out who our state representatives will be is by cutting California up into little districts — virtually, of course. Politicians can re-draw those lines every 10 years, after the census.
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