Subject: California State Senate

• Last Night: Charge of the Light Brown Apple Moth at Town School for Boys

  April 25, 2008

• Stealth Bloggers

  Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.

  July 2, 2008

• Working-Class Struggle

  Three housekeepers and a day laborer take action against deadbeat employers who abuse immigrants

  March 19, 2008

• Believe It or Not!

  Let's get beyond the balderdash and take a closer look at the motivations behind some political campaigns

  June 7, 2006

• Hey, Man, Got Any ID?

  Why the Legislature shouldn't extend the city's medical marijuana identification system statewide

  June 11, 2003

• The Last of the Burtons?

  They have dominated state and local politics for 50 years. Now, for the first time, the future of their "family business" is in doubt.

  February 6, 2002

• Letters to the Editor

  Power to the People; A Love/Hate Relationship

  July 18, 2001

• Deadbeat Heaven

  Parents who refuse to pay child support don't have much to worry about in California. Or, for that matter, San Francisco.

  June 12, 1996

• The Burton Money Machine

  John Burton's 1040s reveal that politics doesn't pay

  March 20, 1996

• State Senate Committee Moves to Allow Toxic Waste In County Dumps

  Thanks, Ma: Toxic waste from old cars is still hunky dory in California The California Senate's Environmental Quality Committee today unanimously approved a bill that would block environmental officials from preventing 700,000 tons of toxic waste from being dumped into county landfills each year. As reported in SF Weekly, the state Department of Toxic Substances Control last fall proposed rules that would end a 20-year-old policy of allowing residue from automobile recycling plants to be dumped

  April 27, 2009

• Chronic City: Aptly Named 'Joint Resolution' Succeeds; California Senate Urges Change in Federal Medical Marijuana Rules

  ​By a 23-15 vote, the California State Senate yesterday approved a "joint resolution" urging the federal government to stop Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) raids on medical marijuana patients and providers. The Sen. Mark Leno-authored resolution additionally calls for the nation to "create a comprehensive federal medical marijuana policy that ensures safe and legal access to any patient that would benefit from it."Marijuana advocates say recent enforcement activity, including DEA arrests followi

  August 25, 2009

• In environmental terms, Cash for Clunkers is a jalopy

  September 2, 2009

• The Wrong Stuff

  September 9, 2009

• Chronic City: Feds Lighten Up On Medical Marijuana Just As L.A. Tightens The Screws

  Photo by Rotbuche, Wikimedia CommonsLet my people grow.​In a stunning bit of role reversal, law enforcement officials in dispensary-heavy Los Angeles County are gearing up for a massive mobilization against hundreds of pot shops even while the Obama administration backs away from the federal government's traditional role as marijuana enforcer in the states where medical pot is legal.Today, the administration sent new, more relaxed medical marijuana guidelines to federal prosecutors in the 14 s

  October 19, 2009