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Doctors Post Prices for Procedures

In a competitive Southern California market, a medical price war

May 28, 07 8:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - A group of doctors in California has become the largest private practice in the country to go public with its prices for medical procedures. Breaking with the notion that price-shopping demeans professional services, HealthCare Partners posted the price of 58 common procedures, from x-rays to flu shots, on its website... More »

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health care • California • medical costs • doctor • private practice • HealthCare Partners

Lost Whales Heading Home, Face New Perils

Whales at risk from large ships, wrong turns, disease

May 28, 07 12:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - The lost whales in the Sacramento River are on their way home, but may now be in danger from large ships. The mother humpback and her calf had lingered more than a week in the freshwater river, but now have made it to about 50miles from the ocean. The closer... More »

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California • whale • Sacramento River • humpback whale • ocean

Wildfire Sweeps Across Catalina

May 11, 07 6:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - A fast-moving blaze has scorched hundreds of acres of Santa Catalina, a resort island 22 miles off the California coast. The LA Times reports thousands of tourists and residents of the historic city of Avalon were fleeing the oncoming flames yesterday. "I hope they can hold it off,"... More »

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California • tourism • Santa Catalina • Avalon • wildfires

Citizenship Push Aims to Create Latino Voters

Cable giant spearheads effort to transform
green cards into ballots

May 10, 07 1:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - The nation's largest Spanish-language broadcaster is preparing to launch an unprecedented citizenship drive that could sway the 2008 presidential election. Univison's "Ya Es Hora" ("It's About Time") campaign, already under way in Southern California, will encourage the country's eight million green card holders to apply for citizenship—... More »

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California • Univision • Latino voters • Los Angeles • citizenship • green card • Election 2008

(Newser) - A California college student is under arrest after an argument over a video game console left one man dead and two others wounded. Jonquel Brooks opened fire late Monday night in a Fresno apartment building, after an argument over a Sony Playstation escalated. Brooks, on leave from Fresno State, turned... More »

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California • Fresno State • school shooting • Jonquel Brooks • guns

Bay Area Overpass Collapses

Oakland Tanker explosion and fire close busy freeway

Apr 30, 07 5:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - A speeding 8,600-gallon gas tanker smashed into a guardrail early yesterday on a Bay Area highway, causing a fireball that melted an overpass above it. The driver sustained minor injuries, and no one else was hurt. But the collapsed overpass, which carried traffic eastbound from the Baby Bridge, closed... More »

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California • San Francisco • Arnold Schwarzenegger • traffic • commute • Bay Area • overpass • earthquake

Pay-to-Stay Prisons Have a Lock on Style

No price on freedom, but cash buys kinder incarceration in California jails

Apr 29, 07 4:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Californians convicted of minor, non-violent crimes can pony up to stay in jail cells that look more like college dormitories, the New York Times reports. For $75 to $127 a day these in-the-know inmates are separated from violent offenders and, in some cases, allowed a cell phone, laptop, or iPod. More »

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California • prison • self pay jails • convict • prison system • jail

Governator Says He'll Sue EPA

Apr 26, 07 6:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Arnold Schwarzenegger says he'll take the Environmental Protection Agency to court if California doesn’t get a green light for its tough new auto emissions laws within six months. "The clock is ticking. If we don't see quick action from the federal government, we will sue the EPA,"... More »

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climate change • environment • California • greenhouse gases • global warming • Arnold Schwarzenegger • Environmental Protection Agency • carbon emissions

Wanted: Geese Who'll Gorge Themselves

Progress in the quest for foie gras without force-feeding

Apr 25, 07 3:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - In the quest for kinder, gentler fois gras, some producers claim to have succeeded in getting the birds to gorge naturally, fattening up their livers without  force-feeding them. A Spanish company says its prize-winning pate was produced by letting the birds roam freely and butchering them right before they would... More »

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food • California • foie gras • animal cruelty • geese

West Coast Breeds Weed Snobs, Too

Cannibus connoisseurs take their place next
to finicky wine lovers

Apr 23, 07 9:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cannabis is accruing its own class of sophistocates, particularly in California, where medical legalization and lax enforcement have made connoisseurship marginally acceptable. Advanced palates judge their weed on taste, smell and quality of high, reports the Chronicle—a far cry from the 70s, when users joked that there "were... More »

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California • drugs • medical marijuana • drug use • marijuana • cannabis • weed

States Battle Over Stillborn Babies

Grieving parents are pitted against pro-choice advocates

Apr 10, 07 8:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Parents of stillborn babies are pitted against pro-choice advocates in an emotional battle over initiatives in seven states to issue birth certificates for their children, reports the Chronicle. Parents want recognition of their loss; abortion advocates want to avoid a precedent that might be used to claim an unborn fetus... More »

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abortion • California • California legislature • children • family • pro life • pro choice • state governments

225 Days Later,
Blogger Walks

Joshua Wolf freed
after turning over protest video to feds

Apr 4, 07 8:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Joshua Wolf, the blogger who set a record for time served by an American journalist for withholding information, was freed from a federal prison yesterday after 224 days. Wolf was released after he posted footage of a 2005 anarchist protest on his Web site and gave a copy to reporters,... More »

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Internet • California • Joshua Wolf • prison • news • blogging • blog • journalist

(Newser) - Two men named Barry—a $126-million pitcher (Zito) and an embattled slugger gunning for the home-run record (Bonds)-—went out with a whimper as the Giants lost to the Padres, 7-0.  Soft-spoken ace Jake Peavy was the hero of the afternoon, with six scoreless innings. More »

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sports • California • San Francisco • MLB • San Francisco Giants • Barry Bonds • Barry Zito • San Diego Padres • San Diego • baseball

Illegal Immigrants Flee LA

Republican suburbs hold allure for illegals, but no hospitalilty

Mar 30, 07 8:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Illegal immigrants are draining out of the Hispanic neighborhoods of LA and into  Republican suburbs like San Bernadino, which hold the allure of jobs, but little hospitality.  In a detailed study of the demographic shift, the Economist calls them  them the "canaries in the economic coal mine, sensitive... More »

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immigration • California • illegal immigrant • Los Angeles • migration • San Bernadino • Hispanic

San Francisco Bans Plastic
Grocery Bags

Nation's first law mandating paper or earth-friendly plastic

Mar 28, 07 1:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Plastic bags are history in San Francisco's large grocery and drug stores, after the city's board of supervisors adopted the country's first ban on petroleum-based bags yesterday. The ubiquitous bags don't biodegrade, clog recycling machines, clutter landfills, catch in trees and can injure or poison marine life. More »

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environment • California • recycling • San Francisco • plastic bags • plastic • Earth • paper bags

Techies Click With Obama

Silicon Valley elite are replacing Clinton with a next-generation model

Mar 26, 07 12:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Silicon Valley techies are forsaking  Hillary for Barack—and among the defectors are some of Bill's biggest fundraisers. Obama's is grabbing particular notice among the young and newly wealthy, with deep pockets and little political experience. "In the lexicon of high tech, Barack Obama is the next-generation solution,"... More »

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Barack Obama • technology • California • Democrats • politics • Silicon Valley • campaign fundraising • Election 2008

Left Coast Democrats
Lead in Nanny Laws

"Paternalistic" lawmakers are a sign that financially, society has arrived  

Mar 8, 07 9:03 PM CST
(Newser) - Smoking, trans fat and auto emissions are only the beginning: A group of California legislators is agitating for measures regulating everything from having your pet neutered to changing your light bulbs. They're called "nanny laws," and poli-sci types say they're a product of prosperity. It's "post materialist,... More »

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California • Democrats • nanny laws • California legislature • Bruce Cain • political science • post materialism • UC Berkeley • smoking ban

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