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California Dreamin'

"I have seen purer liquors, better segars, finer tobacco, truer guns and pistols, larger dirks and bowie knives, and prettier courtesans here in San Francisco than in any other place I have ever visited; and it is my unbiased opinion that California can and does furnish the best bad things that are available in America." - Hilton Helper

California, the state where fortunes are made and lost in a weekend, muscle-bound movie stars become governors, and box office takes carry as much weight as football scores. Lesser regions may affect to snub the Golden State, but with the largest GDP in the country and the eighth largest in the world, California doesn't care.

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September 2008
- Calif. Man in Hot Water for Burglary
  
  Fresno Bee | Sep 8, 08 11:58 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Police grilled a Fresno, Calif., man who was foiled after he decided to spice things up a bit during a home break-in, the Fresno Bee reports. His sleeping victims said they awoke to find him hitting one with a sausage and rubbing seasonings on the other. The alleged perpetrator, 22, was found in his underwear in a nearby field. He’d thrown away the sausage, and a passing dog ate the incriminating evidence. More »
August 2008
- Feinstein Weighs Run for Calif. Governor
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Aug 29, 08 1:25 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sen. Dianne Feinstein is considering a run for governor of California in 2010, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The chairwoman of the Rules Committee, who was forced to skip this week’s Democratic convention in Denver because of a broken ankle, said her decision will hinge on how congressional Democrats fare in this year’s election. More »
- LA Gets the Luxury Condo Bug
  
  New York Times | Aug 21, 08 9:38 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - LA’s multi-millionaires are downsizing. While the wealth and fame in the City of Angels has traditionally expressed itself in estates, preferably gated, now a steady stream of the very-well-heeled are trading in their mansions for high-rise luxury condos, the New York Times reports. “People are ready to live in a more urban way,” says Robert Stern, one of several prominent architects designing such vertical manors. More »
- Gadfly Stalls San Francisco Bike Measures
  
  Wall Street Journal | Aug 20, 08 3:23 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - San Francisco's plans to make the city more bike-friendly are stuck in the slow lane thanks to litigation from an anti-cycling activist, the Wall Street Journal reports. Rob Anderson believes adding bike lanes causes pollution by clogging up traffic. The progressive city is now unable even to install new bike racks before a court-ordered environmental review finishes. More »
- Religion No Excuse for Not Treating Gays: Calif. Court
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Aug 18, 08 4:29 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - California doctors must provide services to gays and lesbians in line with all other patients, even if it conflicts with their religious beliefs, the state’s supreme court ruled today. The justices unanimously shot down an effort by a San Diego County fertility clinic's physicians to use religion as grounds for refusing artificial insemination to a lesbian couple, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. More »
- So, Your Wife's a Porn Star?
  
  GQ | Aug 12, 08 11:55 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Married life with a porn star has its downsides, husbands admit: Wives can talk about the day at work, appear odd to soccer mom friends, or even suffer the occasional vaginal tear on the job. Or, says Bill—husband to Ryder Skye—you can lie around thinking of how she makes a living. But "I want her to be happy," he tells GQ . "On the downside, though, there are guys having sex with your wife." More »
- Calif. Therapists Rake in Millions Under Sex Offender Law
  
  Los Angeles Times | Aug 10, 08 12:17 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Psychologists and psychiatrists are cashing in on a California law requiring mental health screening for sex offenders, the LA Times reports. Last year, private contractors billed the state for millions of dollars in prisoner evaluations, with one psychologist bringing home $1.5 million. State officials defend the expense as necessary to defend public safety in the face of inadequate staffing. More »
- Mexican Cartels Growing Pot in US National Park
  
  CNN | Aug 9, 08 7:14 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Mexican drug cartels are growing hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of marijuana in the thick of California’s Sequoia National Forest, CNN reports. Hours on foot from the nearest road, pot gardens flourish with as many as 10,000 plants, irrigation systems created by daming mountain creeks, and their own armed guards. Pot production has intensified in the area as border control has made it harder to smuggle marijuana into the country from Mexico, says a drug enforcement agent. More »
- LAPD Chief Dishes on Brit, LiLo
  
  NBC 4 Los Angeles | Aug 1, 08 11:42 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - LA's police chief said yesterday the city's paparazzi problems are under control now that Britney Spears has “started wearing clothes and behaving” and "Lindsay Lohan has gone gay." A proposed anti-paparazzi law is a "complete waste of time," William Bratton told KNBC-TV before a meeting about the need for restrictions. More »
July 2008
- Calif. Sues EPA for 'Wantonly' Ignoring Earth
  
  Reuters | Jul 31, 08 8:42 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - California is suing the EPA for "wantonly" shirking its duty to protect the environment, reports Reuters. The lawsuit is aimed at forcing the agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from ships, planes, and industrial equipment, said Attorney General Jerry Brown. He said previous efforts to get the agency to act had been met only with a "pathetically weak" proposal that ignored public health concerns. More »
- LA Escapes Big Quake Damage
  
  Los Angeles Times | Jul 29, 08 8:07 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Residents of LA are letting out a collective 'Phew!" in the wake of today's 5.4 magnitude quake that rattled buildings and nerves but appeared to cause relatively little damage. Reports of minor injuries were surfacing, but no major structural problems—of the sort to compromise buildings and roads—have arisen. By late afternoon, a sense of normalcy had largely returned, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »
- Quake Rattles Southern Calif.
  
  Associated Press | Jul 29, 08 2:08 PM CDT
  
  (AP) - A moderate earthquake shook Southern California at 11:42am local time today. The quake was felt from Los Angeles to San Diego, and slightly in Las Vegas, the AP reports. Preliminary information from the US Geological Survey estimated the quake at magnitude 5.8, centered 29 miles east-southeast of downtown Los Angeles, near Chino Hills. More »
- Forest Fire Rages by Yosemite
  
  Sacramento Bee | Jul 28, 08 4:42 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Hundreds of people have been evacuated and 12 homes destroyed as a forest fire rages out of control near Yosemite National Park, the Sacramento Bee reports. The fire, which began Friday, has burned 26,000 acres of forest, including the Mariposa County foothills that serve as the gateway to the famous park. Thousands of firefighters are battling the blaze, apparently ignited by a stray bullet in target practice. More »
- Governator Signs Calif. Trans Fat Ban
  
  Los Angeles Times | Jul 25, 08 4:22 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - California became the first state to ban trans fats from restaurant and bakery cooking today, the Los Angeles Times reports. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the bill passed last week by the legislature, saying it would help Californians’ health. Some restaurateurs, such as Wolfgang Puck—who had already phased the oils out due to customer requests—supported the measure. More »
- Sans Budget, Arnold to Slash Calif. Workers' Pay
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Jul 24, 08 10:48 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Arnold Schwarzenegger is threatening to ease California's cash-flow crisis by slashing the pay of 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage of $6.55 an hour, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. A draft executive order obtained by the Chronicle also ends overtime pay for all but emergency employees and lays off 22,000 temporary workers. The proposal, aimed to pressure the deadlocked Legislature into passing an overdue budget, has enraged labor groups. More »