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Hawaii Follows California With a Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff
Business  (tags: solar, california, energy, solar energy, hawaii, tariff, schartzenegger, legislation, politics )

Heather
- 23 days ago - cleantechnica.com
Earlier this month, Governor Schwarzenegger signed legislation to buy solar power from relatively small private generators for rates above market value. Hawaii is next in line with this European-style tariff -- the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission...
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TurboTax Lobbyists Try To Block State Aid to Poor
Business  (tags: Intuit, TurboTax, software, California, lobbyists, corporate, greed, ethics, money, politics, government, corruption, business, consumers, poor, taxpayers, abuse )

Tom
- 122 days ago - latimes.com
For several years Intuit lobbyists have tried to kill a state program that allows some California residents, mostly low-income taxpayers, to have the state tax board fill out their tax returns for free -- competition for Intuit's popular TurboTax software
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AIG Executives Cancel Planned California Spa Retreat - Update
Business  (tags: AIG, bailout, spa, retreat, Half Moon Bay, California )


- 411 days ago - nydailynews.com
Still smarting from their spanking for blowing $500,000 at a swanky resort after getting an $85 billion taxpayer bailout, AIG execs have cancelled a planned spa weekend at a posh California hotel.
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Amid Wall Street Crisis, Some States Forced to Take 'Drastic Action'
Business  (tags: economy, Wall Street Crisis, California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, likely to borrow short term $7 billion, hard times )


- 412 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
States slashing budgets, axing jobs, halting major construction projects. They are also weighing lawsuits against Wall Street firms. And at least one state -- California -- may ask Washington to come to the rescue.
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The Oliver Twist of California
Business  (tags: California, budget, economy, Henry Paulson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, federal bailout, state budgets )

RC
- 418 days ago - nytimes.com
California is apparently in dire straits - so much so that AHnald has sent a letter to Treasury Czar Henry Paulson with feelers for $7 billion dollars from the Feds. Hey, where do we get in line?
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Small Town Overthrows Corporate Giant for Control of Water
Business  (tags: water, corporate control, community control, private, vs, public ownership, Felton, California, German, energy and water, multinational, RWE )

Alba
- 536 days ago - alternet.org
In successful 6-yr crusade for control of their water, people of Felton, CA have helped lead way for other US communities fighting corporate control of water. Trouble started in 2002 with 74% rate hike: Friends of Locally Owned Water -FLOW- was born &...
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High Country News -- Plowing Under the Fields of Shame
Business  (tags: California, Farmworkers, High Country News, Organizations, Sexual Abuse, Women )

Barry
- 584 days ago - opednews.com
Women farm workers are subject to low pay and hard work, and likely abuse from supervisors and fellow workers. All the while they are reluctant to complain or quit because they are so needy. One effort to deal with the abuse is the Bandana Project.
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Los Angeles Foreclosure Homes Hit the Roof
Business  (tags: Los Angeles foreclosure homes, Los Angeles bank foreclosures, California, foreclosed houses, foreclosure homes, bank foreclosures, homes in foreclosure, foreclosures, forclosure, forclosures, real estate )


- 630 days ago - e-foreclosuresearch.com
Foreclosure activity in Los Angeles hit a high of 19% by the end of the third quarter making the condition of homeowners far more miserable.
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Does Labor Need More Clout? The Economic Problem & Union-Busting at 14-Hospital Chain Owned/Run By Nuns of St. Joseph of Orange
Business  (tags: US, California, union-busting, nuns, St Joseph's Health System, SJHS, Robert B. Reich, author, professor of public policy, UC Berkeley, former US Secretary of Labor, US economy, lower 'n middle-income workers, lack buying power )

Alba
- 631 days ago - sfgate.com
50 yrs ago, most employers obeyed the law & allowed workers to organize. Today, even employers who should know better are fighting unions. Huge company St.Joseph'sHealthSystem's refused to negotiate with (21,000) employees since 2004. Struggle goes on...
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California Scores Nearly Half of North American Green Tech Capital
Business  (tags: Entrepreneurs, green tech, California )

Larry
- 676 days ago - sfgate.com
Venture capitalists poured $1.79 billion into the Golden State's green companies last year, most of them in the Bay Area. That's 45 percent of all green investments in North America, according to data from the Cleantech Group, an organization that tracks
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U.S. No.1 Mortgage Lender Under Investigation
Business  (tags: mortgage, investigation, lender, Countrywide Financial, California, Illinois )

Eduardo
- 711 days ago - english.peopledaily.com.cn
The U.S. No. 1 mortgage lender, Countrywide Financial Corp., was under investigation by California Attorney General Jerry Brown and the attorney general's office in Illinois.
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California Sues 20 Companies For Toys With Unlawful Amounts of Lead
Business  (tags: americans, business, children, consumers, dishonesty, economics, economy, environment, investors, labor, market, marketing, markets, money, technology, toxins, lead, california, state, attorney, general, corporations, mattel, toys, manufacturing )

Ani
- 736 days ago - commondreams.org
Lead, known to cause cancer and reproductive harm, also can cause mental and physical retardation as well as behavioral and other health problems in children. In adults, it can damage the nervous system.
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California Sues 20 Companies Over Toys With Lead
Business  (tags: California, lawsuits, lead, toy, companies )

Eduardo
- 736 days ago - reuters.com
The California attorney general and Los Angeles city attorney filed a lawsuit on Monday against 20 companies accusing them of manufacturing or selling toys with unlawfully high levels of lead.
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Calif. Sues Mattel, Toys 'R' Us Over Tainted Toys
Business  (tags: toys r us, mattel, sued, lead, california )

Mamabear
- 737 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
SAN FRANCISCO - California Attorney General Jerry Brown on Monday sued 20 companies, including Mattel Inc. and Toys "R" Us, claiming they sold toys containing "unlawful quantities of lead."
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