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Last week, we learned that the Governor and his corrections officials still refuse to do what's right. Instead of closing the abusive and costly youth prisons and replacing them with regional rehabilitation centers and community programs, they want to keep the prisons run by prison guards open......

Alcatraz and its brief take over by the Native Americans has always inspired many all over the world but more importantly the many Native American Tribes of California. Here is California many tribes have yet to be put on the Federal Register and this is not Just. Even as we speak we have corruption in the White House and in Washington DC - some folks pretending to help Native Americans and making millions - some of it in the name of Native Americans....

Some Hindu and Sikh activists in the U.S. who have been trying in recent months to persuade the California Board of Education to adopt curriculum revisions in textbooks for elementary and middle school students say they are unhappy over the direction their efforts seem to have taken while on the home stretch....

Across California, Foster Farms chickens need your help on December 17, 2005....

People around the country are taking action to stop the execution of Stan Tookie Williams, the California death row prisoner who is scheduled to be executed on December 13....

Would anyone suggest that one man should be killed for the crimes of another? Then what should a society do when that man has so transformed himself that he no longer resembles the one we want to punish?...While it is true that the striking of a single black juror alone would not rise to the Batson case level, striking every black juror as in Williams’ case would certainly sound alarms -- particularly in a case where the defendant is black and where the prosecutor has a documented history of ...

The Governor’s appointment of Democrat Susan Kennedy as his chief of staff has been trumpeted in the San Francisco Chronicle as a “potentially dramatic change” reflecting his “penchant for making out-of-the ordinary decisions.” Really?...

At 4 pm today I located the grieving family of Bruce Frausto who died at Pleasant Valley Prison on November ll. Had a prisoner not tipped me off to it, this tragedy would have gone completely under the radar of the media....

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Two early morning arson fires damaged seven sport utility vehicles at dealerships in the Pacific Beach area, but authorities said there was no sign eco-terrorists were involved....