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Ear to the Ground: Appeals Court Declares Prop. 8 Unconstitutional

Reports: California and the Rapture-Ready Candidacy of Newt Gingrich

Ear to the Ground: California: How Heartless Can You Get?

Ear to the Ground: Accused Serial Killer Returned From Iraq ‘Totally Changed’

A/V Booth: ‘Democracy Now!’: The Fight Against Citizens United

Ear to the Ground: FDA Tells Volunteer Sperm Donor to Zip It

Ear to the Ground: Occupy Movement Invades West Coast Ports

A/V Booth: America, Meet the Mouth of John Burton

Reports: How Students Landed on the Front Lines of Class War

Ear to the Ground: The Battle for Gay Marriage Plods On

Ear to the Ground: To Protest Foreclosures, San Jose Priest Divests $3 Million From Bank of America

Reports: Obama Administration’s War on Pot in California

A/V Booth: ‘Outed’ Oakland Cop Supports Occupy Movement, Criticizes Police

Ear to the Ground: California County to Charge Prisoners for Jail Stay

Reports: California Refuses to Accept Obama’s Banking Sellout

Reports: American Decline Is Crushing the Middle Class

Reports: On Edge of Paradise, Coachella Workers Live in Grim Conditions

Ear to the Ground: Portraits of Misery in Coachella

Ear to the Ground: California Medical Assn. Says Pot Should Be Legal

Ear to the Ground: Brown Signs California Dream Act Into Law

Reports: Grocery Workers Struggle Despite L.A. Union Victory

Ear to the Ground: This Billionaire Likes to Tinker With Government

Ear to the Ground: Amazon Wins Tax Break, California Wins Jobs

Reports: Murder Is Good Politics, Bad Justice

Ear to the Ground: 7 States Back DOJ in Opposing AT&T Merger

Ear to the Ground: California Strikes a Deal With Amazon

Ear to the Ground: Amazon Dangles Jobs for a Tax-Free Ride

Reports: San Francisco Bay Area’s BART Pulls a Mubarak

Reports: Look Homeward, Angels: California and the Rise and Fall of America’s Space Program

Cartoons: California Court Cost Cuts

Ear to the Ground: Secession Proposal Would Create a Republican California

Reports: The Education of Ana Ponce: A Success Story

A/V Booth: What California’s Devastating Budget Says About Democrats

Ear to the Ground: Tax-Dodging Amazon Drops California Partners

Reports: Yes to Violence, No to Sex

Ear to the Ground: California Passes $86 Billion Budget Without New Taxes

Ear to the Ground: Violent Video Game Ban Blown to Smithereens

Ear to the Ground: No Public Money for Arizona Candidates

Cartoons: Hard Times for California Legislators

Truthdig Podcast: The Body Baggers of Iraq

A/V Booth: The Body Baggers of Iraq

Reports: Here We Go Again: Reform in California

Ear to the Ground: Gay Jurist’s Legitimacy in Prop. 8 Decision Is Upheld

Reports: Cleaning Up California’s Cruel Prison System

Ear to the Ground: Google Bets on California Wind Power

Reports: America’s Mermaid

Ear to the Ground: Supreme Court Orders California to Lose as Many as 46,000 Prisoners

Ear to the Ground: Snowmelt Could Flood Western Communities

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Admits He Had a Child on the Side

Ear to the Ground: Rite Aid Workers Score a Major Union Victory

Arts and Culture: Schwarzenegger to Resuscitate Tired Tagline, Movie Franchise

Ear to the Ground: Prop. 8 Supporters Target Judge’s Sexual Orientation

Cartoons: California Gov. Brown and Taxes

Reports: America, by Way of the Antelope Valley

A/V Booth: First Look at ‘The Governator’

Ear to the Ground: Millions of Dead Fish Puzzle Californians

Ear to the Ground: High Salaries Ring a Bell

Arts and Culture: Arnold’s Next Act: Another ‘Terminator’?

Reports: When Protest Becomes a Crime

Reports: State Budget Cuts Are Bad for Your Health

Reports: Governor Laser Beam

Reports: The Cuts Are Coming

Ear to the Ground: No Warrant Necessary for Cell Phone Searches in California

A/V Booth: Goodbye Governator, Hello Again Gov. Brown

Ear to the Ground: The Case of the Missing Murder

Ear to the Ground: East Coast In for a Stormy Christmas

Ear to the Ground: California Count Off by 1.5 Million?

Ear to the Ground: Half of Californians Can’t Afford Their Homes

Ear to the Ground: California Snubs Republican Landslide

Reports: While You Were Sleeping, California Made New Election Laws

Cartoons: California Is Sick

Ear to the Ground: California’s Top Court Upholds Undocumented Immigrant Tuition Policy

Ear to the Ground: Mystery Missile Has Pentagon Guessing (Update)

Ear to the Ground: Protests Rock Oakland in Wake of Verdict

Ear to the Ground: Californians Put Down Their Joints, Give Jerry Brown Another Shot

Arts and Culture: Top Court Mulls Video Game Violence

Ear to the Ground: Fiorina Heads to the Hospital

Ear to the Ground: George Soros Makes the Case for Legal Weed

Ear to the Ground: Audit Time for Bell

Reports: Reclaiming the Golden State

A/V Booth: Brown, Whitman Wrangle Over ‘Whore’ Zinger

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Slashes Social Programs

A/V Booth: Brown Aide Caught on Tape Calling Whitman a ‘Whore’

Reports: Reconstructing Los Angeles: A Journey to the Other Side of L.A.

A/V Booth: California Debate Heats Up Over Immigration

Ear to the Ground: California’s Top Court Rules in Favor of Furloughs

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Rahm Gone, Tea Party, Whitman-Brown

Ear to the Ground: Meg Whitman’s Immigration Woes

Reports: The War of the McCourts

Reports: What the Pot Legalization Campaign Really Threatens

Ear to the Ground: For Whom the City of Bell Tolls

Ear to the Ground: Fears of Double-Dip Recession in California

Reports: Scary Primary Results

Reports: A Closer Look at Citizen Whitman

Reports: Democrats on the Edge of a Midterm Disaster

Arts and Culture: California Lawmakers Lay the Smackdown on Paparazzi

A/V Booth: Carly Fiorina No Es Mi Amiga

Ear to the Ground: L.A. Jails to Get Ray-Gun Technology

Ear to the Ground: Getting a Read on Prop. 8’s Proponents

Reports: Reason Beats Hate in Prop. 8 Ruling

Ear to the Ground: Judge Lifts Stay, Gay Marriages in California Soon to Be a Go (Updated)

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Urges Resumption of Gay Marriages

Reports: The Judge Who Slew Prop. 8

Ear to the Ground: Federal Judge Says Gays Have a Right to Marry

Ear to the Ground: Gambling for California’s Future

Reports: We All Live on Turtle Island

Ear to the Ground: How Clean Are Electric Cars? Depends on the State

Ear to the Ground: Technical Difficulties Bring Luck to Calif. Workers

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger’s Unwelcome July Surprise

Ear to the Ground: Gay Marriage Goes Up for Argument in California

A/V Booth: A Very Jerry Primary Party: Brown Readies for Battle With Meg Whitman

Ear to the Ground: It Cost Meg Whitman Only $81 Million to Buy a Shot at the Mansion

Ear to the Ground: Ralph Nader on Prop. 14

Reports: Where’s the Recovery?

Ear to the Ground: Arizona’s Immigration Debate Gets Californians Talking

Reports: Why Financial Reform Will Be Easier Than Health Care

Ear to the Ground: Obama Flies In to Give Sen. Boxer a Boost

Ear to the Ground: The Secret Police of Los Angeles: Daryl Gates’ Paranoid Legacy

Reports: What Are They Smoking in California?

Ear to the Ground: California A.G. Says ACORN Workers Didn’t Violate Law in ‘Pimp’ Tapes

Ear to the Ground: Californians Heckle Karl Rove Into Submission

Reports: The Looming Water Disaster That Could Destroy California

Ear to the Ground: Noam Chomsky Edition

A/V Booth: The ‘Runaway Prius’ That Quite Possibly Wasn’t

Reports: The Tax War Goes Online

Ear to the Ground: Calif. State Sen. Ashburn: ‘I Am Gay’

Cartoons: School’s Out

Ear to the Ground: ‘3, 6, 9, 12, Budgets Cuts Can Go to Hell’

Ear to the Ground: Why Jerry Brown Wants to Be California’s Next Governor

Ear to the Ground: Health Insurance Executive Defends Rate Hikes Before Congress

Ear to the Ground: Obama Debuts Health Care Reform Plan, Sans Public Option

Ear to the Ground: Palin Calls Global Warming Research ‘Snake Oil Science’

Reports: Nice Speech. Now What?

Reports: California’s Folly — Prop. 13

Ear to the Ground: Study Blames American Smog on Asia

Ear to the Ground: An Omen in the Prop. 8 Battle?

Ear to the Ground: SCOTUS Bars Video Coverage of Prop. 8 Trial

Ear to the Ground: And Now, the California Budget Cuts

Ear to the Ground: Liberal Linguist Wants to Save California

Ear to the Ground: House Passes Earmark-Heavy Spending Bill

Reports: Corporate Farmer Calls Upon Sen. Feinstein to Influence Environmental Dispute

A/V Booth: California Climate Change Primer With Your Host, Gov. Schwarzenegger

Reports: Age Trumps Youth in UC Tuition Dispute

Reports: Books, Not Bombs

Reports: Despite Subsidies, Class Sizes Rise in California Schools

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Says Hasta la Vista, Baby, to Politics

Ear to the Ground: Carly Fiorina Taking On Barbara Boxer for Senate Seat

Ear to the Ground: Where Was Obama When Maine Needed Him?

Arts and Culture: Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times

Ear to the Ground: Pot Politics: California Could Go All the Way

Arts and Culture: Top Writer-Director Breaks With Scientology Over Proposition 8

Ear to the Ground: Boom Times for Pot Growers

Ear to the Ground: High Times for States’ Rights

A/V Booth: A Marriage Protection Act Gays Can Appreciate

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Gives Harvey Milk His Day

Ear to the Ground: Top Judge Gives Golden State the ‘D’ Word

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Pumps Up Health Care Reform

Reports: The Missing Health Care Debate

Arts and Culture: Joel Kotkin on California’s Golden Age

Ear to the Ground: Bill Clinton Picks a Horse in Cali Governor Race

Reports: Homeland Security Spending Marked by Waste, Shoddy Oversight

Ear to the Ground: Calif. GOP Assemblyman Resigns Over ‘Inappropriate Storytelling’

Ear to the Ground: Arson Sparked L.A. Inferno

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Sells Signed Cars for California

Ear to the Ground: California Jobless Rate Tickles 12%

Ear to the Ground: Gay Rights Group Puts Marriage Fight on Hold

Ear to the Ground: California Cuts Budget Deal

Ear to the Ground: California Unemployment on the Rise

Ear to the Ground: California Sees Red

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Won’t Budge as California Nears Collapse

Ear to the Ground: California Attacks Budget Crisis With Make-Believe

Ear to the Ground: May Jobless Rates Grim for Most States

Ear to the Ground: Democrats Aren’t Buying What Schwarzenegger’s Cutting

Reports: California’s Silent Big Spenders

Ear to the Ground: Fight for Gay Marriage Goes Federal

Cartoons: How a Hate Crime Becomes a Law

Reports: Stuff the Bankers, Starve the Kids

A/V Booth: Bill Maher’s California Elegy

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Is Torture a Partisan Issue?

Arts and Culture: One Step Closer to Harvey Milk Day

Ear to the Ground: Napolitano ‘Cautiously Optimistic’ About Swine Flu

Ear to the Ground: Swine Flu Comes to the U.S.

Ear to the Ground: This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land, Don’t Blow It

Reports: We Are Breeding Ourselves to Extinction

Reports: Why Did So Few Americans Give a Damn?

Ear to the Ground: Prop. 8 Likely to Stand

Ear to the Ground: Schwarzenegger Thought About Ditching the GOP

Reports: Good Money After Bad

Ear to the Ground: Infrastructure Spending Shafts the States That Need It

Ear to the Ground: California Plans to Fire 20,000 Workers

Ear to the Ground: Salazar Shelves Bush’s Offshore Drilling Plans

Reports: Eight Is (More Than) Enough

Ear to the Ground: Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Cartoons: California Budget Begging

Reports: Warren Is Worth the Headache

A/V Booth: Schwarzenegger Wants It All

Ear to the Ground: Brown Moves to Nix Prop. 8

A/V Booth: Why Gays Are Upset About the Rev. Rick Warren

Reports: Redrawing the Political Map

A/V Booth: Navy Plane Crashes in San Diego Neighborhood

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