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Sink the $40M Tax Break for Noah's Ark Park
Sink the $40M Tax Break
for Noah's Ark Park
OPINION
Dec 8, 2010 3:03 AM CST

Sink the $40M Tax Break for Noah's Ark Park

Much more exciting: A Scientology galactic park at taxpayer expense

(Newser) - Kentucky's plan to grant a $40 million tax break to a Noah's Ark theme park is roiling waters as far away as Los Angeles. The $150 million "Ark Encounter" park, featuring a three-story-high ship, is being conceived by a Christian ministry that believes humans co-existed with dinosaurs and that...

Arizona-Like Immigration Plan Splits California GOP

Ballot measure may not have enough support for 2012

(Newser) - In California, where Latinos comprise the fastest-growing portion of the electorate, some Republicans want their own version of Arizona’s controversial immigration law —but others disagree, and the party rift is threatening the measure’s chances of getting on the 2012 ballot. "It's completely counterproductive to the future...

Gay-Marriage Ban Returns to Court in California

Prop. 8 case could set stage for Supreme Court battle

(Newser) - California’s ban on gay marriage gets another day in court: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments related to August's ruling that Prop 8 is unconstitutional today, likely moving the issue closer to the Supreme Court, the Wall Street Journal reports. There won’t be new evidence...

Mosque Reports Scary FBI Mole to ... FBI

Mosque spy revelations trigger major new breach between feds and Us Muslims

(Newser) - A member of a California mosque was so ardently promoting jihad against the US that frightened Muslim officials obtained a restraining order against him—and reported him to the FBI. The only problem? He was an FBI mole out to get the goods on any terrorists who were lurking in...

Charles Manson Caught With Cell Phone

Calif. prison phone problem out of control, lawmakers say

(Newser) - California prison authorities are having a hard time keeping cell phones out of the hands of even the most notorious inmates. The number of phones confiscated in the state since officials started keeping track has jumped from 1,400 in 2007 to 8,675 so far this year, and prisoners...

California Will Seize, Destroy Bomb Factory in House

Schwarzenegger calls state of emergency

(Newser) - Here's a sign of just how many explosives and chemicals authorities found in the home bomb factory in San Diego County: They figure the best way to deal with the house is to destroy it. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency to give authorities the leeway to seize it...

Home Bomb Factory Uncovered in Calif.

Record cache of explosives found in robbery suspect's house

(Newser) - Authorities searching a San Diego County home have discovered the largest cache of two kinds of homemade explosives ever found in the US—and they have plenty of searching left to do, reports CNN . The resident, unemployed software engineer George Jakubec, has been charged with two bank robberies and bomb...

California Cities Scramble to Launch Pot Farms

Towns want marijuana-related tax money

(Newser) - In a bid to rake in even more pot-related tax revenue, some California cities are pushing to build government-OKed marijuana farms within city limits, the AP reports. In wine country, the town of Sebastopol passed a measure allowing for four medical-marijuana gardens—two of which are to function as communal...

Calif. Illegals Have Right to In-State Tuition: Court

Undocumented who went to state high schools qualify for lower rates

(Newser) - California's Supreme Court has upheld a law allowing illegal immigrants to pay the same lower tuition fees as legal residents. The court decided that the law—which extends in-state tuition rates to anybody who studied at a California high school for 3 years before entering a university—is not based...

Prop 19 Backers Banking on 2012

Legal pot poised to win next time, they say

(Newser) - Proposition 19 may have lost at the polls , but relax, dude: Its backers are more convinced than ever that a similar measure will pass in 2012. A post-election poll shows that Californians actually do favor legalization 49% to 41%, so now it’s just a matter of getting the young...

Chill, Stoners: Californians Do Back Legal Pot

New poll shows after vote they support legalizing marijuana 49%-41%

(Newser) - All the stoners out there tremendously disappointed in California's failure to make pot legal can relax. Californians generally do support legalizing marijuana, but a number of them may have simply been too stoned to make it to the polls. If young voters had turned out as heavily this week as...

Why Proposition 19 Failed
 Why Proposition 19 Failed 
OPINION roundup
Nov 3, 2010 10:59 AM CDT

Why Proposition 19 Failed

Little funding, lack of young voter turnout, and other factors

(Newser) - Proposition 19 , California’s marijuana legalization measure, went up in smoke yesterday—but why? A few opinions:
  • Pot is already legal: The campaign for Prop 19 was “centered on the injustice and waste of law enforcement resources involved in treating cannabis smokers like criminals,” a point that
...

California Elects a Dead Woman

State Sen. Jenny Oropeza died Oct. 20; still nabs 57.8% of vote

(Newser) - In California, one literally does not need a pulse to win an election. State Sen. Jenny Oropeza zipped to victory last night, capturing 57.8% of the vote in her heavily Democratic district some two weeks after she died. Republican John Stammreich, who might have expected that being alive would...

Legal Pot Goes Down in Flames
 Legal Pot Goes Down in Flames 
prop 19
Nov 3, 2010 5:30 AM CDT

Legal Pot Goes Down in Flames

California voters reject Prop. 19

(Newser) - California voters rejected a cutting-edge measure that would have made it legal to grow, possess, and use up to an ounce of marijuana for recreational purposes. Prop. 19 was supported by young voters, the San Francisco Bay Area, state branches of the NAACP, and retired police chiefs, but slammed by...

Tea Partiers Stoked About Legal Pot

Libertarianism trumping Reagan-era attitudes in California

(Newser) - Smaller government, lower taxes ... and legal marijuana? Tea Partiers aren't generally associated with toking, but Californians backing Proposition 19 say a surprisingly large share of the movement is planning to vote to legalize pot. Tea Partiers— as well as many Republicans in general —have a strong libertarian streak and...

Sex Abuse Victim Savagely Attacks Priest

He 'filled my life with rage and bitterness,' says California man

(Newser) - A California man who accused a Catholic priest of sexually abusing him as a child has been arrested after savagely beating the cleric in the lobby of his retirement home, police report. William Lynch, 43, said he dreamed for years of exacting revenge on the man he charged molested him...

Meg Whitman: Deport My Housekeeper
Meg Whitman:
Deport My Housekeeper
Oct 29, 2010 4:22 AM CDT

Meg Whitman: Deport My Housekeeper

How that her house is clean, 'the law is the law,' says Calif. candidate

(Newser) - Meg Whitman, in an effort to fire up the Republican base, has been taking a harder line on immigration—or, at least, on one illegal immigrant in particular. The California hopeful had previously declined to comment on whether her former maid, who was in the country illegally during her employment...

Governator: Congress Is Full of Wimps

Schwarzenegger eyes return to acting

(Newser) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is on his way out of office with dismal approval ratings and a proposition to dismantle much of his legacy on the ballot—but he's going out fighting. In an interview with ABC' s Diane Sawyer, the once-and-future Terminator slammed the "wimps" in Congress for...

Biggest-Ever Solar Plant Wins OK in Calif.

Desert installation will double America's solar power capacity

(Newser) - Federal regulators have green-lighted the world's largest solar power installation. The Blythe Solar Power Plant, to be built on 7,000 acres of public land in California, will double the amount of solar energy the US can produce, the Los Angeles Times reports. The German company behind the project aims...

Calif. Cops Lost in Pot Law Haze

They're left to sort out enforcement in whatever state

(Newser) - California cops can't wait until marijuana laws are clarified one way or the other because they're so confused right now that they might as well be stoned on the job. Take Deputy Sheriff Robert Hamilton of Humboldt County, the root of the state's wild west marijuana culture. He recently discovered...

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