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Category Archives: Disability Issues
Beyond the Bubble: Suit Claiming That Closure of Pot Dispensaries Violates Disabilities Act is Dismissed
Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with an AM post from somewhere else in California. We're in this Golden State together. Right? A three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a lower court's … Continue reading
Breakfast Blend: Campaigns to Legalize Pot with Calif Ballot Measure Appear Set to Flame Out
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. L.A. museum prepares to display space shuttle Endeavour (Los Angeles Times) Effort to … Continue reading
Police Force’s Sloppy Investigations Leave Abuse of Disabled Unsolved
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From California Watch California has assembled a unique police force to protect about 1,800 of its most vulnerable patients – men and women with cerebral palsy, severe autism and other mental disabilities who live in state institutions and require round-the-clock … Continue reading
Breakfast Blend: Menlo Park Fund Manager Charged with Insider Trading on Google
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. Hedge-Fund Manager Charged Insider-Trading Probe (Wall Street Journal) Testing pot in a legal … Continue reading
Breakfast Blend: K-Pop Comes of Age in US with "Late Show" Appearance for Girls' Generation
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. K-Pop Sensation Girls' Generation Plays 'Late Show With David Letterman' (Wall Street Journal) … Continue reading
Breakfast Blend: How Retailers Game Amazon Customers with Fake, Paid-For Reviews
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. For $2 a Star, a Retailer Gets 5-Star Reviews (New York Times) New … Continue reading
Breakfast Blend: At Last - Memorial for Etta James Set for Inglewood Friday
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. RIVERSIDE: Etta James' memorial set for Inglewood Friday (Riverside Press Enterprise) Cap on … Continue reading
Breakfast Blend: Average Silicon Valley Tech Salary Tops $100,000
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. Average Silicon Valley Tech Salary Passes $100,000 (Wall Street Journal) Officers justified in … Continue reading
Breakfast Blend: 71 Years After Hearst Tried to Kill It, "Citizen Kane" to be Shown at Hearst Castle
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Rachael Myrow here, host of the California Report, with a handful of links to cool and/or important stories outside the Bay Area local readers should check out. 'Citizen Kane' gets inside the castle (Los Angeles Times) McDonald's proposal divides healthy … Continue reading
The Sex Surrogate and the Poet
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You may have read the profile in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday of Cheryl Cohen Greene, a Berkeley "surrogate partner" who works with mostly men suffering from sexual dysfunction, frequently having intercourse with them. One of her clients was the … Continue reading
