March 2012
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California Watch: Flashlights, exercise equipment,... →
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Flashlights, exercise equipment, trumpets, gun parts, combat coats, pistol holsters, water canteens, radios, laptops, M16 rifles, helicopters, microwaves, survival kits, workout equipment, bayonet knives, ammunition cans.
A list of some of the surplus military equipment that California law enforcement agencies received last year. More than 17,000 local agencies across the...
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How Does News Corp. Make Its Money? →
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Great interactive by our friends at PBS Frontline.
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“We don’t want to buy pink slime.”
– Dennis Barrett, the Los Angeles Unified School District’s director of food services.
Schools across the country have been quick to distance themselves from the cotton candy-colored controversy after revelations that the U.S. Department of Agriculture buys the product, commonly used in ground beef,...
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To feed another 2 billion people, the world will... →
Just one of the food-and-water facts from the campaign organizers at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
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In California, bill would restrict data from...
A California lawmaker representing Silicon Valley wants to rein in a cutting-edge law enforcement technology that enables police to stockpile digital personal information on motorists and build a portrait of their whereabouts.
Agencies across the nation are swiftly adopting the use of license-plate recognition devices, which are affixed to the outside of their patrol cars and scan passing...
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WatchKen and Melanie Light embarked on a five-year photographic journey of a region known for its agricultural plenty – and the marginalization of its people. In their book, “Valley of Shadows and Dreams,” the Lights dig deep into the harsh truths of farm workers’ daily experiences in California’s Central Valley and take a hard look at the legacies of politics, bureaucracy and control in the region. We...
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WatchGo behind the story in our new segment looking at the documentary ‘If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front.’ Oscar nominee Marshall Curry discusses making this part coming-of-age, part cops-and-robbers thriller that asks hard questions about environmentalism, activism and terrorism.
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“Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is.”
– Rick Santorum calling climate science bogus. (via officialssay)
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WatchDespite the Fukushima catastrophe in Japan last March, nuclear power is experiencing a rebirth in the United States. Billions of dollars in federal funding has been allocated to develop nuclear capacity; applications are under consideration to build more than a dozen new reactors; and last month, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced approval for the construction of the first new nuclear...
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