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		<title>California Policy Watch 7.20.08</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		
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Late CA Budget - With the state budget now more than a month overdue, one might presume a sense of urgency would be growing among CALIFORNIA lawmakers to knuckle down and get a deal done. That presumption would be wildly incorrect. While top legislative leaders make noise about working a deal, the Sacramento Bee reports [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Consider Pay-As-You-Drive Auto Insurance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By the Los Angeles Times
A new kind of auto insurance that only charges motorists for the miles they drive is now available in 34 states. The state with the largest auto insurance market in the nation, CALIFORNIA, isn&#8217;t one of them. That might change soon. 
 
Assemblyman Jared Huffman (D) has introduced AB 2800, a measure authorizing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rising Costs and Universal Health Care in California</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[Editor’s note: These are the remarks Senator Sheila Kuehl delivered to the California Assembly Appropriations Committee on July 16, 2008 on SB 840, her universal health care bill that is making progress towards the Governor’s desk. Kuehl is Chair of the Senate Health Committee.]
As you know, since most of you are co-authors of this bill, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gore: Reliance On Fossil Fuels Poses Threat To U.S.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Following is the prepared text of former Vice President Al Gore&#8217;s speech in Washington on July 17th, 2008 about renewable energy. Source: AlGore.com.
There are times in the history of our nation when our very way of life depends upon dispelling illusions and awakening to the challenge of a present danger. In such moments, we are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Hall Steps In: Community Land Trusts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by the National Housing Institute
Once exclusively a tool for grassroots activists seeking to change local policies, the community land trust (CLT) is increasingly being adopted by local governments facing urgent housing-affordability needs. Frustrated by housing costs that are rising rapidly beyond the reach of low- and moderate-income families and concerned about the steady loss of [...]]]></description>
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