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Date	Title
March 26, 2007	Food Safety and E. coli--101 years ago, Teddy Roosevelt, the great Progressive Republican President, in the wake of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, signed the Pure Food and Drug Act and regulated the food industry
January 24, 2007	Different Views of the California Economy: Consider the Words of Senator Jim Webb Last Night and Those of Andrew Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt From the Past
January 02, 2007	Compare Hiram Johnson's Inaugural speech of 1911 to the sorry spectacle we have of the intermingling of our state government and private interests with Governor Schwarzenegger using business contributions to pay for his inauguration and staff salaries
September 08, 2006	Just as “patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel” according to Samuel Johnson, vetoing progressive legislation and calling them “job killers” is “a big lie!”
July 31, 2006	Index the Minimum Wage: California is At a Level 12% Lower Than the Last Time This Floor Was Set In 2002 and One-Third Lower Than It Was in 1968.
May 23, 2006	Republican Assemblymembers Unanimously Vote Against Resolution Urging Passage of “Comprehensive, Bipartisan” Immigration Bill
May 15, 2006	“A budget is all about values ...and what we really care about.” (Arnold Schwarzenegger, May 12) Why then are we balancing it by taking cost of living increases from the blind, aged, and disabled?
April 24, 2006	What would Hiram Johnson do today—with Big Oil making record profits at the expense of the most vulnerable Californians?
April 10, 2006	Arnold’s new campaign manager says the choice “will be reform and continuing to move forward vs. a failed status quo!” Maybe we have to excuse him since he hasn’t been around for the last two and a half years.
March 27, 2006	Arnold threatens to veto minimum wage bill if it has cost of living increase in future years because it could “destroy the private sector!”
March 18, 2006	Bee Frames Issue "Water's two religions, beware a clash of Birkenstocks, concrete"
March 01, 2006	Protecting Against Floods Called "Job Killer!"

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