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Today’s tales from the worlds of economics, politics and the environment — plus added Fukusihmapocalypse Now! — opens with hope for modest relief for some via the Guardian: Sallie Mae and Justice Department in $60m deal over military...

A READER POINTS to the relevant Brown Act law and wonders why the Supervisors don’t bother to report out of closed session in the legally mandated manner. We wonder too. We also wonder why closed session discussions aren’t described in at...

Heavily armed SWAT teams are increasingly used for such small tasks as raiding poker games and trying to stop underage drinking. How did we get here?   Excerpted from "Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces...

Doug Obegi, Staff Attorney, Western Water Project, San Francisco Today, the House Natural Resources Committee began marking up H.R. 2898 (Valadao, R-CA), anti-environmental legislation that would permanently override protections for salmon and other...

Hood, California, is a farming town of 200 souls, crammed up against a levee that protects it from the Sacramento River. The eastern approach from I-5 and the Sacramento suburb of Elk Grove is bucolic. Cows graze. An abandoned railroad track sits atop...