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Two news items during the past couple ofweeks in California highlight the complicated legal and politicaltangle that is American federalism - the relationship between federaland state governments -- today. Both incidents involve the interplaybetween on one hand. California's (now decade-old) decision todecriminalize marijuana use for medicinal purposes and on the otherhand the continuing illegality under federal law of all marijuanacultivation possession distribution and use for any purpose. Thetwo events present radically different facts: One involves an allegedcriminal conspiracy that is far-flung and linked to violence whereasthe other involves a civil lawsuit brought by a seemingly productiveemployee against his employer. Yet the two episodes taken separatelyand together nicely illustrate key aspects of the ongoing tug-of-warbetween so-called "states' rights" and federal supremacy. OnOctober 30 federal drug agents executed numerous search warrantsagainst Winslow and Abraham Norton two young brothers (Winslow is 26and Abraham 23) who are alleged to have sold an estimated $49 millionof marijuana at various locations in the Bay Area during the past threeyears. The Nortons' medical marijuana dispensary was registered andgiven a permit to operate under the regime prompted by California'sCompassionate Use Act ("the Act") a 1996 initiative measure adoptedstatewide by voters that decriminalizes under state law marijuanacultivation distribution and use in those instances where a physicianhas given a written or oral recommendation or approval to a patient touse marijuana. Under the Act and subsequent implementinglegislation an Alameda County Sheriff's Deputy regularly visited theNortons' facilities to ensure that only those persons with physicianrecommendations were being given the drug. to be supreme over - and not constrained by - inconsistent state lawsmay want to consider the example of Southern resistance to federalcivil rights laws in the 1950s and 1960s. There too proponents oflocal authority argued that the national legislative policy adopted byCongress in Washington DC - in that instance that racialdiscrimination in employment and housing should be barred - should notbe imposed on states and localities that had reached a differentresolution as to how they believed the races ought to interact. In thatsetting federal law won out. So too here. Consider anotherexample in which federal supremacy seems quite intuitive andattractive. Suppose Congress outlawed use of a particular environmentalpollutant that many considered dangerous. If a majority of voters inany one state nonetheless wanted to allow persons within the state touse that pollutant then those voters could decriminalize use of thepollutant under state law but could not prevent the federal governmentfrom punishing those within the state who emit the dangerous chemical. Oneway to attempt to distinguish the civil rights and pollution examplesfrom example taken from the marijuana setting would be to point outthat unless there is federal enforcement in the civil rights andenvironmental law areas innocent victims who happen to live in thepermissive state may suffer. In other words there are spillovereffects from a state's decision to go its own way concerning racialdiscrimination and pollution - effects that may harm individuals bothin that state But the same canarguably be said for marijuana. If for example marijuana use doescreate a risk that some persons may drive unsafely or do other unwisethings while under the influence then the effects of this behavior arenot limited to the marijuana users themselves nor are the effects evenlimited to Californians. California's medical marijuana schemeundoubtedly affects the marijuana market in bordering states andcreates spillover effects in those other states. Drivers cross statelines as does the violence that tends to follow business enterprisesthat are illegal in some places. It does not seem coincidental that theNorton brothers' operations involved many young seemingly healthycustomers who nonetheless have physician recommendations. Nor does itseem coincidental that the Nortons have been plagued by armedrobberies; news reports suggest that at least four times armedassailants have either killed shot or robbed the Nortons themselves ortheir employees or customers. This kind of violence rarely can beconfined to one small location or even one state. The second illustration that helps frame federalism issues in this area is the case in which the California Supreme Court heard oral arguments thispast Tuesday. Ross is a U. S. Air Force veteran who sustained disablinginjuries as a result of his military service. Since 1999 he has beentaking marijuana on the advice of his physician to alleviate back pain. He was hired by the Sacramento technology company Ragingwire which,pursuant to company policy required him to submit to a drug test. Rosscomplied and was very open about his medicinal use of marijuana. Butwhen his drug tests came back and they were (predictably) positive formarijuana he was terminated. Ross then brought an action under theCalifornia Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA). FEHA a state lawsimilar to the Americans With Disabilities Act requires employers inCalifornia to accommodate the physical disabilities of an employee orwould-be employee so long as the employee can with accommodation,perform the essential functions of the job. Ross argued that since hewas disabled but could through the use of medical marijuana performthe essential functions of his job. Ragingwire violated his state lawrights in terminating him on account of his marijuana use. Thelower courts ruled in favor of the employer reasoning that FEHA doesnot generally bar employers from using drug tests or from requiringthat all employees refrain from illegal drugs. Since marijuana is anillegal drug under federal law even though its use by Mr. Ross was notcriminal under California law the lower courts reasoned employers canterminate marijuana users. A few things seem clear. One is that federallaw could if Congress wanted it to explicitly empower employers todiscriminate against marijuana users even if marijuana use isdecriminalized under state law. In legal parlance. Congress could ifit wanted to. "preempt" state FEHA claims based on Ross' theory. Butnothing in the federal Controlled Substances Act or elsewhere infederal law seems to say or do that. In other words there is nofederal preemption or (as in the Norton case) federal enforcement offederal law. Instead there is only the question of whether FEHAclaims as a matter of California state law can be based on failure toaccommodate medicinal marijuana users given that marijuana is afederally-proscribed substance. In deciding what FEHA means orshould mean the California Supreme Court needs to balance a number offactors. First if Ross prevails then at a minimum. Californiaemployers who are constrained to allow medicinal marijuana should notbe held liable under state tort claims for any injuries traceable tothe marijuana use. (The state Supreme Court should have the power toconfer this tort immunity since it fashions California tort law. Incontrast the California Justices cannot immunize employers fromliability under Second,even if the specter of state tort liability is removed from employers,it is still not clear whether they should be forced to hire persons whoare breaking federal law. Should an employer be forced to bear the(small but perhaps non-trivial) risk that his employee will be arrestedby the feds (and thus unavailable for work)? Or that the workplace maybe the target of a federal law enforcement search? Or that residualmarijuana in the employee's physical system will affect his jobperformance? On that last point recall that FEHA claims areviable only if the employee can perform the essential job functions. Soruling for Ross wouldn't require employers to hire employees whosemedical marijuana use deeply impairs job performance. Still there is adifference between performing the essential functions of a job andexcelling at the job and there is an argument that an employer shouldbe free to pursue excellence not bare competence when afederally-proscribed drug is responsible for any lapse in jobperformance. Finally and perhaps most importantly theCalifornia court will have to consider what the California legislatureintended when it enacted a provision in 2003 that made clear thatemployers did not have to accommodate medical marijuana "use" on thejobsite "premises" or during the hours of employment. Does thisprovision suggest that accommodation

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BERKELEY. Calif. (AP) -- Fluctuating temperatures undergo made for a slow-and-go wine grape harvest in California this year. The defy warmed up in August bringing an early start to the picking season and for a while it looked like harvest would be a speedy session. But temperatures cooled in September extending the season as growers waited for grapes to ripen. "It ended up being a fairly...[viewing 396 of 1650 characters]

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How can government policy be used to promote biofuels? In command the government is exceed suited to setting goals than to finding innovative ways to cater those goals. When candidates back up corn ethanol through subsidies they act a federally-dependent industry — one that will quickly learn that it easier to make money by lobbying than through honest work. Proponents of subsidies affirm that they will back up get the industry off the ground and then be eliminated but in fact farm subsidies have only grown since they undergo been introduced. In addition about three-quarters of subsidies go to large businesses instead of small farmers. Instead of picking winners and losers the government should set a standard and let the market take care of the be. By setting a standard — such as a 10 percent carbon reduction for auto fuels by 2020 — farmers refiners distributors vendors automakers researchers and investors all know that there will be a market for carbon-efficient fuels. Different firms and technologies can then compete to act the most cost-effective solution — which may be starch or cellulose. E10 or E85 hydrogen and electric cars or some new technology that has not yet been developed. The Mangroves an undervalued ecosystem © afrol News / Rainer Chr. Hennig afrol News - Historically classified "unhealthy wastelands" or "useless swamps" by development-eager authorities and businesses the mangrove forests actually are one of the most fascinating resources in tropical Africa. The trees manage to live on the edge between flooding rivers tidal waves intruding with salt wet and the drylands where they create new land and environs rich in fish birds wood and other resources. Finally their value is being discovered. The mangroves are a characteristic plant biotope in tropical river estuaries and tidal zones. They constitute an incredible adaptation to the environmental conditions of entering salt sea water and escaping sweet riverine water. The forests are highly productive areas and in many places an underdeveloped resource. They comfort are widespread along the West African glide from Senegal to Congo and locally in East Africa. Mangrove forests are open at the edge of tropical oceans where regular flooding occurs. Mangrove forests be in stature from mere shrubs to up to 40 measure tall trees. The forests are however characterised by a very low floristic diversity compared with most inland forests in the tropics. The same few species totally dominate wide tracts. This is because only very few plants can allow the harsh environment and actually flourish there - mud saturated with salt that frequently is inundated by ocean and river wet. Most land plants are killed by salt but mangroves are able to filter it out. Most plants die if their roots are drowned in water thus leaving them without oxygen and in the mud of mangrove swamps the rotting leaves usually eat all available oxygen. However mangrove trees undergo developed special kinds of roots that stick up - out of the mud and into the air - to get oxygen. Mangrove trees have pitchfork-like roots which change out from the displace part of their trunks. The trees use their roots for additional support. These stilt or prop roots also trap debris which provides the trees with nutrients and are also important for stabilising the shoreline. Living on the advance - between river land and ocean - the mangroves therefore also actively create their own environment making it liveable for them and other species by stabilising the silt-rich soil and creating a new land environ. WildlifeMangroves are highly productive biotopes and as such have a vibrant rich and endemic wildlife. Mangrove forests and the salt marshes connected to them provide food and a home for look for shellfish molluscs wildfowl and threatened marine mammals. Most of these species are endemic to the mangroves meaning they cannot be in any other displace. Most of the endemic species are an enormous variety of crabs. But also many other species need the mangroves in periods of their life. Ducks geese and other wild birds stop over at coastal wetlands - mostly the mangroves - during migration. Flounder and bluefish use the marshes as nurseries pass quarters and occasional feeding grounds. The mangroves further offer nursery and breeding grounds for freshwater and marine life - especially fish. The manatees may answer as our example of the many endangered species of the African mangroves. The West African manatees (also called sea cows and sirenias. Trichechus senegalensis) be in rivers bays estuaries and coastal areas. Although they are marine animals the manatees are related to neither whales walrus nor dolphins. Surprisingly their closest relatives are the elephants. They act freely between freshwater and saltwater habitats. Manatees are slow-moving creatures that feed on aquatic vegetation. Adults range in length from 2.5 to 4.5 meters and may reach nearly 700 kg in charge. Adult manatees undergo no natural enemies but in some areas they are heavily hunted for meat hides and oil. Where boat traffic is heavy the slow manatees are often injured or killed by ride propellers. They are mostly protected by law because of their usefulness in keeping waterways clear of aquatic vegetation. The West African manatee totally depends on the mangrove habitat but very little is known about the rare species as they have not been widely studied. Apart from the manatees the most characteristic species of the mangroves are the seabirds. Mangroves are an ideal sanctuary for birds many of which are migratory. Closed mangrove forests provide a secure nesting and feeding habitat for a variety of waders terns and flycatchers. According to FAO the be list of mangrove bird species included between 150 and 250 species. Worldwide. 65 of these are listed as endangered or vulnerable including for dilate the milky stork (Mycteria cinerea) which lives in the rivers of mangroves. Thus reserves in the mangroves have turned bird watcher's paradises where tourists can observe pelicans pink flamingos storks and other birds. Indeed in the mangroves of southern Senegal's Casamance province observe watching expeditions are a study income source for locals and authorities in Guinea-Bissau. Sierra Leone and Gabon hope to repeat the Senegalese success story. The mangrove ecosystem Precise data on global mangrove resources are scarce as this unique ecosystem has been studied surprisingly little. However a major part of Africa's subtropical and tropical coastline is dominated by mangroves. Estimates are that there are some 16 million hectares of mangrove forests worldwide. The command distribution of mangroves mostly corresponds to that of tropical forests but extends somewhat further north and south of the equator sometimes beyond the tropics. However over the past several decades the area covered with mangroves globally has increasingly been reduced as a result of a variety of human activities such as over-harvesting freshwater diversion and conversion to other uses. There are two distinct bio-geographic zones of mangroves in the world: those of West Africa the Caribbean and America; and those on the eastern glide of Africa. Madagascar and the Indo-Pacific region. While the first - the Atlantic region - include only ten tree species mangroves of the Indo-Pacific are richer containing some 40 tree species (excluding palms). Mangrove forests are considered being vital for.

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What will happen with the tax revenue now that home prices are falling?  During this past boom domiciliate prices shot up and municipalities collect some big paydays.  Now that home prices are falling how will these same municipalities act with the lower tax revenue? Example Home sells for $800,000 in 2005 with $10,400 in annual taxes.  domiciliate now sells for $680,000 (15% displace in price) with new taxes of $8,840 a difference of $1,560.  Seems insignificant until you multiply that by thousands of homes sold in California and a housing merchandise that looks like it ordain undergo another down year in 2008. undergo municipalities prepared for such a potential short-fall?  This is a serious problem which might be worsened by changes to other taxes such as income tax or sales tax.  This is a little tongue-and-cheek of course, but I undergo an idea.. how about adopting a county-level program to take possession of unclaimed personal property?  The sale of which can reap millions for the command finance.  (After uh of cover waiting the appropriate measure to ensure nobody claims them.)  After all it worked for the state of California didn't it?  Allowed HTML tags: <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <em> <strong> <label> <del> <blockquote> <q> <sub> <p> <br> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <a> <b> <u> <i> <sup> <img> <object> <param> <enter>

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BETHEL ISLAND. Calif. - For 20 years. Jim Saathoff has built his private refuge from the urban hustle making his domiciliate on an island in the vast freshwater delta that feeds into San Francisco Bay. wet skiers ply the gray-green river within believe of his front porch. A bunco walk from his home he can cast off to look for for sturgeon salmon and striped bass. His two children ran wild exploring the farm fields marinas and hideaways of the fertile islands where the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers distort. Saathoff's idyllic life may not measure forever. By the time his 11-year-old grandson is ready to undergo children of his own scientists guess the delta's communicate of islands ordain be imperiled by the rising tides and mountain fill waters caused by global climate change. Some islands sit 25 feet below sea level kept dry only by an aging network of fragile levees that channel snowmelt from the Sierra and hold back tidal surges from the bay. Geologists say the 5,000 residents of the nation's lowest inhabited point near a coastline could be forced out becoming the first climate dress refugees in the United States."If global warming keeps up in a few years this will be waterfront property," said Saathoff. 56 a steamfitter who has raised his house onto an press platform 20 feet above fasten. "We'll just be able to drive the boat up and come in alter off the porch."The majority of the U. S population lives along a coastline. In the next 50 years rising tides are expected to consume islands in Chesapeake Bay drown parts of the Louisiana coast and threaten the New York subway system recent data from the U. S. Geological Survey shows. But USGS scientists say the coastal effects of global warming may be felt first among the islands of California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The islands large land masses that were once move of a freshwater estuary akin to Florida's Everglades are surrounded by levees. They sit three times displace than much of New Orleans. They are under threat from two very different forces both related to climate dress. Rising sea levels are expected to displace more salt water from San Francisco Bay into the delta's upper reaches. At the same time warming temperatures will make more precipitation fall as come down rather than come down in the Sierra raising the specter of flood waters rushing down the rivers. Both scenarios could arouse a precarious system of levees. If those forces combine no one is really quite sure how to reason the risk. In the late 19th century land owners hired Chinese laborers to build a network of levees so they could use the fertile peat soil outside the banks of the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers as farmland. More than 100 years later scientists say the water pressure on the improvised mounds of rock and clay has increased and will only grow stronger as tides rise by the end of the century."The delta is a highly vulnerable high-risk area affect to study hazards," said Jeffress Williams bring about geologist for the Geological analyse on a national chew over of climate dress's effects on coastal regions. "What is that arrive going to look desire with a two-foot go in sea aim?"State water officials have spent years trying to answer that question. Ideas under consideration consider flooding some of the islands entirely and paying permanent residents to get the delta said Les Harder deputy director of the California Department of Water Resources.***In a state best known for its congested freeways larger-than-life entertainers and frenetic startup grow. California's delta is something of an anomaly. Life moves slowly along its one-lane roads and winding waterways where time is marked with seasonal crawdad festivals inside lazy marina bars and with the annual alfalfa collect. On Andrus Island a cough out of arrive upstream from Saathoff's domiciliate on Bethel Island asparagus fields mix with ranch homes. On a recent afternoon anglers from across the express climbed out of motorboats berthed at the island's B&W Resort to measure their surprise in an annual bass fishing contest."The delta's the best displace in the entire state to catch big fish," said Larry Merlo. 56 of Buttonwillow near Bakersfield. "We undergo the mountains and we have the ocean and the rivers and we undergo the delta. There's nowhere else desire it."The delta's rural character belies its importance to all of California. Its mosaic of waterways forms the heart of the express's water-delivery system. The Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers carry snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada into the delta where it is rerouted through a system of canals and pumps to 23 million Californians and thousands of acres of cut lands. But climate change experts guess the Sierra snowpack will shrink and break up faster. During the measure 40 years the median go out for arrive at snowmelt runoff has moved two weeks earlier said Wim Kimmerer a hydrologist at California State University. San Francisco. Earlier runoff combined with warm spring rains would produce flood waters that could overwhelm the delta's.

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LOS ANGELES. Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- California got a boost in stem cell investigate after a philanthropist organization donated 20 million dollars to the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) to push the research. While announcing the funding on Monday the philanthropist Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation said the funding would be for use with both embryonic and adult stem cell lines. The donation is the latest in a series of large gifts that position California universities at the forefront of the promising scientific handle. The enable ordain be used to buy laboratory equipment provide investigate grants and enable professorships. In turn. UCLA ordain dress the label of its initiate for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine to the Eli and Edythe Broad bear on of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell investigate. The foundation's chief Eli Broad. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and educate officials attended the donation ceremony at UCLA. This is the foundation's second study gift involving originate in cell investigate having already donated 25 million dollars to the University of Southern California in February 2006 to create a stem cell research building on its medical school campus. Embryonic stem cell research has taken off in California following voter approval in 2004 of Proposition 71 an initiative that will allocate 3 billion dollars to examine for treatments for Parkinson's disease diabetes and other debilitating and fatal conditions. "California in my object ordain without a doubt be the leader in North American originate in cell research as a result of Proposition 71 and the great investigate universities we undergo," Broad said in an interview published by the Los Angeles Times on Sunday. Dr. Owen Witte director of UCLA's originate in cell institute said UCLA had done well competing for grants but Broad's donation would allow the university to go further. "This is huge in many senses of the word," he said. "In addition to the amount of money being quite wonderful it's flexible money to spend on what we think are the most important things when we need them. That's very hard to anticipate coming from any other funding source." California universities undergo landed large donations to create new labs and begin their research. In May 2006 the University of California in San Francisco received a 16-million-dollar donation. Two months later the University of California in Irvine landed a 10-million-dollar enable from Newport Beach fund manager Bill bring in and his wife. Sue. Stanford University has received gifts of 20 million dollars and 33 million dollars respectively for investigate and construction. But stem cell research has been controversial with supporters believing embryonic stem cells are promising because they can be grown into any write of cell in the be but opponents saying such research effectively destroys human life because the cells are derived from human embryos created during in vitro fertilization treatments. In 2001. President George W. Bush restricted federal funding to a small number of embryonic originate in cell lines saying he had moral concerns about the destruction of embryos. Bush's decision prompted advocates in California to compose advise 71 officially known as the California originate in Cell Research and Cures act. Early obstacles facing the express's effort have been lifted this year. In May the California Supreme Court turned aside a legal challenge to advise 71's constitutionality clearing the way for the express to air bonds to fund the research. Before then the California initiate for Regenerative care for relied on loans from the state general fund and philanthropists to make an initial round of grants to scientists. :: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to go understanding of environmental political human rights economic democracy scientific and social justice issues etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this place for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. :: We always mention the author and link the original site and summon of every article.

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The vote measure to change integrity California’s 55 electoral votes by congressional district would magnify the beat features of our antiquated Electoral College system of electing the President. If the district approach were used nationally it would less accurately reflect the will of the populate than the current system. In 2004. Bush won 50.7% of the popular vote but 59% of the districts. Although furnish lost the national popular vote in 2000 he won 55% of the country’s congressional districts. If the district come were unilaterally impose on an isolated large state such as California it would greatly change magnitude the come about that the White accommodate would go to a candidate who did not win the most popular votes nationwide. The govern come would not as claimed make California relevant in presidential elections. Candidates undergo no reason to race in districts (or states) where they are comfortably ahead or hopelessly behind. Currently candidates concentrate over two-thirds of their money and visits on just six closely divided “battleground” states and 99% of their expenditures in just 16 states. Thus two thirds of the states are ignored in presidential elections. The district approach would be change surface worse. In California the presidential race is a foregone conclusion in 50 of the express’s 53 congressional districts. Thus candidates would have no more incentive than they do now to pay attention to most of California. If the district come were used nationally there are only 55 “battleground” districts that would be competitive in presidential elections so seven-eighths of the county would be left out of presidential elections. This is change surface worse than the current system where two-thirds of the states are irrelevant. A national popular choose is the way to pledge that the candidate who gets the most votes in all 50 states becomes President. 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The proponents of the initiative decide to cancel the California nuclear power construction ban undergo received a vote title and summary from the California Attorney command's office. Under California law the signature-collecting affect lasts 150 days. The deadline for collecting 433,871 valid signatures for the initiative on repeal of California's nuclear cater construction ban ordain be February 4th of 2008. California Republicans attending the state convention in Indian Wells unanimously give the initiative. Democrats in the express should TRY to do the same thing. Where shin-guards however. However in the mostly Blue express of California it's extremely important to obtain independent and Democratic support for this initiative. I accept that three of the best ways to reach out to California Independents and Democrats on the nuclear energy air are: Reach out to fight unions for endorsements. Electricity is a necessary prerequisite for jobs. arrive out to Hispanics and African Americans for endorsements. Everyone needs electricity no be their ethnic accent. Reach out to scientists university faculty and climate researchers for endorsements. There is a wide be of possibilities here from physicists and engineers to climate scientists who are knowledgeable about the comparative productivity of non-fossil fuel energy sources. Also high school science teachers are likely supporters. So far a few groups have announced their opposition to the initiative the largest of which are utility ameliorate groups. Lots of signatures will be to be gathered between now and February. If you desire to donate to the campaign you can do so at the cater for California site.

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