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1011, 2016

Capital & Main: After the Vote: Electorate Passed Prop. 56 Cigarette Tax by Huge Margin

By |November 10th, 2016|Categories: Blog, Stories|Comments Off on Capital & Main: After the Vote: Electorate Passed Prop. 56 Cigarette Tax by Huge Margin

California voters on Tuesday approved state Proposition 56 by an overwhelming 63-37 percent margin to create a new excise tax of $2 per pack on cigarettes and other tobacco products. The margin of victory was a shock: Similar ballot initiatives failed in 2012 and 2006, and tobacco companies spent $71 million to blitz the state with dramatic advertising urging a No vote.

2510, 2016

Capital & Main: Ballot Bullies: Big Tobacco Goes All Out to Kill Proposition 56

By |October 25th, 2016|Categories: Blog, Stories|Comments Off on Capital & Main: Ballot Bullies: Big Tobacco Goes All Out to Kill Proposition 56

The old-school image of a rock star was a guy smoking a cigarette, and Tris Imboden was that guy. As the drummer for the band Chicago for the past quarter-century, or on the road with Kenny Loggins or Chaka Khan, smokes were just part of what it meant to be a musician. What it meant to be cool.

2909, 2016

Capital & Main: California Comeback: Healing a Crippled Community College System

By |September 29th, 2016|Categories: Blog, Stories|Comments Off on Capital & Main: California Comeback: Healing a Crippled Community College System

Eduardo Vargas enrolled at East Los Angeles College in Monterey Park during the fall of 2011 looking to help his financially troubled family, but then found he had to wrestle with a problem he had not foreseen: a crippled community college system.

1307, 2016

Rolling Stone Magazine: The Tracks of the Coyote

By |July 13th, 2016|Categories: Blog, Operation Bite Back, Stories|Tags: , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Rolling Stone Magazine: The Tracks of the Coyote

Rod Coronado photographed at FCI Tucson in October 1994 by Max Aguilera-Hellweg. This article originally appeared in Rolling Stone Magazine. By Dean Kuipers, June 1, 1995 Rod Coronado's radical campaign to destroy America's fur [...]

2111, 2015

TakePart.com: EXCLUSIVE: Tough Questions for Feds after They Jailed an Innocent Man for Nine Years

By |November 21st, 2015|Categories: Blog, Stories|Tags: , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on TakePart.com: EXCLUSIVE: Tough Questions for Feds after They Jailed an Innocent Man for Nine Years

This article originally appeared at TakePart.com. By Dean Kuipers, July 30, 2015. Nine years into a 20-year prison sentence, California activist Eric McDavid was freed after love letters between himself and an FBI informant had been "inadvertently" misplaced during his trial.

410, 2015

Orion Magazine: Buying The Farm

By |October 4th, 2015|Categories: Blog, Stories|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |Comments Off on Orion Magazine: Buying The Farm

Buying the Farm This article was originally published in Orion Magazine. By Dean Kuipers, July 2015. Who do you want controlling American farmland production: Wall St. or you?