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TakePart.com: Are Your Easter Lilies Poisoning This California Town?
A spray rig applies the carcinogenic fungicide chlorothalonil onto Easter lily fields adjacent to Smith River Elementary School (buildings in the background). On this day wind speeds were clocked at 30 mph. Photo by Greg [...]
Capital & Main: Local Activists Are Turning Oil Politics Upside Down
Last fall Valero, the Texas-based petroleum giant, asked a small refinery town in Northern California to approve a huge crude-by-rail project. The city council of Benicia, however, had other ideas.
Capital & Main: Andrew Puzder’s House of Debit Cards
Torrance Chambers has been calling Andy Puzder for weeks. The Hardee’s restaurant employee says his store issues paychecks only in the form of a prepaid Visa debit card, and that it comes with fees.
Capital & Main: Did Company Led by Trump Labor Secretary Nominee Puzder Purge Longtime Managers?
Wrongful-termination lawsuits suggest the fast-food CEO’s company found women and veteran managers inconvenient.
Capital & Main: 5 California Victories That Burned Bright in the Year of Trump
In the otherwise dark year of 2016, California doubled down on its faith in people and the future with major victories for labor, the environment and public education. Here are five ways the Golden State left the light on for the rest of the country.