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By Karla Adam / Washington Post /  June 30, 2011 LONDON– Airports, courts and more than 10,000 schools were among…

by John Lawrence / Will Blog for Food / June 30, 2011

Everyone is talking about how to get the economy moving again and how to create jobs. President Obama talks about “winning the future.”

This means more education, more entrepreneurialism, more new industries, more new products for consumers to buy.

Surely, all this new economic activity is exactly what we need or is it?

by Livia Borak / Two Cathedrals

Summer’s here and you’re thirsty! Parched, you walk in to your local convenience or grocery store and buy a bottle of water, a plastic bottle. Right then, you seal your fate. You’re going to plastics hell, where you’ll hear the sound of baby dolphins crying and watch images of struggling sea turtles for all of eternity.

OK, maybe not. But perhaps you should think twice nonetheless.

By Lucas O’Connor / Issa Exposed / June 29, 2011

Darrell Issa is back in hot water for using his powerful Congressional perch to help his personal investments. A new report out today from Think Progress finds that Issa was busy last year buying up Goldman Sachs High Yield Bonds worth up to $50,000 a pop while pressing strongly to thwart an SEC investigation into potential wrongdoing at Goldman Sachs

Progress towards a new labor contract between unions and three Southern California supermarket chains is moving at a glacial pace, but the rhetoric is heating up over the main sticking point – health care.

A Vons grocery chain spokesman on Tuesday characterized the unions’ health care benefit proposal as “unrealistic,” while a San Diego union leader said the grocery stores’ claim that half of the union workers don’t contribute to their health benefit package is “a blatant lie.”

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By Mike Lee / San Diego U-T / June 29, 2011

San Diego once again is looking at selling some prime beachfront property — space on signs in Mission Beach Park — to raise money for city coffers. A similar idea surfaced last July, then fizzled despite interest by the City Council. It’s back in front of a council committee Wednesday morning, adding another chapter in a long-running debate about corporate America creeping into natural settings.

Bill would essentially treat marijuana like alcohol on the federal level.

On June 23rd, Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) and spokespersons from three other advocacy organizations announced the introduction of the first-ever bill to end marijuana prohibition on the federal level.

This bill, the “Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act of 2011,” is broader and bolder than the medical marijuana bills that Congressman Frank has introduced in every Congress since 1995. The bill introduced today would allow states to determine their own marijuana laws — not just medical marijuana laws — without federal interference.

From the National Alliance on Mental Illness

The tragic shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the killing of six innocent citizens in Arizona focused national attention on the state of the public mental health system in Arizona and other states. Many asked how a tragedy like this could happen again, with chilling references to Virginia Tech. How did Jared Loughner fall through the cracks when the signs of a serious psychiatric crisis seemed so clear?

A report by the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and Wisconsin Public Radio described an episode in which three unnamed sources said that Justice David T. Prosser had grabbed another justice, Ann Walsh Bradley, around the neck during an argument in her chambers this month. This alleged assault occurred just before the justices released their ruling on the anti-union resolution passed by the GOP-controlled Wisconsin legislature.

At last weekend’s Netroots Nation gathering in Minneapolis, liberal activists expressed frustration that they lacked the political power or media focus given to the conservative tea-party movement. Former White House environmental official Van Jones is hoping to change that with a new political effort dubbed “The American Dream Movement.”

Editor: New boundaries for the County Board of Supervisors’ districts are being drawn. Most of the new plans would have Ocean Beach and most of the beaches shift to Ron Robert’s district – areas currently in Greg Cox’s district.

By Christopher Cadelago / SignOnSanDiego

Proposals to redraw the county’s political boundaries — a process that has long been fraught with power plays and legal challenges — would require supervisors to represent unfamiliar areas.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday refused to let California clamp down on the sale or rental of violent video games to children, saying governments lack authority to “restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed” despite complaints that the popular and fast-changing technology allows the young to simulate acts of brutality.