TIME MAGAZINE: “Drink alcohol with your kids”…
We’ve discussed this on a previous show and I still believe it is the right method of ‘introduction’ for your children. From the story: if kids actually drank with their parents, they were about half as likely to say they had drunk alcohol in the past month and about one-third as likely to say they had had five or more drinks in a row in the previous two weeks. As Foley and her colleagues wrote in a 2004 Journal of Adolescent Health paper, "Drinking with parents appears to have a protective effect on general drinking trends." TIME
Governor ’terminates’ 22,000; places 200,000 onto minimum wage rate…
In case you missed it: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did what he said he was going to do: He signed an executive order today eliminating jobs for as many as 22,000 temporary state employees and reducing pay for about 200,000 state workers to the federal minimum wage. Most of these workers can borrow their paychecks from a credit union, without any interest - yet, a few will have to add the cost of some interest over the next 30-60 days.
Gay-Marriage Opponents Lead In California Fund-Raising…
Proponents of Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriage, raised about $3.7 million from Jan. 1 through June 30, according to state filings. In contrast, gay-rights activists who oppose the measure raised about $2.5 million through June 30. Wall Street Journal
Risking Life and Limb, Riding a Bike to Work in L.A…
Paula Rodriguez, who lives in the San Fernando Valley, got so disgusted with soaring fuel prices last spring that she stopped driving, sold her SUV and bought a bike. But pedaling the 15 miles home from her job, the 30-year-old Ms. Rodriquez has encountered something more frightening than $4.50-a-gallon gasoline: the mean streets of L.A., home of the nation's most entrenched car culture. Wall Street Journal
San Francisco mayor proposes fines for unsorted trash…
Garbage collectors would inspect San Francisco residents' trash to make sure pizza crusts aren't mixed in with chip bags or wine bottles under a proposal by Mayor Gavin Newsom. And if residents or businesses don't separate the coffee grounds from the newspapers, they would face fines of up to $1,000 and eventually could have their garbage service stopped. San Francisco Chronicle Sounds like a nice job for someone, ugh!
California's pot law upheld in appeals court…
A state appeals court upheld California's 12-year-old medical marijuana law Thursday, rejecting two counties' arguments that allowing patients to use the drug with their doctor's approval condones violations of federal narcotics laws. The Fourth District Court of Appeal in San Diego dismissed challenges by San Diego and San Bernardino counties, which objected both to the 1996 marijuana initiative and to recent legislation requiring counties to issue identification cards to users of medical pot. San Francisco Chronicle
