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Adding Fair Trade
Every Tuesdays a full page ad in the Los Angeles Times flaunts the produce of the 99cents Only Stores, tomatoes, carrots, peppers, eggplants, berries, bananas, cauliflower, apples, and a lot more, a growing list in varying amounts for 99cents. What is striking is the discrepancy between those prices and those of any supermarket. One may…
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Between The Actual And The Possible
A group of volunteer firefighters made up of low risk prison inmates has been living and training in several sites around the city of Los Angeles, sites where they are supervised and confined. One of those site, at Mt. Gleason burned down during he last Malibu fire which they helped conquer. Malibu, it is to…
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Without Rose Colored Glasses
President Obama’s popularity is sinking, and commentators as much as many voters are beginning to blame him for his policies, his governing style, his ethos, his personality. Most of those same people a year ago assessed Obama differently. To him then he was a savior figure who was so intelligent, so in control of his…
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