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Controversial CA water bills pass: opponents vow ballot fight

November 12, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

Arnold Schwarzenegger has been making his way around California in the past week, signing the components of a controversial "water package" okayed by the legislature.

San Francisco Board set to overturn mayor’s veto on immigrant youth

November 5, 2009

San Francisco's Board of Supervisors is expected to overturn the mayor's veto of an immigrant rights bill that would preserve the city's sanctuary tradition.

After gang rape, Richmond students come together for healing

November 4, 2009 By Marilyn Bechtel

The white streamers were everywhere ― worn as armbands, headbands, neckties, leg-bands ― as hundreds of Richmond High School students gathered on the football field.

Tales of hard times on the coast

October 31, 2009 By Michael Robert Langdon

On California's north coast, the sea used to provide many a worker and family a decent living - but no longer.

Port Chicago disaster remembered

July 24, 2009 By Special to People’s World

320 men died on July 17, 1944, in a munitions explosion aboard a ship being loaded at the Port Chicago Navy Magazine with armaments bound for the war in the Pacific.