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A ballot initiative wants the city of Los Angeles to create a separate public health department from the county. The group behind it argues that the county agency is currently too big and inefficient.
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The number of medical marijuana dispensaries will be limited in Los Angeles and the tax on the drug will be higher under a regulation measure approved by voters.
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Here we go again. Yet another tale of the legal challenges that frequently follow the passage of ballot initiatives in California.
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The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that localities have the right to invoke zoning laws to ban medical marijuana dispensaries, despite a California state law which allows medicinal pot to be grown and distributed to needy patients.
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Roughly $6 billion were spent in the 2012 election season on political campaigns, with much of that money coming from corporations, labor unions and special interest groups. Proposition C would instruct L.A.'s Washington contingent to support any legislation that would limit spending in political races by the aforementioned groups.
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Backers of an initiative to impose a 9.5 percent tax on oil and natural gas extracted in California, primarily to increase funding for education, received permission last week to begin gathering signatures.
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The May election will not be the end of the story. The city is facing dozens of lawsuits, suits which are likely to continue. And all of this wrangling occurs against the backdrop of a stark contrast between state and federal laws.
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Photo: Dank Depot/Filckr/Creative Commons License After two voter-led medical marijuana initiatives made their way onto Los Angeles' May 21 ballot, the City Council was determined to act. Proposition D is the Los Angeles City Council's response to these two initiatives...
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Photo: City of West Hollywood/Filckr/Creative Commons License Originally supported by the Committee to Protect Patients and Neighborhoods and the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union, Ordinance E is now the odd man out in this three-pronged medical marijuana debate....
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Photo: eggrole/Filckr/Creative Commons License There are an estimated 1,700-1,800 medical marijuana dispensaries currently operating in Los Angeles. However, if the city of Los Angeles and the City Council had their way, they'd like to limit that number to 135. Therein...
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The future of medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles will be decided by the voters come May 21. The crux of the argument comes down to proliferation of pot clinics, not tax increases, as the two frontrunners stand on the opposite isle of the access to medicinal pot debate.
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Backers of an initiative to increase oversight of the timber industry received permission Friday from Secretary of State Debra Bowen to begin gathering signatures.
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In new court filings, attorneys argue that Measure B puts an "intolerable burden" on the right to free expression and is thus unconstitutional.
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The city's police, fire, and other departments are all in danger of being subjected to hefty budget cuts in response to voters' rejection of a proposed half-cent sales tax, the president of the City Council said today.
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It's estimate to annually generate $800 million from the cigarette tax increase.
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Preliminary backing was given to the third measure, referred to as a "superior" hybrid of the other two.
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The L.A. City Council preliminarily agreed today to ask voters to support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution declaring that corporations are not people.
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A possible third initiative is also making its way to the ballot.
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The L.A. City Council agreed today to ask voters to support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution declaring that corporations are not people.
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The L.A. City Council today took an initial step to place a third medical marijuana initiative before voters on the May 21 municipal general election ballot.
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