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Daily Report: Money and Politics

Win for environmental law is loss for Wal-Mart

November 16, 2012, 12:05 AM
A state appellate court has dealt a blow to Wal-Mart’s strategy of using petition drives to push through approval of new superstores while avoiding California’s environmental law. In a cookie-cutter pattern documented by California Watch, the mega-retailer bankrolled local... + read more
Daily Report: Money and Politics

Critics worry high-speed rail approvals will be fast-tracked

January 10, 2012, 12:05 AM
Since the recession began, the state Legislature has put some big-ticket construction projects on the environmental fast track in the name of creating jobs. At the behest of then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, lawmakers agreed in 2009 to exempt 10 multimillion-dollar highway construction projects... + read more
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