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Articles from the January 2, 2018 edition


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  • City smoking ordinance is a joke with harmful effects to people and their environment.

    Bijan Khajebag, Resident|Jan 2, 2018

    Although this matter has been a harmful problem for NON smoking the people in cities like Santa Monica, but the ignorance of the city governments agencies is shown to be yet another added problem when it coms to smoking ban ordinances. It all started when a new neighbor moved in two months ago in a new and remolded apartment but of course with a higher rent, an elderly man hip kind of upper-class attitude with a law degree from Barkly practicing labor law, among other, surely with 30 years of...

  • Just Doobie It... Cannabis Goes Mainstream at The Las Vegas Convention Center with #MJBIZCon

    Kat Thomas, Edible Skinny|Jan 2, 2018

    “It makes me feel the way I need to feel.” --Snoop Dogg Welcome to High Standards... With marijuana now legal in 29 states medically, recreationally in 8 states (with California coming on board as of Jan. 1st), the cannabis industry is one of the fastest growing businesses in the history of our modern economy. Weed is now a $7 billion dollar a year industry, in the United States alone. Every year, new markets open up in the United States and across the world. And with that in mind a few...

  • A tax reform reality check for Californians: It's Not All Bad for the Golden State

    Susan Shelley, OC Register|Jan 2, 2018

    Now that the tax reform bill has passed, big-spending California politicians have a problem. The state's General Fund receives 65 percent of its revenue from personal income tax collections, and 35 percent of the personal income tax revenue collected comes from just 0.4 percent of California households, about 60,000 of them, according to 2014 tax data. Until this week, California politicians could tell wealthy taxpayers, "It's deductible! Don't even worry about it!" And they paid, even as the...

  • Influenza Vaccine Seems Ineffective Against Current Strain of the Disease

    Stan Greene, Observer Staff Writer|Jan 2, 2018

    Reports that this year's flu vaccine is not effective against the strain that's circulating most widely: Type A, subtype H3N2. H3N2 "tends to be the strain of virus that most impacts the elderly, that causes the most complications, and up until this point the vaccine results have been quite disappointing," said Dr. Randy Bergen, clinical lead for Kaiser Permanente's flu vaccination program in Northern California. "Those things make us concerned that we're going to have a lot of sick people." 10...