10 Female Tattoo Artists Proving Ink Is Way More Than a Man’s Game

In 1907, a circus tightrope walker named Maud Stevens met “Tattooed Globetrotter” Gus Wagner at the St. Louis World’s Fair. Wagner wanted a date, and Stevens wanted tattoo lessons. Things worked out well: The two married, and Maud Stevens Wagner became the first known female …
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Boxer adds to calls for Calif. lawmaker to resign

AAA  Mar. 27, 2014 5:09 PM ETBoxer adds to calls for Calif. lawmaker to resignBy JULIET WILLIAMSBy JULIET WILLIAMS, Associated Press  

State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, right, D-Sacramento, is consoled by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, after Steinberg and fellow Demo…
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Boxer adds to calls for Calif. lawmaker to resign

Boxer adds to calls for Calif. lawmaker to resign

AAA  Mar. 27, 2014 5:09 PM ETBoxer adds to calls for Calif. lawmaker to resignBy JULIET WILLIAMSBy JULIET WILLIAMS, Associated Press  

State Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, right, D-Sacramento, is consoled by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, after Steinberg and fellow Demo…
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Boxer adds to calls for Calif. lawmaker to resign

Calif. Professor Charged in Clash With Teen Abortion Protester

A feminist studies associate professor at the University of California-Santa Barbara is facing criminal charges, accused of stealing a sign from an anti-abortion protester on campus and then physically attacking the teenager in an incident that was captured on a cellphone video.
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Calif. Professor Charged in Clash With Teen Abortion Protester

In California, chefs fight for bare-hand contact

Luis Escamilla puts on gloves before cutting prosciutto at the Hock Farm Restaurant in Sacramento, Calif. at the Hock Farm restaurant in Sacramento, Calif. Under a bill signed last year by Gov. Jerry Brown, chefs and bartenders in California must keep bare hands off food going straight to the…
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Why Calif. Pot Farmers Open Fire on Scientists

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Think pot growers are kind, environmentally minded hippies? Not in the so-called Emerald Triangle, a weed-farming region of California where illegal growers are spewing pollution, poisoning wildlife, and scaring scientists away from probing the environmental effects of pot-growing, Mother Jones…
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Calif. Gov: Stoners Will Be Our Downfall If Pot Is Legal

(Newser) – Jerry Brown thinks legalizing marijuana would put California and the rest of America at a competitive disadvantage, because we’d have too many stoners. Toward the end of a brief Meet the Press interview yesterday, the California governor was asked about Colorado and W…
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From RealClearPolitics: HRC’s Strong Polling Numbers; Rep. Camp’s Plan; Obesity Still Increasing; Praying for Rain in Calif.

Good morning. It’s Thursday, February 27, 2014. Dave Camp, the Michigan Republican who chairs the House Ways and Means Committee, has produced a blueprint for tax reform. The document is a sign of the times—not so much because of what it contains, but because of reaction to it.
The plan pro…
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From RealClearPolitics: HRC’s Strong Polling Numbers; Rep. Camp’s Plan; Obesity Still Increasing; Praying for Rain in Calif.

For once, Calif. GOP out-hustles unions

By Steven Greenhut
Some political analysts have warned California Republicans not to read too much into last Tuesday’s decisive victory in the San Diego mayoral race by GOP councilman Kevin Faulconer over Democratic councilman David Alvarez. In California, the troubled GOP should never make too …
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For once, Calif. GOP out-hustles unions

For once, Calif. GOP out-hustles unions

Some political analysts have warned California Republicans not to read too much into last Tuesday’s decisive victory in the San Diego mayoral race by GOP councilman Kevin Faulconer over Democratic councilman David Alvarez. In California, the troubled GOP should never make too much of rare good n…
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For once, Calif. GOP out-hustles unions