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USCIS
union says it opposes Senate immigration bill
By FoxNews.com
Monday, May 20, 2013
WASHINGTON – The leader of a union representing 12,000
federal immigration officers said |
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group is joining a growing list of similar organizations
opposed to the sweeping immigration bill crafted by the
Gang of Eight lawmakers and under consideration in Congress.
Kenneth Palinkas, president of the National Citizenship
and Immigration Services Council, said his group was never
consulted by the group of bipartisan lawmakers writing the
bill...............................more
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POLITICS
President
Obama’s newest ally: John McCain
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By MANU RAJU
Monday, May 20, 201 |
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Barack Obama has an important new ally as emboldened
Republicans work to derail his agenda: John McCain.
The shift is striking: The 2008 rivals never got
along throughout Obama’s first term in office.
McCain has been Obama’s chief tormentor on
issues ranging from the budget to Benghazi, tartly
saying in late 2010 that the two men had “no
relationship.”.........................more
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BUSINESS
Insight:
The fight for North Dakota's fracking-water market
By Ernest Scheyder
Monday, May 20, 2013 |
(Reuters) - In towns across North Dakota, the wellhead
of the North American energy boom, the locals have taken
to quoting the adage: "Whiskey is for drinking, and
water is for fighting." It's not that they lack water,
like Texas and California. They are swimming in it, and
it is free for the taking. Yet as the state's Bakken shale
fields have grown, so has the fight over who has the right
to tap into the multimillion-dollar market to supply water
to the energy sector..................more
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Global Warming Seen Further Away than Previously Thought
By Thomson/Reuters
Sunday, May 19, 2013 6:07 PM
Extreme
global warming is less likely in coming decades after a slowdown
in the pace of temperature rises so far this century, an international
team of scientists said on Sunday.
Warming is still on track, however, to breach a goal set by
governments around the world of limiting the increase in temperatures
to below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial
times, unless tough action is taken to limit rising greenhouse
gas emissions........................................more
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Bill
ensures paid family leave for Calif. workers
By JUDY LIN
Associated Press
Sunday, May 19, 2013 10:07 AM
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California businesses would
be prohibited from firing or retaliating against
employees who take advantage of the state's paid
family leave program under a job-protection bill
moving through the Legislature.
The legislation would protect workers who use the
California Paid Family Leave insurance program,
which allows qualified employees to take up to six
weeks off with partial pay. Supporters say nearly
37 percent of workers who needed the leave did not
apply for the benefit for fear of being fired, angering
their employers or hurting their chances at promotion......................more
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State
dairymen seek bigger share of whey windfall
By
Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times
Sunday, May 19, 2013
5:15 PM
SACRAMENTO — California dairy farmers
and cheese processors are fighting again over milk
prices. It's not Grade A, homogenized, pasteurized
milk that's at issue in the state Capitol. Rather,
agriculture lobbyists are focused on the price of
whey, a milk byproduct probably best known to consumers
who've read the Mother Goose nursery rhyme about
little Miss Muffet eating her "curds and whey."
Once thrown away as waste, whey has become a valuable
commodity, left over from processing cheese and
then used in hundreds of foods, including baby formula
and protein powder...........................................more
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New
Reports Slam Deficiencies of County Mental Health
Department, Call for Action
By Lara Cooper, Noozhawk Staff Writer
Sunday,
May 19, 2013
10:00 PM
A report commissioned by the Santa Barbara County
Board of Supervisors has delivered a scathing assessment
of the embattled Department of Alcohol, Drug and
Mental Health Services. “Dysfunctional”
and characterized by “significantly suboptimal
performance” are phrases used to describe
ADMHS in the report, which was released last week.
The supervisors had authorized the review last year
to evaluate the changes needed in the department.
After years of complaints from mental health consumers
and families........................................more
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SLO
County beaches brace for Japanese tsunami debris
By David Sneed
Saturday,
May 18, 2013
County is conducting baseline radiation tests on
local beaches and forming a response plan in preparation
for tsunami debris that could begin washing up here
as early as this fall. It’s an unseasonably
warm day, and Avila Beach is packed with sunbathers
and tourists. Scott Milner attracts more than a
few curious glances as he steps onto the beach holding
a Ludlum radiation scanner and proceeds to take
background readings next to the pier. Milner is
an environmental health specialist with the county.
He is in Avila to prepare for an unwelcome invasion
that is expected to occur on county beaches.....more
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