AltWeeklies Wire
Is the War on Drugs a War on Jobs?new
California’s Compassionate Use Act, which permitted the use of medical marijuana, has turned out very differently than what California voters expected when they approved the 1996 ballot proposition. It produced an estimated 200,000 patients, thousands of collectives, revenues of $1.3 billion, more than $100 million paid in taxes and tens of thousands of jobs. Now the feds want to throw this unplanned baby out with the bathwater.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jeff vonKaenel |
10-25-2011 |
Economy
Phil Angelides Talks About the Financial Crisisnew
Congress put Sacramento’s Phil Angelides, former California lieutenant governor, in charge of getting to the truth about the 2008 financial meltdown. What’d he find?
Sacramento News & Review |
Jeff vonKaenel |
03-03-2011 |
Economy
Tags: California, Wall Street
Get Ready for a Post-Daily Newspaper Worldnew
What's next for journalism? First, put the decline of daily newspapers in context.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jeff vonKaenel |
09-08-2009 |
Media
Greedy Vulturesnew
Ten years after he predicted that the Web would decimate the dailies, an alt-weekly CEO examines why corporate management of daily newspapers spells disaster for the news business, community debate and our way of government.
Sacramento News & Review |
Jeff vonKaenel |
12-14-2006 |
Media
Tags: media
