Public employee strike bill drew city opposition in California
City officials from San Diego to Sacramento warned a bill extending collective bargaining to 1.5 million public workers would raise local taxes and harm services. League of California Cities framed it as a mockery of local elections and warned arbitration could curb public service, urging possible referendum action.
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League of Cali
Fornia
League
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San Diego
Pete Wilson
Ment
Ralph Dills
D-Gardena
Brown
Dills
Ers
Wilson
South
San Francisco
Lawrence Toellner
Richard Marriott
Santa Cruz
Gene Pini
Marriott
Pini
Dilla
Toellner
Two women urge Legislature to decriminalize prostitution
Margo St James and Deborah Hinkel testified at an Assembly hearing urging decriminalization not legalization. They criticized anti prostitution laws as privacy infringements and described vice squad abuses including arrests and nude photos, accusing customers of driving the trade and noting many prostitutes are incest victims.
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American Civil Liberties Union
Margo St. James
Sacramento
Nevada
Assembly Criminal Procedure Committee
San Francisco
Miss St. James
Coyote
Hyatt House
Califronia Air Radiation Levels Steady Since 1960s
California reports 1974 radioactivity in air remained at the long term average for a decade but doubled from 1973. A Health Department spokesman noted 1973 was unusually low and 1974 readings align with levels since the atmospheric test ban treaty was signed.
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Sacramento
UPI
California
Department of Health
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