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The city fired its first shot in January, when it adopted a regulation that penalizes residents if they dispose of recyclables or food waste in their garbage cans. How can that be a bad thing, you ask? After all, who doesn't want to reduce the amount of waste that could be recycled or composted? caption id="attachment_37586" align="alignright" wi ...

The California Supreme Court has declined to review a Court of Appeal decision, Moradi v. Marsh, that vastly expands potential employer liability.  In a case that received a lot of press, an insurance broker finished her work for the day, and headed off for some yogurt and a yoga class before going home.  When she turned into the yogurt shop parkin ...

Government officials have already attempted to install tracking devices on cars belonging to suspected criminals. Although the Supreme Court ruled that the process required a search warrant, a variant of these Orwellian devices may soon make their way to all vehicles. Costs from the federal government's 54.5 mile per gallon fuel efficiency mandate ...

Author: Brian T. Hodges The Japanese science fiction novel Harmony, by Project Itoh, is a timely cautionary tale about the struggle between individuality and government control.  Itoh shares his intricate and multi-layered vision of a world in the not-too-distant future where much of the population has been lost to disease and war.  Adv ...