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(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp. (7203.T) said it will move its U.S. sales headquarters from southern California to suburban Dallas, delivering the latest blow to California in a fight for jobs with arch-rival Texas, whose Governor Rick Perry has been actively poaching businesses from the Golden State.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/ ... AF20140428

johno wrote:First, Batboy 2/75, now this...

(Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp. (7203.T) said it will move its U.S. sales headquarters from southern California to suburban Dallas, delivering the latest blow to California in a fight for jobs with arch-rival Texas, whose Governor Rick Perry has been actively poaching businesses from the Golden State.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/ ... AF20140428

Panel OKs Bill To Cover Undocumented

The Senate Committee on Health yesterday approved a measure designed to provide preventive health care coverage to roughly one million undocumented Californians.

SB 1005 by Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) would create the California Health Exchange Program for All Californians, which would be overseen by Covered California. The federally funded exchange is not allowed to cover the undocumented so state funds would be used for that portion of the population covered in the new exchange.

Just before the hearing, a throng of supporters rallied on the Capitol steps and during yesterday's hearing hundreds of people lined up to the microphone to support the "Health4All" campaign.

"We all know germs don't discriminate," said Sen. Bill Monning (D-Carmel), who expressed interest in co-authoring the bill. "This is a fundamental issue of human rights."

Monning raised the big question about the bill, though -- how to pay for it.

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:California government seems to take a second row seat to the greed, corruptness, and outright incompetence of New York City though...and maybe Chicago...got to give them that. However, those states out west better not start looking at the great lakes to water their desert. Assholes.

Blaidd Drwg wrote:
Nah...we're gonna take Canada's water.

Then their natural gas.


Just watch.

David Tran is the founder and CEO of Huy Fong Foods, the maker of the famously tasty Sriracha hot sauce. Grappling for months with regulators and politicians in southern California about the spicy scents that his factory emits, Tran recently compared meddlesome government to that of a communist country.

It might sound hyperbolic, but he does know a thing or two about living under the nightmarish bureaucracy of a red utopia. NPR explains that Tran "escaped" Socialist Republic of Vietnam and "its many intrusions" three decades ago to start a new life in The Land of the Free.

"Today, I feel almost the same. Even now, we live in [the] USA, and my feeling, the government, not a big difference," Tran said on Monday from his factory outside of Los Angeles.

It's not the first time he's spoken out about the issue. He previously accused the local government of hating him and wanting to shut him down and said that the Irwindale City Council acts like a "local king."

Last month the city council deemed the $80 million business a "public nuisance" for giving off a peppery odor. In 2013, the city sued Tran (despite lobbying to get him to move Huy Fong Foods there in the first place) and California's health regulators shut down the factory for thirty days based on specious claims.