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ALSO: As part of a budget package California lawmakers voted Thursday for a bill that folds together state rules for medical and recreational marijuana.
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Almost 60 years after it first sailed into the South Pacific to protest nuclear weapons testing, the sailboat Golden Rule is coming to Bodega Bay with an updated message on the same issue.

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ALSO: It didn’t garner much attention amid the news of a state budget deal, but a bill to make California a “sanctuary state” has passed its first committee in the Assembly.
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California‘s agricultural bounty feeds millions, but much of that is made possible by legions of little-seen farmworkers.
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