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Esperanza Unida's shafting of their workers goes on and on

How about no more air-trips to Turkey for the Esperanza Unita's executive director, Robert Miranda, until Esperanza Unita pays their workers?

From today's MJS: Esperanza Unida's payroll problems continue under Miranda's administration:

Mark Freund, a former welding instructor and manager at Esperanza Unida, said he wasn’t in a position not to get paid, or to get paid late.

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Beer conflict brewing for McCain

It's going to be difficult for a large segment of McCain's base to look the other way concerning his family's alcohol fortune and lobbying for distribution of sweet-tasting beer concoctions aimed at the youth markets.

"You can't run a beer company out of the White House," said Samuel L. Popkin, a political science professor at UC San Diego. "You can't run any company from the White House. McCain is leaving a live hand grenade on the table, a major embarrassment."

Freeloader McCain

Back to the law books, Judge Ziegler

Looks like Justice-to-be Annette Ziegler needs to study the state ethics code a bit more.

But we knew that before she was elected, didn't we?

Today, all but one of her soon-to-be colleagues told her the Ethics Board does, indeed, have jurisdiction over judges.