With the holidays around the corner, many pets will have to deal with being left behind and different types of people in the house. This can cause profound anxiety in cats, dogs and even birds.
by Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber, Los Angeles Times
In a major shift, California will impose tough new standards on drug-abusing health professionals, strictly scrutinizing those in treatment and immediately removing from practice anyone who relapses.
How you come out is really up to you and your understanding of your family, but try to be creative and sensitive to the possibility that your family may have mixed reactions to your coming out.
With a huge number of residents who buy health care on their own and relatively few companies selling them coverage, some feel California is just the kind of market in need of a new government-run insurance plan.
Faith leaders have come out reaffirming that abortion must be safe, legal and accessible. The Rev. Debra Haffner of the National Religious Leadership Roundtable is among those who are expressing disappointment in the inclusion of the Stupak-Pitt amendment to the U.S. House health care reform bill.