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Written by PI Web
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
- Mixed marriages — The California Supreme Court’s historic ruling that legalized gay marriage last week has its roots in the case of a Mexican American woman who 60 years ago fought for the right to marry an African American man. In 1948, judges struck down the state’s anti-miscegenation law, which had stated, “All marriages of white persons with negroes, Mongolians, members of the Malay race or mulattoes are illegal and void.”
- $15 billion — Amount Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposes to borrow against the future profits of a modernized, expanded lottery, in his plan to close the state’s budget shortfall.
- 3 million — Number of poor, disabled and elderly people in California who rely on state-paid dental insurance and may lose it in the governor’s budget cuts.
- 171,000 — Number of people in state prison population, an unknown number of whom might be released to county jails to reduce overcrowding in California’s 33 prisons — which were built for fewer than 100,000 inmates.
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