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Pizza Coalition Protests Menu Labeling Proposal

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Originally published on Wed June 20, 2012 5:23 pm

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SIEGEL: Yes, that's right. Some of the nation's largest pizza chains are lobbying on Capitol Hill to deliver a piping hot message.

4:31 pm

Wed June 20, 2012

House Cites Attorney General Holder For Contempt

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Originally published on Wed June 20, 2012 5:23 pm

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And I'm Robert Siegel.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted today to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress. He's accused of refusing to turn over certain documents related to the controversial gun-trafficking operation known as Fast and Furious.

3:14 pm

Wed June 20, 2012

Saving Calif. State Parks: The End Of Public Funding?

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Brad Beadell (right) takes his 11-year-old son, William, on his first backpacking trip through Henry W. Coe State Park in Morgan Hill, Calif.

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Coe Park is California's second-largest state park, spanning more than 87,000 acres.

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Dan McCranie (left) hands over a check for $279,000 to Ruth Coleman, director of California State Parks, at a ceremony at Coe Park in May. The amount is the first installment of about $900,000 from the Coe Park Preservation Fund that will keep the park open for three years.

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Originally published on Wed June 20, 2012 5:23 pm

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On July 1, 15 California state parks are slated to be closed permanently to the public — the first such closures in the state's history. They're the victim of budget cuts in a state with a $16 billion shortfall.

Over the past year, park enthusiasts have scrambled to save dozens of parks from closure, including Henry W. Coe State Park, California's second-biggest state park, located about 30 miles south of San Jose.

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Wed June 20, 2012

Seattle Forager Inspires Others To Learn About Wild, Forgotten Foods

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Langdon Cook shows off the morel and porcini mushrooms he's foraged and stored in the trunk of his car.

By Martin Kaste

Originally published on Wed June 20, 2012 8:17 pm

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For Langdon Cook, a walk in the woods isn't that different from a walk through the produce section of the supermarket. He's a writer, blogger and all-around outdoorsy type, but in outdoorsy Seattle, he's made his name primarily as a forager.

5:59 pm

Tue June 19, 2012

Senators Get Time In Solitary Confinement

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An exercise area for inmates in solitary confinement in California's Pelican Bay prison. Inmates are allowed to leave their windowless cells for 2 1/2 hours daily to exercise and bathe.

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To illustrate living conditions under solitary confinement, a Senate Judiciary subcommittee erected a cell replica inside a Capitol Hill hearing room on Tuesday.

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At any given moment, about 15,000 men and women are living in solitary confinement in the federal prison system, housed in tiny cells not much larger than a king-sized bed.

"It is hard to describe in words what such a small space begins to look like, feel like and smell like when someone is required to live virtually their entire life in it," says Craig Haney, a psychologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

But Tuesday, Haney, who has studied life inside prisons for three decades, had an opportunity to paint that picture.

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