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One Reason California Earned The Title “Worst Business Climate in America” How one local government forces businesses that don't do business in their city to to buy business licences. La Mirada, CA (PRWEB) April 21, 2004 -- It was a tough town in which to do business, a town where even yard sales required city licenses. It was the kind of town that has earned California the title of “Worst Business Climate in America.” We are a couple of maverick Magicians, eager to make our mark on the Southern California Entertainment scene. My name is G. Brady Lenardos, my...

Federal prisons ordered to pay for sex changes Court ruling: Procedure available if doctors deem it is 'an essential service' OTTAWA - Canada's federal prisons will be forced to allow sex-change surgery for transsexual inmates as a result of a court ruling that concluded a blanket ban is discriminatory. "If the medical opinion is that sex reassignment surgery is an essential service for a particular inmate, it follows that it should be paid for by Correctional Services Canada, as would any other essential medical service," wrote Madam Justice Carolyn Layden-Stevenson of the Federal Court of Canada. Corrections Canada will revise...