Lefty Hollywood legend Jane Fonda and the wife of multi-billionaire Google founder Eric Schmidt are teaming up to nix a popular proposal designed to make California’s housing more affordable. Fonda and ultra-green activist Wendy Schmidt, who lives in a $100 million home bigger than the Taj Mahal, are waging war on Prop. 45 — a ballot measure designed on watering down the California Environmental Quality Act, a draconian 1970s law widely criticized for slowing down housing developments. The group’s ”No on 45” campaign kicks off in Sacramento on Wednesday. CEQA allows opponents to challenge major developments on environmental grounds, not only…

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Over the past several years, Missouri voters have amended the state constitution to create abortion rights, legalize marijuana and sports betting and expand Medicaid healthcare coverage for low-income adults.None of those initiatives would have passed under a ballot measure getting decided by voters Tuesday. Missouri’s…

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Mad Tsai is a bona fide pop star.The 24-year-old Chinese-Taiwanese-Peruvian artist knows he started as an experimental, alternative indie pop-rock singer, known for his popular songs “stacy’s brother” and “all-american bitch!,” but now is ready for his pop star era.It doesn’t mean he’s not going to try other genres. He…

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