The secretary of state confirmed last night to everyone that the voter initiative to legalize marijuana received about 523,531 valid signatures-over 433,971 were needed to get it on the November ballot. The initiative has quite a few supporters who believe that legalizing pot will not only save the cash-strapped Californian economy, but will even bring ...

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Initial public offerings are the birthdays of Wall Street - hotly anticipated and closely watched. Today, three separate company IPOs have gone very well. Calix Networks, MaxLinear and First Interstate BancSystem have all shown better-than-expected stock earnings. The announcement of the National Broadband Plan have helped technology companies Calix and MaxLinear do well. One of ...

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This is an ongoing monthly update on how our equity investments are performing. Please see this background on the investment tool I developed and how I am using it to track our performance against a benchmark to measure our progress or lack thereof. The only equity investments not covered are: 1) my 401k which is ...

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