California could require licenses for stonecutting shops amid deaths of young workers yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
As growing numbers of countertop cutters in California suffer from an incurable and deadly lung disease, silicosis, lawmakers are seeking to clamp down.
Columnist Teri Sforza writes that local officials want Proposition 1 funds to help with the high concentration here of sober living and recovery homes.