Wednesday, May 14, 2008
- The Unheralded Key Player in the Election of Speaker Karen Bass
- SacBee: Bass takes Assembly reins as California's first female African American speaker
- SFChron: Budget Bets On Lottery
- SacBee: Analysis: Schwarzenegger faces rough sledding on state budget negotiations
- SJMerc: Schwarzenegger's ambitious plans blocked by state's budget deficit
- SacBee: Schwarzenegger to propose lottery borrowing to ease deficit
- SFChron: Advocates For Poor Worry About State Budget
- CCTimes: Governor takes budget gamble
- CCTimes: Lawmakers to governor: Sell unneeded land, not lottery
- LAT: Schwarzenegger's new budget proposal to give voters option of borrowing against state lottery
- LADN: Arnold wants lottery-based bonds to fill budget hole
- AP: Schwarzenegger to propose lottery borrowing to close deficit
- SDUT: Lottery bonds figure in new state budget
- SFChron: First black woman to lead California Assembly
- LAT: Karen Bass sworn in as California Assembly speaker
- SacBee: EdFund president says hefty severance package isn't a done deal
- SJMerc: Perata plan would fund courthouse projects
- SacBee: CSU trustees to consider student fee increase
- SFChron: $4 Gas Seen Throughout California
- OCReg: Sex-shop owners fighting proposed 25% state tax
- SJMerc: New indictment filed against slugger Barry Bonds
- SFChron: Little Big Win For Clinton
- LAT: Clinton wins by a landslide in West Virginia
- SacBee: Clinton tops Senate in wealth increase
- LAT: Hillary Clinton may need Barack Obama's help with her campaign debt
- LADN: McCain: I was pro-environment before Clinton, Obama
- SFChron: McCain backer Rev. Hagee apologizes to Catholics
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The Golden Pen
SDUT: Proposition 98: A protection for private property all the time. - SacBee: California confronts a budget deficit with more gimmicks
- SDUTBlog: Dan Walters spreads the myth that the public is to blame for rotten budgets
- DesertSun: Sales tax on services would hurt the desert
- SacBee: Newsom among graduation speakers at UC Davis
- SacBee: Sacramento mayor candidates all over the map on dream cities
- SacBee: Elk Grove expects balanced budget with pay hikes
- SacBee: Despite airlines' protests, supervisors give initial OK to Sacramento airport expansion
- SacBee: West Sacramento fluoridates water
- SFChron: Gas Spills Into S.F. Bay
- SFChron: 64,000 Gallons Of Sewage Spilled In Tiburon
- OakTrib: Fuel spills into San Pablo Bay after tug hits pipeline
- SFChron: $887.4 million bond for San Francisco General
- SFChron: Mayor's Transit Control A Target
- SFChron: Supes override veto of online broadcasts
- SJMerc: 49ers considering Brisbane as 2nd fallback for stadium site
- OakTrib: Water rationing imposed on East Bay
- OakTrib: De La Fuente calls for cooler heads in council race
- SJMerc: S.J. council to keep legal memo about developers secret
- SJMerc: Ban on boating OK'd
- SJMerc: City to ramp up efforts to collect money it's owed
- SCSent: Supervisor candidates flash community credentials at neighborhood forum
- SLOTrib: Cal Poly students, get ready to pay higher fees next year
- SLOTrib: Jail break: SLO County may benefit from Orange County's opposition to re-entry prison
- StockRec: Reforms could add 2,000 beds at Deuel
- ModBee: Modesto council boosts its own pay
- ModBee: Stanislaus County creates pilot program for mentally ill indigent
- ModBee: Stanislaus Union to consider school bond
- FresBee: Westerlund leaves City Council
- VentStar: Ventura won't extend time to opt out of 911 fee
- VentStar: Zaragoza cites his experience in business, city government
- VentStar: Council to buy building to start redevelopment
- RivPE: Air board takes aim at diesel pollution
- LADN: Council delays action on rare veto
- LAT: L.A. County Sheriff's Department training halted to fix violations
- LADN: Sheriff's academy shut down
- LAT: Malibu to ban plastic bags
- LADN: LAUSD mulls 5th bond measure
- LADN: Fee waivers for events a costly gift
- LAT: Overtime boosts many O.C. sheriff's deputies' pay above $100,000
- LAT: Orange County gives developers a break on building fees
- RivPE: Clerk begins jail term for embezzling amusement park tickets
- SBSun: Redlands seeks first economic development plan
- SBSun: E-mail record raises issues
- SBSun: House OKs Baca's choice
- RivPE: Mayor Ron Loveridge announces re-election bid
- SDUT: Sanders 'left hanging' ahead of election
- NCTimes: City approves larger budget draft
- NCTimes: Supervisors accept $5.1 billion budget plan
- SDUT: No uniformity with layoffs as schools cut budgets
- NCTimes: Fewer layoffs than planned for teachers
- SDUT: Divided board votes to OK 617 pink slips