Thursday, June 17, 2010
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THE BIG PICTURE ON STATE SPENDING
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LAT: Term limits proposal fails to reach November ballot
- SacBee:Term limits measure unlikely to make November ballot deadline
- CapWkly: Ballot measures in limbo as November ballot deadline looms
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LAT: Leaders of 4 California employee unions agree to pension rollback
- SJMerc: Schwarzenegger claims early pension victory: Four unions agree to concessions
- CapWkly: Four state-worker unions reach accord with administration
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SacBee: The Buzz: Campaigns and groups pour almost $2 million into 15th Senate District race
- CapWkly: SD 15: Big IEs, small turnout and staffers galore
- CapWkly: Jim Miller's Maps and Legends: A look at SD 15
- SFChron: Pro-Brown, anti-Whitman learning lessons from Poizner: Respond early to Meg's ads
- CCT Political Blotter: Campaign finance: Jerry and Meg
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FresBee: Villines pulls ahead of GOP primary foe
- SacBee:Mike Villines takes lead in GOP insurance commissioner vote
- CCT Political Blotter: Mike Villines pulls ahead in GOP race for IC
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RivPEBlog: Fitzgerald "could sure use" Riverside ballots
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SanGabTrib: Lancaster closes gap in 59th Assembly District race
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LAT: Biden plans a California trip to help Boxer raise cash
- SacBee:Joe Biden to campaign for Barbara Boxer
- SFChron: VP Joe Biden coming to Silicon Valley/LA for Boxer fundraisers....and other Marxist/anti-military Senate chatter...
- VCS:CLU report criticizing global warming law deemed "junk economics"
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KQEDCapNotes: Politician Pay Stays The Same
- VCS:Legislators' salaries unchanged, Compensation Commission decides
- LAT: Panel votes to keep lawmakers' salaries unchanged
- SacBee: California's late budget plays role in killing pay cut for officeholders
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LAT: Judge poses weighty questions as Prop. 8 trial closes
- DesSun:Closing arguments made in federal gay marriage trial
- OakTrib: Prop 8 trial: Judge troubled by lack of evidence from defense
- SacBee: Prop. 8 gay-marriage trial goes to judge in California
- SDUT: Lawyer: Children benefit from gay marriage ban
- SFChron: Prop. 8 backers: Marriage promotes procreation
- WashPost: California trial casts gay marriage as landmark battle
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VCS:CSU board considers another fee hike
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SFChron: Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer reveal their wealth
- SacBee:State doles out pennies with Williamson Act funds
- Healthy Cal: Consumer group suggests robust insurance exchange
- CapWkly: Drive over renewable energy picks up steam
- CapWkly: Catching the wind: Turbines play key role in renewable energy
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SacBee: CalPERS health premiums to leap again; expect private industry to follow
- WashPost: Poll: Most Americans back new Arizona immigration law
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WklyStand: Can Dino Rossi Put Senate Republicans Over the Top?
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The Golden Pen
CalWatchdog: Wimpy pension deal
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CalWatchdog: AB32 echoes failed policy
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SacBee: Viewpoints: Cut spending to balance budget
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LAT: A tricky place for Maldonado
- SFChron: Lawmakers should work on budget, not silliness
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Hogue News: The Plan, the City, the Mayor and his Council
- SacBee: Villines a stand-up guy - at quite a cost
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CalWatchdog: NEW: Dems damn dams
- SacBee: Sacramento County sheriff still tallying cost of 3-day standoff
- SacBee: $35 million could soften blow of Sacramento County cuts
- SacBee: Placer County GOP in rough shape after primary upset
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SFChron: Supes back posting of cell phone emission levels
- SFChron: 80 Shanghaied - business trip to sister city
- SFChron: Stem cell researchers gather in San Francisco
- CCTimes: $126 million, two-year Walnut Creek budget adopted, hard days likely not over
- CapWkly: San Ramon mayor an unlikely standard-bearer for Contra Costa GOP
- SFChron: Long landfill dispute finally faces key hurdle
- SJMerc: San Jose unions delays cuts with eleventh hour concessions
- SJMerc: Chief of laundry? Sheriff wins back control over jails, leaving jails chief with authority over minor matters
- ModBee: Political capital: Money is mighty
- FresBee: FUSD anticipates job cuts or furloughs
- FresBee: Fresno council discusses budget without fixes
- FresBeeBlog: Thiesen declares victory in the 16th
- BakCal: County supervisor calls on non-union workers to pay for benefits
- BakCal: Group rallies against big government, Boxer's record
- SLO Trib: Romero won't run again for SLO council
- SLO Trib: County supervisors tentatively adopt $442.7 million budget
- LADN: Late-hour union bid to stop LA layoffs fails
- LAT: L.A. officials move forward with plans to cut 278 workers
- LAT: L.A. County supervisors call for changes in Probation Department after latest scandal
- SanGabTrib:Council approves 38-percent water increase in Covina
- OCReg: O.C. gives Rubio cheers and checks
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OCVoice: County Leaders Seek to Renegotiate Public Employee Pensions
- OCVoice: Fullerton Leaders Turn Down Last-Minute Look at Chevron Development
- OCReg: Audit: Poor planning, accountability at county I.T.
- OCReg: Schools spending money "in secret" on legal bills?
- IVDB: Chino councilman to be arraigned on hit-and-run charge
- IVDB: Some already have eye on Fontana mayor's seat
- SBSun: Sheriff looking for trims
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DesSun:State Sen. Emmerson lands committee spots
- RivPE: DA says evidence against ex-councilman insufficient
- RivPE: Protests planned because of uncounted RivCo election ballots
- VOSD: The Schoobrary Vote Just Got Complicated
- VOSD: County Pension Fund Still Looking to Avoid Salary Cap
- SDUT: Finalists named for San Diego schools chief
- SDUT: Roberts refuses questions, then makes them up