Tuesday, August 30, 2011
- ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
- RELEASE OF SOME ASSEMBLY DATA ON LEGISLATIVE SPENDING CREATES MORE QUESTIONS
- CalWatchdog: Charge: Assembly "Cooks The Books"
- SFChron: Heavy-handed Assembly leadership merits an audit
- LAT: Assemblyman says party leaders playing games with spending records
- SanGabTrib: Portantino touts study, accuses Assembly of cooking the books
- SacBee: Lawmaker says Assembly leaders manipulated spending figures
- LADN: Assembly committee opts against open budget talks
- SDUT: Hueso moves to block anti-secrecy bill
- LAT: Democrats consider banning initiatives from primaries
- LA: Remap panel seeks changes in 'misleading' referendum language
- SacBee: Interest groups see opportunity in California Legislature's turnover
- LAT: In rebuff to Pérez, Senate rejects disbanding Vernon
- SacBee: Bill to kill tiny city of Vernon blocked
- OCReg: Senate pulls plug on speaker's bill
- IVDB: Sacramento to weigh Brown's job creation plan
- SDUT: Brown will now decide commutation bill
- CapWkly: PolitiCal: Lawmakers approve advance notice of commutations
- SJMerc: Oil spill showdown looms in California legislature
- LAT: Lawmakers approve advance notice of commutations
- CCT Political Blotter: Gov. gets bill to take prohibited guns off streets
- LAT: Wal-Mart sells items to Californians online without collecting tax
- SFChron: 2 sides clash on release of Prop. 8 trial videos
- California judge plans to rule on whether to unseal Prop 8 videotape
- SacBee: Group announces bid to eliminate death penalty in California
- SJMerc: Goodwin Liu appears to have clear path to California Supreme Court
- SacBee:California Taxpayers Association issues guide on taxes vs. fees
- The Hill:Second poll has Perry as GOP front-runner
- WashPost: Perry: No stimulus if he's president
- The Hill:Romney: Beachfront home is being doubled in size, not quadrupled
- BakCal: Supporters to join UFW in march to Sacramento
- SBSun: Two well-known local figures interested in new Assembly seat
- SBSun: Attorney: D.A. missed chance to prosecute
- RivPE: San Bernardino Co. defendants want ankle monitors removed
- RivPE: And Inland Southern California's most conservative member of Congress is...
- RivPE: Governor appoints Riverside firefighter
- DesSun:Palm Desert council to keep RDA; new law will affect city
- IVDB: Upland council takes step toward redevelopment decision
- RivPE: DESERTS: Recovery plan issued for desert tortoise
- VOSD: Fact Check TV: Filner's No-Show
- VOSD: Starlight's Magic Magnetized Blank Checks
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The Golden Pen
OCReg: Health insurers in states' cross hairs - SacBee: Democrats want to push initiatives to November
- F&HDaily: Attacks on the People's "Precious" Right of Initiative and Referendum Continue
- F&HDaily: All Vital Projects Deserve Relief From Restrictive Regulation, Not Just A Stadium
- FresBee: Bringing jobs back to state
- CalWatchdog: Portantino Late Convert To Openness Issue
- CalWatchdog: CA Schools Decline Even Further
- CalWatchdog: CA "Jobs Gap" Jumps to Record High
- FresBee: Government that works
- CCTimes: Earthquake simulator gives model levee a big shake
- SacBee: UCLA researchers shake model levee, for peat's sake
- SacBee: Sacramento County expects no new budget cuts despite declining property taxes
- SacBee: Elk Grove gives preliminary OK to tougher smoking ban
- SFChron: County retirees' pensions ruled public info
- SFChron: At probe's end, San Bruno pipe's origin is unknown
- OakTrib: Caltrans turns on lights to reveal shape of new Bay Bridge
- OakTrib: NTSB says source of flawed San Bruno pipe still a mystery
- OakTrib: For Bay Area immigrants facing imminent deportation, new Obama policy offers no reprieve
- SFChron: Rep. Anna Eshoo: Obama needs to speak to the heart, not just the mind
- CCT Political Blotter: Anna Eshoo stakes her claim
- FresBee: Dream Act dream team has Valley influence
- BakCal: Political Notebook: Rick Perry to fundraise in Bakersfield, McCarthy comments go national
- VCS:Judge proposes making county officials bargain with doctors
- VCS:At Strickland's request, attorney general opines on conflict-of-interest law
- SanGabTrib:Tom Calderon jumps into Assembly race, extending dynasty in new 58th district
- LAT: Bell's former leaders are gone, but their legacy lingers
- SanGabTrib:Rep. Sanchez: Innovation in water difficult without earmarks
- LADN: Possible HIV case halts porn industry
- OCReg: Perry set to woo OC GOP
- OCReg: Supervisor Moorlach: O.C. again could be bankrupt
- OCReg: D.A.: Thomas probe more than halfway done
- OCReg: Supervisor Nelson pans $50,000 airport soiree