Wednesday, November 2, 2011
- CALIFORNIA CAREENING OFF THE RAILS BECAUSE WE CAN'T WAIT
- OCReg: New high-speed rail plan bares 'gory details'
- CalWatchdog: NEW: High-Speed Choo-Choo Cost: $98 Bil
- LAT: Bullet train's $98-billion cost could be its biggest obstacle
- LADN: High-speed rail panel seeks higher credibility
- SacBee:GOP senator wants to put high-speed rail back on the ballot
- SacBee: San Diego, Sacramento left out of rail system
- CalWatch: Rail backers take steps to quiet critics
- SacBee:High-speed rail officials defend project cost, urge approval
- SacBee: California's high-speed rail backers take steps to quiet critics
- CCTimes: More grim news on $99 billion high-speed rail plan, as showdown looms
- "CAP & TRADE" LEAVES CALIFORNIA STRANDED
- CBSSac: On The Money: $100,000 Pension Club Update « CBS Sacramento
- SacBee:AM Alert: Here comes another California pension proposal
- SacBee:Federal lawsuit filed against California congressional maps
- WklyStand: Study Concludes Public School Teacher Salaries $120 Billion Over Market Value
- NatlRev: Are Teachers Underpaid?
- CapWkly: First 5 steps up to lead Gov. Brown's 'Race to the Top' plan
- SacBee: State's park closure criteria murky, Assembly panel told
- CalWatchdog: NEW: Oakland Police Out Tax-Funded Strike
- CCTimes: Protesters, media gather for strike
- CCT Political Blotter: "The Port is where the 99% work"
- CCT Political Blotter: Lawmakers support Occupy Oakland's strike
- LAT: Occupy Oakland calls for citywide general strike
- SFChron: Strike day in Oakland
- SFChron: Oakland Council plan: 'Collaborate' with Occupy
- SJMerc: Stanford professors' initiative would limit Three Strikes Law
- SFChron: Counties launch constitutional amendment to protect realignment funding
- LAT: Ballot measure would protect local public safety money from state raids
- SacBee:Local officials file initiative to protect future funding
- OCReg: 72nd Assembly race gets crowded
- CalWatch: Donation limits could be waived for those hit by fraud scandal
- SFChron: California math, reading test scores come up short
- SJMerc: National test puts California students on bottom
- HumEvnts:Issa Probes Park Service Science Used to Shut Down Oyster Farm
- CalWatchdog: NEW: CA Can't Spend Fed Stimulus Fast Enough
- WashTimes: Colorado voters overwhelmingly reject higher taxes
- CalWatchdog: NEW: Wind Turbines Suck Power Like Vampires
- LAT: Assemblyman Blumenfield named to state film commission
- SacBee: The Buzz: Job shuffling at correctiions department a rocky road
- SFChron: Welcome to California, Rick Perry: Here's the latest attack ad (VIDEO)
- RS: FBI arrests 8 in Florida for absentee ballot fraud
- OCReg: Councilman: Costa Mesa should become charter city
- OCReg: Agencies pocket millions for placing abused kids
- OCReg: Newport claims secrecy on killer tree files
- OCReg: O.C. Register owner sells TV stations
- SBSun: Federal raids target Colton, Upland medical marijuana dispensaries
- RivPE: Balancing budget could mean 650 layoffs
- RivPE: SAN BERNARDINO: Orange Show manager cited for noise
- SBSun: San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies cite Orange Show general manager
- SBSun: Mulvihill challenges McCammack in 7th Ward election
- SBSun: Airport developer owes more than $500,000 in property taxes
- RivPE: S.B. COUNTY: Helium, carbon dioxide storage fee abolished
- SBSun: Regulations eased for restaurants, florists
- SBSun: Candidates discuss issues in San Bernardino's Third Ward
- RivPE: SAN BERNARDINO: Faulty probe
- DesSun:Supervisors keen to avoid layoffs despite $12M shortfall
- DesSun:Agency: DHS home fees illegal
- RivPE: RIVERSIDE COUNTY: Supervisors stay out of water dispute
- DesSun:Board mulls plan requiring inmates to repay county
- RivPE: RIVERSIDE: School board requires more math
- DesSun:Action on solar fee delayed again
- DesSun:Measure J fans, foes demonstrate
- DesSun:DHS councilman suggests others could be implicated
- RivPE: MURRIETA: Red light ban going to ballot box
- VOSD: School Closures Curtailed, New Borrowing Idea Floated
- SDUT: Trustee deserves credit for budget initiative
- SDUT: SD Unified hit with another credit rating drop
- SDUT: FPPC investigating 4 fair board members
- SDUT: Taxi drivers press safety measures with city
- NCTimes: ESCONDIDO: City accused of underestimating reserves, hoarding cash
- SDUT: Marines deploy novel sewage treatment plan
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The Golden Pen
CalWatchdog: NEW: Huff's Disappointing Statement On Rail - SacBee: High-speed California choo-choo slows down
- IBD: Pelosi vs. Boeing - and Jobs
- LAT: Plaschke: Good riddance. And Selig owes us a good owner
- NatlRev: Oakland's Dangerous "Strike"
- WSJ: Review & Outlook: The Bush-Obama Rx Shortages
- F&H Daily: More Regulations = More Litigation
- F&H Daily: A Coming Hit to Small Businesses From an Unexpected Source
- F&H Daily: "Govern for California" Looking for Courageous Candidates
- SDUT: Approve Pacific Gateway
- OCReg: No dogs on Dana Point public sidewalk
- LADN: Daily News Editorial: Golden goodbye -- Government should trim its own outrageously generous parting gifts
- BakCal: OUR VIEW: Don't cloister data on political contributions
- SanGabTrib:Our View: Information not so very public
- SacBee: Head to Head: Does Brown's pension reform plan go far enough in curbing costs?
- SacBee: More criticism of Twin Rivers police raised at school district meeting
- SacBee: Carmichael water customers face 18% rate hike because they're using less
- SacBee: Sacramento County supervisors OK $13 million realignment plan for inmates, parolees
- SacBee: Occupy Sacramento leaders sue city of Sacramento
- SFChron: Money-laundering by Lee donor alleged
- SFChron: Chinatown center clarifies ties to Mayor Ed Lee
- CCTimes: East Bay looks at hovercraft ferry
- SFChron: Vallejo's bankruptcy ends after 3 tough years
- CalWatch: BART adds disability access in Lafayette
- SJMerc: San Jose City Council endorses city's new general plan
- SJMerc: San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed calls for upping pot tax
- ModBee: Modesto City Schools board hopefuls disclose donations
- ModBee: Modesto OKs reduced pensions
- BakCal: County fire chief's sudden departure surprises Supes
- ModBee: Democratic Assemblywoman Galgiani says she is gay
- ModBee: Galgiani says she's gay
- SacBee: Central Valley Assembly member Galgiani announces she's lesbian
- SFChron: Merced County Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani comes out as gay
- BakCal: County looks at ways to release campaign finance reports
- BakCal: Whopping $14,000 fine levied for pot plants
- FresBee: Solar power project near Fresno put off indefinitely
- FresBee: Fresno Rescue Mission gets $2 million gift
- FresBee: Fresno County delays vote on nurses' contract
- SLO Trib: Opponents of Garden Street Terraces out in force
- VCS: County budget picture looking rosier — for now
- LADN: Former U.S. and Soviet spies to discuss Reagan's intelligence impact
- VCS:Ventura County expanding electronic monitoring of jail inmates
- VCS:Superfund site in Fillmore to be discussed at Thursday meeting
- LAT: UCLA relocates planned hotel and conference center
- LAT: Congressional candidates lining up more support
- LAT: Auditors say AAE awarded Montebello contracts to itself
- LADN: City construction supervisor caught drinking on job
- LADN: City barricades fountain to prevent damage from Occupy L.A. protesters
- LADN: Code change targets L.A.'s nuisance dogs
- LAT: Barking dogs could bring fines against L.A. owners
- SacBee: LA approves hefty bite for barking dogs
- LAT: Baca tells skeptical supervisors of progress in jail reforms
- LAT: Mark Cuban says he offered to buy the Dodgers
- FresBee: McCourt, MLB agree to process to sell Dodgers
- LAT: Frank McCourt agrees to sell the Dodgers
- OCReg: McCourt ends fight, agrees to sell Dodgers
- CCTimes: Frank McCourt, MLB agree to process to sell Los Angeles Dodgers
- AP: Dodgers' McCourt to sell
- SanGabTrib:Violence dropping, Baca says
- SanGabTrib:Glendora candidates run on their resumes, agree on the issues
- SanGabTrib:Agencies: South Pasadena faces $2.8 million in fines for releasing raw sewage into Arroyo Seco
- SanGabTrib:Mountain View school board candidates face shrinking budgets, declining enrollment
- SanGabTrib:Audit: Montebello paid $2.5 million to contractor at center of FBI investigation in Maywood