Tuesday, January 3, 2012
THE YEAR OF THE BILLIONAIRE
2012 - A Year of Opportunity
REDEVELOPMENT IMPLODES-
CalPensions:Pension initiatives: could costs go up not down?
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SacBee: California Legislature returns to face more budget woes, new election rules
- NCTimes: STATE: Legislative debate to revolve around fiscal crisis
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SBSun: Challenges to state Senate redistricting moving forward
- LAT: California adds patients to health insurance rolls
- CCTimes: Califonia, nation's largest welfare state, makes deep cuts
- SFChron: Welfare recipients lose due to parents
- SDUT: Lawmakers give out raises
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BakCal: New state oil chief cites progress on permit backlog
- SacBee: The Buzz: Ballot proposal for male-female equity in California Legislature a bit of a long shot
- WashTimes: A plea to ease challenges of EPA orders
- LAT: Small cases are big business in California courtrooms
- LAT: Mayor delays $100 million in personnel costs
- LADN: Neighborhood council vote woes
- LAT: Landscaping plan for L.A. City Hall is slow going
- LADN: After another night of cars set ablaze in Sherman Oaks and elsewhere, 'person of interest' detained
- OCReg: Mission Viejo to consider sex-offender ban
- OCReg:Deaf activist 'shakedown' of O.C. businesses?
- OCReg:Trash clash is settled, threat to cities passes
- RivPE: TEMECULA: Quarry appeal could be heard in February
- DesSun:La Quinta City Council expected to appoint new member Tuesday
- RivPE: S.B. COUNTY: $3 million settlement over road's condition
- RivPE: REGION: Water year off to a slow start
- RivPE: INLAND: Fewer government workers earned $100,000 in 2010
- DesSun:Group to press PS on jet noise
- NCTimes: ESCONDIDO: City planning $1M in demolitions during 2012
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The Golden Pen
RS: Quash the Ethanol Beast in Honor of Iowa Caucuses - LADN: Editorial: Bullet train is a misfire
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SacBee: Viewpoints: Are we trying to get ahead, or just get even?
- WSJ: The Rise of Consumption Equality
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Calwhine: 11% unemployment? So what? In California, it's anti-business as uaual
- Calwhine: George Skelton lectures journos! Feel free to groan - and gag.
- NatlRev: Keynes, Krugman, and Austerity
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WSJ: The Super PAC Boomerang
- WashPost: Pull the Plug on Electric Car Subsidies
- Townhall: A 2012 Conservative Case for America's Future
- RivPE: STATE: Fire-crew folly
- SacBee: Viewpoints: Are we trying to get ahead, or just get even?
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SacBee: Dan Walters: Redevelop in state, but set tight limits
- SacBee:With redevelopment money gone, effect on K Street mixed
- SFChron: Ed Lee faces challenges fulfilling campaign pledges
- CCTimes: SF boosts minimum wage to $10.24 an hour
- LAT: Hard times for a tower and its murals
- SFChron: Turf war over replacing GG Park grass
- SJMerc: First year a rough one for Oakland Mayor Jean Quan
- OakTrib: BART airport connector rising but still stirring debate
- SacBee: San Jose plastic bag ban takes effect
- SJMerc: San Jose shoppers tackle plastic bag ban
- SJMerc: San Mateo County working on plan to reduce greenhouse gases
- BakCal: City considers curbside recycling without extra fee
- FresBee: Renewal under way at historic Hotel Fresno