Friday, March 16, 2012
- Prisoners Paid $7.4 Million in Workers' Comp
- TIME TO REPEAL THE GOVERNOR'S FIRE TAX
- SDUT: GOP: Repeal fire tax
- LATimes($): Republicans to propose repeal of California fire tax
- RivPE: FIREFIGHTING: Republicans try to scrap fire fee
- CCTimes: Despite merger of California tax initiatives, proponents will also go their own ways
- State of Play
- LATimes($): California lawmaker seeks plea deal on gun charges
- SacBee: Donnelly seeking plea deal
- CalCap: To Qualify His New Initiative for the November Ballot, Gov. Brown Faces an Almost Impossibly Tight Deadline
- BakCal: McCarthy, rail chairman spar over project
- CCTimes: State political watchdog approves $30,000 fine against Schwarzenegger
- CCTimes: California judges win temporary reprieve from online financial disclosure rule
- LATimes($): State ethics panel delays posting judges' financial disclosures
- SacBee: Judge rejects UC Davis pepper-spray report secrecy
- SacBee:AM Alert: Capitol insiders dissect upcoming California elections
- VCS:New academic standards moving into local schools
- VOSD: San Diego Explained: Last Hired, First Fired (21)
- SanGabTrib:Baldwin Park to break ground for new Transit Center
- SanGabTrib:New Temple City director comes from beleaguered First 5 LA agency
- SanGabTrib:Rosemead to remain with current trash hauler, commercial rates to rise
- SanGabTrib:Baldwin Park Unified School District mulls parcel tax
- SanGabTrib:Database: Local school districts issue layoff notices to more than 500 teachers
- LADN: Dispute continues over new council districts
- LATimes($): Black L.A. council members protest redistricting
- LATimes($): Panel exempts city officials from conflict rules on appointments
- OCReg: 1,517 O.C. school employees face job losses
- OCReg: Judge: Assemblyman Norby's motel stay legal
- OCReg:Fullerton overcharged water users millions in fees
- OCReg:New life for Laura's Law? Mental health bill may help
- OCReg: Union man goes door to door for Assembly seat
- OCReg: Rep. Loretta Sanchez faces 4 challengers
- LATimes($): Democrats see openings in Inland Empire
- RivPE: REDLANDS: Congressman discusses projects that earmarks helped fund
- RivPE: 2012 ELECTIONS: Liberatore joins race for desert congressional seat
- RivPE: LOMA LINDA: City likely to cancel election
- SBSun: Lawsuit seeks to count disqualified ballots in San Bernardino city clerk race
- SBSun: Former San Bernardino school district employee awarded $550,00 in back pay as well as job
- SBSun: Water board approves first fine for Pacific Gas & Electric over Hinkley water
- DesSun:Indian Wells City Council cuts most of its perks
- DesSun:Special Indio City Council closed session to focus on labor talks
- DesSun:Occupy Coachella Valley protesters urge vote on 'foreclosure tax'
- RivPE: JURUPA VALLEY: Rubidoux water board OK increase
- RivPE: LAKE ELSINORE: Council to start city manager search
- RivPE: RIVERSIDE: New board OKs old redevelopment debts
- SDUT: Heavy hitters fund SD pension initiative
- NCTimes: REGION: NCTD seeks more power over transit parking lots
- SDUT: Big money poised to ramp up mayor's race
- SDUT: Slater-Price endorses Democrat Dave Roberts
- NCTimes: OCEANSIDE: City contesting $1.6 million sewage fine
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The Golden Pen
OCReg: Victor Davis Hanson: Who's to blame in California? - FresBee: EDITORIAL: CalPERS, state put off moment of reckoning
- SBSun: Leaders ignore expert's advice on CalPERS
- DesSun:Our Voice: Politicians should put actions behind transparency talk
- CPR: Texas vs. California: Why the Lone Star State is More Appealing
- OCReg: Editorial: California government opaque online
- OCReg: Editorial: Supervisors' critics proof of their wisdom
- CalWatchdog: NEW: AB 1500 Would Kill More Calif. Businesses
- CalWatchdog: NEW: ObamaCare: Can You Say 'Trillions?'
- CalWatchdog: NEW: DeVore Explains Why He Left for Tex
- NCTimes: EDITORIAL: Let ACLU foot the bill
- RivPE: STATE: Vote-shift ruse
- OCReg: We need gas, not algae, in our tanks
- LATimes($): Healthcare wasn't broken
- F&H Daily: California’s New Insane Way To Pay Its Bills
- F&H Daily:Brown Surrenders on Ballot Tax Measure
- F&H Daily:Business Could Oppose Compromise Tax Initiative
- SFChron: Obamacare drives up health care costs for everyone
- CPR: California’s Endangered Charter Schools: Regulation by Teachers’ Unions
- SacBee: Dan Walters: Big hazard for Jerry Brown's new tax plan
- SacBee: Editorial: Boehner's Natomas tour is a good sign
- SacBee: The Buzz: Cooley's the only Democrat in 8th Assembly District race
- SacBee: In Elk Grove, and around state, students protest budget cuts
- SacBee: With rising gas prices, Capitol Corridor train ridership jumps 11 percent
- CCTimes: Bay Area schools send out fewer teacher layoff notices than anticipated
- SFChron: Gascón questions Mirkarimi's guilty plea
- SJMerc: Sewer, water rates headed up in San Bruno
- OakTrib: UC Berkeley professors condemn light punishment for administrator
- CCT Political Blotter: AD 18 brawl erupts over SEIU's 'un-endorsement'
- CCTimes: Santa Clara OKs final 49ers stadium deals, including loan increase of up to $100 million
- SJMerc: Measure would give San Jose libraries bigger budget slice
- BakCal: Height of Isabella dams could rise 16 feet
- BakCal: Election notebook: Endorsement made in supervisor race, more
- ModBee: Ailing Modesto school to get $3M grant
- SLO Trib: Water worries thwart plan
- SCS:Crews fight off San Lorenzo River to save Boardwalk
- SFChron: Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk at risk due to rains
- SLO Trib: Study divvies up costs of roads for retailers
- VCS:Officials take second swing at grant money for highway project
- VCS:Fourth-quarter taxable sales in county reflect slowly recovering economy