Wednesday, July 18, 2012
- After 26 Years Royalty Retires As President of OCTax
- LATimes($): Bid to curb union spending gets big Democratic backer
- SacBee: Assemblywoman Gaines calls for fiscal probe of California parks agency
- FresBee: EDITORIAL: Corruption by parks officials violates public trust
- CalWatch: Muni paid bonuses tied to inflated on-time rate
- Dubunking Brown: Temporary Taxes Really?
- LATimes($): Cal State students, faculty decry pay hikes for campus presidents
- SLO Trib: Cal State trustees OK 10% pay hikes for 2 leaders
- OCReg: CSU weighs 5 percent tuition increase
- LADN: Raise approved for CSUN's Dianne Harrison as trustees talk budget cuts, tuition hikes
- NCTimes: EDUCATION: Cal State mulls fiscal woes, but OKs president pay hikes
- CalWatchdog: Star-Studded Cal State fundraising galas net little profit
- LATimes($): Regents' panel OKs UCLA conference center, hotel
- SacBee:Republicans attack Barack Obama for his ties to Steve Westly
- Silicon Valley venture capitalist Steve Westly...
- SFChron: GOP labels Steve Westly Obama 'crony'
- LATimes($): National GOP aims at Westly
- LATimes($): Top executive for insolvent state athletic commission resigns
- RivPE: SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY: Trade group calls condemnation plan illegal
- Marion Ashley: Mortgage program out of Karl Marx playbook
- RivPE: SAN BERNARDINO: Bankruptcy decision back before the council
- SBSun: San Bernardino officials debate role of union money in decision-making
- SacBee: The Buzz:: Assembly tax chair's math, spelling go awry in campaign solicitation
- SacBee: Schools decay as they await state emergency repair funds for years
- FresBee: Valley schools tap state repair fund for $36 million, hope for more
- FresBee: State defunds programs to fix 'slum schools'
- LATimes($): 9th Circuit panel rejects challenge to delta water contracts
- OCReg: State treasurer, ex-Santa Ana trustee to divorce
- SFChron: Crash adds to Nadia Lockyer's woes
- LATimes($): Largest-ever settlement reached in Northern California wildfire case
- LATimes($): Drive fails to overturn teaching the accomplishments of gays
- SacBee: California law targets legal loophole in police rape cases
- SDUT: Brown signs double-dipping bill
- VCS:Gorell urges California to prepare to fight base closures
- LADN: California eateries are ducking the foie gras ban
- OCReg: Assemblyman Jose Solorio to run for community college board
- SCS:Cities, county dispute redevelopment bills: Reporting glitch could cost local jurisdictions millions
- SacBee: SMUD Director Bill Slaton named to CalPERS board
- VOSD: Taxpayer-Funded Abortions: Fact Check
- Critics keep up attack on high-speed rail despite 'improved' review
- CCT Political Blotter: Pete Stark wants Olympic uniforms made in USA
- CalWatchdog: NEW: Studies predict AB 32 will crash Calif. economy
- SFChron: States' fiscal woes to persist, experts warn
- FresBee: Despite protests, Boy Scouts reaffirm ban on gays
- ModBee: Denham leads money race
- OCReg: Romney returning to O.C. for fundraising
- The Hill:House Ethics panel has track record of leniency
- Politico: Arpaio: Birth certificate a fraud
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- LATimes($): California, look to Wisconsin on budget lessons
- LATimes($): Face your rival, Sen. Feinstein
- SacBee: Proposition 40 on redistricting sets up tricky situation in California Senate
- OCReg: Dan Walters: Unfunded pension liabilities threaten California
- SDUT: Courts need to block Brown's dirty trick
- OCReg: David Dickey: Don't yield to 'outsourcing' fears
- F&H Daily: Fiscal Hits Keep Coming
- How smart-talking is your Congressman?
- SacBee: Sacramento County supervisors OK Walmart in North Highlands smart growth area
- SacBee: Sacramento police union and city resume pension talks
- SacBee: Davis delays vote on water project
- SFChron: Ranked-choice mayoral elections continue
- SFChron: Redwood City police use video-text chat
- SFChron: PG&E's ads: Utility 'lost its way'
- CCT Political Blotter: ACLU, Guardian sue FBI for Occupy records
- CCTimes: Delta island ejects board member who hasn't paid his taxes
- SFChron: Marissa Mayer will mix Yahoo, motherhood
- SFChron: Marissa Mayer may need a little magic
- SJMerc: New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has her work cut out for her
- SJMerc: Palo Alto Mayor Yiaway Yeh says he won't run for re-election
- FresBee: Fresno County supervisors approve library tax vote
- County protects farmland from solar development
- ModBee: Stanislaus mayors urging vote on growth
- ModBee: Candidates to lead Riverbank differ on pivotal matters
- FresBee: Supervisors scold sheriff over Fresno County Jail overtime
- Election notebook: Phillips to open Bakersfield campaign office
- SLO Trib: Vote snuffs smoking at county sites
- SCS:Santa Cruz County hires economic development coordinator
- VCS:Property tax information sent to wrong addresses
- VCS:County to double spending on road paving
- VCS:Study finds Ventura County needs highly skilled workers but hasn't received funding
- LATimes($): Investment advisor suspected in string of window shatterings
- LATimes($): L.A. Fire Department task force will examine response times
- LATimes($): L.A. County sheriff's official clarifies 'gray area' comments
- LADN: Charter expert teams with LAUSD on Future Is Now project
- OCReg: Kelly Thomas case: A second cop leaves city
- OCReg: Nuclear-plant opponents call for public license review of San Onofre
- OCReg: H.B. council takes first look at $2.5 million in cuts
- SBSun: Employees leaving San Bernardino as frustration, fear build
- SBSun: Pomona council gives go-ahead to building waste transfer station
- RivPE: LAKEVIEW: County must rescind approval of 11,350-home project
- RivPE: INLAND: Bus agencies report significant ridership gains
- RivPE: Region's groundwater contaminated, study says
- SDUT: Padres sale talks continue in N.Y.
- SDUT: The county may owe you money
- NCTimes: SOLANA BEACH: Pot clinic vote coming to City Council
- NCTimes: CARLSBAD: Council questions outsourcing savings, salary figures