Tuesday, December 17, 2013
- Taxpayers Get Traffic Tickets and the Shaft
- Does the CA high COL justify public employee excessive pay and pensions? Not hardly.
- SacBee($):California Controller John Chiang releases new county, city pay data
- LATimes($): Gov. Jerry Brown opposes government-imposed standards for schools
- SDUT: Brown says California on track, future bright
- SFChron: Activist Tom Steyer launches California oil tax campaign
- LATimes($): New campaign for a California oil extraction tax underway
- SJMerc: Santa Clara County: Billion-dollar ruling in Santa Clara County-led lawsuit against lead-paint makers
- LATimes($): Paint firms liable for exposure
- SacBee($):California groups report strategies, challenges of plugging Obamacare
- SDUT: What does Sriracha-geddon say of CA's business climate?
- VCS:Web page allows public to craft law via crowdsourcing
- LATimes($): Sen. Kevin De Leon denies role in contribution to Calderon group
- LATimes($): USC, UC presidents among country's top paid school execs, survey says
- LATimes($): Jerry Brown's murderer parole record reverses past governors'
- SacBee($):Capitol Alert: California lawmakers question gun confiscation shortcomings
- Politico: Next ACA crisis: Small-business costs?
- Politico: NSA ruling wins cheers on Hill
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The Golden Pen
SDUT: Beating video puts cops on defense - SDUT: Assembly speaker: Pension crisis? What crisis?
- SacBee($):Dan Walters: Redevelopment, CEQA reform are intertwined issues for 2014
- SFChron: Children of the corn subsidies
- F&H Daily: The Church of Pensions
- SacBee($):Bruce Maiman: Farm bill amendment would hurt California farmers
- SFChron: San Juan Unified School District facing 10 lawsuits
- SFChron: Dramatic safety overhaul sought after Chevron fire
- SJMerc: San Jose sees crime rate surpass U.S. average and arrests plummet
- SJMerc: San Jose airport Terminal A back open for business one day after flooding
- FresBee: Fresno County supervisors cancel meeting amid Larson health woes
- FresBee: Clovis City Council rejects senior housing project
- SCS:Big Sur blaze burns 15 homes, 500 acres
- LATimes($): Chumash development plan roils Santa Ynez Valley
- LATimes($): 2 sheriff's officials accused of recording encounter with FBI agent
- OCReg: Kelly Thomas case: Witness says lack of oxygen did not cause death
- DesSun:Public pay in Riverside County often lopsided
- RivPE: RIVERSIDE: City to get more revenue from utility
- RivPE: DETROIT: Bankruptcy ruling fuels speculation in San Bernardino
- VOSD: Inside the Plan to Fix San Diegos Hourglass Economy