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Assembly budget records now open

Written on 2 Dec, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

Budget records of state Assembly members will be released for public scrutiny, a Sacramento judge decided Thursday. Shortly after the tentative decision was posted, Assembly officials said they will not immediately contest it. [Sacramento Bee] The Sacramento Bee and Los... (Continue reading)

Big bucks boost death penalty battle

Written on 1 Dec, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

A $1.2 million jump in recent contributions is being reported by a group hoping to repeal California’s death penalty. Taxpayers for Justice plans to gather 504,760 signatures by March from registered voters to qualify the question for the 2012 ballot.... (Continue reading)

New look at gun shows on public land

Written on 29 Nov, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 22 comments

A long-running battle over gun rights in California will be revisited by the entire 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals following a decision Monday. At issue is a 1999 law banning gun shows, guns, and ammunition on public property. The... (Continue reading)

Raw milk sickens 5 California children

Written on 21 Nov, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 18 comments

Raw milk products made in Fresno County are blamed for making five children sick with E. coli between August and October. [FresnoBee] The California Department of Food and Agriculture has initiated a state-wide recall and quarantine of raw milk products... (Continue reading)

Big money backs reshaped tax system

Written on 20 Nov, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 32 comments

A $10 billion tax increase for Californians is the objective of a ensemble of billionaires and political insiders seeking to place an initiative on the Nov. 2012 ballot. Proposing an answer to the state’s constricting finances, a group calling itself... (Continue reading)

Anti-gay marriage ban backers win one

Written on 18 Nov, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 38 comments

Supporters of this state’s anti-gay marriage prohibition will be allowed to defend the ban in court after the California Supreme Court ruled unanimously in their favor Thursday. A legal challenge to Proposition 8, passed by voters in 2008, was halted... (Continue reading)

New future for local taxation?

Written on 14 Nov, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 11 comments

Scattered electoral successes last week by locally-initiated revenue measures may be signaling a willingness by California voters to tax themselves — if they hear the right justifications. [SanFranciscoChronicle] Public agencies in varying jurisdictions across California, including counties, cities and school... (Continue reading)

California Supreme Court to hear redevelopment argument

Written on 8 Nov, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

With San Luis Obispo County’s five redevelopment agencies slated to lose a combined $4.5 million, local officials are watching as the California Supreme Court this week listens to arguments that the decision by state lawmakers to use redevelopment funds to... (Continue reading)

No needle now for Death Row club

Written on 4 Nov, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 35 comments

There will be no state-sanctioned executions in California until 2013 because of a federal judge’s decision Thursday. [San Francisco Chronicle]    Executions have been delayed since 2006 by court order as lawyers argue the issue of California’s lethal injection procedures.... (Continue reading)

State students’ scores stagnate

Written on 3 Nov, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 33 comments

California public school students lag far behind most of the nation, 2010 math and reading scores just released suggest. [SFGate] Only Mississippi and the District of Columbia turned in worse scores, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, better... (Continue reading)