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SLO sets financial priorities

Written on 27 Jan, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 27 comments

San Luis Obispo City Council members elected to focus on homelessness, neighborhood wellness, infrastructure, a skate park and bike paths at a financial priorities workshop on Saturday. At the top of the list, city officials chose to partnership with Community... (Continue reading)

Brown declares California budget balanced

Written on 15 Jan, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 23 comments

Governor Jerry Brown said Thursday that the California budget deficit has disappeared, due in large to the passing of Proposition 30. [Sacramento Bee] The proposed balance budget marks the first time since the beginning of the recession that California legislators... (Continue reading)

State parks purposely hid millions

Written on 5 Jan, 2013 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 7 comments

California parks department officials’ fears of embarrassment and possible budget cuts prompted them to deliberately conceal millions of dollars, according a new investigation by the state attorney general’s office. [LATimes] In the report released on Friday, investigators said the amount... (Continue reading)

State’s pot backers undeterred

Written on 27 Dec, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 19 comments

Tutored by California’s prior failures to become the nation’s legal pot pioneer, advocates in Washington and Colorado learned and subsequently succeeded. Now California marijuana legalization proponents are feeling newly-empowered and eying rekindled efforts to win their next campaign. (San Jose... (Continue reading)

Paso Robles, Cayucos school districts shoulder huge bond debts

Written on 4 Dec, 2012 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 44 comments

Two San Luis Obispo County school districts have borrowed millions of dollars using a risky form of financing saddling them with huge debt. Both Cayucos Elementary School District and Paso Robles Joint Unified School District turned to capital appreciation bonds... (Continue reading)

Solar power plants burden host counties

Written on 26 Nov, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 17 comments

With many California counties struggling to keep out of debt, several have embraced the development of solar power plants and the bounty of jobs and taxes windfalls they promise. [LATimes] In Inyo County, officials grew giddy last year as they... (Continue reading)

Holy Harangue! Pastors preaching politics

Written on 21 Nov, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 45 comments

Testing the mettle of the federal government, some church leaders preached politics from the pulpit during the run-up to the election and are challenging authorities to pull their tax-exempt status. (San Francisco Chronicle) Federal tax rules mandate that religious groups... (Continue reading)

Governor predicts tax will set example

Written on 13 Nov, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 11 comments

More states will follow California’s lead in raising taxes for the wealthy, Gov. Jerry Brown said Tuesday on CNN’s “State of the Union” with Candy Crowley. (Sacramento Bee) Voters approved Brown’s Prop. 30 by a wide margin last week. It... (Continue reading)

Dems have Assembly super-majority

Written on 8 Nov, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 41 comments

A “super-majority” favoring Democrats in the California legislature may be just around the corner, a final decision awaiting late counting of outstanding ballots in two close races. (San Jose Mercury News) Such a one-party rule advantage hasn’t occurred in this... (Continue reading)

Voters pass Brown’s Prop. 30

Written on 7 Nov, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 22 comments

California voters approved Gov. Jerry Brown’s measure to raise taxes to fund public education. Proposition 30 passed with just under 54 percent of the vote, allowing schools to avoid billions of dollars in automatic spending cuts. The measure increases the... (Continue reading)