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Does Prop 25 Change Anything?

DEC. 17, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO The promise of Proposition 25 was nothing short of a revolution in how California lawmakers negotiate and approve state budgets. “Real people suffer when legislators play games with the budget,” stated the official argument

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Wikileaks and California

Dec. 16, 2010 By JOHN SEILER The WikiLeaks revelation of U.S. government secrets continues to make front pages and cause controversy. California itself is featured in several Wikileaks releases. It’s worth pointing out that WikiLeaks’ cables consist of raw intelligence

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UC Davis Stats Falsifier Arrested

DEC. 15, 2010 By K. LLOYD BILLINGSLEY Jennifer Beeman, the former UC Davis official who falsified campus sexual assault statistics, was arrested on Dec. 9 and charged with nine felonies of misusing public funds, embezzlement and false accounting. The arrest

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Deciphering Brown's Budget Pick

DEC. 15, 2010 By ANTHONY PIGNATARO The stakes have never been higher. Since 2008, despite its requirement for a balanced budget, California has been wrestling with budget deficits between $11 billion and $25 billion. In November, the non-partisan Legislative Analyst’s

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CA Budget filled With 'Luxury' Items

To Plug State Deficit Stop Giving Poodles Luxury Gifts DEC. 14, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI Charles Dickens’s satiric novel “A Bleak House” is perhaps more appropriate than his famous story “A Christmas Carol” for describing the bleak Christmas that California faces in 2010, and

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State Property Sale Off, Again

Katy Grimes: The highly questionable sale of 11 state-owned properties hit another snag on Monday after being given the go-ahead last week. A California Appeals Court halted the sale yesterday after a Superior Court Judge just last Friday, had approved the

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Assemblyman Gorell Set To Deploy

DEC. 13, 2010 By KATY GRIMES When Jeff Gorell decided more than two years ago to run for the state Assembly, he never dreamed that he would be deployed to the Middle East again, this time to Afghanistan. But not

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Rail: Pork Barrel Land Scam

DEC. 12, 2010 By RICHARD TRAINOR When the bond initiative to build a peripheral canal fell apart this past June it might also have signaled the end of the line for the $45 billion high-speed train proposal. This is another

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Will Brown Mess With Anti-Quota Law?

DEC. 10, 2010 K. LLOYD BILLINGSLEY A federal judge has upheld Proposition 209, the California law that bars racial, ethnic and gender preferences in state employment, education and contracting. The voter-approved measure has met legal challenges before but remains under

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PPIC Poll's Loaded Pro-Tax Questions

DEC. 10, 2010 By WAYNE LUSVARDI The first rule of opinion polling is that if you are allowed to frame the questions, the results are just a predictable conclusion.  Such is the case with a new poll by the Public

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