CalWatchdog Morning Read – August 12

by CalWatchdog Staff | August 12, 2016 10:42 am

Good morning. TGIF. The Legislature headed home for the weekend after secretive, yet productive[1], Appropriations hearings, where the two committees decided the fate of hundreds of bills.

One bill in particular would have imposed mandatory sentences on large-scale dealers of Fentanyl, a powerful opioid responsible for a rash of deaths and overdoses over the last few years.

Calwatchdog[2] has more.

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Endnotes:
  1. secretive, yet productive: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/politics-columns-blogs/dan-walters/article95179532.html
  2. Calwatchdog: http://calwatchdog.com/2016/08/11/bill-punishing-fentanyl-kingpins-dies-committee/
  3. Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-coastal-transparency-bill-20160811-snap-story.html
  4. Voice of San Diego: http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/public-safety/scathing-audit-bolsters-critics-fears-secretive-state-gang-database/
  5. The San Diego Union-Tribune: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2016/aug/11/brown-consumer-watchdog/
  6. Los Angeles Times: http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-sac-essential-politics-updates-pot-tax-goes-down-in-flames-in-1470953827-htmlstory.html

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