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Advertising Amber Alerts and Lucky Strikes
Cal Trans presented a request to the Senate Budget Subcommittee today asking for trailer bill language to approve adding paid advertising on 50 changeable freeway message signs – but then said they don’t really need the state’s permission because they’ve
Read MoreMay Revise article coming Friday
Tomorrow, May 14, I’ll be putting up an analysis of Gov. Schwarzenegger’s May Revise of his budget proposal for fiscal year 2010-11. The Revise will be released around 1 pm. My piece should be up around 3 or 4 pm. Mark
Read MoreWorkers' Comp officials reprimanded
MAY 13, 2010 By KATY GRIMES Mention workers’ compensation reform in a crowd, and eyes immediately glaze over. It can be a droll subject – unless you have skin in the game. The Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee held
Read MoreShenanigans alert!
From a legislative staffer who remains unnamed for obvious reasons: As you might be aware already, all of our (Senate Reps) remaining special session (6X) tax cut job stimulus bills are being heard today in Senate Rev and Tax. Looks
Read MoreDavid Crane, rock star
Those of us interested in pension reform don’t have many rock star personalities in our midst, but Schwarzenegger adviser David Crane fits the bill after his fabulous testimony Monday on SB919, Dennis Hollingsworth’s pension-reform bill that was considered (and a
Read MoreBudget D-Day on Friday, May 14
Gov. Arnold’s May revision of his budget looks to be less fictional than his January offering. Is Arnold giving up the fiscal fantasies that have consumed him lo these past five years, and gone back to the near-realism of his first
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