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Help school districts by letting them raise their own tax revenue
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown wants to help inner-city schools at the expense of suburbanites. But there must be a better way to assist the disadvantaged than to trigger class warfare. And there is. It is to give school districts a better...
Tags: Finance, Mark Leno, Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, Government
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Water bond needs slimming down
SACRAMENTO — Barrels of excess water have been tumbling down the Sacramento River with nowhere to go except the San Francisco Bay and out to sea. To be precise, 58,000 cubic feet of water per second — think of one cubic foot as a...
Tags: Politics, Regional Authority, Lois Wolk, Natural Disasters, Conservation
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Expect Democrats to be robust, not reticent, in wielding power
SACRAMENTO — With their new supermajority power, Democratic legislative leaders promise they won't overreach. But bet on this: They'll reach just as far as they believe is safe. "Yeah, you're darn right," Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg...
Tags: Finance, Democratic Party, Public Finance, Voting, Economy, Business and Finance
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Now is the time to adjust Prop. 13
When nearly two-thirds of the citizenry vote to tax themselves to expand transit but don't prevail, then democracy has gone cockeyed. If a small minority can thwart the will of the vast majority on a routine local tax issue, it's absurd. This, of...
Tags: Finance, Bob Blumenfield, Mark Leno, Politics, Business Enterprises
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It's time to reform our initiative system
Hiram Johnson, the revered reformer and father of the California "citizens" initiative, must be either crying or laughing. Maybe both. It was 101 years ago that Gov. Johnson, a former San Francisco graft prosecutor, teamed with other do-gooder...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Crime, Law and Justice, Voting, Citizens Initiative and Recall
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Newton: Getting L.A. growing again
There is no more consistent refrain among elected officials and candidates these days than that they will do everything they can to create jobs. It's a worthy goal given the sluggish state of the economy, and it's particularly crucial in California, which...
Tags: Business Enterprises, AEG, Los Angeles International Airport, City National Corporation, Mark Ridley-Thomas
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Between 'crazy' and 'committed'
It's Valentine's Day, and one family is showing its love by showing up in court. Britney Spears' parents plan to ask a judge to keep her under their care and supervision. Try finding a hearts-and-flowers card for that -- "To our daughter, we love you,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Health Treatments, Lifestyle and Leisure, Britney Spears, Health
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Tim Rutten: No turning back in California budget mess
In April 1519, Hernan Cortes landed near what's now Veracruz, Mexico, and scuttled his ships so that his potentially mutinous troops would have no choice but to follow him into battle against the Aztecs.
Gov. Jerry Brown's veto Thursday of a budget...Tags: Finance, Democratic Party, Economy, Business and Finance, Republican Party, Government
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California Legislature on the verge of major achievements
The Legislature is on the verge of two major achievements -- on prisons and water -- if lawmakers can be calm and rational during the final week of this year's regular session.
That means cooling the heated rhetoric -- particularly the staff-produced...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Energy Saving, Renewable Energy, Karen Bass, National Government
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It's a stadium, not an environmental precedent
Sometime this week or next, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to sign a bill allowing construction of a new, privately financed professional football stadium in the east San Gabriel Valley's City of Industry. The measure, which easily cleared the... -
We need this NFL stadium
Sometime in the next week or so, the California Senate will decide whether to grant a one-time exemption from provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act to billionaire developer Ed Roski Jr. so that he can proceed with plans to build a new...Tags: Vehicles, Staples Center, Football, Sports, Environmental Issues
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Play ball with the NFL
In Southern California, property development is a full-contact sport, and nobody plays the game with quite the brio of Industry-based Majestic Realty Co. Its chairman and CEO, Ed Roski Jr., is an ex-Marine who turned the successful commercial real estate...Tags: Staples Center, Basketball, National or Ethnic Minorities, National Government, National Football League
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