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Senators push alternate budget plans
SACRAMENTO -- Bolstered by higher revenue estimates from the legislative analyst, the Senate budget committee on Friday advanced a spending plan that differs from Gov. Jerry Brown's in a number of significant ways. Democratic senators, sometimes with...
Tags: Weather, Budgets and Budgeting, Darrell Steinberg, Government, Politics
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California lawmakers push alternative clean energy plan
SACRAMENTO -- California lawmakers are pushing an alternative to Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to use new revenue generated by Proposition 39, which changed the corporate tax code when voters approved it in November. Brown and Democrats in the Legislature are...Tags: Justice System, Government, Environmental Issues, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics
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Jerry Brown talks about his past, drops hints about his future
Gov. Jerry Brown, who is known to break out the occasional Latin phrase during stump speeches and news conferences, said he liked the language because “it’s obscure and makes you smarter than everybody.” The quip came during a free-...Tags: Business Enterprises, Government, Politics, Regional Authority
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Brown administration says prison complaints are blame-shifting
Gov. Jerry Brown's administration disputes complaints that the governor's vocal legal challenges to orders to improve prison conditions has brought progress to a halt. The federal court-appointed medical receiver in charge of prison healthcare filed a...Tags: Government, Prisons, Politics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coccidioidomycosis
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Skelton: Lawmakers should restore dental care
Democrats and special interests have a long wish list of government programs they want to spend more on now that California's budget crisis has faded. They hope to use the latest report from the nonpartisan legislative analyst, who forecast more tax...
Tags: Darrell Steinberg, Bill Emmerson, Dentistry and Dental Health
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Court receiver says Brown ignores prison conditions
In a report Wednesday to federal judges, the official overseeing prison medical care said Gov. Jerry Brown's public opposition to crowding reductions, and his corrections officials' refusal to move inmates at risk of a deadly disease, show California is...Tags: Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Judges, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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The bottom line: It's time to restore dental care for the poor
SACRAMENTO — State Capitol politicians may have an extra $3.2 billion to play with. Or they may not. It depends on whose figures you believe: nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Mac Taylor's or contrarian Gov. Jerry Brown's. I tend to have more...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Darrell Steinberg, Bill Emmerson, Root Canal, Government
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Jerry Brown dismisses 'kerfuffle' over tax forecasts
SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown said Wednesday it would be a mistake to count on the extra tax revenue that was projected by the legislative analyst last week. The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office says the state will receive $3.2 billion more...
Tags: Weather, Stock Market, Government, Politics, Regional Authority
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Hundreds of immigrants rally in Sacramento for more rights
Hoping to build on momentum for changing the country’s immigration laws, busloads of immigrants from throughout California are descending on Sacramento on Monday to push for a half dozen bills at the state level. About 500 immigrants from as far...
Tags: Immigration, Migration, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice
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Gov. Jerry Brown's cap-and-trade plans face opposition
SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to borrow $500 million from cap-and-trade proceeds to cover general fund expenses has not been warmly welcomed in the Legislature. "It doesn’t really make sense," said Sen. Jim Beall (D-San Jose) at a budget...Tags: Government, Jim Beall, Jr., Politics, Elections, Regional Authority
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'Maldonado for governor' off to a bad start
SACRAMENTO — It seemed like a fairly good idea at the time — the idea of Abel Maldonado running for governor. He wasn't going to win. But neither would he be a Republican embarrassment. There was no Republican in sight with even a faint...
Tags: Abel Maldonado, Condoleezza Rice, Government, Crime, Law and Justice, George H.W. Bush
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Her job: Stopping wage theft
SACRAMENTO — Julie Su doesn't back down from fights when she thinks employers are cheating their workers. In her two years as California's top labor law enforcer, Su has taken on scores of unscrupulous businesses. As state labor commissioner,...
Tags: Immigration, Urasawa, Justice System, Labor Legislation, Employment
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