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California passes a budget that could be a federal template
SACRAMENTO — California lawmakers passed a budget Friday that lays the groundwork for the largest expansion of public healthcare in the country, placing the state at the leading edge of President Obama's federal overhaul. The budget, which the...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Regional Authority, Jeff Gorell, Government, Education
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Democrats hope for extra tax revenue
Democratic lawmakers agreed to pare back and delay some of their spending plans after negotiations with Gov. Jerry Brown, but they're not completely giving up hope. Some said Monday evening that they would try to speed up new spending if tax revenue...Tags: Regional Authority, Bob Blumenfield, Government, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting
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California lawmakers approve blank budget bills
One day before Gov. Jerry Brown is scheduled to release his updated spending plan, Democrats in the Legislature began lining up empty bills to streamline the budget process. The annual ritual is a reliable source of controversy in the Capitol, with...
Tags: Republican Party, Jerry Brown, Jeff Gorell, Bob Huff, Politics
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California Senate backs requiring warrants when police want emails
SACRAMENTO -- The state Senate on Monday approved a measure that would expand instances in which law enforcement officers in California would have to get search warrants before they can access the public’s email. Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco)...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Laws, Politics, American Civil Liberties Union
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California state Senate OKs social network, drug bills
SACRAMENTO — Social network sites such as Facebook would be required to remove personal information about minors when asked to do so by their parents under a measure approved by state senators Thursday. Separately, the lawmakers voted to allow...
Tags: Zynga Inc., Personal Data Collection, Joel Anderson, Culture, Government
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Senate backs misdemeanor charges for heroin, cocaine possession
SACRAMENTO -- The state Senate on Thursday approved a bill that would allow prosecutors to file misdemeanor instead of felony charges in cases of simple possession of heroin, cocaine and other hard drugs. State Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) said he...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Crime, Law and Justice, Jim Nielsen, Roderick Wright, Heroin
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Jerry Brown OKs funds to seize guns held illegally
SACRAMENTO — The state will send dozens of new agents into California neighborhoods this summer to confiscate nearly 40,000 handguns and assault rifles from people barred by law from owning firearms, officials said Wednesday. The plan received the...
Tags: Weaponry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Jerry Brown, Regional Authority, Firearms
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Gov. Brown OKs funds to confiscate guns from criminals, mentally ill
SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday signed legislation aimed at taking handguns and assault rifles away from 20,000 Californians who acquired them legally but have since been disqualified from ownership because of a criminal conviction or...
Tags: Gun Control, Jerry Brown, Firearms, Regional Authority, Crime, Law and Justice
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Chasm divides gun control and gun rights advocates
SACRAMENTO — "Living in parallel universes," is how Senate leader Darrell Steinberg describes it. Gun control and gun rights advocates "talking past each other." Emanating from different cultures, incapable of agreeing on how to make us all...
Tags: Marty Block, Lois Wolk, Gun Control, Firearms, Kevin de Leon
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Assembly votes to speed roundup of guns from disqualified owners
The state Assembly on Thursday approved $24 million to speed up the confiscation of 39,000 guns that are in the hands of Californians not allowed to own them because of criminal convictions or serious mental illness. Lawmakers said the urgent action was...
Tags: Gun Control, Tim Donnelly, Crime, Law and Justice, Interior Policy, Brian W. Jones
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Prop. 8: California politicians at hearing speak of historic day
California Lt. Gov1.Gavin Newsom and state Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), two longtime champions of gay rights, were invited to the Supreme Court to be in the courtroom during Proposition 8 arguments at the invitation of House Minority Leader Nancy...
Tags: Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Family, Charles Manson, Gays and Lesbians, Gavin Newsom
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Bill could extend last call for alcohol to 4 a.m. in some cities
L.A. NOWState Sen. Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) has introduced legislation that could extend the last call for alcohol in some California cities until 4 a.m., saying doing so could boost the state's economy by drawing in tourists....
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