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Senators reject fee on their campaigns to improve state website
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Park closures just don't pencil out
SACRAMENTO — For most people, Memorial Day kicks off the vacation season. For Gov. Jerry Brown, however, it is the time to start closing state parks. That's right. Shut off the water, cart off the privies, lock the gates. Summer's around the...
Tags: Politics, Regional Authority, Natural Resources, Environmental Issues, Public Finance
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U.S. prods California lawmakers to take quick action on bullet train
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Lawmakers' plan would save some targeted California parks
SACRAMENTO — Lawmakers are considering a new proposal to save dozens of state parks from the budget ax, rather than follow through with plans to close them in the middle of summer vacation season. Seventy parks were set for closure to save money,...Tags: Gardens and Parks, Justice System, State Parks, Charity, Tourism and Leisure
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U.S. pressures legislators on bullet train funds
The Obama administration threatened California on Thursday with rescinding $3.3 billion in federal grants to start construction of a bullet train if the Legislature does not act by June to appropriate the state's share of funding. In a series of meetings...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Democratic Party, Alan Lowenthal, Jerry Brown
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Lawmakers push plan to save California state parks
PolitiCalA new effort to save dozens of California's parks begins in the Legislature on Wednesday. Sens. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto) and Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) are pushing a plan to fund the parks by shifting more than $40 million within the budget and... -
Judicial Council opposes fast-tracking environmental challenges
PolitiCalThe Judicial Council, the policy arm of the California court system, has come out against legislation that would fast-track legal challenges to development projects under the state's landmark environmental law.... -
Brown administration to create regulations for hydraulic fracturing
SACRAMENTO — Under pressure from state lawmakers and environmentalists, Gov. Jerry Brown's administration has agreed to write regulations for one controversial oil extraction method and reexamine rules for another that led to a worker's death last...Tags: Sinkholes, Politics, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Jerry Brown, Petroleum Industry
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Voters deserve a do-over on bullet train vote
SACRAMENTO — The car salesman offers you a sleek new luxury model for $33,000. Go for it, you think. Time for an upgrade. Sold. Oops, the sales guy says later. Those numbers won't pencil. We'll need $98,000. You're stunned and outraged. Tell...
Tags: Politics, Voting, Regional Authority, Mark DeSaulnier, Environmental Issues
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Bid to appease bullet train critics may violate law
A series of concessions over the last year to quiet opposition to the California bullet train has created a potentially lethal problem: the revised blueprint for the system may violate requirements locked into state law when voters approved funding for...Tags: Politics, Laws, Voting, Commuting, Amtrak
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State senators say they won't rush bullet train plans
The plan to build the California bullet train is almost certain to be approved Thursday by the state's high-speed rail authority at a board meeting in San Francisco, but the project is facing a less certain future in Sacramento. The rail authority has...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Lou Correa, Jerry Brown, Darrell Steinberg
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Environmentalists oppose reducing water quality boards
SAN DIEGO -- Three San Diego-based environmental organizations expressed opposition Monday to a plan by Gov. Jerry Brown to consolidate state regional water quality control boards in Southern California. Under the proposal, which could be considered by...
Tags: Water, Jerry Brown, Environmental Issues
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