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Senate leader criticizes Brown's school plan
SACRAMENTO -- Senate leader Darrell Steinberg says that, for all practical reasons, he should support Gov. Jerry Brown's plan to redistribute school funding. His hometown, Sacramento, would benefit. "I should be for it," he told reporters on Wednesday....
Tags: Jerry Brown, Darrell Steinberg, Government, Politics
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Lawmakers test Brown's no-tax resolve with calls to hike levies
SACRAMENTO — Releasing his latest budget plan this week, Gov. Jerry Brown repeated his assurance that the tax hikes voters agreed to last fall were enough, that he won't ask them to dig deeper into their pockets any time soon. "We just got a...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Lifestyle and Leisure, Obesity, National Rifle Association of America, Government
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Jerry Brown urges UC to stress graduating students in 4 years
SACRAMENTO — The graduation rates of UC students came under more scrutiny Wednesday as Gov. Jerry Brown urged administrators and faculty to prod more undergraduates to earn a degree in four years, not six. Brown recently proposed giving UC and Cal...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Personal Income, Strikes, Career and Workplace, AFSCME
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L.A Now Live: Discuss Gov. Brown's hard line in budget proposal
Gov. Jerry Brown took a hard line Tuesday as he unveiled his latest budget plan, seeking to tighten general fund spending and hold firm on his push to redistribute money for schools. He proposed general fund expenditures of $96.4 billion for the...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Budgets and Budgeting, Government, Politics
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Governor proposes a prisoner swap
Gov. Jerry Brown quietly rolled out tweaks to his prison realignment plan in Monday's budget proposal. In addition to offering counties $72 million more to handle local felons, the governor proposes a prisoner swap, trading long-term inmates that...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Prisons, Punishment, Government, Politics
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Gov. Brown vows to take hard line on budget
Spending 'in a wise way' | 10:53 a.m. As lawmakers debate more than a dozen different plans for raising additional taxes on things like cigarettes, marijuana, and oil, California Gov. Jerry Brown said he will take a hard line with his budget. “...
Tags: Prisons, Insurance, Personal Income, Government, Elections
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Jerry Brown to release California budget proposal
SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown will release his revised spending plan Tuesday morning, kicking off weeks of intense budget negotiations free of the deep deficits of years past but full of stark policy disagreements between the governor and his fellow...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Budgets and Budgeting, Education, Justice System, Government
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Gov. Jerry Brown sticks to hard line in revised budget proposal
SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Jerry Brown took a hard line Tuesday as he unveiled his latest budget plan, seeking to tighten general-fund spending and holding firm on his push to redistribute money for schools. He proposed general-fund expenditures of $96.4...
Tags: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Jerry Brown, Economy, Business and Finance, Budgets and Budgeting, Personal Income
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Gov. Jerry Brown's budget plan gets good early reviews
SACRAMENTO -- Reaction to the budget plan unveiled by Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday was generally positive. Key political and education leaders in Los Angeles immediately endorsed the plan's provisions that would shift more funds to low-income schools and...
Tags: Personal Income, Antonio Villaraigosa, Government, Crime, Law and Justice, Jerry Brown
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Vermont House OKs right-to-die bill; governor expected to sign it
Vermont is on track to become the fourth state to allow severely ill patients to end their lives under medical supervision. The state’s House of Representatives voted 75 to 65 on Monday night to approve the “Patient Choice at End of Life&...
Tags: Ethics, Suicide, Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia, Values
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Gov. Brown chided for plan to borrow from cap-and-trade funds
Gov. Jerry Brown sparked controversy Tuesday when he proposed to shift $500 million out of the state’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and loan it to the state general fund as part of the effort to balance the budget. The money would come from a...
Tags: Jerry Brown, Global Warming, Economy, Business and Finance, Government, Energy Saving
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Brown seeks to eliminate state tax break for 'enterprise zones'
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown is taking another stab at largely eliminating a state $700-million tax break for "enterprise zones" aimed at creating jobs in economically strapped localities. The governor failed in his efforts in 2011 to eliminate...
Tags: Unemployment, Career and Workplace, Taxation, Government, Employment
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