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Legislature creates confusion over records bill
The Legislature's Democratic leaders on Wednesday pledged to address a budget bill that threatens public access to information held by local governments, but to do so in different ways. The attempts to backtrack on the bill occurred late in the day Wednesday and in chaotic fashion as the Legislature was ...
Panel restores some pay for lawmakers, governor
California lawmakers will get a pay raise of nearly $5,000 this year while the governor will see an increase of nearly $9,000 after a citizens' panel voted Wednesday to restore some of the cuts it made during the recession. Gov. Jerry Brown's salary will increase to $173,987, up from $165,288 ...
BART Police reviewing naked acrobat incident
BART Police Chief Kenton Rainey said Wednesday that he had ordered an internal review of how his department responded to an incident at a San Francisco station last month in which a man stripped naked and harassed people. "If there were any procedural failings we will correct them, and if ...
House passes far-reaching anti-abortion bill
The Republican-led House on Tuesday passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that conservatives saw as a milestone in their 40-year campaign against legalized abortion and Democrats characterized as yet another example of a GOP war on women. The legislation, sparked by the murder conviction of a Philadelphia late-term abortion provider, would ...
San Jose officials vote to sue MLB in battle for A’s
Major League Baseball is dragging its feet on having team owners vote on the Oakland Athletics' proposed move to a new ballpark 40 miles south in San Jose, San Jose city officials said in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. The lawsuit — filed in federal court in San Jose — is ...
State bill would let cities decide on release of records
Cities and counties could dramatically restrict the information they release to the public without explanation under a bill approved by the state Legislature and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown as part of the state budget package. The change makes it optional for local governments to comply with deadlines and other ...
New Muni bus malfunctions with SF mayor on board
An event intended to unveil dozens of new San Francisco Municipal Railway buses hit a snag Monday when one of the buses malfunctioned with the mayor on board. Mayor Ed Lee and other city officials had touted the new biodiesel-electric hybrid buses at a news conference at Pier 48 near ...
Supreme Court ruling on Prop. 8 to likely come next week
The Supreme Court did not issue a ruling on California's Proposition 8 during its session Monday. It’s likely that a ruling won't come down on California's ban on same-sex marriage until next Monday. The court issued five rulings on other cases Monday. The justices are scheduled to make a decision ...
Fracking fuels water fights in nation's dry spots
The latest domestic energy boom is sweeping through some of the nation's driest pockets, drawing millions of gallons of water to unlock oil and gas reserves from beneath the Earth's surface. Hydraulic fracturing, or the drilling technique commonly known as fracking, has been used for decades to blast huge volumes ...
Turkey unrest goes on despite end to park protest
Riot police firing tear gas and water cannons repelled thousands of anti-government protesters attempting to converge on Istanbul's central Taksim Square on Sunday, unbowed even as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan defended his crackdown at a rally of his supporters. A day after police quashed an 18-day sit-in at the ...
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